So much missed out. No reggae, ska, 2 Tone, New Romantics, mods vs rockers, etc etc Oh, and the Roundhouse is next to the train tracks because it used to house a turntable for turning trains around. Hence its roundness.
She got it wrong. That one off gig at The Roundhouse was by The Stooges in 1972 not The Ramones. John Lydon was in the audience and so was Mick Jones. Iggy Pop had signed as a solo artist to Bowie's management company and he then brought the rest of the Stooges over to London to record the Raw Power album. Bowie's manager wouldn't let the band tour England but they managed to fineigle that single gig at The Roundhouse. About 50 people in the audience. Photos from the gig appeared on the album cover. By the time Ramones played London in 1976 the Sex Pistols, Clash and the Damned were already on the Anarchy tour. They were already fully formed.
The Kinks were brilliant! We saw Ray Davies in concert at the Glastonbury Extravaganza about 8 years ago. He sang all The Kinks hits, it was a real hair standing up on the back of my neck moment when he sang Waterloo Sunset. We also saw Robert Plant at an earlier Glastonbury Extravaganza, but that's a whole other amazing night. Great reaction as always, hope you're well 😀
My daughter were lucky enough to see them when they did a free concert in our Canadian city during one of our weekend festivals. It's crazy the band's that the organisers have gotten to play for free over the years. Squeeze was definitely the biggest English band that ever played!!
I grew up in a small town. It included at least one recording studio (someone converted his flat). There wasn't a problem with getting equipment outside of big cities. Bands move to London because that's where the music *PRESS* were located. You had to make an impact on the London music scene to have a chance of success (more often than not), so that's where bands move to.
So much British "pop" music is from the cities outside of London. Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol have all had outsized influence.
@@spacechannelfiver Stomp was great. Much missed. I even managed to get my wife to one of their shows, probably the last she’ll ever have gone to that didn’t have a symphony orchestra.
4:49 you didn't mention Peter Green. One of the founders of Fleetwood Mac and another British guitar legend (check his story. Its kinda interesting and tragic)
I love listening to you talk about music stuff. I could happily sit round a camp fire, drinking beers and listening to songs whilst talking to you for hours... we're going camping next week, let me know if you want to join us 😂
Check out the British artist, Ren. His video "Hi Ren" is a good place to start, and he doesnt mind people doing reactions to his videos, so you wouldnt have to mute the audio in your reaction to it.
Love him. It's been a long, long time since I've discovered an artist that excites me as much as Ren. The last time an artist wowed me the way Ren does, was waaaay back when Eminem released The Slim Shady LP. And I'm still a huge fan. I hope I'm still listening to Ren in 25 years.
@@Terri_MacKay yeah, I felt the same, first time I heard Ren it absolutely blew me away. I'm in my late 40s, pretty big at 6ft 5" and around 300lbs, and I'm not ashamed to admit I had a little cry, amongst all the other emotions he made me feel. He's definately as real as it gets. I hope things go really well for him, with all the shite he's gone through bless him. It takes a strong mind to go through all that and still come out the other side and do what he does. And he's done it all himself. No big record labels pushing him and moulding him in to what they want. He presents as himself, warts and all, and he's all the better for it. He's probably the best music artist the UK has produced in the last few years, and potentially could go on to be one of the best in the world. He deserves any success he gets.
JJLA Hi! Your reaction to music is surprisingly intelligent and informed. Please see comments below regarding what was missed. London is a load of villages that expanded and joined giving each area its own identity. Keep Reacting!
You really need to check out Ian Drury, his stuff was brilliant. Also The Ruts are well worth a listen xxx A couple of other musicians to check out are Skunk Anansie and Faithless. As to forgetting everyone is British that is because you are American and your world view is Americancentric. Most Americans think that anyone who has done anything has to be American. Not a dig just an observation xx
I love Hawkwind. Peak time early 70s. Lemmy was in the band before Motörhead. Brock of Hawkwind had nurtured Clapton on the busking scene. Later featured Ginger Baker too.
@@keithreynolds Serkis was amazing as Dury. While watching that drama I completely forgot he wasn't Ian Dury, the voice, the mannerisms, everything he had down to a T.
@@keithreynolds I love Hawkwind too. Saw them at least 4 times (that I remember) including Stonehenge. I was going to list favourite tracks but that would be whole albums. Mirror of Illusion, Golden Void and Hippy stand out though.
@@glennaustin37 What about the two tone label ...not a mention!! Much as I appreciate the bands that were mentioned, I'm peeved at the ones left out!!!
