King's Cross Theatre

therowdyman on August 11, 2013 at 11:29 pm

The discotheque in question was the famous Surf City. It ran form 1963 until 1965 and was the home ground for many popular groups including: Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, The Missing Links, Ray Brown & The Whispers and Chris Hall & The Torquays.

“In a few years Surf City was no more. That grand 5000 capacity theatre at the top of the Cross, where so much had taken place, was torn down. The Kings Cross underground raliway station sits directly beneath where Surf City stood, and above it one of the greatest pieces of ill-conceived, butt-ugly, cheap architectural sh*t ever built. The Crest Hotel, now the Capital. Tell me money didn’t change hads to make that sort of thing happen. Ask Juanita Nielsen!” – Billy Thorpe, 1998

http://www.milesago.com/venues/surf-city.htm