Completely - it was a landmark moment when that came down. Still not been to Here - and the Lower Third is remarkable in the way it occupies the same space as the 12 Bar but has none of the character.
Second place was the human statue next to the London Eye
‘The UK’s most visited cultural attraction’
Intriguing. Orms did the retrofit of Camden Town Hall into the Standard, which is great and everyone likes, and the Outernet, which looks like a packet of John Player Superkings.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusi...
I have been fairly lucky with musicians - actors on the other hand…
I am a big fan of Blumberg but presume this was after he left.
Is he your very worst?
R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.
So yeah South types April 14th Carnegie Library Herne Hill I'll be chatting about parks. Free and, if you arrive early, free tea and biscuits. Please come there may be snakes..
www.thecityoverthewater.com/events-and-a...
Ahem
Can only assume the BBC were invited to pick that Chelsea defence to boost viewing figures for those hoping to see an upset.
Lovely piece by my old Time Out buddy Serena on her dad’s obsession with making the world’s most expensive egg. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
This is a very strange retelling of the Jack Sheppard story. Anybody read it?
Oh dear. I do sometimes wonder what those types make of Chelsea today.
Lol sorry, was that at one of these games? "You can't ban a Chelsea fan" era. www.theguardian.com/football/tha...
Always strange how what Fulham did under Al-Fayed has been completely obliterated from the collective memory.
Obviously spurs getting relegated would be very funny, but we are gonna miss the six points we won’t be getting next season:
always dozens of people filming it though - it's basically a giant instagram generating machine.
Sort of. It shows short animated films as well. It's very peculiar.
I would love to see the Outernet's metrics as I bet one of the human statues at the London Eye or Trafalgar Square can match their numbers.
Yes that's what I am guessing - no way are millions of people making a special journey just to look at some crazy visuals.
It's exceedingly odd but kind of fascinating despite itself.
My youngest loves it. Every time we go to Forbidden Planet she wants to see that "place that's like a mushroom trip, near where you wrote that boring book about".
Outernet London claims to be ‘the UK’s most visited cultural attraction’. Be interesting to see how they measure that, or indeed how they define ‘cultural attraction’.
Coming soon: a traffic-free Oxford Street.
Following strong public and business support, we’re moving at pace with plans to pedestrianise the heart of the West End.
A full mile between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street is set to go traffic-free by the end of this summer.
My piece on the short lived INK magazine is now up on the website. This was how I handed it on and would probably have benefitted from a sub's clean and polish (when subs existed to do that sort of thing.)Might be of historical interest to all you counter-culturalists.
www.rob-chapman.com/ink
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
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Modella Capital, the British private equity firm who bought high street arm of WHSmith just last June, is reported to be planning to close "scores" of shops.
https://downthetubes.net/tg-jones-stores-closures-ahead/
Imagine the ‘Chelsea Smilers are coming for your school’ panic of the 80s if we’d had social media…
velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...
