Fionn, it's the same Forest Gate. The Spotted Dog is about 1/2 mile to the south of the Alice - down Upton Lane. It's a real Olde Worlde pub dating back to about the 15C. White clapboard exterior and a Victorian panelled bar with flag floors. A real gem in this part of London.

It had a restaurant which used to attract office workers from nearby Stratford and Ilford but was allowed to run down.

The new landlord (not the same as we had a falling out with) fell out with the blues musicians who used it and is now promoting it as a yoof pub.

We now play in an Irish pub in Stratford where there's no real ale but the landlord and landlady welcome us, provide us with sandwiches, and don't hurry us out at the end of the evening.