History

Legendary central London gig venue if only I could remember all the gigs I'd been to here...

Selected events from Astoria history, add your event at Astoria.

Under Neath What 7 1011 May 1990 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...

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Revolting Cocks 9 1024 Jan 1991 plus Godflesh and Bomb Everything (AKA) Bomb Disneyland. Got a video of this gig, you can see me stagediving on it.

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NME Bratbus tour 8 1022 Jan 1996 The Bluetones, Cardigans, Heavy Stereo and Fluffy.

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Longpigs 27 Sep 1996

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The Lightning Seeds 19 Jan 1997 NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this time.

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Strangelove 10 Oct 1997 Rescheduled from 6/6/97 I think. Huge drunken night, I possibly broke my elbow, I will scan the picture in of it...

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Travis 23 Jan 1998 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

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NME Brats Tour 25 Jan 1998 Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)

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Baby Bird 3 1021 Jul 1998 plus Idlewild, Scott 4, and Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like. Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week.

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Super Furry Animals 19 Jun 1999 Lunchtime recording for Japanese TV

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The Beta Band 8 1025 Jan 2000 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

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Elastica 29 Jan 2000 NME Brats show, think they'd lost it by this point...

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Six By Seven 7.5 1019 Apr 2000 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.

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Bloodhound Gang 8 1016 Aug 2000 They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was I!

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Queens Of The Stone Age 7 1022 Nov 2000

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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 9 1003 Feb 2001 NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them...

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Doves 05 Feb 2001 Doves, Ed Harcourt, Elbow and Cooper Temple Clause were last minute replacements for Kings of Convenience. NME Brats show.

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Outkast 7 1020 Jun 2001 WILD furry trousers. Them, not me.

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Gene 05 Jul 2001

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Neds Atomic Dustbin 7 1029 Sep 2001 Two gigs in one night, off to a club night at the Barfly after I think, where The Darkness were playing.

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The Hives 16 Dec 2001 Not 100% on the date, but we saw this band here around this time... Were you with me? When was it?

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Jimmy Eat World 25 Jan 2002

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Travis 04 Feb 2002 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.

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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 9 1007 Feb 2002 plus Clinic, The Faint and British Sea Power. NME Brats?

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Andrew WK 10 Feb 2002 NME tour with Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Coral. Was looking forward to AWK. Very disappointed.

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The Charlatans 11 Feb 2002 NME Brats?

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The Darkness 8 1005 Apr 2003 Was this the Carling "Homecoming" type event?

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Athlete 30 Apr 2003 ZZZzzzz

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Blur 8 1012 May 2003 Last of a five night residency. Would you adam and eve it PHIL DANIELS showed up!

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Belle & Sebastian 9 1003 Dec 2003 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.

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Suede 8.57 1013 Dec 2003 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.

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Goldie Lookin' Chain 22 Oct 2004

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The Tears 5.5 1016 Feb 2005 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.

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Foo Fighters 7.75 1024 Aug 2005 Reading warmup at the Astoria... aargh, who will video LOST for us?

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