"Who've you come to see?" asked the woman taking money at the bottom of the stairs. "No-one in particular," I told her. She didn't have a section on her piece of paper for that, so started a new one. The Hope and Anchor pub in Islington, for a time in the mid-late 70's a sweaty, smokey hotbed venue of live pub/punk/new wave rock, is still extremely active. Twenty bands a week play here over five nights, each taking their cut of the door money dependant, I guess, on how many punters they pull in. Tonight's first band, Paper Soldiers, a group with a big rock sound from near Cambridge would probably have had more punters had they been playing near Cambridge. The photo below continues yesterday's theme of "photos of a band with some of them behind pillars or stacks of speakers".
The audience swelled three-fold for the second band, an all female folk-rock outfit called Greymatter, who since 2004 have built up a dedicated following.
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