Melkweg

A former dairy on the Lijnbaansgracht near Leidseplein, run as a music venue and cultural centre by a non-profit founded in 1970, with four halls, a cinema and an exhibition space. With Paradiso it was one of the two Amsterdam rooms where roots reggae played live through the late 1970s and 1980s, and it remains a regular host of the city's dub events; the Rootsriders played their first major show here on 11 May 2006, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bob Marley's death.