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Closed down: 14 legendary music venues that have been lost
From The Astoria all the way to the Hacienda
The Astoria, London: See that huge bombsite of construction that currently dominates Oxford Street? Well that was once the legendary Astoria venue that played host to the likes of Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkey, David Bowie, Muse and Deep Purple just to name a few. It closed in 2009 after Festival Republic sold it to make way for Crossrail to move in and begin demolition. Damn you Boris Johnson!
by Ed Keeble | Photos by WENN.com/Urban75/Commons
Lamenting lost venues somtimes feels like counting your fallen comrades. You've both had some great times together, maybe a few bad ones and at the same time you've grown up together. But now it's years later and your friend has only been demolished and replaced by flats, a supermarket, Crossrail or offices. Excuse us while we shake our fist at the sky.
It's no secret that there has been a mass culling of venues across the country in recent years, the most recent of which is Elephant and Castle's Coronet Theatre. The thing is we need to hang onto these places because if we don't, sooner or later we'll end up going to endless soulless replicas of the O2 Arena. Noone wants that...
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