Camden Hippodrome Picture Theatre

KenRoe on April 27, 2009 at 2:44 am

David Zornig; The London Hippodrome Theatre is located on the corner of Cranbourne Street and Charing Cross Road, close to Leicester Square in London’s West End. In the 1960’s it was operating as the Talk of the Town, offering middle of the road type artistes. So I doubt it was that particular Hippodrome Theatre.

The Camden Hippodrome Theatre could have been the venue you mention for the bands playing above, as it had been vacated by the BBC in the early 1960’s and could have been available for concerts before it became a nightclub.

There was also the Golders Green Hippodrome Theatre, which was used as a concert hall by the BBC, so that is another possibility, but they tended to record light music & classical concerts in that venue.

DavidZornig on November 17, 2008 at 9:01 pm

I just saw a Retro Minute feature from www.getback.com that said on 11/17/68, The Who, Small Faces, Mindbenders and one other band played live at the London Hippodrome.
I searched the CT list for London Hippodrome, and this was the only one still standing at that time.

Ian on May 29, 2007 at 4:10 am

Another exterior photo here :–

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KenRoe on November 9, 2005 at 7:28 am

A photograph I took in the Summer 1993 when it was in use as a concert venue the ‘Camden Palace:
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