The 100 Club

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.

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.

Wessex Sound Studios

Many renowned popular music artists recorded at the former Wessex Sound Studios, including Sex Pistols (Never Mind the Bollocks), King Crimson, The Clash (London Calling), Theatre of Hate, XTC, Queen (We Will Rock You), Talk Talk, The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, and The Damned. Here’s where Johnny Rotten threw up into the piano…

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).

Fairfield Halls

In 1976 guitarist Ray Burns and drummer Chris Millar were toilet cleaners at Fairfield Halls. They later became Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies of The Damned. Many stars played the venue in its heyday.

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.

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.

Hope and Anchor

The Hope & Anchor has been a leading live music venue for decades. The videos of The Damned’s New Rose and Madness’s One Step Beyond were shot here. The U2 played here their first gig in the UK. What else?

CBGB

The most legendary punk (and hardcore) club in the world – the CBGB – was once here at 315 Bowery, in New York City.

KOKO

Opened on Boxing Day 1900 as the Camden Theatre, KOKO has since hosted the likes of Charlie Chaplin, The Rolling Stones, Madonna’s first UK appearance, The Clash, The Jam and Prince, to name but a few.