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The dance floor at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse around 1919. Built in 1910 on a site formerly occupied by a tram shed [3] for London United Tramways, the Brook Green Roller Skating Rink, [1] which may have been closed since 1915, [nb 2] was acquired at the end of the First World War by North American entrepreneurs Howard Booker and Frank Mitchell, [3] [4] to convert it into a place to host ...
Palais de Danse, St Ives, a former cinema and dance hall in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK; PRYZM, Nottingham, a nightclub in Nottingham, England, formerly the Palais de Danse; Hammersmith Palais, also known as Hammersmith Palais de Danse, a former dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London
In the 1973 Thames Television documentary, May I Have the Pleasure?, about the Hammersmith Palais de Danse, Lou Preager comments on how his was the first band to record the 'Okey Cokey'. EMI Gold released a Monsta Mash CD featuring the "Monsta Hokey Cokey" written and produced by Steve Deakin-Davies of "The Ambition Company".
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo [1] for sponsorship reasons, and formerly and still commonly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace. Located in Hammersmith, London, it is an art deco Grade II* listed building. [2]
In 1985, Sonic Youth toured the U.K. for the second time, live recordings from which appeared the following year on the two-LP bootleg Walls Have Ears.On Feb. 9, the collection will be released ...
One of the theatre's boxes. Typical of 1920s picture theatres, the architectural style is ornate, eclectic and exotic. The arched roof and twin domed towers of the façade is an arrangement shared by other entertainment buildings in the foreshore area, notably Luna Park next door, the St Kilda Sea Baths, and long demolished landmarks like the Palais de Danse to the north, and the St. Moritz ...
Hammersmith Palais [fn 18] 13 March 1984 Manchester Free Trade Hall [5] [fn 18] 14 March 1984 Liverpool University of Liverpool: 15 March 1984 Kingston upon Hull: University of Hull: 17 March 1984 Loughborough: Loughborough University: 18 March 1984 Leicester De Montfort Hall: 19 March 1984 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall: 20 March 1984 ...
The song showed considerable musical and lyrical maturity for the band at the time. Compared with their other early singles, it is stylistically more in line with their version of Junior Murvin's "Police and Thieves" as the powerful guitar intro of "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" descends into a slower ska rhythm, and was disorienting to a lot of the fans who had grown used to their ...