Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival

Infobox Album
Name = Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival
Type = Live
Artist = Various


Released = March 1978
Genre = Power pop,
Pub rock,
Punk,
New wave
Label = Warner Bros (Cat. No. K66077)
Producer =

Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival is a hit double-LP of live recordings taken from various bands – mainly Power pop, Pub rock, Punk, and New wave groups - that played the Front Row Festival at Hope and Anchor, Islington between Tuesday 22 November and Thursday 15 December 1977. [cite book |title= "Punk"|last= Thompson|first= Dave|year= 2000|publisher= Collector’s Guide Publication|location= Ontario|pages= p.102;] It reached number 28 in the UK Albums Chartcite book
first= David
last= Roberts
year= 2006
title= British Hit Singles & Albums
edition= 19th
publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
location= London
pages=
id= ISBN 1-904994-10-5]

The Hope & Anchor has been described as a "seminal live venue" in 1977, catering for "both emerging punk / new wave bands and the numerous pub rock acts operating on the live circuit at the time". [cite book |title= "Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk"|last= Joynson|first= Vernon|year= 2001|publisher= Borderline Publications|location= Wolverhampton|pages= p.12;] The same author called the album as "eclectic" with "superb performances from artists like The Stranglers, The Only Ones, X-Ray Spex, The Saints and The Suburban Studs alongside staple pub rock acts". [cite book |title= "Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk"|last= Joynson|first= Vernon|year= 2001|publisher= Borderline Publications|location= Wolverhampton|pages= p.12;]

Original Track listing

ide one

# "Dr. Feelgood" by The Wilko Johnson Band
# "Straighten Out" by The Stranglers
# "Styrofoam" by The Tyla Gang
# "Don't Munchen It" by The Pirates
# "Speed Kills" by The Steve Gibbons Band
# "I'm Bugged" by XTC
# "I Hate School" by The Suburban Studs

ide two

# "Billy" by The Pleasers (see Thamesbeat)
# "Science Friction" by XTC
# "Eastbound Train" by Dire Straits
# "Bizz Fizz" by Burlesque
# "Let's Submerge" by X-Ray Spex
# "Crazy" by 999

ide three

# "Demolition Girl / The Saints
# "Quite Disappointing" / 999
# "Creatures Of Doom" / The Only Ones
# "Gibson Martin Fender" / The Pirates
# "Sound Check" / Steel Pulse
# "Zero Hero" / Roogalator

ide four

# "Underground Romance" / Philip Rambow
# "Rock & Roll Radio" / The Pleasers
# "On The Street" / Tyla Gang
# "Johnny Cool" / Steve Gibbons Band
# "Twenty Yards Behind" / Wilko Johnson Band
# "Hanging Around" / The Stranglers

References