This was 'cos the graf by the Chrome Angels, it was a meeting point for writhers, plus there were guys breaking for the tourist dollar. In front of the opera house. Can't figure out how to turn this into a link: https://www.google.com/search?q=chr...AUIDigB&biw=1858&bih=789#imgrc=6-sMSHRzteMnMM:
I think the only thing that you're missing so far is that Ilford and Romford fucking suck. It all gets pretty awful past about Plaistow. i talk as a former habitué.
Yeah sort of but suburban base alone counterbalances a lot
He's been tagging around where I live recently (including on the back of the door of the lift in the big storage locker) so presumably he lives round there. He must be in his early 50s now? Seems a bit sad to me, to have never given up the ghost with something like that. Ghosts of your adolescence still riding you. Mind you, I never gave myself 100% to anything in the way that he must've done for those few years.
Ha! Centre vs peripheral is an interesting one actually. Ties in with the multiculturalism thread. Black guys coming down from Forest Gate and fighting with white guys due to taking their women at the Rom skating rink.
But it also gives you a global network. He can go anywhere in the world, and does, and have people to show him round and take him out.
You had music power in Ilford, Boogie Times in Romford,so this is a central market for buyers and producers. By the time you get to garage days the nightclubs there have become very important nodes on the circuit. Incubators of talent. places for second and third tier djs to make a name for themselves.
Were you writing Danny? I never knew that. I'll find Dtax's insta for you. There's some classic 90s pics pf PFB he keeps wheeling out
Essex and Hertfordshire have both made their mark. Reynolds loves going on about the Hertfordshire connection cos its where hes from. Moving shadow. Rob Playford. Omni Trio.