Let's hear it for the 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, W1

[editor]

I love this place. It's one of the very last old school live gigs left in central London and every time I've been there I've had a great night.

Tonight was exceptional fun: a mad, drunken, happy, cheery sing-along with a massively varied age group and some absolutely nutbar bands.

Long may it continue.

 

[El Jefe]

They've moved the stage now, haven't they?
Used to be you could be downstairs and see the band's legs, or upstairs and see the top of their head. But yeh, great little place.

 

[editor]

The view's a bit better but the stage is still as lovably ramshackle. Tonight was *wild*. In a mad folky way.

Loved it.

 

[marty21]

They've moved the stage now, haven't they?
Used to be you could be downstairs and see the band's legs, or upstairs and see the top of their head. But yeh, great little place.

i went to a gig there years ago, and found the view very strange, they also had no toilets then, you had to use the pub next door? and no licence i think, so the pub next door again...

 

[editor]

It's got a bar and its own toilets now.

Yes. The singer does have a Mexican wrestler's mask on. It was that kind of night.

 

[El Jefe]

Ah, that's TonySW9 on the right, he offered to get me in to this but I forgot about it ( at self)

 

[Ms T]

We had dinner at the Giaconda Dining Room on Denmark St last night. If we'd have known you were there we could have popped in to the 12 Bar Club afterwards!

 

[terrythomas]

They've moved the stage now, haven't they?
Used to be you could be downstairs and see the band's legs, or upstairs and see the top of their head. But yeh, great little place.

I went there years ago and that was exactly the view, couldn't understand why it was used as a band venue when you couldn't see anything from the waist up!

 

[lights.out.london]

Nice venue. Nice people. So small I can see the entire place without my shades!

 

[RubyToogood]

Slightly worrying stage that you risk falling down the back of if you make any sudden movements.

 

[twistedAM]

One time i went there, there was a really, really tall American chap singing. When they asked him for an encore he dedicated it to the girl in the gallery who was sitting directly with legs wide open in front of him. He was so tall, her pantiless goodness was in his direct eyeline!

 

[lights.out.london]

Slightly worrying stage that you risk falling down the back of if you make any sudden movements.

Have you played there? Don't start rockin' out in front of your Marshall stack!

If you play there, give me a shout?

 

[rutabowa]

yes the 12 bar is a good place, you seem to always ahave a good night there

 

[editor]

Went there again tonight and had a great time. It was busy with a mixed and friendly crowd and the bands were as bonkers as ever.

Fabulous place.

 

[editor]

Remembering the 12 Bar and Denmark St:

In photos: the music shops, bar and cafes of Tin Pan Alley/Denmark Street, London in 2004 -

Once the beating heart of the British music industry, Denmark Street - commonly known as Tin Pan Alley - was already long in decline when I took these photos in early 2004. Hanks Guitar Shop is a rare survivor on the street, and is still open today at 27 Denmark Street. This guitar costs the

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[ska invita]

great pics....i love that littel warren of alleways around the back there, an echo of the slums of st giles rookery

spotted this on the wanted ads

THE DEMANDS OF PSYCHOTRONIC SPITEPOP ACT MUST BE MET!!