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Shall we take a trip?
In a bid to try and drum up (no pun intended) some extra tourist visits, the English tourist board has turned out a map of the country suggesting rock landmarks you might like to visit.
It's a mixture of the screechingly obvious (The Cavern Club) - to the questionable (is it really approrpiate to suggest the place where Richey Edwards' car was found as a jolly holiday outing?). There's an enormous bias towards The Beatles, even in not-very-Beatley places like the South East. The Brighton Centre pops up in the list - for neither of its claims to fame (final appearance by Bing Crosby, last-ever Jam gig) but merely because it sometimes puts on gigs. But surely nobody would turn up at the Brighton Centre on the off-chance that there might be a band on?
Still, it's nice to think that people might pack up some sandwiches and head off to see the Uffington White Horse simply because it was on the cover of English Settlement. Although surely anyone who cares enough to do so would already know where it was?
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Uffington - I did exactly that a couple of years ago, in honour of the first LP I ever bought! Although I was a bit disappointed because the chalk horse is so effing large. I should have hired a helicopter.
Also describes the 5,039-capacity Hammersmith Apollo as "an intimate music venue", and calls it the Carling Hammersmith Apollo, although it dropped the weak-lager-drink from its name last year.
Jona...
Presumably the English Tourist Board have called it that as they're in touch with its heritage as a billboard for watery-beer-flavoured drinks?
Hey - how can you compare real ale with Carling? Carling is a far more complex drink - any ideas how they find so many incontinent cats to fill the vats?
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