Music

On the evening of Weds 11th March 2020, London Shoes ventured off to what was once one of London’s most iconic music & art venues, particularly throughout the 1960’s and into the 70’s – the legendary ‘Roundhouse’ at Chalk Farm–London NW3. The Roundhouse building wasn’t always a music venue – when it was first opened ...Read more...

This week’s London Shoes trek out focussed on one of its favourite blog topics – ‘live’ music. As with a number of my previously published music related blogs, this week’s subject matter originates from my association with ‘Gentleman’ George Double, my old drum tutor from my days when I was working at Barclays in Mare ...Read more...

With old ‘London Shoes’ having visited the world famous “Ronnie Scott’s” Jazz Club, Sunday week ago – last Sunday I got the opportunity to attend another ‘live’ London music event. The same band, but with a few personnel changes – and a completely different ‘set’. The venue this time was the prestigious and totally unique ...Read more...

Last Sunday, London Shoes made a welcome return to one of its favourite topics….’live’ music – and I was extremely privileged to be included on the guest-list of the fantastic ‘Chris Ingham Quartet’ for their sell-out gig at the legendary world famous “Ronnie Scott’s-Jazz Club” in Frith Street-Soho-LondonW1. The reason I was lucky enough to ...Read more...

Thursday 26th September 2019, saw the 50th anniversary of the release of the iconic Beatles album “Abbey Road” – and, with it being an album that was named after a London street, London Shoes felt it only right to cover-off its own tribute to commemorate this musically famous piece of recorded work. Abbey Road itself ...Read more...

  Last Saturday the 14th September, I had the pleasure of experiencing my very first ‘Proms-in-the-Park’ event at Hyde Park here in London – and I have to say that surprisingly, I found myself enjoying it much more than I had initially expected. The ‘Proms’ event itself is a globally recognised annual musical event, that ...Read more...

    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...