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heart wrenching tbh walking around there now
What was this 90s venue near Tottenham Ct Road?
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YES! Must be the one... wasn't sure if it was under YMCA or St Giles Hotel, but that has to be it.
I was expecting someone to argue Turnmills wasn’t central given it was in Clerkenwell. In my head it was central but state of my head on those nights.
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Seven quid for the Nirvana gig I recall. 
What is it now? Block of luxury flats or something?
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surprising lack of any mention of it online at all doing a quick google
passing mention here
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tube station/crossrail, but that whole area has been modernised into blandnessSeven quid.
What is it now? Block of luxury flats or something?
i mean cities change, its fine, but astoria, busbys, speed at the milk bar opposite astoria, velvet rooms down the road, that was the heart of so many raving experiences....the end a bit also..plastic people around the corner
Central London would be the last place I’d consider for a night out nowadays. Yeah I’m getting old so probably wouldn’t anyway but still. What’s there?
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shops and restaurants
west end clubbing seems pretty much dead
centre of gravity moved east
And theatre. Which isn’t my bag but ought to be.
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Was it the Milk Bar?
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And there was the wonderful 12 Bar just around the corner
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pinkmonkey
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I went to Dave Dorrels All Back to Mine at the Milk Bar, at the end of one night he invited us all back to his house, did a whip round for booze. He had a really nice house but two of the punters took a shine to his expensive rug, rolled it up and ran off with it, down the street. 
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No it was Raw Club, Great Russel Street
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iirc that fireplace was something like 400 years oldAnd there was the wonderful 12 Bar just around the corner
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Soho was brilliant in 1996, not yet shite, but no longer quite as seedy as in the 70s and 80s. Still seedy enough though. The Hellfire Club on Oxford Street was the best place on Saturday nights, a place long gone now.
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I used to spend an inordinate amount of time in a late night basement flamenco and tapas bar just behind TCR station.
This was when I was doing my degree at Birkbeck, often a few of us would end up in that bar drinking rioja and eating patatas bravas til the wee hours after a lecture.
This was when I was doing my degree at Birkbeck, often a few of us would end up in that bar drinking rioja and eating patatas bravas til the wee hours after a lecture.
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Such a shame. Would be nice to have some central gig venues. I don't mean to get all Bob Hoskins, but they have gutted the life from what made London London.
I went to all sorts of places in the TCR area in the 90s, but I can't bloody remember where any of them were.
There was a massive indie club near leicester square that was horrible and expensive but the only place to go when the booze ran out.
90s me was a twat.
I went to all sorts of places in the TCR area in the 90s, but I can't bloody remember where any of them were.
There was a massive indie club near leicester square that was horrible and expensive but the only place to go when the booze ran out.
90s me was a twat.
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yeah i made a couple of those
i remember nothing!my mates were at a magic december orange at astoria one where everyone came out at 6 and it was snowing and settling...a car pulled up with speakers and rave carried on dancing in the street outside astoria in the falling snow...guttedly missed that one, turned into folklore
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yeah definitely a lack of those now..still a handful around camden and islington but I cant think of many considering how big london is
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I was walking through Soho recently with a younger friend and she must have been getting depressed as I kept pointing out now closed rock venues and bars.
I couldn't think of a single alternative-ish bar anywhere in Soho.
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The whole of Tin Pan Alley and where the Intrepid Fox (version 2) was has been decimated.
Jennaonthebeach
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saw Go Team there just before it closed. I think. When did it close?
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What was the huge musical instrument shop on nearly the corner of Tin Pan Alley? I loved that place.
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found this picture on googlemaps where it hasnt been updated - that space above mr toppers £5 headressers is one big hall - quite a grand space really - they had some skanky parties in there, sort of semi squatted...could get up on the roof too. i played there once
how it looks now
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Dunno if it was on the corner of Denmark st. but Turnkey (soho sound house) was the biggest round there.
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