My Bloody Valentine
‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop
November 5, 2024A while back, photographer Joe Dilworth found himself talking to the drummer in a currently successful British rock band. He asked how they got started, expecting to hear about low-rent gigs, and was startled to find the drummer talking about their business plan. “He told me they’d got loans, from their parents I think, and […]
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London’s lost venues – in pictures
May 30, 2020The Stranglers onstage at the Nashville Rooms in 1977. The pub was one of the high spots of the London punk and new-wave circuit. Photograph: Ray Stevenson/REX/Shutterstock AC/DC on stage at the Nashville Rooms, which were on North End Road in Kensington, on 27 May 1976. Live music stopped in 1980 and the venue is […]
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