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Astoria
Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EN
020 7434 9592
Tottenham Court Road tube
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Under Neath What 11 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 24 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 22 Jan 1996 The Bluetones, Cardigans, Heavy Stereo and Fluffy
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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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NME Brats Tour 25 Jan 1998 Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, Warm Jets, and theaudience (Sophie Ellis Bextor)
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Baby Bird 21 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 25 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 19 Apr 2000 Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome.
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The Bluetones 29 Apr 2000 Think I was at this anyway, lunchtime gig.
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Bloodhound Gang 16 Aug 2000
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Queens Of The Stone Age 22 Nov 2000
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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 03 Feb 2001 NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them...
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Outkast 20 Jun 2001 WILD furry trousers. Them, not me.
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Neds Atomic Dustbin 29 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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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 07 Feb 2002 plus Clinic, The Faint and British Sea Power
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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 Not convinced I was at this one, where did this ticket come from?
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The Darkness 05 Apr 2003 Was this the Carling "Homecoming" type event?
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Blur 12 May 2003 Last of a five night residency. Would you adam and eve it PHIL DANIELS showed up!
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Belle & Sebastian 03 Dec 2003
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Suede 13 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 16 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 24 Aug 2005 Reading warmup at the Astoria... aargh, who will video LOST for us?
