Comments on: The End of The Astoria http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-end-of-the-astoria/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Mick (Blazing Apostle) http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-end-of-the-astoria/comment-page-1/#comment-2987 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:35:26 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/15/the-end-of-the-astoria/#comment-2987 I’m only sorry to see another venue die!

The Astoria was quite a dump really, lets hope the new venue will be more like The Junction in Cambridge, modern but still managing to portray an element of dinginess. Oh and agree with you Tim, lets hope prices dont rocket as a result!!!

Mick

]]> By: Lee Port http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-end-of-the-astoria/comment-page-1/#comment-2971 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:12:35 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/15/the-end-of-the-astoria/#comment-2971 It will be missed by all those that enjoy the stampede through the narrowest of corridors at the end of gigs, and those that enjoy over-priced cans of lager … it will be missed, but for all the wrong reasons.

]]> By: Luke Redpath http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-end-of-the-astoria/comment-page-1/#comment-2970 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:57 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/15/the-end-of-the-astoria/#comment-2970 Whilst its not nice to see venues disappearing, it’s not like London is short of decent venues and having seen many gigs there, the Astoria was not one of the decent ones. Let’s be completely honest here: the place is/was a dump (as is the LA2/Mean Fiddler downstairs) that never felt particular safe. So for that reason, I’m not sad to see it go. We need more venues like the Brixton Academy (who’s only fault is being in Brixton) and The Scala and less like The Astoria.

]]> By: Chuk http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-end-of-the-astoria/comment-page-1/#comment-2962 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:34:38 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/15/the-end-of-the-astoria/#comment-2962 That sucks — I hate to see venues die. We lost the Town Pump here in Vancouver years ago — that was one of my favourites. The Fabulous Commodore was practically legendary and was closed for years but has since reopened. I like some things about it (like now more than one person can fit in the bathroom at a time) and dislike others (the old sprung dance floor was the best ever, new one is a poor imitation). If I ever went to England, I’d love to see some of the old classic venues (but that might be a hard sell for the kids, who have no sense of history (e.g. on seeing the classic Alastair Sims _A Christmas Carol_, they grimaced and one said “When is this from? The eighties?”

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