The Spice of Life, London

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The Spice of Life in 2012

The Spice of Life is a pub at Cambridge Circus in London's Charing Cross Road. The pub was founded as The George & Thirteen Cantons[1] in or before 1759,[2] and later became The Scots Hoose. By 1975 it had been renamed The Spice of Life.[3]

As the Scots Hoose in the 1950s and 1960s, the pub had one of Britain's most celebrated folk clubs in its upstairs room,[4] run by ,[5] that featured some of the greatest names of the folk revival, such as Bert Jansch, Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Ralph McTell, Roy Harper,[6] Sandy Denny,[7] Ewan MacColl[8] and The Young Tradition.[5] The club operated under various names, including "The Young Tradition".[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Larwood, Jacob; John Camden Hotten (1951) [1866]. English inn signs: being a revised and modernized version of History of signboards. Chatto and Windus. p. 278. OCLC 785385.
  2. ^ Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London (1966). Survey of London, Volume 33. University of London for the London County Council. p. 205. OCLC 53051349.
  3. ^ a b Laing, Dave; et al. (1975). The Electric muse: the story of folk into rock. Methuen. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-413-31860-2.
  4. ^ Dallas, Karl (September–October 1999). "A Celebration of Peter Bellamy". The Living Tradition. No. 34. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Obituaries: Bruce Dunnet". The Independent. 23 March 2002. Retrieved 7 October 2009.[dead link]
  6. ^ Brocken, Michael (2003). The British folk revival, 1944-2002. Ashgate Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-7546-3282-5.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin (1995). The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music, Volume 2. Guinness. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
  8. ^ Harker, David (1985). Fakesong: the manufacture of British "folksong" 1700 to the present day. Open University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-335-15066-3.

Coordinates: 51°30′48″N 0°07′47″W / 51.5134°N 0.1298°W / 51.5134; -0.1298

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