Crown & Anchor Hotel Biography

Crown & Anchor Hotel

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In Adelaide's East End is a pub which is slightly off the beaten track in terms of location and style. The Crown & Anchor Hotel, situated on the Corner of Union and Grenfell streets is only a short walk from the madness of Rundle St. It has long been a home to musicians and fans of live and original music as well as show casing some of the most innovative (definitely the friendliest!) DJs in our fine city.

Preferred Music Styles: Original, alternative only. Everything from rock, goth, punk, psychobilly, acoustic sessions:
Capacity: 400
Opening Hours: 11am-4am
Equipment Supplied: Lighting & Quality PA
Address:
196 Grenfell Street
Adelaide, SA5000


Venue Telephone: 08 8223 3212
Facsimile: 08 8232 5503
crankabookings@internode.on.net

Maintaining a strong focus on local talent, the Crown & Anchor can be proud of it's history of giving new bands and young musicians a stage as well as playing host to a broad cross section of better known musicians. Truth Corroded, Flat Stanely, Yakspit, The Mavis', Temporal Lobe, Circle Clan, Muzzy Pep, The Selfish Gene, Brillig, Scissor Pretty, Where's The Pope, Enemy of?, The Violets, H-Block 101, SixFt Hick, The Iron Sheik's, Fiona Horne, The Whiprods, King Daddy, Babydoll, Heather Frahn, Baterz, The New Pollutants, Rob Snarski and Dan Luscombe (Black Eyed Susans), Lazaro's Dog, The Blood Sucking Freaks, and The Spazzy's are just a tiny example of the many and varied musicians who are part of the Crown & Anchor's success as a live music venue.

What rocks on a Monday night in Adelaide? The Crown & Anchor does; until 3am! If you're in the hospitality industry it rocks especially hard for you... with staff prices on the basics all night and free 8-ball and juke 11pm-2am. You really have to see this to believe the amount of party people out and living it up on a  Monday!

Check out the gig guides in your local street press for upcoming events which include all ages gigs,  Sunday all ages gigs, free live bands every Tuesday, top notch DJs almost every day, as well as the rock, pop, punk and thrash, heavy, sweet, skanking and melodic sounds of live, original bands the Crown & Anchor is known for every Friday & Saturday night.


NEWSFLASH:   Posted 26 August 2008

Hit the Decks at the Crown & Anchor!

The Crown and Anchor hotel are currently searching the streets of Adelaide for the finest in DJ talent. We are looking for people to compliment the plethora of original live music at the venue, so if you are original, interesting and fantastic at spinning tunes and making people get their dancy pants on and you want to get paid for it,  email Chelsea at crankabookings@internode.on.net or call 0409 222 383.