Lost London venues that helped launch Hendrix, Winehouse and punk

For anyone able to travel to London, Paul Talling does guided walks in which he shares his wealth of knowledge of the local history (both very old and recent). Highly recommended for anyone interested in that sort of thing:

https://www.londonslostrivers.com/

I knew a lady who put on a show at the 100 Club a few years ago. Hers was a sort of musical, elegantly presented. Very different from the previous lot who's picture I gazed on, on the walls. Loadsa well known punk bands (inc. pistols, obviously). Stuff I seriously would liked to have seen, but by then it was long in the past. It's quite a small venue.

Things move on. Tomorrow's enviable history is just another one of today's event, so live in the now.

Funny enough, before reading this article, the only time I heard about The Roxy was in this song from Crass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7TN_5eXJo

I guess that's some sort of immortalisation :)

The End venue is another now closed which was pivotal in the London UK music scene. It was venue which nurtured the (now) heavyweight labels in dubstep, drum & bass and garage.

It's sad how many music venues are closing recently in the UK's cities. Licensing issues don't help and apparently these days young people prefer trampolining [1], but I'm not sure recreational trampolining contributes to culture in quite the same way.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/31/uk-nightclubs-...

Joolz Guides of London on youtube covers stuff like this -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFWqceEDVxifaU3ljzMH5tg

Its a nice channel for wasting a few hours