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Blue plaque honour for London punk venue The Roxy

The venue hosted The Clash as well as a number of other popular punk bands.
The venue hosted The Clash as well as a number of other popular punk bands. The venue hosted The Clash as well as a number of other popular punk bands.

The venue which helped birth London’s punk scene has been celebrated with a blue plaque.

The Roxy hosted some of Britain’s biggest punk acts including The Clash, The Buzzcocks, and Siouxsie & The Banshees during the genre’s infancy in the 70s, before closing down in 1977.

On Tuesday, a blue plaque was unveiled at the venue in Neal Street in London’s Covent Garden, 40 years after it opened.

Gaye Black of The Adverts, Pauline Murray of Penetration and Jordan Mooney and Tessa Pollitt of The Slits,
Gaye Black of The Adverts, Pauline Murray of Penetration and Jordan Mooney and Tessa Pollitt of The Slits,
Gaye Black of The Adverts, Pauline Murray of Penetration, and Jordan Mooney and Tessa Pollitt of The Slits stand in front of photographs of themselves at The Roxy

The Slits’ Tessa Pollitt and model and singer Jordan Mooney attended the ceremony, alongside Roxy founders Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington, who recently published a book documenting the venue’s history.

The plaque was installed as part of The Seven Dials Trust’s ongoing People And Street History Plaques project.