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Save the Astoria
The Crossrail project have plans on our favourite venue. Crossrail's 'people' have informed usthat "The Astoria Theatre will be demolished to make way for a worksite necessary for the construction of the new Crossrail station platformsand passages."
That's right. Instead of the London Astoria, we get a hole in the ground. A building site. And all for a ventilation shaft.
Now needless to say, this is a bit of a blow, but we're not giving up yet. From here on we have to step up our efforts, and to do this, we'regoing to need all of the help we can get.
If you're interested in helping out, even in the smallest way, sign up to the mailing list, and add us on your Myspace. And of course, sign the petition, it'll still come in handy for demonstrating how many people want to Save the Astoria, from whatever threat.
xx Jade and Sarah, october 2006..

My Interests

www.savetheastoria.org

I'd like to meet:

People who sign our petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/savethea/petition.htmlAnd anyone who's enjoyed the Astoria over the years or knows anything about its history. The venue was built in 1893 as a Crosse and Blackwell pickle factory.And Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood met his old girlfriend there. Oh yeah. Torchwood loves the Astoria.

Music:

Anyone good, especially those who have or are going to play the Astoria.We especially love the Cribs, the Undertones, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Maximo Park, Los Campesinos!, Larrikin Love RIP :( and Jamie T for being ace (and supporting us too)

Books:

Drowned In Sound article The Guardian article BBC 6Music article contactmusic.com article

Heroes:

LoveNotRiots
Feargal Sharkey

My Blog

part one

Hello Astoria chums!Sorry I haven't got in touch with you lot in a while, from the last time I did until I've had an annoying thing called 6th form and exams to deal with, but it's the hols now!Just ...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:50:00 PST

Save The Youth Pub

Hello folks. We here at Save The Astoria Towers (does that sound enough like a pretentious music journalist? good) like a campaign. Fighting the man, etc. Henceforth I declare you should all visit my...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

Vodafone Live Awards - Vote Astoria!

Hi guys. You may or may have not seen that Vodafone are doing some live awards. The Astoria is one of the nominations for Best Live Venue - obviously we want it to win and get some more awareness rais...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:27:00 PST

T-Shirt Competition

Hello folks. First of all, a big thanks for all the support, signing the petition, words of encouragement and so forth. It's been amazing, and we couldn't have done it without our wee gang. Here's the...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:25:00 PST

More press

As well as the article on us in the Guardian here and the drownedinsound editorial here, BBC 6 Music and contactmusic.com have articles on us. Check them out: BBC 6 Music Articlecontactmusic.com artic...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:19:00 PST

The Guardian article

Buy the Guardian today and have a look at page 9.Alternatively check it out here: The Guardian articleWord.
Posted by Save the Astoria on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:22:00 PST

Can I just say

We're not interested in demonizing Derwent Valley in any way. They're only a company, not a group of 'money-grabbing bastards'; and for all we know they might want to protect the Astoria and do the ri...
Posted by Save the Astoria on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:13:00 PST