by John Barrow
Wish the bands would start earlier. Bands start at 10.30pm! Fine if you’re a student with nothing to do the next day. But for everyone else it’s too late on a weeknight. Unless you live in Kingston, you’re probably going to miss your last train home. Kingston transport links are awful.

Getting home after midnight is not something I want to do on a weeknight. Start the bands earlier Hippodrome.

But, they do get great bands at reasonable prices. There’s no way I’d trek over to Camden or any other London venues, so the Hippodrome is the only way I get to see these bands. It’s a tacky club, but I love it, am very grateful for it and very sad the crappy council are closing it to make way for yet more godawful ugly tower block flats, as if Kingston isn’t grim enough already.

Hippodrome

1 St James Road
Kingston Upon Thames, Greater London
KT1 2AH
Phone: 020 8541 4411