The club was established by entrepreneur Michael Tortoni and located at the end of its namesake lane off Little Lonsdale Street from November 1992 to February 2017.
[2] A second performance space was added in an adjoining building to the north called The JazzLab[3] in January 2000 for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
[6] The venue closed on 15 June 2015, following the sale of the real estate assets by Tortoni for $10 million[7] to a developer intent on building an apartment complex on the site.
[8] Tortoni then sold the intellectual property of the club, including the employment of long-time manager Megan Evans, to entrepreneur David Marriner in June 2015.
The club reopened 10 weeks after initially closing, on 27 August 2015, with a performance by Yvette Johansson, and an updated interior, air conditioning and sound system.