Ian Dury and the Blockheads were great! As were 'The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band', that even Paul McCartney recorded a track with them. Where was the 'Orbital'? Their recent track with the 'Sleaford Mods' is great! And of the latest stuff, 'Venbee' replicating the 90's rave sound is great!
Similar to The Ramones gig in London, there was Sex Pistols gig in Manchester in 1976 that spawned a few bands including Joy Division and The Buzzcocks
Completely a US perspective especially when it comes to the likes of ‘The British Invasion’ as that has never been a term used for a UK music scene anywhere in the UK and seems to only really discuss bands that had some level of US success. The Roundhouse wasn’t really in use for a few years but eventually re-opened as a venue. The cheesy pop of the likes of The Spice Girls and S Club 7 were not really considered as part of a London Music Scene, they were just really generic pop bands aimed at tweens and those in their early teens. “Bands are still flocking to London”, no sh!t Sherlock, it’s a city that’s around double the size of New York but I doubt that she’d be surprised that New York still attracts bands trying to make it big.
I love London in general. I can get to central London fairly quickly and love the south bank, having a drink and food there on a sunny day, I love the museums and the posh shops, but Camden, Camden makes me happy in a way that the rest of it can’t. It’s more touristy these days whereas when I was a teenager in the early 80s it was much more raw. I also used to frequent the Kings Road as it was the place to be seen so why not go and see if you could spot a famous person. Later when I became a hairdresser I have memories of seminars in London and nightclubbing. My best friend was a young lad who was learning hair and he did extensions for me and we danced the night away. Seditionaries, the shop formerly named Sex was a huge target for us kids trying to be cool. I’m 56 now but I’m so glad I have those memories. By the way it wasn’t so much mouse in the hair but drying upside down with your palm going in circular motions on the crown, then back combing, brush the other part straight while the inside was a clump of tangle, and spraying the best part of a can of hairspray on. Spraying while setting the spray with a hairdryer made your hair bullet proof. I ended up needing clarifying shampoo in order to get it all off afterwards.
@NailHeavenAshford Thank you. I loved reading your post. You are truly blessed. By comparison, I’m in a relatively nowhere town in Tennessee with very little going on .
It's surpising to me how underrated/overlooked the bulk of his catalog still is (and never mind Kilburn!") Toward the end of his life critics were saying that in fact he had at least two classic albums to his name - the other being Mr Love Pants - but the critical pendulum soon swang back to "one album wonder". No-one remembers that the Bus Driver album got some rave reviews on release, or that Laughter and DIY have their devotees. And finally the "posthumous release effect" somehow never touched Dury, with the much-more-than-fair Turnips From The Tip soon forgotten.
Thanks for the memories. All the old greats; Lennon, Clapton, Richards etc went to see "The American Folk Blues Festival" that toured Europe in the early sixties. It featured Howlin Wolf, Lightnin Hopkins etc.and one cannot overstate the importance of it's influence on British musicI saw it about 1965 and got Sonny Boy Williamson's autograph; long since lost! I went to the Roundhouse in 1968 and saw Nicol Williamson's Hamlet with Marianne Faithful as Ophelia. You must look into Ian Drury. There is a great biopic. I saw him in Manchester in the early 70s. After the gig, I went to a club in Moss Side and saw a nascent Adam and the Ants. Nostalgia is not what it used to be!
You need to check out Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Squeeze for cheeky London 80s pop. Lyrically brilliant. Reasons to be cheerful, hit me with your rhythm stick, cool for cats, up the junction, labelled with love, all brilliant tunes. You will love them.
Definitely check out Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Start with the album New Boots & Panties - the word "musicianship" could have been invented for them. There is also a really good movie about Ian Dury starring Andy Serkis (of Gollum fame), called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. And Ian's son, Baxter Dury, is also putting out some great music.
She missed out a small but influential Genre - 2 tone - which developed in Coventry about 10 miles East of Birmingham in the early/mid 70s which incorporated black and white artists as a movement against racism in the 70s and 80s. They also incorporated SKA, Reggae and rock influence into their music and influenced such bands as the London based 'Madness' and other bands. Original 2 tone bands included The Specials, The Selecter and Madness and influenced Elvis Costello and UB40 (a UB40 was an unemployment form when people were fired and the period was one of high unemployment due to economic disasters of the period), among many others. They often originally confronted social problems before Punk did.
Dave Clark was a dear friend of Freddie Mercury, and i believe he was with him on the day he died. The Dave Clark Five came from my area of London, and I saw them a few times in the 60's playing in a local dance hall (Which has now been taken over by an estate agent!)
