Thanks for reminding me about that site, I stumbled across it a while back when I was looking for something else and meant to revisit. I guess like a lot of people I was a semi regular in Wardour street for only a few years (early 80's for me) but it was a great venue, almost identikit actually with a crowded bar, narrow entrance, space invaders machine and thigh strengthening sticky floors. It's a pity that the site isn't accepting new info because I still have some of the monthly gig sheets that should fill in some gaps. I probably even have a membership card somewhere.
I would have gone there a lot more but the only way to get the gig lists was to go there so it was nigh on impossible in those days to find out what was happening unless you were passing or went to another gig. I found out about a few gigs "last week" that I would have loved to have gone to when I turned up for one that had actually been advertised.

oh how I would have liked to have been there.

featuring Geezer Butter.

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/1985

on Oxford Street but always felt that was the 'proper' version of the Marquee.

I was an intermittent regular at Wardour Street from the late 60s through until about 1983. There were many evenings where we got as far as The Ship and never made it into the Marquee itself! The last gigs I specifically remember were Genesis in 1982 (?) and Spider on Christmas Eve the same year.

Anyone else here remember La Chasse a few doors up from the Marquee? It was a good place for a jobbing muso to find work - or more likely the promise of work that never *quite* materialised in the cold light of day.

I went to the Marquee a few times in the mid-80s. I can recall Celibate Rifles, an Aussie punk band - there was a stream of such combos coming out of Oz at that time - and I had other nights there as well. The venue was delightfully scuzzy by that time - the "lounge area" and the famous awnings shown in '60s pics were but distant dreams. After it closed ISTR that the site was then just left derelict for some years before Mezzo and flats were finally built in the early 90s.

but it never had the same vibe. A couple I'd love to been at on Wardour St..

Bowies 1980 Floorshow

Hanoi Rocks
(although I saw them at Crocs, Rayleigh within in a few days of this Marquee gig. It was just as bonkers)

who played a surprise show there in 1988 to celebrate the release of his Heaven Knows single.

Being young and impressionable I was in a state of near frenzy beforehand at the thought of seeing Percy in such a small venue. I queued outside all afternoon to make sure I could get down the front and was pressed up against the stage when he and his band came on. They were playing some Zep songs for the first time, so Trampled Underfoot and In the Evening got the place rocking like the proverbial bastard.

During one of the songs Percy's microphone lead got tangled up and I unravelled it for him mid-song. Having performed these unofficial roadie duties he bent down and thanked me. The rest of the evening was a bit of a blur as all I could think was "Robert Plant spoke to me!"

A few weeks later I went travelling around the USA, Canada and Mexico for six months. I heard whilst I was away that two friends had gone to see Plant at Hammersmith Odeon and that they had "a surprise" for me when I got back. Upon my return they handed me a tour programme and told me to open it at the centre pages. There in front of my disbelieving eyes was a photograph of the very moment Percy had thanked me at the Marquee. I had no idea a photographer had even been present. To say I was excited by this was something of an understatement, and it was down to one of my eagle-eyed mates that I ever got to see it at all...

Legendary... at least for me.

I was at two of the three Guns N' Roses shows you refer to. This is me.

During the encores (which I knew they were recording), I screamed as loud as I could during the quiet bits of Knocking On Heaven's Door. It (and me) subsequently showed up on the b-side of the 12" of Welcome to the Jungle.

This, again, is me.

The first time I went to The Marquee was to see The Boomtown Rats, just before their first single was released in August 1977, at the invitation of Phonogram Records. Trouble is there are several gigs on the list so I cannot pin down the exact date. Earlier in the day a group of us invited Ents Secs had posed for a photo with the band but I have never seen it. Oh well.

Used to go there a lot in the early 1980s. Meal at Jimmy's Greek restaurant, few beers in the Intrepid Fox then on to the Marquee. Happy days.

used to play regular Monday night residencies down there circa 1980-81. I went to most of them (I was young, OK?) One night, Phil Lewis (who was bedding Rod's knock-off, Brit Ekland at the time) announced halfway into their set that they'd got a 'special guest' joining them later. It only turned out to be Ritchie Blackmore dressed head to foot in black and sporting a tasty white Fender. He played Born To Be Wild with them as an encore. Great night - must dig out thr (blurred) photos.

The Marquee was the venue for the first gig I ever walked out of. A band called Automatic Fine Tuning. It was Monday night in the summer of 1974, when the club did a get in free with this advert promo. Thanks to the link posted by Mondo, I can also see that it was actually a Monday in January 1977. Old age eh?

I recall seeing Pat Travers there, and Eric Johnson, who played so loud I nearly fell over. I still have a Marquee T shirt, that fits me (provided I wear it as a headscarf).