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2025

Pulp in Uncut original ↗

15 Sept 2025

Time Out – smoking hot and strikes original ↗

8 Sept 2025

London – “a card-index system to an inexhaustible set of topics”original ↗

11 Aug 2025

Battersea Power Station – updated paperback edition original ↗

17 Mar 2025

The Rock and Roll Public Library original ↗

10 Mar 2025

2024

Sohemian Society talk – December 5 original ↗

7 Nov 2024

Rough Trade on Denmark Street original ↗

12 Sept 2024

Denmark Street talk with Andy’s Guitars original ↗

2 Jul 2024

Meanwhile… On Denmark Street original ↗

18 Mar 2024

2023

POSTPONED Denmark Street at Regent Sounds – free talk original ↗

29 Nov 2023

Events – drugs, clubs and Denmark Street original ↗

19 Oct 2023

Londonist interview – Denmark Street original ↗

28 Sept 2023

10 things to come out of Denmark Street original ↗

14 Sept 2023

Denmark Street: London’s Street Of Sound original ↗

28 Aug 2023

The magic, mayhem and mystery of Ziggy’s last show original ↗

8 Aug 2023

Heroes and villains original ↗

27 Jun 2023

Among The Foetuses original ↗

22 May 2023

Andy Rourke RIP original ↗

19 May 2023

Riot Grrrl in Uncut original ↗

10 Mar 2023

Urban myths: the navvies’ castle pubs of Camden original ↗

27 Feb 2023

Hipgnosis by Mark Blake original ↗

7 Feb 2023

Statute to statue – remembering Brian Haw, peace campaigner original ↗

2 Feb 2023

RIP Luca Vialli original ↗

6 Jan 2023

2022

The Marquee original ↗

6 Dec 2022

House music – David Bowie’s Haddon Hall original ↗

14 Nov 2022

Battersea Power Shopping Station original ↗

19 Oct 2022

In praise of scavenging original ↗

29 Jul 2022

Time Out special edition original ↗

12 Jul 2022

Performance in Powis Square original ↗

8 Jul 2022

London’s Lost Music Venues original ↗

24 Jun 2022

Crowley’s London original ↗

23 May 2022

“The building doesn’t represent or resemble anything other than itself.”original ↗

20 Apr 2022

There was only one Tony Elliott original ↗

30 Mar 2022

Third generation rock and roll original ↗

25 Mar 2022

The triumph of the Barbican original ↗

1 Mar 2022

2021

Book review: Raving Upon Thames by Andrew Humphreys original ↗

1 Dec 2021

Ghost signs original ↗

3 Nov 2021

In the nick: Bow Street police museum original ↗

21 Jun 2021

2020

London street signs original ↗

8 Oct 2020

Kate Bush’s guide to South East London original ↗

20 Jan 2020

2019

Save the canal’s statue garden original ↗

16 Oct 2019

Dead butterflies – 50 years since Rolling Stones at Hyde Park original ↗

5 Jul 2019

Morrissey and I original ↗

25 Jun 2019

Inside Brixton Prison original ↗

21 Jun 2019

Farewell to The Borderline original ↗

12 Jun 2019

Secret Rivers at the Museum of London Docklands original ↗

22 May 2019

Spies Of London original ↗

5 Apr 2019

The Parakeets of London original ↗

21 Mar 2019

Lennon/Ono and “RAPE” in Highgate Cemetery original ↗

19 Feb 2019

Crass – anarchy in the green belt original ↗

21 Jan 2019

2018

Santa Claus and Lapland’s Reindeer Antler Plan original ↗

19 Dec 2018

Municipal Dreams by John Boughton original ↗

3 Dec 2018

Bus Fare – new anthology of bus writing original ↗

22 Oct 2018

The Small Faces and Colour Me Pop original ↗

16 Oct 2018

Americana in Perivale original ↗

15 Oct 2018

A refugee’s son original ↗

20 Jun 2018

Cruising London’s canals: the Paddington Packet original ↗

18 Jun 2018

John Lydon in Gunter Grove original ↗

13 Jun 2018

Under the arches – ghost signs of London original ↗

14 May 2018

King Mob, the Camden Poster Workshop and revolutionary London in 1968 original ↗

9 May 2018

Boxing cats and potato smashing on the streets of Victorian London original ↗

1 Mar 2018

Fatberg at the Museum of London original ↗

8 Feb 2018

Leaving the canal original ↗

23 Jan 2018

High Buildings, Low Morals by Rob Baker original ↗

11 Jan 2018

2017

Altered States – new book original ↗

13 Dec 2017

The London Mithraeum original ↗

16 Nov 2017

British Undergound Press original ↗

6 Oct 2017

Zola’s bicycle women original ↗

21 Sept 2017

The Diana shrine: 20 years ago original ↗

29 Aug 2017

Building on London allotments original ↗

10 Aug 2017

Reversing the ferret: affordable housing at Battersea Power Station original ↗

21 Jun 2017

Big Capital – Anna Minton original ↗

13 Jun 2017

The end of John Terry original ↗

19 May 2017

Metroburbia – by Paul Knox original ↗

18 May 2017

1967 Uncut original ↗

19 Apr 2017

Brief brutalism original ↗

6 Apr 2017

Fiddling with the ingredients at Battersea Power Station original ↗

24 Feb 2017

Time among the bargees original ↗

16 Feb 2017

Purley and dementia original ↗

6 Feb 2017

Read or Dredd: 2000 AD at the Cartoon Museum original ↗

25 Jan 2017

Podcasts, radio and Ray Davies original ↗

17 Jan 2017

Graham Taylor: City slicker, ballet lover original ↗

12 Jan 2017

2016

Curiocity – the book original ↗

12 Dec 2016

The Effra: still flowing under Herne Hill original ↗

7 Dec 2016

Inside the Whitechapel Bell Foundry original ↗

2 Dec 2016

On the buses: the first ten routes original ↗

28 Nov 2016

RIP Martin Stone – guitarist, bookseller, hustler original ↗

10 Nov 2016

Funding film about Tin Pan Alley original ↗

10 Nov 2016

Leaving Victorian London original ↗

7 Nov 2016

My Favourite Londoner: Tony Hancock original ↗

11 Oct 2016

Estuary by Rachel Lichtenstein original ↗

21 Sept 2016

Miss World and the ruin of London original ↗

6 Sept 2016

Francoise Hardy dans le Londre pub original ↗

25 Aug 2016

Never mind the Balearics: London and the hippies of Ibiza, Formentera and Deia original ↗

3 Aug 2016

Great Fire at the Museum of London original ↗

22 Jul 2016

Talking about Battersea Power Station original ↗

1 Jul 2016

Tate Modern – a tale of two power stations original ↗

15 Jun 2016

Parks and pubs original ↗

2 Jun 2016

A Monkee in London: Alf Garnett, John Lennon, Princess Margaret and Balham original ↗

16 May 2016

Waterstones event original ↗

6 May 2016