The Roxy (Covent Garden)

The Roxy was a fashionable nightclub located at 41–43 Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy.

[1] The Roxy was started by Andrew Czezowski, Susan Carrington and Barry Jones, by suggestion of Chelsea singer Gene October, to convert the club into London's first live punk rock venue.

[4] They financed the venture with borrowed money (Jones, a musician, pawned his guitar to stock the bars, and hire sound equipment, etc.).

[citation needed] In 1977, Harvest Records released an album Live at the Roxy WC2, featuring some of the regular acts who performed there.

On Tuesday 25 April 2017, a 'People's Plaque' was unveiled by the Seven Dials Trust and invited unveilers - Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington, the founders of the ROXY (with Barry Jones), Gaye Black (The Adverts), Pauline Murray (Penetration), Tessa Pollitt (The Slits) and Jordan Mooney (who worked for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's Sex (boutique)/Seditionaries shop on the King's Road).

The exhibition comprised the works of Derek Ridgers, Ray Stevenson, Jeremy Gibbs and Rebecca Hale and ran for 3 weeks.