Valve wrote: I went to the Clarendon a couple of times in the early 80s seeing Elvis Costello and Robyn Hitchcock. I thought at the time the rockabilly kids went to a pub called the George in the same block?
There was a bar on the street level just above The Broadway is that where you mean?
I remember after a gig being asked to go to an office I was led through various corridors upstairs. There was another bar/ballroom looked like it hadn't been used, the place seemed vast, old and derelict.
I bet that in its heyday it was quite a nice hotel.
Of the many times I went there and played there with my friends we always had a bloody good time (many people quite literally!).
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