MUSIC

MAKING IT
Denmark Street in the West End tried calling itself London’s Tin Pan Alley is a recent ad campaign. That might be pushing the point a little far, but here is where you will find one music equipment shop after another, all vying to beat each others prices.
MUSIC TO THE EARS
Virgin Megastore and HMV are both situated on Oxford Street. Tower Records is enormous and located at Piccadilly Circus.
The Dub Vendor, Lavendar Hill SW11 and Ladbroke Grove W10: dub, ragga, rap, very black black music, useful flyers, often with a live DJ mixing the sounds.
For second-hand foraging and goody-hunting, try Honest Dave on Portobello Road (down the end, near the public loos), the Record and Tape Exchange in Camden for its enormous bargain basement and Greenwich Market on Sundays, where there are at least four serious and new and used music stalls, including indie, alternative and jazz recordings.
Reckless Records, 30 Berwick Street W1 is excellent both for rarities and bargains across the board.
Pride Records, 504 Roman Road, E3. Rare and deleted goodies. Also try Vinyl Solution, 231 Portobello Road, W11, for that vital Barry Manilow picture disc.

MARKETS
Portobello. Saturday. Top end, antiques. Middle, fruit and veg. Bottom, clothes old and new, music, books, crafts, ornaments, furniture, jewellery, serious bargains to be had as well as unique items. Good shops along the route for vintage clothing, plus snazzy pubs and food from all over the world.
Camden. Sunday. Bigger and better than ever before, horrendously crowded, it takes at least a day to get round it all. Similar stalls to Portobello but more of them. Goth city, so be warned.
Greenwich. Sunday. Four markets in one area, interspersed with eateries and bars. Pleasant maritime atmosphere. Particularly excellent for recorded music, books and crafts, plus antique jewellery, new and used clothing, furniture, weird knick-knacks and ornaments. Slightly more grown-up than the preceding two.
Brixton. Saturday. Touch and go. Good for exotic fruit, spices, herbs and veg, wonderful tribal prints by the yard and ready made at low, low prices. Worth it for the atmosphere but watch out for the man selling unrefrigerated sheep’s heads. Those sheep look at you funny.
Petticoat/Brick Lane. Sunday. Arrive early and prepare to rummage. Everything, from food and flowers to music and clothes. Quite down-market, chaotic and messy, lots of stolen goods on offer and down and outs trying to sell a shoe and a BeeGees cassette. Charming nonetheless.
Covent Garden market. Varies from day to day. Crafts, clothing, leatherwear, jewellery, antiques. More expensive than its humbler cousins, but not as much so as in former years. Good for unusual and individual items.

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Compendium on Camden High Street for the best available selection of transgressive, beat, dada, surrealist, psychology, sexology, political, cultural etc. books and magazines. Widest stock of body art magazines and the ReSearch series.
Charing Cross Road contains the highest density of book shops in London, with side streets packed with small, second-hand antiquarian and specialist bookshops. You can pick up ethnic, feminist and sub-cultural literature in the shops along the main street – Books Etc and Foyles have major branches here – along with beat and surrealist writing and publications from the smaller presses. One at least usually has a sale on or bulk purchase stock at reduced prices.
Forbidden Planet, 71 New Oxford Street, WC1. Sci-fi books and magazines.

CLOTHES
If you don’t already know, first stop for the trendy-or-die brigade is still the Kings Road in Chelsea (Sloane Square tube) for the Bluebird Garage market, housing loads of stalls from new designers, some innovative some just plain silly, while established (i.e. expensive) names pitch themselves along the main drag. There is also an indoor market area which turns up the occasional second-hand treasure.
The markets are your best bet for anything the high street shops are flogging, plus anything ethnic, hippy or grungy which your heart desires. Occasional designer sell-offs, and both Portobello and Camden can offer real quality at affordable prices, from lingerie to fun fur hats. Camden Town itself, outside of market days, provides all of the stock goth and rock gear at low prices, plus cheap leatherware. Designer outlets are on the increase here, also, but prices are far lower than the Kings Road equivalents.
Covent Garden and the nearby Neal Street are worth a look-in for young club-oriented designers on the up, particularly around the side streets where lower rents are reflected in the prices.
Hyper Hyper in Kensington has become much more affordable since the recession bit in, but don’t expect anything significantly more radical than you will find in the markets. Good for excessive jewellery, gay chic and very tarty disco wear. Just opposite is Kensington Market, which is strictly for hippies, rockers and goths who just don’t care any more.

