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At one point (before it was a pub) the building was home to the Marquee Club.

I have been in this pub and, even more impressive, I remember being there! It seemed a bit big and souless for my liking, but the beer was cheap (for London) so I can't complain.

It's a wetherspoons pub so the beer will be cheap.
As you say it's not quite a local is it.

ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!I can't believe that they've turned the beloved Marquee Club into a Wetherspoons!!
Is there a venue for the Marquee club now or has it just paled into
insignifcance?

Ah, but that was just a pale imitation of the old Marquee, in Wardour Street.

*Suddenly the picture goes all wavy as he starts to reminisce...*

*BANG*

"Snap out of it Harrison, remember, nostalgia is a disease!"

Still, I had some good times there...

I think I may be thinking of the one in Wardour Street.
I remember seeing The Q tips there a long while ago.
It was areally scruffy joint-but wow did you hear some great music!
You know I'm really beginning to feel old!All my old haunts are disappearing.

I think it must have been the Wardour street one if you saw the Q-Tips there. It's a restaurant now, Mezzo I think. I always used to start off at the Intrepid Fox down the road; that's still there, and still retains some of its old "charm". After the Marquee closed up for the night we sometimes used to go over to the St. Moritz, which was just across the road. I don't know how I had the energy ...

Rumour has it that the Fox is about to close down and turn into another wine bar (as if we needed one)...

The last night is allegedly either 8th or 15th Sept 2000

So it looks like a night out in Wardour Street will become a couple of glasses of cabernet at a wine bar, a rather well-presented meal at Mezzo and an early night. Oh dear.

Fine if you like that kind of thing (and I do).

It's just that I'm a friend of a regular at the Fox and was sorry to see a grown man almost cry when he heard that it was allegedly shutting !

Now that I've got a few more years behind me I'm not totally averse to that sort of thing, either. I do have a certain nostalgia for places like the Fox, though - I had some happy times there. I suppose that now there's a whole new generation of places that people will lament the loss of in twenty years time.

One of my first gigs was at the Marquee Club - I saw the Mighty Lemon Drops there on my 16th birthday... which must have been in 1990, come to think of it.

I must admit, I was gutted to hear the Marquee had closed and been converted into a pub, and I haven't visited it on principle...