There are many watering holes close to the Marquee locations which are still frequented by media and arty types. This is the first of two with a documented Hendrix connection. Mick Farren (author, journalist, poet, and counter-culture legend): "The Ship is a long, narrow pub with a bar that runs half its length and then curves around to the wall. The seats next to where the bar meets the wall have always been recognised as the best in the house. They gave the occupant uninterrupted eye-contact with the bartender, a clear view of who is coming in and out and an area of defensible space in which it is hard to be bothered by unwanted conversationalists. All in all, this was an ideal place for Jimi Hendrix to be sitting, should he want a quiet drink before his set at the Marquee. Ideal it might have been, but it took me really by surprise to find the man himself was actually seated there." (from Give The Anarchist A Cigarette.)