The 100 Club is a music venue situated at 100, Oxford Street, London W1, UK. This article is about the Oxford Street in London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

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.æ October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... See also: 1941 in music, other events of 1942, 1943 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Bunk Johnson makes his first recordings Albums released Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby Top hit records Blues In the Night by Woody Herman Dont sit under the Apple Tree - Andrews... Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld Eating Out redirects here. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Victor Feldman (April 7, 1934 - May 12, 1987) was a British jazz musician. ...

The Trad boom

UK beat scene and R'n'B

The punk years

September 20 and 21, 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 & the Banshees, The Clash, The Buzzcocks and The Damned. See also: 1975 in music, other events of 1976, 1977 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January-February January 7 - Kenneth Moss, a former record company executive, is sentenced to 120 days in the Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation for... The 100 Club Punk Festival was a two day event held at the 100 Club, a (usually) jazz-oriented venue in Oxford Street, London, on the 20th and 21st of September 1976. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Sex Pistols in 1977. ... Siouxsie and the Banshees, from Peepshow album art. ... The Clash was a successful British punk rock group that existed from 1976 to 1986. ... Buzzcocks were a punk rock band, formed in Manchester, England in 1976. ... The Damned are a rock band from the suburbs of London, England, formed in 1976. ...

Under the promotion of Ron Watts, the venue then 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. The Angelic Upstarts were a staunchly anti-fascist, anti-police, working class punk band of late 1970s and early 1980s. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... See also: 1980 in music, other events of 1981, 1982 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadways Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... The Varukers are a hardcore punk band formed in 1979. ... Discharge were an Influential United Kingdom Anarcho-punk/Crustcore band. ... Charged GBH, usually referred to simply as GBH, is a preeiminent band of British hardcore punk. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... Picture Frame Seduction is a hardcore punk rock band from Haverfordwest, Wales, UK. The bands influences included their peers of the day Charged GBH and Discharge. ...

The 100 Club is still going strong today, with decor unchanged since the 1970s, although the punk bands no longer appear there regularly. Instead there is a busy programme often booked up many months in advance by canny promoters who are aware of the cachet of having a sold-out night at the venue. Occasionally, big-name touring bands will play "secret" or low-key unadvertised gigs there, relying on word of mouth to fill the 350-capacity space. Other nights will see a range of old-school jazz, rhythm-and-blues and soul groups on the famous stage.

African township jazz

External links

• 100 Club homepage
• History of the 100 Club
• Musicians that have played at the 100 Club