Future Forum 2026 The future is between us.

For sixty years, musicians have walked into this building and left making something nobody expected. Rock bands with orchestras. Classical engineers producing pop. Abbey Road has never believed that disciplines belong in separate rooms. Neither do we.

"The most important sessions were always the ones nobody planned."

A building that has never believed its purpose was fixed. What began as a civic hall is now one of London's most unexpected spaces – a room where different people, with different stakes, have always had to find common ground. The best venues, like the best ideas, resist easy categorisation.

"The best decisions were never made behind closed doors."

The building is made from the timber of two decommissioned warships – one of the most literal examples of leaving your lane in London's architectural history. Liberty has spent 150 years at the intersection of craft, commerce, and culture. An evening here needs no further justification.

"The most interesting things are built from unexpected materials."

Jazz is what leaving your lane sounds like. Bebop borrowed from classical, fusion borrowed from rock, soul borrowed from everywhere. Ronnie Scott's has spent sixty years hosting the kind of collisions that produce something genuinely new – which makes it the most honest venue we could have chosen.

"Improvisation isn't the absence of structure. It's what structure makes possible."