Music Machine. Large 3 level old Victorian theatre in Camden NW1. Originally opened in 1900 and called the Camden Theatre it became the Hippodrome and put on first plays then films and plays.

In 1977 it became a music venue and was called the Music Machine hosting some classic punk gigs including the Clash, Richard Hell  - where Johnny Rotten intervened to ask the crowd to give him a break and a Boomtown Rat gig where one of Screwdrivers mates ran on stage and lamped Bob Geldof.

The Music machine was also the scene of AC/DC's singer Bon Scott's last bender who chocked on his own vomit and passed away following leaving the club at 3am.

Place underwent several name changes including the Camden Palace when it was purchased by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan and central to the New Romantic movement. It's now Koko and still a live venue.

For you architecture buffs the building is in a classical style outside and inside Baroque rules the decoration with boxes and columns being supported by nude female figures. Originally the copper dome that crowns the building had an open lantern topped by a statue. Fantastic place.