Peter Watts

Update as Sadiq Khan confirms when Oxford Street will be pedestrianised The Mayor of London hopes to use the traffic-free street for events this year

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…

YouTube video by Lund Peterson Lou Reed Guess I'm Falling in love live

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...

Tributes paid to The Quarrymen's Len Garry who has died aged 84 Len Garry was a member of The Quarrymen and played alongside Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

A very sad day. RIP #LenGarry, who as part of the #Quarrymen was an important, integral part of #TheBeatles story. 🙏🎸😔

BBC News - Tributes paid to The Quarrymen's Len Garry who has died aged 84 - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two players chase a ball for 90 minutes and whoever forms a more impenetrable meat wall on corner kicks wins.

I don’t know the On The Beach family but I am sure I would loathe them

I hate the couple in the Miele advert and hope they have a messy divorce.

Old Firm games need to come with subtitles so we can see what obscenities and ancient tribal counter-histories the fans are shouting at each other.

Spent a large portion of the late 2000s online trying to explain to neutrals that just because he wasn’t as smooth in possession Terry was a far superior passer than Rio.

So true. Take David Lee, that boy could ping it.

When I am mayor, as well as banning dogs, umbrellas and golf courses, I will make it illegal for joggers to run behind people on normal streets giving us all jump scares.

Image from the PS2 game The Getaway. A car on the road in London.

'Team Soho were outrageously ambitious, planning to render 115 square miles of London (it became closer to 25 square miles). Almost every single building is accurate - people were telling me they could find their flats, offices, favourite coffee shops'

Kyle MacNeill on The Getaway

buff.ly/gj4Q76T

I got the distinct impression he was talking from lived experience

Interesting suggestion from the security guard at Tesco in Loughborough Junction about what Vinicius Junior should do in the event of further racist abuse: "Learn to headbutt, then they'll leave him alone". It's a thought.

The beautiful game.

Eusébio buying soul LPs in Harlow's Startime record shop in 1968

Declan having his Steve Gerrard moment.

I feel this way about toasters without a bagel setting.

A kiss under Central Point and above Tottenham Court Road Underground Station, by Frank Habicht, from 1969’s “Young London”.

"Players and managers come and go. The fans are the only constant... It's the supporters that give every club their own unique identity." Photographer and lifelong blue, John Ingledew

Lower Block Edition - The Famous CFC

lowerblock.com/product/the-... #cfc #chelsea #chelseafc

‘It’s a symphony’ — the Pogue and the painter making art about the Tube The renowned Scottish artist Jock McFadyen has joined forces with the Pogues co-founder Jem Finer to create a noisy, colourful tribute to the London Underground

I talked to Jem Finer from the Pogues and artist Jock McFadyen about their love of the sights and sounds of the Tube ahead of a new collaborative exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Ha!

Yeah, they def stayed here - there are photos of them cavorting in the loch

Lovely. Very fond of this one I stumbled across on a chalet in a random holiday park in Scotland

Let’s workshop it

Get Plaque, obviously

Can you do the accent