100 Club

The 100 Club is a music venue situated at 100, Oxford St, London W1, UK.

The 100 Club has a legendary status within the history of modern British music, having played live music since 24 October 1942. In this year the venue was a restaurant called Macks, which was hired out every Sunday evening by the father of jazz drummer Victor Feldman in order to provide his son with regular gigs.

The Trad boom

UK beat scene and R'n'B

The punk years

September 1976 saw the 100 Club play host to the first 'International punk festival', an event which helped to push the then new punk rock movement from the underground into the cultural and musical mainstream. Bands which played at this event included the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Buzzcocks and The Damned.

Under the promotion of Ron Watts, the venue became a regular venue for 'old school' punk bands like Angelic Upstarts, UK Subs, as well as, from 1981 onwards, hardcore punk bands such as The Varukers, Discharge, Charged GBH, Crass, Picture Frame Seduction, English Dogs, etc.

African township jazz

External links

• 100 Club homepage (http://www.the100club.co.uk/main.asp)
• History of the 100 Club (http://www.the100club.co.uk/history1.asp)
• Musicians that have played at the 100 Club (http://www.the100club.co.uk/history2.asp)