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Grab your i-Pod or your MP3 player and take a stroll down pop memory lane with this series of specially narrated walks.
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Tom Vague is a music journalist, film critic and local historian. After covering the punk and reggae scene in the fanzine Vague and the music mag Zigzag, he has published the ‘London Psychogeography’ series of local history booklets, written liner notes for the Clash ‘London Calling’ CD set, programmes for the Portobello Film Festival, and Hollywood W11 – the Notting Hill films documentary. tvague@historytalk.org.
About this walk: Tom Vague takes us on a stroll through the Antiques Market, evaluating such rock curiosities as the Beatles, the Beachboys, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Status Quo, Motörhead, Sex Pistols, Virgin - from Mike Oldfield to Culture Club, Dire Straits and Lords of the New Church.
Route: From Notting Hill Gate station - Pembridge Road - Portobello Road - to Blenheim Crescent.
About this walk: The Portobello Shuffle continues through the Fruit and Veg Market, taking in Absolute Beginners, Rough Trade - from the Raincoats to Nirvana, the Pogues, Transvision Vamp, Aswad, the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind in the Hall of the Mountain Grill
Route: from Blenheim Crescent/Talbot Road to the Westway)
About this walk: Take a trip to Powis Square, All Saints Road and Basing Street, featuring Pink Floyd and Quintessence in All Saints hall, Performance, A Hard Day’s Night, the Mangrove, and Island Studios sessions including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Led Zeppelin, Band Aid and All Saints
Route: from Talbot Road - Powis Gardens - Powis Square - Powis Terrace - All Saints Road - Basing Street)
About this walk: Get into the grove with Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper and Tina Turner at the Portobello Hotel, Van Morrison, Cream, Joe Meek, Marc Bolan’s Tyrannosaurus Rex in Middle Earth W11 and Joe Strummer’s 101’ers in the Elgin
Route: from Holland Park station to Ladbroke Grove station.
About this walk: A tour of Hollywood W11/10: It Happened Here from Absolute Beginners to Leo the Last, also featuring Blow Up, A Hard Day’s Night, the trials of Oz, Roxy Music, Robbie Williams, Geri Halliwell, Tom Jones, Chrysalis, the Republic of Frestonia and the Mutoid Waste Company
Route: from Holland Park station to Latimer Road station - Princedale Road - Bramley Road
About this walk: An exploration of North Kensington Subterania from the Westway to Trellick Tower, featuring the Clash, Steve Peregrin Took, Honest Jon’s, Dread Broadcasting Corporation, Lord Kitchener’s Valet, Big Audio Dynamite, Blur, Gorillaz, Aswad, The Good, The Bad and The Queen
Route: from Ladbroke Grove station - the Westway to Trellick Tower
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