VA - Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival (1978)

"Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival" is a hit double-LP of live recordings taken from various bands – mainly power pop, pub rock, punk rock and new wave groups - that played the Front Row Festival at the Hope and Anchor, Islington between Tuesday 22 November and Thursday 15 December 1977. It reached number 28 in the UK Albums Chart.

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". 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".


Tracklist:

A1–Wilko Johnson Band - Dr. Feelgood 2:43

A2–The Stranglers - Straighten Out 2:58

A3–Tyla Gang - Styrofoam 2:04

A4–The Pirates - Don't München It 3:26

A5–Steve Gibbons Band - Speed Kills 3:30

A6–XTC - I'm Bugged 4:22

A7–Suburban Studs - I Hate School 2:37

B1–The Pleasers - Billy 1:59

B2–XTC - Science Friction 2:45

B3–Dire Straits - Eastbound Train 3:25

B4–Burlesque  - Bizz Fizz 5:00

B5–X-Ray-Spex - Let's Submerge 3:02

B6–999- Crazy 3:18

C1–The Saints - Demolition Girl 3:45

C2–999 - Quite Disappointing 2:00

C3–The Only Ones - Creatures Of Doom 3:18

C4–The Pirates - Gibson Martin Fender 3:26

C5–Steel Pulse - Sound Check 3:41

C6–Roogalator - Zero Hero 3:43

D1–Philip Rambow - Underground Romance 5:45

D2–The Pleasers - Rock & Roll Radio 2:29

D3–Tyla Gang - On The Street 3:00

D4–Steve Gibbons Band - Johnny Cool 3:29

D5–Wilko Johnson Band - Twenty Yards Behind 2:03

D6–The Stranglers - Hanging Around 4:16

VA - Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival (1978)

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