songs namechecking places in london

[Schmetterling]

 

[skyscraper101]

"My underground train runs from Mile End to Ealing, From Brixton to Bounds Green"

 

[skyscraper101]

Romford, Tottenham Court Road, and The Ship (in Soho)

 

[JimW]

 

[Sea Star]

I fucking loved Kirsty MacColl but I can;t listen to any of her music any more unless I want to cry myself into a blubbery mess instantly!

and see what I did there? made a connection to the previous post

 

[JimW]

Funky Kingston. Toots loved South London.

 

[peterkro]

Donovan being fey and warbling about chocolate machines at tube stations:



E2a: 2for1 :

 

[Sprocket.]

Seedy Soho!

 

[alsoknownas]

(Upper Clapton Dance)

Big-up for my endz, etc.

 

[Sea Star]

mentions Lambeth....


mentions Stepney....

 

[alsoknownas]

 

[alsoknownas]

 

[JimW]

Anniversary topical!

 

[fishfinger]

 

[JimW]

 

[marty21]

Hackney Country and Western

 

[skyscraper101]

Watford

 

[skyscraper101]

Leicester Square

 

[Puddy_Tat]

King George Street is in Greenwich

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Tony & Louise - Brixton, Lewisham

 

[bluescreen]

Everyone studiously avoiding this, then?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm tempted to add Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Hong Kong Garden' as it was a chinese restaurant somewhere round the Bromley patch, and the Clash 'Bankrobber' for a video mostly filmed in Lewisham, but they don't quite fit

Linton Kwesi Johnson's 'Sonny's Lettah' opens with the address of Brixton Prison, 'Inglan is a bitch' mentions working in a little factory up inna Brockley, 'Di Great Insohreckshan' is about (and mentions) Brixton.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Another Brixton song -

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Jimmy Cliff's cover of Rancid's 'Ruby Soho'

 

[Maggot]

Many of his songs mention London places, but this one mentions more than any other:

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Many of his songs mention London places, but this one mentions more than any other:

i think that had been doing the rounds in one form and another for some years. he may have picked it up from his dad who had been a bus driver.

(which of course is another nomination for the thread - Ian Dury's 'My Old Man' which has a line about dad driving a number 18 down to Euston)

 

[bluescreen]

"With a ladder and some glasses..."

 

[Sea Star]

I'm tempted to add Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Hong Kong Garden' as it was a chinese restaurant somewhere round the Bromley patch,

The one on Chislehurst High Street apparently. It's still there but it's changed its name now.

 

[Mr Moose]

 

[Mr Moose]