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So they’ve demolished the Astoria, a classic live music venue on Charing Cross Road in London, to make way for one of the new Crossrail stations.
Fair enough. People tried to save the Astoria, but it didn’t work. Things change. That’s how it is. And Crossrail and Westminster Council have promised a new live venue will be at the heart of the new development.
But at the same time, a big part of pop music history has disappeared with the building. It saw seminal gigs by the Rolling Stones, Oasis, Green Day, Prince, U2, Metallica, Black Sabbath and loads more since it was converted for live music in 1976. And whilst idly tweeting, Rishi and James felt like something should be done. We’ve got a few great gig memories between us. after all. Sure, unlike other campaigns we don’t have any bands or people like, y’know, the NME on side (yet?). And there are probably others doing the same thing. But for some reason that didn’t stop us.
So this tumblog is a place where you can collect your gig and club memories from the London Astoria in one place. It’s also somewhere you can make a point about why live music matters in the development at Tottenham Court Road. Let’s say it has to do with heritage, culture or other such fancy words. It’s all fine by us.
Show your support by using #tcrcrossrailpopupop on Twitter, by following @crossrailpop, or by submitting your gig and club memories at http://crossrailpopupop.tumblr.com/submit.
Thankyaverymuch.
join #tcrcrossrailpopupop
So they’ve demolished the Astoria, a classic live music venue on Charing Cross Road in London, to make way for one of the new Crossrail stations.
Fair enough. People tried to save the Astoria, but it didn’t work. Things change. That’s how it is. And Crossrail and Westminster Council have promised a new live venue will be at the heart of the new development.
But at the same time, a big part of pop music history has disappeared with the building. It saw seminal gigs by the Rolling Stones, Oasis, Green Day, Prince, U2, Metallica, Black Sabbath and loads more since it was converted for live music in 1976. And whilst idly tweeting, Rishi and James felt like something should be done. We’ve got a few great gig memories between us. after all. Sure, unlike other campaigns we don’t have any bands or people like, y’know, the NME on side (yet?). And there are probably others doing the same thing. But for some reason that didn’t stop us.
So this tumblog is a place where you can collect your gig and club memories from the London Astoria in one place. It’s also somewhere you can make a point about why live music matters in the development at Tottenham Court Road. Let’s say it has to do with heritage, culture or other such fancy words. It’s all fine by us.
Show your support by using #tcrcrossrailpopupop on Twitter, by following @crossrailpop, or by submitting your gig and club memories at http://crossrailpopupop.tumblr.com/submit.
Thankyaverymuch.
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s4xton reblogged this from crossrailpopupop and added:
This sucks. (glad they could use my photo, however)
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