In September 1976, the 100 Club (which had operated since 1942 as Feldman Swing Club) played host to the first international punk festival, which helped push the new punk movement into the mainstream. The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Stranglers, and The Damned all played at this event.
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Marquee Studios
The Buzzcocks, Elton John, The Groundhogs, The Clash, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Killing Joke, Daevid Allen, Van Der Graaf Generator, and many others used a homemade studio in the garage at the back of the Marquee Club (in its second incarnation, on Wardour Street) created by Moody Blues’ manager Alex Murray in 1964.
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!
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.
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