ETHNIC AREAS
To get a true taste of London you need to experience the different communities which are shaping the future city. Visit the following areas, and one holiday ‘abroad’ can double up as several.
Southall: mostly populated by Asian people, here is where you can get exotic textiles for a pittance, the best authentic curries outside of Brick Lane, a bizarre experience as the sounds and smells of Asia spill out onto the street. Good for OTT costume jewellery and just for the experience of it.
Chinatown: spices, Chinese food and medicine, over-run with tourists, granted, and more than a little tacky, but step away from the main streets and cuisine from all over the Chinese continent if on offer, often from small family-owned businesses. Not a good place to do your Bruce Lee kung-fu demonstration.
Brixton: you know all about Brixton. It’s famous for being the black centre of London. Much safer than the paranoid element would make out, go there on a market day, and then check out the reggae/dub record stores for rare grooves, get yourself some real spicy, fruity, Caribbean cookery and just check out the vibe for yourself.
Kilburn: Irish home from home, including regular live trad and even one authentically sparse rural-type pub where old men drink Guinness in reverent silence. Excellent charity shop – an enormous Humana offering good quality second-hand clothes for the grungies and hippies amongst you.

OCCULT
Tarot cards and new age/mystical/occult literature are available to varying extents from most mainstream bookshops. For more specialist needs, these two are the longest established and best stocked of the lot. For books, Atlantis in Museum Street has the widest range of new and used books on the occult, mysticism, mythology and religion, including rare limited runs of Crowley and Spare’s more obscure writings.
For paraphernalia, it has to be Mysteries on Monmouth Street, WC2. It’s pricey and very white light, but they do all the candles, incenses, crystals etc. They are a bit uneasy about the more radical spheres of occult activity. Try approaching the counter carrying a few black candles and ask if they know where you can get an original copy of White Stains by Crowley and watch ’em reach for the healing amethyst crystal.

DRUGS
Apart from cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine, there is but one legal drug on offer: amyl nitrate or poppers. For those who don’t already know, you buy bottles of the stuff in gay sex shops – of which there are plenty in Soho – and either sniff it or dip a cigarette in the liquid – don’t light it - and draw in the vapours that way. The second method makes you more giggly. It goes without saying never to buy anything off the guys who hustle up to you in the street and murmur ‘hashcokeacidspeed’ without moving their lips. Nine times out of ten you’ll end up with Ajax or henna. You do need to be more careful than usual: dealers have started mixing crack in with speed and ecstasy frequently contains heroin.
Pubs around Camden and Portobello come complete with their local suppliers – just look for a bar containing a lot of young people – and are apparently more reliable than the club vendors, who take advantage of the lights and music to rip you off left right and centre. Word of mouth is your best bet, as it is anywhere. That is if you must go ahead and break the law despite my strongest remonstrances. Take it from me, kids, keep it clean! You don’t need drugs to get high! Train-spotting can be very exhilarating.

