The Lacey Lady, Ilford

[South-Punk Admin]

The Lacy Lady club in Ilford is often mentioned as one of the key places that many early punk fans would go to in the 1975 - 1976 period (The club is listed as closing between 1978 and 1979 before re-opening in the '90's?) and I wondered if anyone here ever went there and could expand upon what it was like as a place? The Damned are purported to have played there on Thursday November 18th, 1976, although the story, whether apocryphal or not, is that their set was stoped after one song, and the promoter paid the band off and asked them to leave.

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