Stop Crossrail demolishing yet another iconic London music venue - Electrowerkz

The Issue

Electrowerkz inTorrens Street, behind Angel Tube station is another iconic London music venue that the Crossrail developers seem intent on destroying. It has been home for several decades to some of the most world renowned and groundbreaking alternative music clubs and events. I recently read that, as Mayor Of London, you have just commissioned a report concerning the loss of music venues across the city and how to put a halt to this before London is completely sanitised and loses any of its legacy of popular and alternative culture. The constant onslaught by TFL and Crossrail who recently levelled the famous London Astoria in Charing Cross Road and all the historical music venues, shops and rehearsal/recording studios in Denmark Street opposite and are still fighting to have their way by flattening Camden's legendary Electric Ballroom is a huge part of this problem which you seem to be endorsing. Which is it? What are your priorities here? These companies are using the excuse of increasing access to these areas, especially for tourism, but as they wipe out these venues, surely its obvious London will become a homogenised wasteland devoid of any cultural significance that tourists will have no reason to visit. London was for a very long time looked upon as the worldwide centre of popular and alternative culture but acts of cultural vandalism like this are destroying that legacy. Please stop this rot and protect this iconic venue's future! 

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The Issue

Electrowerkz inTorrens Street, behind Angel Tube station is another iconic London music venue that the Crossrail developers seem intent on destroying. It has been home for several decades to some of the most world renowned and groundbreaking alternative music clubs and events. I recently read that, as Mayor Of London, you have just commissioned a report concerning the loss of music venues across the city and how to put a halt to this before London is completely sanitised and loses any of its legacy of popular and alternative culture. The constant onslaught by TFL and Crossrail who recently levelled the famous London Astoria in Charing Cross Road and all the historical music venues, shops and rehearsal/recording studios in Denmark Street opposite and are still fighting to have their way by flattening Camden's legendary Electric Ballroom is a huge part of this problem which you seem to be endorsing. Which is it? What are your priorities here? These companies are using the excuse of increasing access to these areas, especially for tourism, but as they wipe out these venues, surely its obvious London will become a homogenised wasteland devoid of any cultural significance that tourists will have no reason to visit. London was for a very long time looked upon as the worldwide centre of popular and alternative culture but acts of cultural vandalism like this are destroying that legacy. Please stop this rot and protect this iconic venue's future! 

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