Blow Up Metro
Blow Up Metro: Another London venue to close in 2008
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Get your tissues out as yet another live music venue in central London is facing closure!
After the legendary Astoria on Charing Cross Road, the closure date of which is yet to be confirmed but which even 35,000 petitioners didn't manage to rescue, it's now the turn to its proximate neighbour, The Metro on Oxford Street, to be given the shutdown. The venue is due to close in January after, their last major club night, Blow Up , on January 17th 2009.
Between themselves, the two venues have hosted performances by the likes of Madonna, Courtney Love, U2 and J Mascis.
But despite current times, the credit crunch is not to blame, as the venues had to comply with the Crossrail Act imposed on them by wrong decision-makers.
And it seems that live music venues are not the only victims of such useless regeneration plans (frankly can anyone explain the need for a new underground railway between Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Oxford Street, when getting from one to the other take no more than 10 minutes by foot???), as even Westend nightclubs such as Café Royal, Paper and Chinawhite are having to relocate in the next year.
