Fforde Grene

The Fforde Grene was a public house and music venue located in the Harehills district of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

It hosted many bands before they became famous, including The Sex Pistols,[1] U2, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Diamond Head, Be Bop Deluxe, Def Leppard, and The Rolling Stones and artists including Bo Diddley.

[2] Be Bop Deluxe played the venue to a packed house of fans who became incensed that the landlord would not allow an encore, resulting in a riot.

The police were called to find the carpet under a sea of broken glass and the furniture smashed to matchwood.

"[5] The pub took its name from a director of Melbourne's Brewery (a forerunner of Tetleys) who could trace his ancestry back to a 13th-century relative called Richard del Fforde who lived in a house called Fford Grene.