"The Government really done their best. I am sure the event will be a success. And we must thank Mr Morrison for his amazing imagination ..." Serious fun and lighthearted solemnity, it has ben described as. Talk to people of a certain age, and they will get wistfully nostalgic about the 1951 Festival of Britain, and how it captured the imagination with its absurd ambition. Others will sneer and say it was over-rated and a waste of money. It certainly appealed to calypsonian Lord Kitchener. I would have loved to pop along too, but then I thoroughly enjoyed the Millennium Dome so is there any 'ope for me?
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Prisoner's Model
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Labels:
London Central,
London History
Monday 28 September 2009
GLC
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Sunday 27 September 2009
Kill The Police Bill
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Saturday 26 September 2009
Brixton Trial & Crosses
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Labels:
London History,
London South East
Friday 25 September 2009
Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)
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Labels:
London History,
London South East
Thursday 24 September 2009
Bright Lights
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Wednesday 23 September 2009
Jah War
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Labels:
London History,
London West
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Riot in a Notting Hill
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Labels:
London History,
London West
Monday 21 September 2009
Wat Tyler
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Labels:
London History,
London South East
Sunday 20 September 2009
The Ghosts of Cable Street
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Labels:
London East,
London History
Saturday 19 September 2009
The Procession of Popular Capitalism
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Labels:
London Central,
London History
Friday 18 September 2009
The End of the Surrey People
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Thursday 17 September 2009
London Boys ... the revenge
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Wednesday 16 September 2009
Keep a little Marc in your heart!
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Labels:
London History,
London South West
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Richmond ... three times
"I'm waitin' here in New York City. The rain is falling. There's no one who cares. There's no one loves me here ..." The Faces' Richmond finds Ronnie Lane in a melancholy homesick mood. Must be those leafy lanes he was missing. Don't ask me why, but it still amazes me how wonderful some of the Faces' recordings were. And those moments when they get all tender are pretty special. Especially when Ronnie Lane steps up to the microphone. Debris, and so on. That vulnerable voice. And that cheeky grin. Bless 'im.
Monday 14 September 2009
Richmond ... two times
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Sunday 13 September 2009
Richmond ... one time
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Saturday 12 September 2009
East Sheen
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Friday 11 September 2009
The Putney Bus
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Labels:
London South West,
London Transport
Thursday 10 September 2009
On Tooting Broadway Station
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Labels:
London South West,
London Transport
Wednesday 9 September 2009
Let him dangle
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Labels:
London History,
London South West
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Goodnight Sweet Josephine
"Goodnight sweet Josephine. She's the queen of Clapham. Every night, she goes out with men to trap 'em ..." Ah. It wasn't just Squeeze then that resorted to tortuous rhymes about Clapham. Goodnight Sweet Josephine was towards the end of The Yardbirds' life. For Jimmy Page it would then be downhill all the way. I do prefer the earlier material, like Mike Hugg's You're A Better Man Than I, which I first heard via Sham 69 oddly enough. And before we leave Clapham, whatever happened to The Man on the Clapham Omnibus? The mythical embodiment of reasonableness ...
Monday 7 September 2009
Up The Junction
"Day's begun and people rush. Off to work by foot and bus. Open eyes and open mind. Conditioned to the daily grind ..." Manfred Mann's theme to Up The
Junction, written by the godlike Mike Hugg, is a great way to start a great film. Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall and several other great British names star in the adaptation of Nell Dunn's novel. "You're the only beautiful thing around 'ere princess ..." There was a few years earlier a Nell Dunn adaptation of Up The Junction broadcast on TV as a play. Directed by Ken Loach. And bless the person who has posted ten minutes of this on YouTube complete with some appropriate comments from Edward Ball. Grittier and artier. And ironically Paul Jones is singing on the theme for that.
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Sunday 6 September 2009
Lavender Hill
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Saturday 5 September 2009
Thingabout London
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Labels:
London General,
London South West
Friday 4 September 2009
Police Officer
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Labels:
London General,
London South West
Thursday 3 September 2009
Shot Gun Wedding
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Wednesday 2 September 2009
Down at Battersea Park
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Tuesday 1 September 2009
Meet Me In Battersea Park
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