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Hope’s 30 years of live history
PREVIEW: THE PEAFISH HOPE AND ANCHOR FESTIVAL
Hope and Anchor
THIS Easter weekend Islington’s famed music venue The Hope and Anchor will celebrate 30 years of live music by hosting the first Peafish Hope and Anchor festival.
John Otway, Wilko Johnson, The Blockheads, Kitty Hudson and many more will play over the course of the weekend to raise money for Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy.
Unfortunately, like many other venues the continued existence of the Hope and Anchor is by no means guaranteed. Festival organiser, Sarah Pink of Peafish Promotions, said: “We need to start putting historical music venues like the Hope and Anchor into the public mind.
“There are too many places that just go and you don’t realise it until it’s gone.”
With the Astoria in Tottenham Court Road under threat, Kentish Town’s Forum bought up by the Barfly group, and Highbury’s The Garage still closed ‘for refurbishment’ a year on – with no guarantee that Mean Fiddler will reopen it – this festival is needed.
It is hoped that it will alert people to the need to save these historic music venues and ensure that they remain open for many years to come.
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