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Monday 30 November 2009
Notting Hill Eviction Blues
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Sunday 29 November 2009
Friday's Child
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Saturday 28 November 2009
London By Night
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Labels:
London General,
London Water
Friday 27 November 2009
Earlies
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Thursday 26 November 2009
Boy meets girl so what
"The day you left me my world fell apart. The sun ceased to shine. That day you broke my heart. And London fell down into the Thames ..." Now Mr Eden those words I believe are taken from your song Boy Meets Girl So What, a what you might call ironic pop tone, I'm sorry I mean tune, from your days in McCarthy. We are here to discuss this obsession you have with the waters of the Thames. We have already made reference to The Drinking Song of the Merchant Bankers where you suggest: "I'm not about to throw myself in the Thames". And now one of our witnesses, a Mr Dan Dan The Pantry Man, draws our attention to the words you use about a poor couple in Unfortunately: "Oh let us both go to a better town where money's not scarce. 'Cause otherwise we'll go to the Thames or The Serpentine ..." Unfortunate is hardly the word Mr Eden. You seem to paint us a picture of the couple on the verge of throwing themselves in the water. And this seems a particularly unhealthy obsession in your work. What do you have to say for yourself? I am, I assure you, prepared to keep an open mind ...
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Grief came riding
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Tuesday 24 November 2009
Someone's pinched me winkles
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Monday 23 November 2009
Dirty Water
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Sunday 22 November 2009
Thames at high water
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Saturday 21 November 2009
Thames Crokadiles
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Friday 20 November 2009
Dear River Thames
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Thursday 19 November 2009
D'Thames
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Wednesday 18 November 2009
Docklands
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Labels:
London East,
London Water
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Marcel's
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Monday 16 November 2009
Night time in Bermondsey
Labels:
London South East,
London Water
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
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Saturday 14 November 2009
Cutty Sark
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Labels:
London South East,
London Water
Friday 13 November 2009
Blackheath
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Thursday 12 November 2009
Georgie (Shooter's Hill)
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Wednesday 11 November 2009
Officer XX
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Labels:
London History,
London South East
Tuesday 10 November 2009
This Town
"Somewhere there is tenderness in this town ..."
If I had to pick one song that captures a sense of London without specifically mentioning the Capital it would be the June Brides' This Town. Somehow it has always felt like it's caught the spirit of London. That's just the way it's seemed to me. I hate asking songwriters about their words in case precious illusions are shattered in the process. But thankfully the JBs' Phil Wilson has confirmed it is very much a London song. "Beneath the lights on summer nights, it's nothing short of paradise," is about when Phil was young and enraptured with wandering round Soho and the West End. "Only shadows know your name" - you often feel like that in London, adds Phil. At the height of their fame the JBs were based around the Lewisham area, and I saw them play on numerous occasions in the mid '80s at venues such as the Thames Poly in Woolwich and the Old Ambulance Station on the Old Kent Road. Certain lines from This Town would be on my mind as I headed homewards. "Walking home back streets alone, a distant shout chills the bone ..." But nothing can touch you when you're humming a tune this good!
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Labels:
London General,
London South East
Monday 9 November 2009
Hilly Fields (1892)
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Sunday 8 November 2009
The Aspidistra House
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Saturday 7 November 2009
Another Tulse Hill night
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Friday 6 November 2009
Brockwell Park
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Thursday 5 November 2009
Brixton
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Wednesday 4 November 2009
Five nights of bleeding
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Tuesday 3 November 2009
Country living
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Monday 2 November 2009
Brixton Rock
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Sunday 1 November 2009
59 Lyndhurst Grove
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