Music vids with London as their backdrop

[marty21]

Here I am, pulling out the obscure spots - I mean, Clapton ffs!!!!

Clapton ain't obscure

 

[eatmorecheese]

Thornton Heath and Gypsy Hill.

 

[toblerone3]

Inner City Life - Goldie.

Eta Post does not make much without the video from a few pages back. Here it is under the spoiler.

Have been listening to the full length 21 minute version of this this morning. Still an amazing track with its internal 'Pressure' and 'Jah' segments.

Spoiler

It frustrates me that we cannot identify some of the tower blocks in this video more precisely. I am thinking perhaps the Nightingale Estate near Hackney Downs, some of which was demolished in the late 1990s. I think marty21 should know more.

 

[stethoscope]

Id bet money this is Dollis Hill (which doesnt mean much with my gambling track record!) - North WEst somwhere at the least... maybe
4hero - Escape That

Actually, isn't that the Dollis Hill waiting room @ 0.59

 

[stethoscope]

It frustrates me that we cannot identify some of the tower blocks in this video more precisely. I am thinking perhaps the Nightingale Estate near Hackney Downs, some of which was demolished in the late 1990s. I think marty21 should know more.

Well now, I was always told that Inner City Life was a mixture of Hackney and Elephant, but there's a comment on the youtube vid that points it to being the Wyndham and Comber Estate (which would make it South East sides)...

I'm trying to work out if these are at 0.06?

 

[stethoscope]

Spooky... Huey has dropped it just now on his 6Music show. Still sounds so damn good, as does Two Sides

 

[andysays]

Well now, I was always told that Inner City Life was a mixture of Hackney and Elephant, but there's a comment on the youtube vid that points it to being the Wyndham and Comber Estate (which would make it South East sides)...

I'm trying to work out if these are at 0.06?

looks to me like pretty much the whole thing was filmed on the Wyndham estate (i lived in one of those towers about 25 years ago).

there are towers the same or very similar in rotherhithe and wandsworth (i think), but the other surroundings are also familiar to me

<<sarf london nostalgia >>

 

[marty21]

someone was telling me something about the guy from saint ettiene being a real london-o-phile. i forget what he did now... some kind of london art project or other

He was involved in a film about the Olympic area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_You_Done_Today_Mervyn_Day?

 

[stethoscope]

On subject of Saint Etienne - my personal fave of theirs and Clink Street at 1 mins.



I've still got such a soft spot for Sarah Cracknell <3

 

[skyscraper101]

This has a little bit of mid nineties London skylines in it.

I always liked the apartment in this video too, complete with cat and Fender rhodes piano.

 

[toblerone3]

He was involved in a film about the Olympic area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_You_Done_Today_Mervyn_Day?

There's a lot of identifiable Kentish Town and Tufnell Park in St Ettienne's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart'. Eg Archway tube, Tufnell Park Tavern.

 

[kevin burke]

Camden Canal

 

[Moronik]

Boycey already posted up one North of Ping Pong tune..... so heres the other:




The Hope & Anchor in Islington




....... and pretty much every grime video

 

[DJWrongspeed]

King Krule from his latest album '6 Feet Beneath the Moon'



(well he's from London so assume the video is !)

 

[treelover]

Billy Bragg re-incarnated


no, I know he is not dead, but still..

 

[Treacle Toes]

Pass the Dutchie
Say I'm your No.1?

Sorry if I'm repeating, haven't read the thread.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Actually, isn't that the Dollis Hill waiting room @ 0.59

i was just up there


TeACHING AT THE COLLEGE OF NORTH WEST LONDON

 

[ska invita]

Westside
lots of vibes in this video

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Westside

I was hoping that someone had posted this vid on the thread - and you have!

(Great choon and nice visuals too)

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

King Krule from his latest album '6 Feet Beneath the Moon'



(well he's from London so assume the video is !)

I have seen him in a load of music press but not heard him until now.
I expected him to sound like a posh pre pubescent teen. Quite a surprise.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Camden High Street (and Arlington Road), 1980's

 

[ouchmonkey]

I'm pretty sure the new pixies video ends in the foot tunnel under the Thames at Greenwich.
the rest of the underpasses are too anonymous to tell but there's something of the way it curves..
I can't find any information yet to back this up except it
'stars innovative British dance/theatre/performance artist Nando Messias.'
anyone?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It frustrates me that we cannot identify some of the tower blocks in this video more precisely. I am thinking perhaps the Nightingale Estate near Hackney Downs, some of which was demolished in the late 1990s. I think marty21 should know more.

That image is definitely from the Nightingale, and comes from here:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/showitzer/3633748868/

The estate was home to Rush FM in the 1990s. See:
http://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/pirate-radio-in-hackney-early-1990s/

http://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/rush-fm-raided-1993/

(with contribution from steph !)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

A more recent one:



Showtek ft. We Are Loud & Sonny Wilson - Booyah

Crouch End / Finsbury Park / Central.

 

[ska invita]

Nando Messias < good name

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Shampoo - Trouble

Soho / Tower Bridge / Thamesmead

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Last one from me for now:

Mark Professor - Oystah Card

Leytonstone (I think?)

 

[ouchmonkey]

Nando Messias < good name

isn't it?

 

[Favelado]

Junior, junior, junior and it's Junior Spesh.

 

[Nanker Phelge]