Address: 171 North End Road, London W14.
Dates: 8th May1975 to 19th July 1980.
Past Use: Pub (Three Kings) built 1904.
Current Use: Sports pub with multiple TV screens called the Famous three Kings (in the 1990s it was briefly called Via Fossa).
This pub was turned by the brewer Fuller’s (through a subsidiary the Griffin Catering Co) into a Country music venue with dining. It was opened by Chet Atkins. Jerry Reed and Hank Locklin were performers. A BBC television series “George the Fourth” with George Hamilton IV was shot here. By 1974 a diet of purely Country music was seen as unviable, and there was a brief foray into Cabaret (e.g. Helen Shapiro, the New Vaudeville Band, the Rocking Berries). The next year the venue was turned over to rock (initially retaining country two nights a week), with Grimm the first act to appear. Bands were booked by Dai Davies of the Albion Agency. Like a number of other venues it passed through pub rock on the way to punk. Arthur Brown, Georgie Fame, Dr Feelgood (who were residents), Eddie & the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, the 101ers, the Undertones, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, and Siouxsie & the Banshees are amongst those who played at the Nashville. The Nashville closed as a venue when Fuller’s Brewery decided to sell the pub.
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