Yes it doesn’t look inviting.
Imagine it kicking off in there most nights in the late 70s
Has the building gone now?
It closed as a music venue in the early '80s and was converted int a night club. “Arena” I think. That was a dump too and closed years ago.
I know the building was up for sale a couple of years ago but no idea if it’s been purchased/redeveloped/demolished
Aye, it was lively. Nowhere near as bad as *The Bongo Club though 
*A place with an interesting history, it was in an area known as “over the border” which was basically anywhere North of the railway line.
We went for a Christmas pub crawl/piss up when I was at college in Middlesbrough. They wouldn’t let us in the Bongo Club “you’re the wrong colour” was the reason given but we eventually persuaded the bouncers to let us in. We stayed for about an hour IIRC but, as usual, it all kicked off and they threw us out first, despite not even being involved in the fighting. They said it was for our own good, I believed them!
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LOL, protectively bounced from a club
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Myself and a few English mates (one with solid Irish heritage) were politely bounced from the Top O’ The Morning Pub in Hackney Wick on St. Paddy’s day, when the ‘boys from home’ came round with their collecting tins.
I’m 100% sure it was for our own good.
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Had very similar in a pub in Kilburn. Thankfully, the girl I was with at the time had a bit of local insight (her dad was chairman of the London branch of the Longford association).
It was a Sunday afternoon lockin. It was interesting when the men in balaclavas walked in with their collecting bowls (berets)
Exactly that, but with no insight.
The set with Nick Drake and John Martyn.
Some years before I was born though!
Meh !
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Hendrix at Monterey in 1967.
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Joy Division @ Les Bains Douches, December 1979
Watched that on iPlayer recently and I have to agree I’d love to time travel to that one. Hendrix was otherworldly.
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As a thirteen year old young man i REALLY REALLY wanted to go to this.
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I got kicked out of university in 87.
I only found out recently that all my mates who stayed went to that.
Apparently it pissed it down 
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Lucky buggers, yes, the weather was ‘very British’ 
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I declined tickets to see Michael hedges just before he died, in London to go and see my girlfriend (now wife)
Watched lots of vids and he was fab live, gutted I missed him
Would love to have went to spike island.
That looks pretty nuts. I like it 
Oh yes.
I think the face on the guy behind Sonny’s elbows tells a tale 
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