Formerly the Soho Revue Bar - Florence & the Machine was discovered here when she was singing in the ladies toilets.
First ever band to headline this venue when it opened in October 2005? The Futureheads.
Formerly The Laurel Tree - the venue that played host to Coldplay's only ever gig as the band Starfish, back in 1998. Read more.
"The global punk movement was born here. Demolish!!!" - Lince District, Lima, Peru...credited as the birthplace of punk rock, thanks to 60s band, Los Saicos. Read more.
"I Scrubbed the Crabs that Killed Sheffield" - lyrical reference from an early Pulp demo, Jarvis Cocker used to work on the wet-fish stall. Read more.
Start with the most obvious - the scene of one of the most iconic album covers of all time and the title of the 11th Studio album from British pop icons, The Beatles.
The venue that inspired the name change: The Oasis Leisure Centre was one of the venues on an Inspiral Carpets tour poster that hung in the Gallagher brothers' bedroom - hence, Oasis (not The Rain).
The old site of the Boardwalk Club before it was sold in 2001, where Oasis played their first ever live gig on 18 August 1991.
The first festival at Worthy Farm was the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival, in September 1970, and attended by 1,500 people. The headliner? Tyrannosaurus Rex, later known as T.Rex.
New College Nottingham offers a degree in heavy metal music! Believed to be the first of its kind in the world. Read more.
The world's first (and only?) 8 Track Museum! The format was created by Bill Lear of LearJet so that he could listen to music on his plane.
