101 Walterton Road

Here on 101 Walterton Road once stood the famous squat that gave birth and name to Joe Strummer’s pub rock band The 101’ers in 1974 (although it was for a time rumoured that they were named after “Room 101”, the infamous torture room in George Orwell’s novel 1984).

Joe Strummer’s Squat

For a few years, Strummer helped make a strip of West London an unlikely punk hotspot. His like-minded neighbours included The Slits, who hung out a few doors down at number 43, two of the Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren, who lived round the corner on Bell Street, and The Damned who practised nearby.

The Scots Hoose

In the 1960’s and 1970’s The Scots Hoose (as The Spice of Life was called then) was a popular venue for folk musicians, and saw many great acts of the time, such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens perform there. In the punk craze of the late 70s even The Sex Pistols played at the venue.

Pathway Studios

Among the artists who made their early recordings at Pathway Studios, with producer Nick Lowe, are The Damned (who recorded their debut single New Rose in September 1976), Madness, Elvis Costello (who debut album My Aim is True was recorded here), The Police, and the Dire Straits (whose demo and single versions of Sultans of Swing was recorded, again, here).

Screen On The Green

Aside from being a cinema, this place is probably most widely known for its ‘Midnight Special’ on Sunday 29 August 1976, when The Clash and Buzzcocks supported The Sex Pistols in a showcase event organised by Malcolm Maclaren…but there’s more to it!

Dingwalls

Dingwalls Dancehall was launched as the newly developed Camden Lock’s flagship venue in the summer of 1973 and it became a prominent and popular London live music venue in the Pub Rock and Punk era of the mid to late 1970s.

The Roundhouse

Hosted by a Grade II listed former railway engine shed built in 1847, in Chalk Farm, The Roundhouse opened as a performing arts venue after twenty-five years of disuse, in 1964. Both the psychedelic and the punk eras have witnessed here some of their most legendary moments.

The Clash’s Album Cover

In late 1976, The Clash shot the front cover of their debut album in Camden.
It was taken in an alleyway by their recording studio – Rehearsals Rehearsals – which was in a rundown British Rail goods yard that’s now part of Camden Market. Much of the album, released in April 1977, was recorded in the venue.

Chelsea Cloisters

Syd Barrett lived into number 902, a large 2 bedroom apartment on the ninth floor, here at the Chelsea Cloisters, off Kings Road in South Kensington since 1973, when Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in one of the ‘cockroach-infested’ flats in June 1977.

Keith Richard’s Chelsea Flat

Keith Richards lived in this Chelsea flat, on beautiful Cheyne Walk, when – legend has it – his home was burgled in 1974 by teenage Sex shop customers Steve Jones and Wally Nightingale, who were trying to gather some equipment for their pre-Sex Pistols band The Swankers.