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The Half Moon is one of London's longest running, and most respected live music venues. Since the early 1960s, some of the biggest names in popular music have performed there, including The Rolling Stones, and The Who. The venue has hosted live music every night since 1963. [1]
Nambucca is a live music venue in Holloway Road in London. Since being rebuilt following a fire it now houses two distinct areas in a big open plan venue - a front bar area and a rear dancefloor and gig area. It is popular with up-and-coming bands and hosts music and entertainment events on a nightly basis.
In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England. London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. [5] Between 2001 and 2016, London lost 25% of its pubs (1,220 pubs). [6]
The Windmill is a pub and live music venue in Brixton, London, England, with a reputation for championing new music. [1] [2] It was voted the third best music venue in London, in a 2012 poll in Time Out magazine, [2] and #7 by The Guardian in 2008, [3] and has been described as "one of the top-10 music venues in the U.K.".
The Half Moon Hotel, 2017. The Half Moon is a Grade II* listed public house at 10 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London. [1] It is one of only 270 pubs on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, [2] was frequented by the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, [3] and was a noteworthy live music venue for nearly 50 years, [4] hosting three gigs by U2 in 1980. [5]
The London Coliseum. The two main opera houses are: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (the home of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet) London Coliseum, Charing Cross (the home of English National Opera and English National Ballet) Both of the above also stage ballet. Holland Park Opera stages opera at an outdoor venue in the summer. Several of ...
The Bull's Head, also known as The Bull, is a pub in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It hosts live music in an attached music room that has a seated capacity of 70 people. [1] [2] [3] Overlooking the river Thames, it was one of the first and most important jazz venues in Britain.
The George Tavern is a Grade II listed public house and music venue located on Commercial Road in Stepney, London.It is owned and operated by artist Pauline Forster.. Formerly known as the Halfway House, the building contains original brickwork some 700 years old, [citation needed] and is mentioned in texts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Pepys and Charles Dickens.