Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, London history
Home
Astoria
Tell me the official Twitter page for Astoria and I'll get twitter updates from there...
Farewell old friend... Sure I've seen a lot more gigs than this there, but I can't find the tickets...
I make every attempt to provide proper details, but please do not email me with booking or ticket enquiries...
History
Astoria history and past events here, please use the link above to add your gigography for Astoria.
Foo Fighters Reading warmup at the Astoria... aargh, who will video LOST for us? Astoria [Wednesday 24 August 2005]
The Tears Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, weren't they in a band together before? One of the NME gigs, support included The Magic Numbers I think but we stayed in the pub and missed them all. Astoria [Wednesday 16 February 2005]
Goldie Lookin' Chain Astoria [Friday 22 October 2004]
Suede Last gig ever! Played some great sets, the gig seemingly got chopped short, we left to the ghostly strains of "We'll Meet Again"... I hope we do. Astoria [Saturday 13 December 2003]
Belle & Sebastian Karaoke as a warm up act? Or was it Franz Ferdinand? We went in late and missed all that, but a friend of a friend did get up and sing Lazy Line Painter Jane with the band. Astoria [Wednesday 3 December 2003]
Blur Last of a five night residency. Would you adam and eve it PHIL DANIELS showed up! Astoria [Monday 12 May 2003]
Athlete ZZZzzzz Astoria [Wednesday 30 April 2003]
The Darkness Was this the Carling "Homecoming" type event? Astoria [Saturday 5 April 2003]
The Charlatans NME Brats? Astoria [Monday 11 February 2002]
Andrew WK NME tour with Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Coral. Was looking forward to AWK. Very disappointed. Astoria [Sunday 10 February 2002]
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead plus Clinic, The Faint and British Sea Power. NME Brats? Astoria [Thursday 7 February 2002]
Travis With Starsailor and Ryan Adams and I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate. Astoria [Monday 4 February 2002]
Jimmy Eat World Astoria [Friday 25 January 2002]
The Hives Not 100% on the date, but we saw this band here around this time... Were you with me? When was it? Astoria [Sunday 16 December 2001]
Neds Atomic Dustbin Two gigs in one night, off to a club night at the Barfly after I think, where The Darkness were playing. Astoria [Saturday 29 September 2001]
Gene Astoria [Thursday 5 July 2001]
Outkast WILD furry trousers. Them, not me. Astoria [Wednesday 20 June 2001]
Doves Doves, Ed Harcourt, Elbow and Cooper Temple Clause were last minute replacements for Kings of Convenience. NME Brats show. Astoria [Monday 5 February 2001]
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them... Astoria [Saturday 3 February 2001]
Queens Of The Stone Age Astoria [Wednesday 22 November 2000]
Bloodhound Gang They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was I! Astoria [Wednesday 16 August 2000]
Six By Seven Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of buy maybe. Astoria [Wednesday 19 April 2000]
Elastica NME Brats show, think they'd lost it by this point... Astoria [Saturday 29 January 2000]
The Beta Band NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed o Astoria [Tuesday 25 January 2000]
Super Furry Animals Lunchtime recording for Japanese TV Astoria [Saturday 19 June 1999]
Baby Bird plus Idlewild, Scott 4, and Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like. Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week. Astoria [Tuesday 21 July 1998]
NME Brats Tour Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)
Astoria [Sunday 25 January 1998]
Travis NME Brats, plus Ultrasound, The Hybrids and Unbelievable Truth. There's a good chance I was at this, I had staff passes for the whole week. There was a Pavement and [artist]Super Furry An Astoria [Friday 23 January 1998]
Strangelove Rescheduled from 6/6/97 I think. Huge drunken night, I possibly broke my elbow, I will scan the picture in of it... Astoria [Friday 10 October 1997]
Brat Bus tour Geneva, Tiger, Symposium, and Three Colours Red:
Astoria [Sunday 27 July 1997]
The Lightning Seeds NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this time.
Astoria [Sunday 19 January 1997]
Longpigs Astoria [Friday 27 September 1996]
NME Bratbus tour The Bluetones, Cardigans, Heavy Stereo and Fluffy.
Astoria [Monday 22 January 1996]
Revolting Cocks plus Godflesh and Bomb Everything (AKA) Bomb Disneyland. Got a video of this gig, you can see me stagediving on it. Astoria [Thursday 24 January 1991]
Under Neath What + Chunk + We Are Going To Eat You. I was in the queue for this gig and bought a fanzine off someone. Did I know Metallica were doing a secret gig just a few doors down at the Marquee club? Why on earth did I stay at the Astoria? Bah... Astoria [Friday 11 May 1990]
Do you remember this one Dom? [Saturday 29 May 2010]
Me, stagediving [Tuesday 17 November 2009]
Noisy night in tonight [Sunday 15 November 2009]
@darryl1974+The+demolition+of+the+Astoria+in+pictures:">RT @darryl1974 The demolition of the Astoria in pictures: [Wednesday 15 July 2009]
So long Astoria [Wednesday 31 December 2008]
You've been framed [Thursday 17 February 2005]
Goldie Lookin' Chain [Thursday 9 September 2004]
GLC play the Astoria [Thursday 22 July 2004]
My Morning Jacket [Thursday 5 February 2004]
Suede were amazing [Monday 15 December 2003]
Suede @ London Astoria [Saturday 13 December 2003]
Darkness download! [Wednesday 26 November 2003]
Belle and Sebastian Tickets [Friday 14 November 2003]
Don't Let The Bells End [Wednesday 12 November 2003]
Darkness review [Wednesday 12 November 2003]
The day of the gig [Tuesday 11 November 2003]
Darkness @ London Astoria [Tuesday 11 November 2003]
Suede Split [Thursday 6 November 2003]
Suede [Tuesday 26 August 2003]
Giiiigs, is there no end [Tuesday 13 May 2003]