KINKY LONDON
Dust off the handcuffs and polish your thigh boots on your lover’s tongue. You’re in swinging London now. Check out the gay listings for sex shops and visit the following recommended stores for naughty but nice clothing for men and women. These are the places where you pick up flyers, telling you about the major fetish events on the horizon, by the way.
Doc Roc, Camden High Street. Quality designer fetish clothing in rubber, leather and PVC by the likes of Demask, Ectomorph, Murray & Vern, adventurous new designers Chris Anderson, Valhalla and Invincible, corsets by Tight Situation, bondage harnesses and high, high heels available in men’s widths, sizes 4-12. High quality rubberwear. Made to measure service available. Probably the cheapest in London for standard rubber and PVC items. Also on sale is fetish art by Vicky Armstrong, including full length models which should get the customs officers wondering.
Hair by the Chair, 43 Anerley Road, SE19. Newest addition, offering made-to-measure service, bondage gear and CP equipment by Cloud 9. Designers include Zeitgeist, Murray & Vern, Dane and Valhalla.
Libido, 83 Parkway, Camden. Run by women, predominantly for women. Looks and feels more like a boutique than a perv purveyor, less outrageous/intimidating than some, good range of feminine fetish wear and one offs. Run by Chain Gang, which organises the monthly Submission club night. Friendly and relaxed, open all week from 11-7pm and Sundays 11-5pm.
Magic Shoe Company, Unit 6, 88 Mile End Road, E1. Widest available selection of fetish footwear for men and women, from rubber thighboots to patent stilettos.
Pagan Metal, Trocadero Centre. Small selection of fetish clothing plus body jewellery.
Skin Two, 23 Grand Union Centre, Kensal Road, W10 5BR. The shop which organises two high-profile annual kinky balls and publishes the collectable quarterly fetish magazine Skin Two. Fetish and fantasy clothing in the usual fabrics by Murray & Vern, Ectomorph, Libidex, Armoury, Vollers gorgeous Victorian corsetry, and Magic Shoes. Made to measure service. Books, magazines, jewellery, accessories, lots of flyers. Free colour brochure and leaflets from Freepost Skin Two at the above address.
Regulation (see gay section).
Zippers (see gay section).

CLUBS
Although there are several fetish/SM clubs nights for straight/mixed party-goers, there are only two regulars which are really worth knowing about in their own right. Check with Skin Two to find out if Fantastic is hosting any of its occasional bashes, because they’re always worth a laugh. If you’re desperate, check out flyers for Severins Kiss.
Submission: quite coupley, sociable, friendly, more like a discotheque with soft porn videos and erotic clothing than a den of iniquity. Naughty but nice. People travel from far and wide and the club is usually hosted in luxurious surroundings, with occasional fun and games, peepshows etc. Probably the easiest introduction to the capital’s fetish scene. Co-organiser Ron and girlfriend Tina are always ready to welcome new comers, answer questions, allay their fears and make introductions. Dress code: fantasy, fetish, TV/TS. Submission is not overly keen on people wearing neo-Nazi costumes because most of the clientele are actually rather nice people enjoying feeling a bit naughty and sexy for the evening.
Torture Garden: on the opposite end of the scale, TG is the club which has been twice closed down by police action and is regularly ejected from venues by discontented owners. Almost anything goes, body art and modern primitives are especially encouraged. Industrial/techno music and decor, ‘atmospheric room’ where Gregorian chant and other suitably sombre music hails the presence of stocks and cross, market area with stalls selling a good variety of body jewellery, B&D, CP and other fetish equipment. Not for the faint hearted, but not actually dangerous in any way. Radical performance art, wild juxtapositions of extreme and bizarre multi-screen visuals, occasional performances and fetish fashion shows. Anything which happens here is always consenting, and trouble-makers are dealt with promptly and efficiently. Dress code: fantasy, fetish, TV/TS, uniforms. Members only, or sidle up to someone in the queue and ask them to pass you off as a guest. They usually will.

