If you can find a driver that whole north east quadrant of the Home Counties as a strong session scene, mostly way out of reach of public transport. Use multimap to find these strange places.

Public transport for Loughton will be slow as the railway is out of action but there are plenty of replacement buses. Good late services back from Central London but the only suburban venue in reach will be Old Rose & Crown at Walthamstow. (see my previous set of links for details)