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What a complete shower of bs'tards.

Omg! That's just pants! Had many a good night in there !!

I've heard they're knocking down the entirety of Denmark St to build some flats. Frankly I'd rather they knocked down Buckingham Palace. Denmark St is the musical heart of London, and we're ripping it out to build more flats for yuppie wankers. One day London is just going to be Costa, H&M and £3m flats full of slimy City boy dickheads.

I just wrote this on my Washing Machine page:

Before moving back to Bury St Edmunds, I used to promote gigs at a brilliant venue in London's Denmark Street called the 12 Bar Club. It's a tiny tiny venue - seriously, the stage is the size of a cupboard door - which exudes character and history from every sticky corner (the oldest parts of the building date from the 1600s). Andy, its lovely owner, let me have a night there because I asked him nicely. Washing Machine owes its origins to Andy indulging my whims. Thanks Andy.

With horrific inevitability, in the ongoing race to destroy everything that once made Central London interesting, developers have been given the go-ahead to demolish and replace the 12 Bar Club (and most of Denmark Street) with yet another hellish, shiny office block/shopping mall/thing of no cultural significance. This makes me very, very sad.

Money may make the World go round; freedom of speech may not feed our children; dreams may or may not come true. But without culture, without the folly of artistic endeavour, without expression, without joy, without fun, what exactly makes our lives worth living?

Our venues and our arts need protecting. Developers will come for more of our culture and history. At some point we will need to fight them; but for now, let's raise a glass to The 12 Bar Club, to Andy and all his staff.

Merry Christmas everyone. And don't let the fuckers get you down.

Seymour xxx

Another pile of shit from that utter turd Johnson and his cronies. Don't let that jolly bumbling exterior fool you he is pure evil. Please tell me that you didn't vote for him. What a c*nt!

Building by building all the great places that make London such a fantastic and unique home for great rock n roll culture and art from year dot are disappearing due to these faceless feckless fuckers. I wish we could do more to fight them but as far as politicians councillors and developers etc go there should be a massive plaque in London somewhere naming and shaming them for their wanton destruction of our culture and our heritage. And to be replaced with what exactly? Houses for the rich and shops for the stupid. Fuck them all to eternity.

Name and shame the landlords

This is sick. I'm going on Friday for a swan song. Fuck you and your profiteering Boris.
Darrin Worsley Chris Converse Paul Hanlon Cathy Kerlin Rachel Flip Ali Baba - raise a glass

So sad x

It's TfL and Westminster Council who wa should be expressing our anger to. It was their joint planning decision apparently. I for one will be going on Twitter to vent my spleen with #TransportforLondon or #TfL and having a rant @Westminster Council. I suggest you all do the same. I might phone up their press office and have a rant tomorrow as well....Maybe, if we all did it, we could drive them nuts, to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Either way we should seek to expose their bad decision and damage their (now fragile) reputation. See: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/we-should-be-protecting-sohos-musical-hotspots-not-bringing-in-the-bulldozers-8076658.html

OCCUPY 12 BAR CLUB? :D

Knew it was coming but this is absolute bullshit. Everything that made Soho special is being destroyed. Glad to hear there's a new location in the works.

FUCK THIS SHIT, next will be music licenses for anywhere but major venues, they may aswell just say 'hey england, just to let you know, you may aswell give up on anything creative now so we can build flats in the space you were using'

London is being killed by so called developers with blood on their hands

The whole of Denmark Street is seriously under threat.

That is criminal just like the astoria was

Loved playing there thanks to u Ruby Fortune

Gutted. We all knew it was going to go but seeing it in 'official' writing feels like being punched in the stomach.

really sad news-I'm really disgusted by the way our musical heritage is being bulldozed. Long live the 12 bar-I hope you find a great new location soon

This statement couldn't feel more wrong, but be proud and power on! They can kill our musical heritage but they cannot kill the music!

Squat it!

Oh FFS, making room for more luxury housing no doubt!!!! :(

Terrible news, London's music heritage is being torn to shreds.

Oh no sad news. Especially following on from Madame JoJo's in Soho.

Well Said Zaid Live Acts! Depressing news Westminster Council continue to gut the life out of The West end. The 12 Bar Club have been instrumental in giving our Band their first gigs. I thought there was some hope on the horizon with a recent campaign? It stinks. LONG LIVE THE 12 BAR!!!

That's sad news. The 12 Bar Club was always the perfect location for a drink after an afternoon browsing for new guitars in Denmark Street.

Such a pile of shit. Fuck you Boris.

No other club has the heart of the 12 Bar, where ever the new location, the 12 Bar Club lives on. No other place treats the many wide range of bands with the utmost kind respect and coolness, always made to feel welcome because true punk spirit lives there, top gem best club <3 we are proud to been part of sharing our music on that stage with the forge next to us and the kindest ace gem people helping us do that. We are with 12 Bar where ever it moves to and the 12 Bar will live on (y) !