AN ICONIC building which has played host to some of music’s most legendary bands in music history looks likely to be demolished.
Halton Council has drawn up plans to have Queen’s Hall on Victoria Road bulldozed due to health and safety, and the cost of keeping it boarded up.
Originally built as a Wesleyan Methodist church in the 1870s, the building – which closed in 2004 – famously played host to The Beatles who staged four gigs there in 1962, and has also hosted iconic ‘Madchester’ bands including Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses – who played to an audience of only 400 people there on May 5, 1989.
Its stage has also been home to the likes of musician Julian Cope, comedian Johnny Vegas and actress Jenny Seagrove, while its dances also
proved popular.
Widnes-born promoter Dave Pichilingi, director of Liverpool Sound City and a lecturer at Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, cut his teeth in the industry promoting bands at the venue between 1981-1990.
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