Very sad to hear news that The Loaded Dog in Leytonstone is closing. This was a key music venue in the area and was widely respected as being one of the best small venues in East London. Just goes to show how, like many other long gone bits of Leytonstone High Road, if we take these places for granted, we risk losing them. I count myself among the guilty there as I never actually ventured into The Loaded Dog – kind of regretting that now.