Hear a new East End song — every week
A London musician is writing a song each week for a year, all based on characters and events from the East End.
Ruairidh Anderson, 27, is releasing the 52 songs to download free online. He said: "I'd heard of artists taking on this song-a-week challenge but never around one theme, and never with the addition of video."
His subjects so far have included Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a cross-dressing highwayman's wife. Weeks to come promise murders, gangsters and prostitution.
Anderson, who has performed and studied music for more than 15 years, performing more than 1,000 gigs worldwide as a session guitarist, calls has called his project Songs From The Howling Sea.
He chose the name in homage to the work of novelist Arthur Morrison, who described the East End as "a howling sea of human wreckage".
All the songs he writes for the 365-day project are freely available online.
"It was important to me to offer these downloads for free as I felt as I should give something back to the city that has been such a source of inspiration," he said.
"I'm not a historian by any means but although the facts may at times be a little loose, the emphasis for me is always on entertainment."