Music

    Last week saw ‘London Shoes’ make two trips out to the big bad ‘smoke’ – the first being the already covered-off visit to the famous ‘Groucho Club’ – the second, on the following evening, was spookily to the very same street in Soho, and a location that was once of the very first ...Read more...

This week ‘London Shoes’ made a welcomed return to the topic of ‘live-music’ – and to an event that required a trek out to a basement jazz venue in deepest darkest Chelsea. The venue for this ‘gig’ was the extremely popular and charismatic “606 Club” in Lots Road–Chelsea-London SW11, and the reason for journeying all ...Read more...

  ‘Chaim Reuben Weintrop’ (aka Bud Flanagan) was born in October 1896 at no.12 Hanbury Street in the Spitalfields district of Whitechapel, deep in the heart of London’s east-end. His parents Wolf & Yetta Weintrop fled to England following the persecution of Jews in their native Poland. They had paid good money to escape to ...Read more...

This week’s ‘London Shoes’ publication comes in 2 parts. The first part begins on the ‘Becontree Estate’ in Dagenham, and the second part ends in an old converted granary barn in the rural wilds of Cambridgeshire. The theme of this blog focusses on a specific aspect of the subject matters life – and this person ...Read more...

  Two weeks ago ‘London Shoes’ published a music related blog on ‘Jazz at the Movies’ that was performed at “The ‘Other’ Palace Theatre” – and a bit like when you’re waiting at a bus stop, it just so happened that, (totally unplanned), 2 ‘music’ related blog opportunities have cropped-up alongside each other. Last Saturday, ...Read more...

This week’s ‘London Shoes’ activity focused its attention on one of my favourite topics – a ‘music’ related blog. The subject matter in question, for this week’s publication onto the London Shoes website, is: – “The ‘Other’ Palace” Theatre – which is just a couple of minutes’ walk from Victoria Station, in the direction of ...Read more...

When putting together this post for the “London Shoes” website – I wasn’t too sure whether the topic in question was ‘technically’ correct for the ‘Shoes’ doctrine of “London’s lesser known and more unusual historical aspects” – However, upon further consideration I believe that it does as 2 of the principal personalities of the topic, ...Read more...

  This week’s ‘London Shoes’ topic was a bit special for me, as the visit in question enabled me to tick-off one of the “must do” activities on my personal ‘bucket-list’. Also – it just so happened that I visited the subject matter in question at a special time in its history…its 60th anniversary year ...Read more...

Those that follow the “London Shoes” website and/or Twitter feed, will have probably assumed (like me), that the previous week’s blog about “London’s Xmas Lights”, was the ideal fitting finale to bring 2018’s blog activity to a natural conclusion. However, (and totally unplanned) I just happened to attend an event last week, that not only ...Read more...

  This week’s entry onto my London Shoes website also had a little touch of nostalgia in it for me – for not only was the subject matter a place that I’ve always wanted to visit and learn more about – the venue also enabled me to recollect and catch-up with 2 aspects from my ...Read more...