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pedrinho 
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Posted: September 19 2015 at 06:25 |
Hey guys! Next week I'm traveling to London to assist to the Seteven Wilson's show on the Royal Albert Hall. I'm travelling from Spain and I don't know any specific place to visit (besides what every tourist visits there), can you tell me some places that every prog fan should visit in London? Any vinyl store? Pub? You know what I mean.
I'm looking forward to reading your answers!
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Posted: September 19 2015 at 16:30 |
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Gotta admit I was thrilled to see the Battersea Power Station on my first visit to London, two years ago...definitely off the tourist trail, but very cool, even without the inflatable pigs..!
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Posted: September 19 2015 at 18:48 |
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..except they are currently rebuilding it so some of the chimneys are missing
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Posted: September 21 2015 at 07:25 |
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Fopp in Shaftesbury Avenue is quite good for cheap prog CDs.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 05:56 |
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Apart from the live concert venues (that are still left), you might want to be a 'Baker Street' muse or go to Leicester Square. If you are an ELP fan, you might want to walk by the Serpentine.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 07:58 |
Disappointingly London has a paucity of Prog heritage sites.
Certainly Ladbroke Grove bears no mention of the Underground Scene that flourished there forty years ago (then you'll not find anything about the the Canterbury Movement in Canterbury either), Carnaby Street has nothing of the Psychedelic hippy flea markets that made it famous, Tin Pan Alley left Denmark Street nearly a quarter century ago and Heddon Street looks nothing like the cover of Ziggy Stardust. Fortunately, Abbey Road still has a zebra crossing if you find yourself in Regents Park and want to recreate an iconic album cover - just remember to park a VW beetle in the appropriate place.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 08:13 |
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The Elfin Tree in Kensington Gardens. The picture of David Gilmour inside the Ummagumma album cover was taken there.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 08:26 |
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Camberwell - now?
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 10:16 |
 Dean wrote:
Fortunately, Abbey Road still has a zebra crossing if you find yourself in Regents Park and want to recreate an iconic album cover - just remember to park a VW beetle in the appropriate place. |
Talking of Abbey Road, you can get a good minibus tour of Beatle-related places from a place in Leicester Square. It goes down Baker Street, past Macca's place (he was out) and on to Abbey Road where you can get run over on the zebra crossing if you're not careful. Definitely worth it if you're a fan.
There's also the Coal Hole in the Strand where I've had a few beers with Blacksword and Simon Godfrey of Tinyfish fame, whilst having an in-depth discussion on Hawkwind albums. That's prog-related.
Edited by chopper - September 22 2015 at 10:18
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 10:41 |
chopper wrote:
Dean wrote:
Fortunately, Abbey Road still has a zebra crossing if you find yourself in Regents Park and want to recreate an iconic album cover - just remember to park a VW beetle in the appropriate place. |
Talking of Abbey Road, you can get a good minibus tour of Beatle-related places from a place in Leicester Square. It goes down Baker Street, past Macca's place (he was out) and on to Abbey Road where you can get run over on the zebra crossing if you're not careful. Definitely worth it if you're a fan. |
I presume it goes past 3 Savile Row, the site of Apple Corps and the Beatles's last live performance.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 12:37 |
Dean wrote:
chopper wrote:
Dean wrote:
Fortunately, Abbey Road still has a zebra crossing if you find yourself in Regents Park and want to recreate an iconic album cover - just remember to park a VW beetle in the appropriate place. |
Talking of Abbey Road, you can get a good minibus tour of Beatle-related places from a place in Leicester Square. It goes down Baker Street, past Macca's place (he was out) and on to Abbey Road where you can get run over on the zebra crossing if you're not careful. Definitely worth it if you're a fan. |
I presume it goes past 3 Savile Row, the site of Apple Corps and the Beatles's last live performance. |
Indeed it does. And the Bag O'Nails where Hendrix played.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 12:38 |
chopper wrote:
Dean wrote:
Fortunately, Abbey Road still has a zebra crossing if you find yourself in Regents Park and want to recreate an iconic album cover - just remember to park a VW beetle in the appropriate place. |
Talking of Abbey Road, you can get a good minibus tour of Beatle-related places from a place in Leicester Square. It goes down Baker Street, past Macca's place (he was out) and on to Abbey Road where you can get run over on the zebra crossing if you're not careful. Definitely worth it if you're a fan.
There's also the Coal Hole in the Strand where I've had a few beers with Blacksword and Simon Godfrey of Tinyfish fame, whilst having an in-depth discussion on Hawkwind albums. That's prog-related. |
so it's worth getting run over only if you are a real fan? I'm not going to bother otherwise.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 12:48 |
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Bournemouth, England - boyhood home to both Fripp and Wetton.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 13:45 |
 I take it you've never actually been to Bournemouth... 
I'm not sure Fripp every lived in Bournemouth as such, he haled from Wimborne 30 miles to the north¹. I believe he did have (and later give) guitar lessons at Don Strike's music shop in Westbourne (a suburb of Bournemouth).
¹For those of you that live on a large land-mass where you have to travel twice that distance to buy a carton of milk from your "local" convenience store this may appear to be practically the same place, but for the average Brit a town 30 miles away would be a foreign land (hell, some of them aren't aware we live on an island, while many have seen the coast few have seen more than two of the four available).
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 14:17 |
As I'v been in London many times as a tourist, so I suggest The Ship pub at Walbour Wardour Street, Soho, as a "rock pub" aswell. It was existed in 70s and many musicians of the era were refreshing themselfs at The Ship.
Edited by Svetonio - September 22 2015 at 14:36
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 14:32 |
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^ although it might be best to try Wardour Street instead. You would have a far better chance of finding said watering hole.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 14:40 |
lazland wrote:
^ although it might be best to try Wardour Street instead. You would have a far better chance of finding said watering hole. |
Thank you. And sorry for that terribly lapsus linguae.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 15:19 |
As a tourist to another tourist, I'd like to suggest to the OP also that Solusbury Pub, at Kilburn, for a dinner because of the great food and an unique atmosphere.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 15:22 |
Dean wrote:
I take it you've never actually been to Bournemouth...
<span style="line-height: 1.4;">I'm not sure Fripp every lived in Bournemouth as such, he haled from Wimborne 30 miles to the north¹. I believe he did have (and later give) guitar lessons at Don Strike's music shop in Westbourne (a suburb of Bournemouth).</span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;">
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</span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;">¹For those of you that live on a large land-mass where you have to travel twice that distance to buy a carton of milk from your "local" convenience store this may appear to be practically the same place, but for the average Brit a town 30 miles away would be a </span>foreign<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> land (hell, some of them aren't aware we live on an island, while many have seen the coast few have seen more than two of the four available).</span>
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I've never been to Poughkeepsie.
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Posted: September 22 2015 at 16:47 |
London Bridge, oh wait we bought that pile of rocks
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