Sebright Arms: A Pub Named for a Baronet and His Bantam | A Bethnal Green pub carrying the arms of the Sebright baronets – one of whom bred the famous ornamental bantam that bears the family name
MOTH Club: The Old Soldiers’ Hall Turned Music Venue | A Hackney Central music venue in a former veterans’ club, whose name honours the Memorable Order of Tin Hats – a fellowship of old soldiers
The Fighting Cocks Review: The Beloved Rock Bar and Live-Music Venue of Kingston | A beloved rock bar and live-music venue on Old London Road in Kingston, in a building from before 1890 and active as a venue since the 1930s, with live music, comedy and a lively crowd
The Cavern Review: The Lively Live-Music Bar of Raynes Park | A lively live-music bar on Coombe Lane in Raynes Park, a genuine local music venue with good drinks, a fun atmosphere and a warm, welcoming spirit
Windmill Review: A 4.5, and the Small Venue Is Where Every Band Starts | Fifteen hundred people, and a room with a capacity of about a hundred and fifty has launched an extraordinary number of careers
Hootenanny Review: The Word Meant a Thingamajig Before It Meant a Party | A placeholder word for something you cannot name, and then it meant a folk music session
Blues Kitchen Review: The Blues Was Recorded Because a Man Drove Around With a Machine | Four thousand people, and the music in the name survives because somebody put a disc cutter in a car
93 Feet East Review: The Name Is a Boundary Measurement | It is the distance from a fixed point, it appears in the deeds, and it is the most literal name in six postcodes
Sky Backstage Review: The Backstage Glamour of the Great Arena | A bar at The O2 evoking the glamour of ‘backstage’ – the exclusive world behind the scenes of the great concert arena
The Half Moon Review: Where U2 Played and Dylan Thomas Drank | A Grade II* Victorian gem in Herne Hill – Dylan Thomas’s local, a 50-year music venue where U2 were discovered, and where Sinatra once sang
Windmill Brixton Review: The Tiny Pub That Launched a Whole Scene | A 150-capacity backstreet boozer that became one of Britain’s greatest music venues – with a Rottweiler mascot who lived on the roof
Brixton Jamm Review: The Music, the Jam, and the Beat of Brixton | A legendary Brixton music venue and club – its name a play on the musical ‘jam’ and the beat of Brixton’s rich musical life
George Tavern Review: The Landlady Fought the Developers and She Won | A grade II listed pub, a block of flats proposed next door, and she took them on twice and beat them
MOTH Club Review: It Is a Veterans’ Club and the Ceiling Is Gold Tinsel | Memorable Order of Tin Hats – a real ex-servicemen’s organisation, and the members still drink there
The Half Moon Review: Putney’s Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Music Pub | One of London’s longest-running live music venues, hosting live music every night since 1963, where the Rolling Stones, The Who, U2 and a young Ed Sheeran have played
Oliver’s Jazz Bar Review: Greenwich’s Best-Kept Secret in the Cellar | A tiny, cosy basement jazz club – live jazz every night since 2003, one of London’s most beloved and atmospheric music venues
Cart and Horses Review: Iron Maiden Played Their First Gigs Here | A pub in Stratford, a bass player from Leytonstone, and the biggest metal band Britain has produced
