Amersham Arms
A New Cross pub with a 300-capacity venue at the back, running live gigs, comedy and DJ nights most weeks, in a building that has held a pub of the same name on the site since at least the 1850s.
- Live music
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
Suede played an early gig here in February 1992 to what Brett Anderson later remembered as an audience of one person, and the pub hosted meetings of the local Anglo Caribbean Association in the 1950s.
Local tip
Check the listings before going, the pub at the front and the ticketed venue at the back run separate programmes, so what's on varies a lot night to night. Happy Mondays Comedy has run here weekly for close to 20 years.
Finding it
- Address
- 388, New Cross Road, New Cross, London Borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England, SE14 6TY
- Nearest station
- New Cross ELL (National Rail), 153 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
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