Long after Britpop was done and I happened to be in Camden, I made a slight detour to go and see The Good Mixer. Didn’t go in, assumed it was full of twats.
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Same
I used to drink there pretty regularly and yes, there were plenty of twats there. Also loads of good people as well, had many a good night there. It was the local haunt of some friends of mine long before it got it’s reputation.
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I’m not a Rolling Stones fan but on Heritage Open Day one year I went with the in laws to Swarkestone Pavilion where they had the ‘Beggar’s Banquet’ photo shoot. I think it’s an Airbnb now.
Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Was just passing through though. And a friend made me go. Elvis is a cunt.
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Not music related unless you’re a massive fan of a particular slap-bass riff, but I went out of my way when I was in New York to visit Tom’s Restaurant
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Tried to find Leonard Cohen’s grave when I was in Montreal but it was really hot and I was exhausted so didn’t make it. There is a cool mural of him in the city, though.
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I think this is about the same place!
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I similarly have been to Pere Lachaise to see Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde et al but I was far more excited to find this guy.
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Also comedy based but I was going to go slightly out of my way once to find the Black Books shop in London because we were heading to a comedy gig in The Harrison and I’d discovered it was in the same area (can’t remember how, I think I was marking The Harrison on Google Maps before the trip, recognised a couple of the placenames nearby from the show and did a bit of curious googling)
In the end up I was with people and it didn’t seem worthwhile to drag them out of our way so I just left it.
A few years later I was in London again, staying with a different friend, checking Google Maps to find my way back to his house and found the Black Books address was still starred on my Google Maps and was just a couple of streets away. Took 2 minutes to nip round.
Neither musical nor a pilgrimage, but it’s something.
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Went to see the fifteen foot tall steaming pile of shit that inspired the new National album
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Went to Camden in the 90s with my mum as she used to live there. We made a slight detour to pass by Noel Gallagher’s house. Bit weird to go and look at someone’s house really.
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Called into the caff from the Pale Green Ghosts cover when I was in Reykjavik
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- Sun Records - Memphis
- Graceland - Memphis. I didn’t listen to Elvis for about 2 years after a full day of him being played all day!
- Near miss - I left Memphis by bus and passed Stax records and couldn’t get off to visit which was annoying!
- Clarksdale crossroads - Where Robert Johnson sold his soul.
- Morgan Freeman’s Blues museum in Clarksdale [ they had Muddy Waters’ shack!]
- Athens, Georgia - Weaver D’s café that inspired the ‘Automatic for the People’ album title. I also visited the ‘train trestle’s’ that are on the back cover of Murmur:
- Chicago - Marina Wilco towers
- Seattle Experience Music museum. I think they had Hendrix’s guitar and definitely had some cool Grunge and The Sonics memorabilia.
- We had a walk around Bellingham but couldn’t see Ben Gibbard anywhere
- New York - Greenwich village and other cool music sites.
- Paris - Jim’s grave. It was very busy and not as atmospheric as you’d think.
- Liverpool - Strawberry Fields, Cavern, Penny Lane, others I can’t remember at the moment.
- London - Abbey Road, Good Mixer.
- I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan. I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I’m sure there are others but can’t remember at the moment.
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When in Berlin I made a point of finding Hansa studios and peering through the window.
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A link if you want to watch musical pilgrimages in real time and see tourists have near misses with London traffic.
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Mainly been to places where things used to be:
- The apartments where the Hacienda was
- 69 Dean St in Soho where Billy’s was
- The 100 Club
- Berwick St where the pic on the cover of What’s The Story… was taken
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Can only remember two quite different ones for me…
- Nick Drake’s grave in Tanworth (and his home). It’s not too far from me and a lovely little village but it was still a special trip.
- The Whisky a go go and the rainbow in LA/on the strip - being a gnr fan this was a no brainer
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Walked passed here in 2019.
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