NIGHTCLUBBIN’
One of the joys of London – which not all of its residents are happy to embrace – is its cultural diversity. Here’s a smorgasbord of times and places being celebrated on the capital’s dance floors. To find out more, pick up a copy of the recently revised Cockspur Club Guide and look out for flyers in record shops.
Wednesdays
Barbarella, RAW, 112a Great Russell Street, WC1. Inspired by the camp cult movie of the same name, this is a new mixed gay/straight night with space age decor and ‘Pretty pretty’ dress code for babes of all sexes. £6, £4 before midnight.
Boogie Wonderland, Maximus, 14 Leicester Square, WC2. Major seventies retro night where flares get dancing queens and kings in for £3 instead of £5.
Club Brasil & Salsa Palacio, The Rocket, Holloway Road, N7, opposite tube. £4 gets you entrance and a free salsa lesson thrown in before a hot tropical night of salsa, lambada, cumbia and merengue. Age 20-50, 8pm-2am.
Hardclub, Gossips, 69 Dean Street, W1. Dreadful, run down venue with, however, lots of intimate corners and the most relentless, driving selection of hardbeats you’re likely to find in London. Come to dance, not to pose. £5.
Institute of Dubology, VOX, 9 Brighton Tce., SW9. Premier dub spot with regular live performers and serious sound system. £5.
Syndrome, Legends, 29 Old Burlington St., W1. THE glamorous new romantic revival club night. Style-conscious crowd dance and mingle across three floors in a steel and chrome interior. See review two issues back in London Beat. Free entry to Hot Press readers.
Twist and Shout, Camden Palace, 1a Camden High Street, N1. The original sixties revival club, populated by fun-loving flower children, mods and ravers. £4.
Thursday
Joi! Bass Clef, Club 35, Coronet Street, N1. A unique opportunity to check out Asian techno trance fusion. Draws a very mixed, hard-dancing crowd. £4, £2.50 before 11pm.
Dub Club, The Dome, 178 Junction Rd., NW5. Roots reggae and dub for black and white in a thankfully ragga free zone. £3.50.
Friday
Blowfly, upstairs at the Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, N5. Visuals, go-go girls, guest musicians, dirty, deep black funk, jazz and soul from name DJs. £5.
Cuban Night at Club Latinos, 7-9 Islington Green, N1. Reach for the hair oil and the Cuban heels and learn to dance real cool. Admission covers a dancing lesson before swinging the night away. Bring your own booze. Starts 7.30pm. £5.
Realgoneuturniton, Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Ave., W1. Hot sounds next door to the Trocadero: acid jazz, Latin, funk and boogie. £5.
Full Tilt, Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St., NW1. Indie, gothic, long running regular haunt of hairspray junkies of all persuasions.
Mambo Inn, Loughborough Hotel, corner of Loughborough Road, SW9. Two floors of tropical temptation for a very varied and lively crowd. £4.
Rhythms of the World, Oxfords, 19-23 Oxford St., W1. Live bands followed by rock and indie dancetracks. Drinks at pub prices. 9.30pm-3.30am. £5.
Saturday
An increasingly regular feature of Saturday nights in the city is the all-night dance event: and it’s not all rave. They vary week to week, but try phoning Ministry of Sound (71 378 6528), Maximus (71 734 4111), the Gardening Club (71 497 3154), Rocket (71 700 2421) and the Paradise Club (71 354 9993) all of whom regularly host such happenings.
Slimelight, Electrowerkz, down alleyway beside Blue Angel pub, by Angel Station. Major goth haunt – supergoths with knee length blue extensions a speciality – three floors worth, which goes on until around 6a.m. when public transport starts up.
Flares, Hash Eleven, 11 Wardour Street, W1. The name says it all. Seventies moves and grooves from Abba to Roxy, plus board games, join-in percussion and cult movies on screen. £8.
Hellfire Club, Oxfords, 19-23 Oxford Street, W1. LA rock meets classic Brit head banging fodder in this long running haunt of rockers from teens to forties. Leather, denim, blow dried long hair, it’s so traditional it’s almost respectable. £6.
Sunday
A notoriously difficult club night, what with it being work tomorrow and all. Here’s a couple of lively regulars: again it’s the flyers you need to watch for the lively one-offs which do crop up on the Sabbath.
Talkin’ Loud and Saying Something at Jongleurs (ex-Dingwalls) in Camden Lock starts at 12 midday and goes on until 7p.m., so you can go home, freshen up after last night, eat breakfast, get changed, check out the market and then get right back on the dance floor, before ending the evening at a sensible time if you’re to be at work in the morning. Very popular and particularly useful if, for any reason, although I can’t think of one, you remain strangely untired even after a hard night’s bopping. £5.
Strutt, Grays. Upfront house tracks, serious sound system, reasonable bar prices and uppy atmosphere. 8pm-1am. £5.

