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Legendary London rock bar The Crobar is closing its doors
Legendary London rock bar The Crobar is closing its doors due to issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it has been announced.
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Cracking venue, spent many nights there. Gutted to see it's inevitable demise. About the right size for a Starbucks or some other such shite.
On a personal note it's probably the last of the places I used to go out to around there when I was coming of age (off the top of my head Metro, Astoria, 12 Bar, LA2/Meanfiddler, Intrepid Fox, Borderline all gone).
It's good that music evolves and places come and go giving generations a chance to find their own feet and metal does sometime seem a bit too conservative and backward looking but it really does feel like these places aren't being replaced with anything.
It's just culture being replaced with corporate.