Performance venues

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The Old Blue Last

A 1700 pub with a small room upstairs that has launched an unreasonable number of bands.

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A last is the wooden form a shoemaker builds a shoe on, which is where the name comes from; Truman's rebuilt the pub in 1876. It stands within thirty metres of the site of James Burbage's Theatre of 1576, the first purpose-built playhouse in England, whose timbers were carried across the river and became the Globe - so live performance has been happening on this corner, on and off, for four and a half centuries.

The room upstairs is tiny and free more often than not. Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, the Horrors, Klaxons and IDLES have all played it.

Where
38 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3ES
Nearest station
Shoreditch High Street · 5 min walk

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