The Astoria: Share your beer-stained memories
Ian Winwood, The Guardian, 13 January 2009
YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a gig at the Astoria has just finished because you'll be greeted with the sight of 2,000 people spilling out into London's Charing Cross Road. The most remarkable thing about this fabulous room is not the number of great gigs that it has staged over the years, but the fact that no one has been decapitated by a number 19 bus after one of these shows has ended.
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