GAY LONDON
Head for Soho and you are in the heart of London’s own Greenwich Village. Check out Clone Zone, 64 Old Compton Street for kinky clothing, sex toys, poppers and magazines, then pop upstairs to Sohoman gay beauty parlour to get your eyelashes dyed and your chest waxed. On the same road, you can sink a pink gin at Comptons of Soho, sip a coffee at Presto or the Old Compton Cafe and check out American Retro for those must have Calvin Klein undies.
On nearby Wardour Street, there is Village Soho, probably the best known gay cafe/bar, the somewhat more posy mixed cafe/bar The Edge on Soho Square itself (breakfast from 8 a.m.) and Steph’s gay restaurant on Dean Street.

EATING, DRINKING & MEETING
The Angel, 65 Graham Street, N1. Lesbian and gay cafe bar. Relaxed, popular.
The Bell, 257-259 Pentonville Road, N1. Opens 9 p.m. most evenings, hosts different events including regular disco nights. Young, style-conscious lesbian and gay clientele.
Crews, 14 Upper St. Martin’s Lane, WC2. London’s major boys’ only club. Cruise till you fuse. Expect to queue.
First Out cafe/bar, 52 St. Giles High Street, WC2. Friendly, well-established continental style licensed cafe, lesbian and gay clientele.
Kudos, 10 Adelaide Street, WC2. Cafe-bar on two levels: ground floor mixed cafe in the daylight hours, the basement opens in the evenings for boys on the pull.
Le Lavandier Restaurant, 140 Fetter Lane, EC4. French cuisine dished up to mixed gay and lesbian diners. Cover charge and five per cent of bill goes to London Lighthouse AIDS/HIV charity.
London Apprentice, 333 Old Street, EC1. Macho club on three levels. Various gay help groups also meet here.
Partners Wine Bar, 305 Kennington Road, SE11. Wine bar/restaurant for gays and lesbians, occasional live entertainment, hosts various gay/lesbian/bisexual meetings. Friendly and relaxed.
Reeves Hotel, 48 Shepherds Bush Green, W12. The UK’s only women only hotel.
Roy’s Restaurant, 306b Fulham Road, SW10. Longest established gay restaurant with Anglo/French menu.
Substation, Soho Theatre Club, Falconberg Court, W1. Late night cruise bar open till 6 a.m. Industrial decor, pool table, they sell tickets here for the kind of events the Leicester Square ticket touts don’t touch.

SHOPS
Soho contains increasing numbers of sex shops for gay and straight punters. They are generally much of a muchness, but there are some exceptions:
Clone Zone, Old Compton Street. Wide stock, attractively laid out (see above).
Expectations, 75 Great Eastern Street, EC2. Leather and rubberware and sexessories. Opens 11 a.m.
Gay’s The Word Bookshop, 66 Marchmont Street, WC1. Wide selection of new and second-hand books, magazines, videos, cards.
Obsessions, 30 Monmouth Street, WC2. High class leather and steel macho buyables from biker jackets to dressed teddy bears.
Regulation, 17a St. Alban’s Place, N1. The oddest and most varied selection of fetish wear you are likely to come across (oo-er). Range varies, but tends to include things like anti-gravity suits, respirators, waders and military gear. Nice big changing rooms, friendly staff.
Silver Moon Women’s Bookshop, 64-68 Charing Cross Road, WC2. If it’s in print, they’ve probably got it. If they haven’t, they’ll order it for you.
Zipper Store, 283 Camden High Street, NW1. London’s only licensed gay sex shop, stocks almost everything. New catalogue of sexessories for women recently introduced.