The Ramones gig mentioned was in the Rainbow on new year's eve 1977. Great gig (check out the album and TH-cam vids of it).many of the London punk bands members were in the audience but they'd been around a while. I think what they were refering to was a much earlier Stooges gig.
absolutely crazy to me how there is absolutely no mention of any electronic music, at all - but then again its a watchmojo video so I guess I shouldnt be suprised. No mention of the rave scene in the early nineties, which led on to the birth of Jungle and Drum And Bass, no mention of the acid house movement either and thats just for starters. madness
The first landlord may have chosen the name Elephant and Castle in homage to a group of medieval craftsmen who made swords and knives. Called the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, its crest, granted in 1622, shows an elephant carrying a castle
Some missed out: Pretty Things, Steve Harley, Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Mott the Hoople, Hot Chocolate, Dire Straits, Kate Bush, Stranglers, ASWAD, Depeche Mode, Madness, acid house (not properly referenced), Sleeper, The Prodegy, Pete and Bas (!). Radiohead and One Direction are not really London.
Bruh, LED Zepplin were from the Black Country. Sure Jimmy Page was from London but to say Zepplin are a London band hurts. We don’t have much in the Black Country, give us this one 😭
Don't get why Heavy metal is in a London video when is was invented in either Birmingham with black Sabbath or led zeplin from the black country . Heavy metal name comes from the sound of metal being forged with the Midlands being famous for metal forging . This video is taking everyone else from all over the UK and saying it's from London. It's a wonder they didn't mention ska music saying that was from London . And that was from Coventry. Another from the midland
Hi, There was no such thing as hair mousse back in the day, we used sugar solution, never a problem with wasps tho'. Judas Priest were playing Metal at the same time, if not just before Black Sabbath in the West Midlands town of Stourbridge, about 10 miles West of Birmingham, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin also came from Stourbridge. "It's right by the train tracks" that's because the 'Roundhouse' was a locomotive storage, service and repair facility. Originally it would have had a turntable at its centre and locomotives stored radially around the building. Most major railway centres had roundhouses for this purpose in the days of steam, and gave the ability to store many vehicles in a small area. The on in Camden was converted into a music venue after the end of the steam era.
Yep. People had their own homemade recipes to get all those spiked do’s and all the variations, there of. My younger cousins cooked up their masterpieces in those days.😅
I actually saw Fleetwood Mac back in the day when Peter Green was the main man and they were superb, Need Your Love So Bad, Albatross and my all time Mac favourite Man Of The World. They'd actually shifted slightly towards the mainstream and there were blues diehards screaming for them to just play blues and bit like when Dylan picked up an electric guitar 🇬🇧
Talking bout inspiring concerts my favourite story is about a cancelled Clash gig in Belfast. It was the first time punks in Nortern Ireland realised they weren't alone when they met fellow fans outside the Ulster Hall from both sides of the religious/political divide. They announced that the concert was cancelled because of security concerns and there was a mini riot. However friendships were made and bands were formed, an independent label Good Vibration promoted them. Soon bands like Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones had hits as well as an underground but vibrant scene. There's a great film about the Belfast punk scene called Good Vibrations, check it out
Iggy Pop not the Ramones Roundhouse because it was a train turntable. Many genres and acts missing. Led Zep didn't "steal" blues music, they played it and gave credit where credit was due, like all the other brit blues acts. This also boosted the careers of original blues artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker etc. It also made a tour by blues artists around the UK possible - The Stax Records tour I think. Some stayed, like Champion Jack Dupree.
She mentions a lot of acts coming to London but there are a few on there that I wouldn't consider London Bands per se. One act that WOULD have been interesting to mention was Jimi Hendrix. Obviously American but his career would probably not have happened if he wasn't championed by Chas Chandler and become part of the 60s London scene. He is even one of the few on British people to have a English Heritage blue plaque
I like how it jumps from first-wave punk straight to the Petshop Boys, no New Romantics, no Two-Tone, misses out all the foundations of Brit Pop before going straight to Blur, no Alan McGee no Paul Weller in this version of London...what a terrible hatchet job and diservice done on British music...
Metal was not a thing until the 80s.When I was listening to Purple, Zep and even early Motorhead, we were calling it Heavy Rock. Metal only became a genre at the end of 70s and turn of the 80s and was really a blend of the Punk and Heavy Rock.
The phrase "heavy metal" was being bandied about as early as the late '60s - but the distinction between "metal" and "hard rock" wasn't really made until the 1980s, by which time all the subgenres were happening and as a result the definition of "rock" itself was narrowed down.
@viviennerose6858 I know he has mentioned on another video that he is a drummer. He has met Elton John and others. I think he said he has produced music ,but I’m not 100% sure about that one.
The vaccines are so good, they were insanely big in my late teens at my uni, same with of monsters and men. Like 2012-2016 was such a good time for poppy indie/folk rock.
