The London Arts Laboratory opened, in Drury Lane, shortly after Peel had returned to onshore life following the closedown of Radio London. It was not primarily a music venue - its founders were interested in literature, theatre, film and the visual arts - but its openness to experimental work corresponded to his own wish of the time to encourage more self-expression and communication. In Margrave of the Marshes (pp. 273-4) Sheila Ravenscroft quotes from a diary entry by Peel, dated 20 October 1967, in which he describes a visit to the Arts Lab and his "usual pangs of inferiority....In the presence of so many talented, creative and constructive people on the underground scene I feel that I'm regarded as something of a hanger-on and bore...." .