Editing Forest Gate (section)

==Music==
Forest Gate has various associations with music and acting: it was for many years the home of the [[Tonic Sol-fa]] College of [[John Curwen]], which taught large numbers of people to play music without learning conventional notation and the [[Forest Gate School of Music]]. In December 1966 [[Jimi Hendrix]] wrote ''Purple Haze'' in the Upper Cut Club, owned by Douglas Bayle and George and Billy Walker, it had been opened by The Who, and had The Small Faces as the house band, for a while. It later became the Ace of Clubs in Woodgrange Road.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.londonrockandpop.com/page7.htm |title=London Rock & Pop - Timeline |access-date=23 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507195736/http://www.londonrockandpop.com/page7.htm |archive-date=7 May 2006 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[De Underground Records]], the seminal [[Jungle music|jungle]]/[[drum and bass]] record shop and studio was located in Sebert Road, Forest Gate, from 1991 to 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=Crate Digging: The Influence of De Underground Records {{!}} Newham Heritage Month|url=https://www.newhamheritagemonth.org/records/crate-digging-the-influence-of-de-underground-records/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=www.newhamheritagemonth.org|language=en-GB}}</ref> The [[Newham Generals]] (D Double E & Footsie) are also from Forest Gate, and the video for their song 'Frontline' was filmed at [[Forest Gate railway station]]. Ben Drew aka [[Plan B (musician)|Plan B]] grew up in Forest Gate and lived in Hampton Road on the Woodgrange Estate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.juniormuscle.com/jmi2003/Wag_bennett.html|title=Wag Bennett's Gym|date=2003|website=Junior Muscle International|publisher=juniormuscle.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418222145/http://www.juniormuscle.com/jmi2003/Wag_bennett.html|archive-date=2007-04-18|url-status=dead|access-date=28 October 2013}}</ref> [[Depeche Mode]] started recording in John Bassett's studio on Sebert Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2016/07/a-nod-at-our-neighbours-3-bridge-house.html|title=The Bridge|date=2016|website=E7 Now and Then}}</ref> The first [[Rock Against Racism]] concert was held at the Princess Alice pub at the junction of [[A118 road|Romford Road]] and Woodgrange Road in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Walker|first=John|title=Forest Gate: scene of Rock Against Racism's first gig|url=http://www.e7-nowandthen.org/2016/12/forest-gate-scene-of-rock-against.html|access-date=2021-06-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-04-20|title=1978, the year rock found the power to unite|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/20/popandrock.race|access-date=2021-06-15|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

[[Damnably]] Records began in Forest Gate on Salisbury Road and many of its bands including [[Shonen Knife]], [[Geoff Farina]], [[Chris Brokaw]], [[Wussy]] stayed or visited there while on tour and [[Kath Bloom]] played a house concert there in 2011. Also based in the same E7 cul de sac that Damnably Records once called home are Vacilando '68 Recordings (previously operating as The Orchestra Pit Recording Co.) who have released vinyl records by international artists such as Howe Gelb, Orkesta Mendoza, [[Marianne Dissard]] and Naim Amor, as well as having a heavy involvement in the Medway music scene through the likes of The Singing Loins, Theatre Royal and Stuart Turner and the Flat Earth Society. Damnably and Vacilando '68 have teamed up numerous times to promote live shows including at the now defunct Moka East based in the Olympic Park, Stratford.