julian_craster

Hammersmith Palais locations
How many features were filmed inside this venue?

DANCE HALL (1950)


IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1956)

Any more ?



Another bit of cultural and social history .....gone forever.....

Top London music venue to close
BBC NEWS

Hammersmith Palais - the legendary London music venue immortalised in song by The Clash - is to be demolished. The decision to close the venue was taken by Hammersmith and Fulham councillors in a meeting on Monday. The building is expected to be bulldozed to make way for office blocks by developers Parkway Properties. No date for the closure has been given.
The venue, which opened after World War I, was hailed in The Clash's (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais in 1978. Last year the Metropolitan Police had asked the council to revoke the licence of Hammersmith Palais, in west London. The force said it had become blighted by violent crime and disorder but instead of closure the council decided to cut the venue's opening hours.
Councillor Lucy Ivimy, the council's planning committee chairman, said: "Having given permission to demolish the Palais in 2001, the current planning committee had no justifiable grounds for refusing permission on this occasion.
"English Heritage has inspected the site and has confirmed that there is insufficient architectural merit in the building to justify listing it. "Sadly none of the original 1930s interior features remain and in recent years residents have complained more and more about antisocial behaviour at the venue," she said. She added: "We recognise that some people will have fond memories of the golden era at The Hammersmith Palais and it is true to say it played a huge part in west London's music scene. Sadly the golden era for the Palais is long gone."
In 2002 planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of the site, and in October 2006 a three-year planning permission extension was granted. The Palais has played host to a number of top bands in the past such as U2 and The Sex Pistols. It is now known for holding School Disco events.
It has also held the annual awards run by music magazine NME. Paul Stokes, NME's news editor, said the Palais' demolition would be a huge loss. "There's just something about gigs at the Palais. You had the crowd right the way round, not just hanging off the balconies. It just seems a shame."
Mr Stokes said the venue's golden age was far from over, and cited recent gigs by west London band Hard-Fi and US rockers My Chemical Romance as proof top bands were still playing the venue.

Redstar

That news is a terrible shame, not more office blocks! have these morons no feeling for Londons history? I have spent many a happy time at the Hammersmith palais and some very famous artists have appeared there.

lordtednfs

I can remember going to the "Pally" on too many occasions and sometimes the worse for wear. It's a shame that a building with such history should be closed and obviously in time forgotten about. There cant be too many people in West Lundun who ain't bin to de "Pally". Come on everyone lets hear your stories of the late Friday and Saturday nights you had there and then going off to have a chicken or beef pal, blowing your tastes buds to bits, or who you saw there. Great times.

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