HAPPENINGS
London now has so many clubs for different gay and lesbian tastes that it is impossible to offer a comprehensive listing. Best bet is to visit one of the pubs and make enquiries there, or phone one of the groups listed under Information. To get your appetites whetted, here’s a selection of some of the most popular, wacky and/or helpful places to visit.
Ace of Clubs, 52 Piccadilly, W1. Popular, well-established, slightly butch weekly women only club. Saturdays.
The Clit Club is the place for fetish and SM dykes. Dancing plus kinky floorshows. Strict dress code. Strict everything. Heavy. Monthly. Details from Central Station, 37 Wharfedale Road, N1.
Heaven is still going strong after all these years. Phone 71 839 3852 to get the low down on different nightly events. Villiers Street, WC2.
Islington Young Lesbian Group meets every Wednesday – and you don’t have to be from Islington to attend. Ring 71 700 4658 to find out where.
London Bisexual Women’s Group meet every Thursday at London Women’s Centre, Wesley House, 4 Wild Court, WC2.
London Friend, 86 Caledonian Road, N1 hosts various discussion and support groups, including bisexual, new/coming out and isolated gays. Phone 71 837 3337 to find out what and when.
Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, Soho. Camp, glam nightly happening, Monday to Saturday. Mixed audiences turn up for the cabaret at 11.30 and dance the evening away til 3 a.m. afterwards. Tickets £5-£15.
Metropolitan Community Church, St. Benets Ecumenical Chaplaincy, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 327a Mile End Road, E1. Christian Sunday service for gay and lesbian people, whatever their denomination. Phone Andy on 81 539 4516 or Jane on 71 538 8376.
Sadie Maisie. Tacky, tarty monthly bash for SM gays and lesbians. Paradise Club, 5 Parkfield Street, N1. When? Phone 71 354 9993.
TV/TS weekly club night with changing facilities at Fanny’s, 305a North End Road, W14.
SM Gays: Meet third Wednesday every month for information and discussion on safe SM practices at The Block, 5 Parkfield Street, N1.

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ROCK AND ROOTS MUSIC
LONDON IS still one of the most happening cities in the world for live music, with a vast array of venues catering for every possible permutation in the Big Beat – or just about.
From The Rock Garden in Covent Garden and The Vox in Brixton, where fledgling and underground acts make their first pass at stardom, to the Wembley Arena, which features The Kinks at Kristmas on Dec 21st and Madness (with Carter USM) on 22nd and 23rd, among other major upcoming attractions, every stage on the ladder to fame and fortune is catered for. The London Forum have Hawkwind on Nov 23rd, The Damned on Dec 3rd and 4th and The Sawdoctors on the 12th and 13th; The Garage feature Marxman on Nov 23rd and Eat on the 30th; The Royal Albert Hall will welcome the Gypsy Kings on Dec 7th, Beverley Craven on the 10th and Mary Black on Sunday 12th; The Brixton Academy has The Orb in on Nov 27th and Manic Street Preachers on Dec 10th. A look at the acts gives you some idea both of the style and the size of the venue . . .
There’s a very strong Irish involvement on the London live scene. The Mean Fiddler, as ever, is one of London’s most interesting venues, with an Acoustic Room backing up events o the main stage. But this is just one of the venues run by Vince Power’s ever-expanding organisation, with the Forum, Powerhaus, Subterrania and Grand amongst others all lining up under what is clearly the most powerful live umbrella in Britain right now.The Venue in New Cross is also run by an Irishman, Stephen Brady, and things are developing well there – The Levellers, Carter USM, The Sultans of Ping and The 4 Of Us have all featured at The Venue, with the Cardiacs and The Sweet among the upcoming attractions on Dec 3rd and 4th, and the extraordinary Sheep On Drugs lined up for Dec 17th. (Look out for a special £1 off offer elsewhere in this issue.)
On the folkier front The Bottom Line in Shepherds’ Bush is emerging as a real contender with its 1,000 capacity concert venue hosting live music three times a week: Hank Wangford and Pentangle are among the upcoming attractions. And then there’s The Weavers, in Islington, which has live music seven nights a week and is widely regarded as one of London’s finest roots and country music venues.
Finally, if you’re looking for something more nostalgically Irish check out the main room in The Swan in Stockwell, where there’s a plethora of good ballads and sessions on offer. The Swan’s Nest, which is under the same roof, puts the emphasis on the rockier end of things with Energy Orchard, Donal Lunny & Paddy Glacken, and Storm among their recent visitors and the U2 tribute band The Doppelgangers due on Nov 20th.
And if your mind hasn’t been well and truly boggled by all that, then you’ll probably have the clear-headedness and the stamina to keep up with what’s going down on the live music scene in the Big L. Just about!
• Chris Donovan