In nine hours I should be in the sky so I'm running out of time to tell you what I'm actually doing while I'm in England. So here's the itinerary... very comprehensive (even though I've edited some boring bits out). If anything doesn't make immediate sense, it's probably a music shop.
Wednesday, 17th October
20:50 Recommended check-in
22:50 Flight QF29 from Melbourne to London (incl. one stop at Hong Kong)
Thursday, 18th October
13:30 Flight arrives at Heathrow Airport, Terminal 4
15:15 Flight QF3465 (operated by British Airways) departs from Terminal 1
16:35 Flight arrives at Edinburgh / Turnhouse.
Friday, 19th October
a.m. Sleep in
p.m. Edinburgh pubs and bars
20:30 EVOL @ The Liquid Room
Saturday, 20th October
a.m. Chill out
p.m. Football - Hibs vs Motherwell
19:15 Chris T-T @ Barrowlands, 244 Gallowgate
19:55 Frank And Walters @ Barrowlands
then Carter USM @ Barrowlands
Sunday, 21st October
a.m. Chill out
p.m. Rosslyn Chapel
Monday, 22nd October
Edinburgh music shop trek
· HMV – 129-130 Princes Street
· Virgin Megastore – 124-125 Princes Street
· Fopp – 15 Rose Street
· Avalanche Records - 63 Cockburn Street
· Avalanche Records - 2-3 Teviot Place
· Avalanche Records - 17 West Nicholson Street
· Avalanche Records - 28 Lady Lawson Street
· Elvis Shakespeare – 347 Leith Walk
· Vinyl Villains - 5 Elm Row (Leith Walk)
· Record Shack – 69 Clerk Street
· Hogs Head – 62 South Clerk Street
· Backbeat Records – 31 East Crosscauseway
· Coda Music – 12 Bank Street, Old Town
· Ripping Records – South Bridge
· Unknown Pleasures – 110 Canongate
· Golden Oldies – Haymarket, near Haymarket Bar
Tuesday, 23rd October
11:45 Flight BA1443 to London
13:05 Arrive at Heathrow, collect luggage and catch Tube, Piccadilly
line (dark blue) to Green Park station. Get to Brixton via Victoria (light
blue) line – Zones 1-6.
15:00 Arrive @ Les' place, Brixton
20:00 Help out with "Getting Fruity on the Radio" @ Phoenix FM, Brentwood
Wednesday, 24th October
a.m. Music shops on Berwick Street, Soho
lunch Stockpot, 60 Old Compton St
p.m. Music shops on Berwick Street (continued)
1 - Cheapo Cheapo Records - 53 Rupert St
2 - Division One - 36 Hanway Street
3 - HMV - 150 Oxford Street
4 - HMV - 360 Oxford Street
5 - M&VE - 38 Notting Hill Gate
6 - M&VE - 28 Pembridge Road (+bookshop @ 14)
7 - M&VE - 95 Berwick Street
8 - Mr. CD - 80 Berwick St
9 - Reckless Records - 26/30 Berwick St
10 - Sister Ray - 34-35 Berwick St
11 - Sounds of the Universe - 7 Broadwick St
12 - Tower Records - 1 Piccadilly Circus
13 - Virgin Megastore - 14-19 Oxford Street
14 - Steve's Sounds - 20 Newport Ct
19:30 Donovan & David Lynch - University of London, Logan Hall, 20
Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL
Thursday, 25th October
a.m. Rough Trade (East) - Old Truman Brewery, Dray Walk
Smallfish Records - 329 Old St, EC1
lunch Wild Cherry - Globe Road (near LBC), Bethnal Green
p.m. London Buddhist Centre precinct (LBC, Sudana etc.)
Old Spitalfields Market, 65 Brushfield St.
Kinetica Museum, SP2 Pavillion, Old Spitalfields Market
Catching up with Ricardo Autobahn – TBC
night Possibly: Robots In Disguise, Carling Academy Islington
Friday, 26th October
a.m. Return to Berwick Street (see list of music shops from Wednesday)
p.m. Oxford Street and Soho precinct
Saturday, 27th October
a.m. Camden Market - Camden Town, North-West London
p.m. Rhythm Records - 281 Camden High Street
M&VE - 208 Camden High Street
dinner Cottons (Caribbean restaurant) - 55 Chalk Farm Road
night Club Silver @ Underworld (Saturdays - £6 - new/old indie) - 174
Camden High Street
or Asian Dub Foundation @ Cargo (£10 - 83 Rivington Street)
Sunday, 28th October
day Greenwich market (weekends)
M&VE - 23 Greenwich Church Street (7 days)
Royal Observatory - (part of National Maritime Museum)
Monday, 29th October
day Check out Brixton properly
Brixton Market - Electric Avenue, Pope Road, Atlantic Road,
Brixton Station Road (Mon-Fri, 10am - sunset)
dinner Thankyou dinner for Les and Crissi at Khan’s or Eritrean
21:00 Long Slow Kiss On The Lips @ The Dogstar (free, Mondays,
electro/indie/reggae) - 389 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
Tuesday, 30th October
a.m. Move things over to Leanne & Greg’s place, Earsfield.
p.m. Tower Of London
Wednesday, 31st October
a.m. Call and book London Eye time
Abbey Road
12:00 Lords tour - St John's Wood (near St John's Wood's stn - £10)
pm M&VE - 38 Notting Hill Gate
M&VE - 28 Pembridge Road (+bookshop @ 14 Pembridge)
Intoxica - 231 Portobello Road, London (west of map)
Rough Trade (West) - 130 Talbot Rd (west of map)
19:00 Vipassana meditation at London Buddhist Vihara - The Avenue,
Chiswick (near Turnham Green station - way out west)
Thursday, 1st November
10:30 Westminster walk
11:30 Changing of the guard (then continue with walk)
p.m. London Eye
dinner Bamboula (Caribbean restaurant) - 12 Acre Lane, Brixton
night The Brunettes + The School + Wake The President + The Deidres @ Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens. Leave in time to train way back to Leanne and Greg’s.
Friday, 2nd November
a.m. Confirm flights home
Natural History Museum
p.m. Science Museum
Hyde Park (incl. Speakers Corner)
17:00 Pre-party @ Jamm, 261 Brixton Road
night Carter USM live @ Brixton Academy w/ Sultans Of Ping FC, Brixton
Academy - 211 Stockwell Road
Afterparty @ Jamm, 261 Brixton Road. It will be a late night because Allergy are on until after 4am. Stay until close and then go to Leanne and Greg’s.
Saturday, 3rd November
a.m. Recovery
p.m. Record Corner - 27 Bedford Hill, Balham
Bar 366
Sunday, 4th November
Daytrip out of London
Monday, 5th November
06:30 Leave Leanne and Greg’s place.
10:20 FinnAir flight AY832 to Helsinki departs from Terminal 1, Heathrow Airport
15:15 Arrive Helsinki Airport
16:40 FinnAir flight AY67 to Hong Kong departs from Terminal 2
Tuesday, 6th November
08:20 Arrive at Hong Kong Airport
09:45 Qantas flight QF30 to Melbourne departs
21:35 Arrive at Tullamarine Airport
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