Venue: The Clarendon Hotel
Town: Hammersmith, GB

The Clarendon Hotel (also The Clarendon Arms) was a hotel, restaurant, bar and music venue at 5 Hammersmith Broadway, Hammersmith, London W6. Previously known as "The Goat" and "The Suspension Bridge", its construction date is unknown. Census records in Hammersmith show it operated as a licensed Public House at least as early as 1863 and a 1950s brochure proclaimed it was "FAMOUS AS A RENDEZVOUS FOR OVER 100 YEARS" (see pictures). It closed in 1988 and was demolished to make way for the new Hammersmith Broadway Centre. It was used extensively as a music venue in the post-World War II era, initially upstairs in its American Bar and Ballroom and then downstairs in the basement Broadway Bar. From the 1950s to 1970s, it was home to London's country music scene, where bands such as The Westsiders, The Grovers, The Miller Brothers, The Hillsiders, The Westernaires & The Ranchers played regularly. After punk appeared in the mid-1970s, it became a major hub of the underground and alternative music scene. In the 1980s, bands such as U2, Pulp, Ramones, Birthday Party, Primal Scream, Damned, Sisters of Mercy, Cramps, Meteors, Television Personalities, Big Black (posthumously released as the live album Pigpile), Doctor and the Medics, Dead Can Dance, Ghost Dance, Blyth Power, Killing Joke, Subhumans, Hanoi Rocks, Butthole Surfers and Xmal Deutschland gave one-off or rare performances. Bands from the burgeoning thrash, heavy metal, punk, hardcore, indie and alternative music scenes were regular performers. It was most famous as home to London's psychobilly scene, which grew out of the Country & Western and rockabilly scenes that were big in London in the early 1980s. The Clarendon was most famous for regular nights held under the name Klub Foot which attracted fans from all across the country, but also for its heavy metal nights on Sundays and for breaking newer bands in the basement "Broadway" bar. The nearby Hammersmith Odeon and Hammersmith Palais was for more established ban