Exeter/Manchester/Birkenhead

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:41:21AM -0500, Nick Medford wrote:
> But 3000 sounds like a
> *big* crowd for HW, Hammersmith Odeon back in the glory days can't have
> held many more than that.

Hammersmith had a capacity of 3500ish (it was precisely 3483
according to one Whitesnake page, but a few other web pages just
give 3500).

Now, it seems, they've increased its capacity by removing the
stalls seating.  They've also renamed it to the Carling Apollo
Hammersmith, about which Lemmy had this to say (from its stage):
    We all know it's the Hammersmith Odeon, so why don't they
    f**kin' bring the name back?  What's with all this Apollo
    s**t?!

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