Live Music London

100 Club Sign

ITS stage has seen the West End debuts of Oasis, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Buzzcocks, while Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Paul Weller can still sometimes be glimpsed in the audience.

Yet the 100 Club in Oxford Street – described by Aerosmith‘s Joe Perry as “the finest rock’n'roll club in the world” – could close within a few months because of soaring overheads unless it can find a buyer. Its rates bill has hit £4,000 a month and landlord Lazari Investments now charges rent, with VAT, of £166,000 a year.

The cellar club’s owner, Jeff Horton, said: “It makes me so angry. The Government, Westminster council and even some of the commercial landlords say they want to help small businesses, they say they want to preserve London‘s uniqueness, they want to help multi-cultural venues.

“Yet we’re all that and all these organisations have all dumped on us from a great height.” His father started running the venue in 1964, but it opened in 1942 as a jazz club.

Mr Horton sees few alternatives to closure after Lazari raised the rent by 45 per cent. “In 1985, when I took over, the rent was barely £11,000 In the US the rents are frozen at certain venues that have a bit of heritage. Here it’s a total free-for-all.”

He added: “What the 100 Club needs is a buyer or major sponsor to step forward. Barring that, we’re closing at Christmas despite being as popular as ever. It really is insane.”

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Nick Roth – alto & soprano saxophones
Colm O’Hara – trombone
Alex Roth – guitar
Tom Gibbs – piano
Derek Whyte – bass
Simon Roth – drums

Wednesday 6th October
8pm
Charlie Wrights International
45 Pitfield Street
London
N1 6DA
nearest tube: Old Street
Tel: 020 7490 8345
www.charliewrights.com
Admission: £6/4 (students with valid ID)

Brief description:

Simon Roth’s Mayday Project is a group formed of some of the most inventive and creative musicians from the UK and Ireland and performs Simon’s original compositions. Rooted in age-old musical traditions, the group’s music twists and turns its way into a unique, grooving soundscape with abrasive, modern undertones.

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Delta Ladies (Vicky Martin & Diana Stone) play an encore of Riders in the Sky & Hey Joe at Round Midnight Islington.

Take two brilliant entertainers,
add an amazing range of instruments
and a stunning array of songs and
you have the DELTA LADIES.

‘Lady’ Diana Stone and ‘Miss’ Vicky
Martin. To lovely lilting leggy London
Ladies of somewhat doubtful origin.

They bring you an evening of songs
and music including just about
everything:-

Bluegrass / Stephan Grappelli style
Jazz / Blues / Rock ‘n Roll /
Pub sing-a-long / Songs from the
shows / Klezma & much else.

Shows may include -
Hey Good Looking /Orange Blossom
Special / My Old Man’s a Dustman /
Hey Joe / All Along the Watchtower /
Cheek to Cheek / Night & Day / Dark
Eyes /Dedicated Follower of Fashion,
Hava Nagila / Maybe it’s Because
I’m a Londoner / Mystery Train and
more, more, more…

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Legislation does no good even those supposedly in the business of helping people with mental health issues discriminate against the very people they are supposed to be helping.

I suspect a lot of these Charity’s are run by 30 somethings who have never had any issues in their life. I think I may have to expose some of these people.

Any one from Mind Sane or any of the other lot care to contradict me…