KOKO
1 Camden High Street,
London,
NW1 7JE
1 Camden High Street,
London,
NW1 7JE
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News about the fire.
https://www.loudersound.com/news/londons-historic-koko-venue-badly-damaged-by-fire?fbclid=IwAR35fyI6aA1Bcey38jKvFFrPqjnz1bWGJH9jmDMd3ASioxhNArgHM0GbekY
There appears to be a major fire at this building.
The Last Goon Show of all was filmed here.
It was still in use as a BBC radio theatre in the late 1960s I used to go there regularly to watch various comedy programmes be recorded. I t was just known as the Camden Theatre.
David Zornig; The London Hippodrome Theatre is located on the corner of Cranbourne Street and Charing Cross Road, close to Leicester Square in London’s West End. In the 1960’s it was operating as the Talk of the Town, offering middle of the road type artistes. So I doubt it was that particular Hippodrome Theatre.
The Camden Hippodrome Theatre could have been the venue you mention for the bands playing above, as it had been vacated by the BBC in the early 1960’s and could have been available for concerts before it became a nightclub.
There was also the Golders Green Hippodrome Theatre, which was used as a concert hall by the BBC, so that is another possibility, but they tended to record light music & classical concerts in that venue.
A couple of photos taken in April 2009 here:–
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/3479518270/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/3479518008/
I just saw a Retro Minute feature from www.getback.com that said on 11/17/68, The Who, Small Faces, Mindbenders and one other band played live at the London Hippodrome.
I searched the CT list for London Hippodrome, and this was the only one still standing at that time.
interior photos i took on sunday 28th oct 2007 at a Bat For Lashes concert
auditorium
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/1800724801/
proscenium and domed ceiling (and amazing glitter ball)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/1801560510/
rear circle ceiling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/1801550600/
main lobby
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/1800729257/
Another exterior photo here :–
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here are some recent shots of this fabulous building (taken at an MTV Scissor Sisters concert), the interior is still very like an edwardian theatre, a riot of super camp plasterwork, the lobby remains very tasteful but the auditorium is bright “tarts lipstick” red, with gold and glitter applied everywhere
exterior at night
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/230987161/
exterior by day
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auditorium side wall boxes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/230987170/
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A photograph I took in the Summer 1993 when it was in use as a concert venue the ‘Camden Palace:
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