"the 2i's Cafe" – "That's where Tommy Steele would play" – in the song "Rory and the Hurricanes" on his 2015 album Postcards from Paradise. Michael Peppiatt mentions the café in his memoir of Francis Bacon : "As a teenager I'd gone on a rite of passage to the 2i's café to listen to skiffle groups, sipping frothy coffee out of transparent cups and hanging around in the hope of spotting Tommy Steele." Resident groups The Vipers Skiffle Group (July–September 1956) Tommy Steele (July–September 1956) The Soho Skiffle Group (late 1956) Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group (summer – late 1957) Terry Dene & The Dene Aces (late 1957 – early 1959) The Worried Men (late 1957 – early 1959) Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys (early 1958 – early 1959) The Vagabonds (early – April 1958) Cliff Richard & The Drifters (early – summer 1958) Wally Whyton & The Vipers (May 1958 – early 1959) Vince Eager (summer 1958) Vince Taylor & the Playboys (early 1959 – summer 1960) The Jury (1961 – summer 1962) References External links Reportage Special: 2is legendary 50s Soho coffee bar – photographs. 2 I's Coffee Bar UK Studios by Joe Moretti Confessions of a Sixties Drummer by Carlo Little 1956 establishments in England 1970 disestablishments in England Music venues in London Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster Former music venues in London Coffeehouses and cafés in London Soho, London