Star and Garter with bag for life

Printed here in Manchester on archival fine art giclée paper.

Part of my 'Ive Missed You Too' series: I drew this at A2 and then added lots of textures and details in Photoshop.

As the Star and Garter Hotel, it started life back in 1803 about 100 yards away. When London Road Station (now Piccadilly) was extended, it was moved, brick by brick, to its current location and reopened in 1877.

A regular Chester Brewery boozer for 100 years, it closed in 1987 and lay empty until 1991 when it began its new life as a music venue. Now it’s the city only independent venue for indie music.

The Star and Garter has played host to Status Quo, The Courteeners, Half Man Half Biscuit, Frank Crater and the Rattlesnakes, and UK Subs. For Morrissey fans, the Smiths Discos are, from all accounts, legendary.

For the last couple of decades the future of this Grade II-listed building has looked uncertain. But now Mayfield Development Partnership has bought the venue and agreed a lease that will see it continue as an indie music venue for at least another 10 years.

Shipping costs coming up later are:
UK, tracked £6.60
(Just selling to UK for now until I can understand the new EU rules)

The printed will be ‘digitally signed’ somewhere at the bottom. If you’d rather keep it clean, just say.