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Punk venue Rumah Api faces relocation amid financial struggles, festival fallout

After eight years of operating on the top floor of Menara MPAJ in Ampang Jaya, local punk music venue Rumah Api will be relocating later this year due to increased rental and related arrears that accumulated during the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘Punk gig ‘Chaos in Rumah Api’ axed over permit issue, complaints by residents’

In a statement, Rumah Api, a punk community organiser, said it had made the requisite payments for permits to KIR but the venue host did not make the application to hold the event. 

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