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LONDON CALLING
Friday, 28th June, 2.30pm and Sunday, 30th, 11.30am The Soho Punk Tour
Saturday, 29th, June, 11am, The StrummerWalk
Book at see our 5⭐️reviews/book at or just turn up
@PunKandStuff
@PunkRockStory
@NewWaveAndPunk
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Lots Road power station next to The Balloon pub, 1951
© Charles Hewitt/Getty Images
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Shelly’s shoe shop, Foubert’s Place, off Carnaby Street
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Record department in Boots Chemist, Regent Street, London, 1964.
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Malcolm and Vivienne, “Let It Rock” 430 Kings Road, 1972
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The interior of the legendary “Rock On” record shop, 3 Kentish Town Road. The home of Chiswick Records, The Two Tone label was based upstairs too. Shane MacGowan worked here on Saturdays. Owned by former Thin Lizzy manager Ted Carroll who now has
@AceRecordsLtd
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Records Shops of Soho, 1946-1996. There’s only four there today
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The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle mural Norland Road off Holland Park Avenue by Shepherd's Bush roundabout. Thanks to Tom Vague.
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The Cages circa 1989, when it was actually worth going to Camden Market, a sad travesty of its former self these days
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David Bowie, 13th January 1972. Another photo from this session was used on the sleeve of the Ziggy Stardust album. They were all black and white and colourised.
Photo by Brian Ward.
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The squats on Elgin Avenue, W9, 1975. The Harrow Road and Trellick Tower can be seen in the distance.
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Released on this day, 1977. Absolutely summed up the Silver Jubilee for me, pretty sad that there’s nothing contemporary slating this one. As powerful today as it was then.
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Joe Strummer bashing out a number in The Warwick Castle on Portobello Road. Joe was a regular in the pub along with the likes of Harry Dean Stanton, Keith Allen and Neneh Cherry. Photo courtesy of Ray Roughler Jones. The pub features on our StrummerWalk.
@PunKandStuff
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1979, Kings Road.
@TheClash
were meant to play on a rooftop by Beaufort Market but were stopped by the SPG. The early footage is Spitalfields/Brick Lane.
@JoeStrummer
appears at the end
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Charing Cross Road, outside The Astoria, 1968
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16th October, 1976. The Jam play a lunchtime set at Soho Market, they used the power from the Rock On record stall. Mick Jones and Joe Strummer were among the audience that gathered along with Melody Maker’s Caroline Coon, Sound’s Jonh Ingham and Sniffin Glue’s Mark Perry
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Half of The Clash having a slash, 1977. Photo by Chalkie Davis.
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Dr. Feelgood’s Lee Brilleaux,
Mont de Marsan Festival, 1977
Photo by Michel Agnes
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Born on this day in 1956. Whatever you think about him these days without him there is no Sex Pistols, without The Sex Pistols there is no British punk…
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Tavistock Road, W11. Late 70s/early 80s. The Westway and Hermes Point in the background
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The original Camden Market and Dingwalls, 1976
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Japan outside The Music Machine, Camden Town, it later became The Camden Palace and is now Koko.
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Portobello Road, junction with Westbourne Park Road, just come out of The Warwick?
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Viv Albertine, Keith Levene and Mick Jones in Davis Road, Acton, 1975
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Viv Albertine, Alexandra Palace, June 16, 1980. Photo by David Corio
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Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik having breakfast in a Newcastle B&B, 1986. He used to come into my local pub, The Warrington Hotel, dressed like this in the 80s. Picture by Homer Sykes
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The much missed Camden Town record emporium
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Hammersmith Broadway, 1980s. I used to bunk off school and get pissed in the Clarendon, watch gigs there, I ran that betting shop and the french bread bacon rolls in that caff were sublime, another lost art deco gaff,still was run by Italians so much personal history in one photo
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Jordan outside "Sex", 430 Kings Road, 1976
Photo by Sheila Rock.
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The Clash on the railway footbridge between Acklam Road and Tavistock Road. What year?
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The National Club, Kilburn High Road, 1980s
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Outside Rutherford School, Bell Street, NW1, early 70s suedehead action.
@ScorchaSuede
@KnifeCreases
@69_scars
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The original Rough Trade record shop, 202 Kensington Park Road, 1978.
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Waterman’s Arms, Glenaffric Avenue, Isle of Dogs, 1965.
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Sid Vicious with Vivienne Westwood, Notre Dame Hall, Leicester Place, 1976. Photo by Ian Dickson
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The original line up of Siouxsie and The Banshees that played the
@100clubLondon
in September 1976
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Bites cafe, Westbourne Park Road, 1988. Just along from The Warwick Castle
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The original Dingwalls and the original site of Camden Market, early 1970s
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19-year-old Shane MacGowan, editor of punk fanzine 'Bondage'.
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The much missed Ray’s on Shaftesbury Avenue
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The Hall Of The Mountain Grill. Hawkwind’s favourite eatery, Portobello Road, 1970s.
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A photograph of The North London Invaders, they later changed their name to Madness,
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RIP Joe Strummer, on the anniversary of his death let’s once again regale ourselves with
@CityWestminster
’s shit tribute at the wrong end of Walterton Road. Wrong birth/death date and, seeing as they evicted him and the 101ers when demolishing the house, they are the clampdown
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RIP Vivienne Westwood, pictured with Malcolm McLaren on Cambridge Gardens, Ladbroke Grove at the end of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy tour, 1976. Photo by Leee Black Childers. From Tom Vague on FB
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Ladbroke Grove, steps down to Southern Row on the left.
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Harrow Road, under the Westway, near Royal Oak Station, 1976. Legend has it this was done by the band themselves, DIY promotion, and lasted there for years.
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On June 7, 1977: Sex Pistols’ Silver Jubilee Boat Trip Down The River Thames
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F. Higgs & Son ‘Xmas Poultry’, corner of Parkway & Albert Street (now the Spread Eagle pub), Early 1900s
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October, 1976, Malcolm Mclaren
Photo by Bob Gruen.
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The first Punk gig at The Roxy, 14th, December, 1976. Generation X.
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Dr Feelgood in front of the Crescent Bar, Belfast, 1977.
The cage was used to protect the pub from bomb attacks.
Few groups came to Belfast because of this.
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Lee Scratch Perry in Kensal Rise Station, 1980s
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Suzi Quattro playing snooker against Alex Higgins, 1973
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The Greyhound, Fulham Palace Road, 1970s
Bands which played there included Free, Status Quo, Average White Band, Uriah Heep, Thin Lizzy, Brinsley Schwarz, Bees Make Honey, Humphey Lyttleton, The Stranglers and The Jam. Who did you see here?
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Steve Jones with The Clash, Music Machine, Camden Town, 1978
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The Fall, Codrington Mews, W11, January 1979
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Early Spring 1976 - Steve Jones, Danielle Lewis, Alan Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Jordan and Vivienne Westwood inside "Sex", 430 Kings Road, Chelsea
Photo © David Dagley.
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Joe Strummer would have been 67 today. Here he is with Robert De Niro in 1982
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The Roundhouse, from Belmont St, NW1. Possibly from the late 1950s, from when it was a Gin warehouse Gilbey's. The Belmont Arms on the right.
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Joe Strummer, then known as Woody, drinking in The Murenger pub in Newport in 1973. Photo by Richard Frame
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Berwick Street, Soho, 1960s? That was a decent chippy.
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Rehearsal Rehearsals, Chalk Farm, The Roundhouse in the background, 1976
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