With its wood-panelled bar, brick-exposed walls and laid-back ambience, Someplace Else (SPE), Kolkata, spells warm nostalgia — the kind that puts a nervous 18-year-old who’s fought for an un-chaperoned night-out at the city’s iconic pub at ease, even before the band begins to play. Since 1994, the British-style pub, which thrives on live music, has drawn the likes of Michael Learns to Rock, Mumford & Sons, Parikrama, Indian Ocean, Skinny Alley, Hip Pocket, Ehsaan and Loy, Anjan Dutt, Usha Uthup, and several other musical legends. So, imagine our surprise when we walk into its first outpost in the maximum city, at BKC’s Jio World Drive, and discover we’ve arrived someplace, else.

The band Soul Temple performs at Someplace Else in Jio World Drive, BKC. Pics/Sameer Markande