More impressed by your knowledge than the fairly average video! Two blues bands basically were the schools for the musicians who went on to be the heart of British rock. You mentioned John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - the other was Alexis Corner's Blues Band. The alumni of those two groups are a who's who of British rock. I definitely wouldn't call Bonzo's drumming as chaotic as Keith Moon's - both brilliant, but in completely different ways. Elephant and Castle was named after a historic pub in the area. BTW, Radiohead aren't from London but from Oxford, 60 miles to the northwest.
I lost count of the amount of bands being linked to London even though they were from Birmingham, or Liverpool, or the South-West, or Newcastle or...you name it.
They may have recorded there and played a few venues there but I disagree with many of these bands being associated purely with London. EG: Pink Floyd = Cambridge. This is probaby due to many foreigners not having a clue about other places in the UK. Also, one of the genres that was a big London music scene, pre punk, was 'Pub Rock', with the likes of Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, The 101ers with John Graham Mellor, otherwise known as Joe Strummer etc.......
SO MUCH was left out. The sub genres alone would take a 4 hour video. Also,the Roundhouse gig that kicked it all off (literally) was NOT The Ramones (great as they were) but the mad man and his crazy men,Iggy and The Stooges.
I would have chucked out Classic Rock from this list as that was not a movement as much as it is "The 70's". Glam Rock is what I would have put there instead (David Bowie, Elton John, Roxie Music, T-Rex)
imo the rave scene was more dynamic in the north, although it began in Landan, it morphed into a stronger variant in manc/leeds areas. As a geordie, am def biased. My brain denies anything from the vile lands of cockneyville(the cockroach kingdom)
Grear review! Led Zeppelin weee definitely more rock blues than metal... Robert Plant lives about 4 miles from me! What a rock legend. But he's definitely not from London.... he's a Black Country chap (a region of the West Midlands)! As waa John Bonham, I believe. I saw the reunion gig in 2007. It was awesome....and Jon Bonham's son nailed it!
She completely missed several centuries of the story. There were people singing in pubs, around a piano. For a good couple of hundred years before the Beatles. There is also the history of the music halls. She completely forgot about the wartime classics and bomb shelter singalongs. That were a huge part of the culture at the time. She didn't mention any of the country artists who recorded huge hits in London in the 40s and 50s. She completely forgot about the black blues artists. Who recorded in London in the 40s and 50s. Because American recording studios didn't like recording black artists. She never mentioned that it was white blues bands from London. Who first brought blues riffs to white America for the first time. She didn't even mention the London philharmonic orchestra. She actually started a film about the history of London music. By talking about a band from Liverpool. Crazy.
The 'best gig ever' was when Rod Stewart came to our small village school and performed 'Sailing' with 2 classes of 7 year olds, simply because they wrote to him and asked him to come. This was, I think, in 2018 or 19.
So much missed out. No reggae, ska, 2 Tone, New Romantics, mods vs rockers, etc etc
Oh, and the Roundhouse is next to the train tracks because it used to house a turntable for turning trains around. Hence its roundness.
Never mentioned Soul II Soul. They were massive. Very little black music mentioned at all.
None of these reactor people ever react the the Mod Rockers thing, be it in the 60s or 70/80s. I bet one day they all do on the same day :)
@@markbrown4127 It usually works out that they all do the same video within a week of each other doesn't it! Wonder why... 😉
You are so right 😊@@Cleow33
@@domramsey What is called Ska in the USA bears very little resemblance to what is called Ska in the UK and the West Indies.
Your face when S Club 7 came on, was so funny ( I nearly spat my drink out ) because we all have that face 😂
"No. No thank you."🤣🤣🤣
Terrible video full of misinformation. However, very impressed with your depth of knowledge
She got it wrong. That one off gig at The Roundhouse was by The Stooges in 1972 not The Ramones. John Lydon was in the audience and so was Mick Jones. Iggy Pop had signed as a solo artist to Bowie's management company and he then brought the rest of the Stooges over to London to record the Raw Power album. Bowie's manager wouldn't let the band tour England but they managed to fineigle that single gig at The Roundhouse. About 50 people in the audience. Photos from the gig appeared on the album cover. By the time Ramones played London in 1976 the Sex Pistols, Clash and the Damned were already on the Anarchy tour. They were already fully formed.
The Kinks were brilliant! We saw Ray Davies in concert at the Glastonbury Extravaganza about 8 years ago. He sang all The Kinks hits, it was a real hair standing up on the back of my neck moment when he sang Waterloo Sunset.
We also saw Robert Plant at an earlier Glastonbury Extravaganza, but that's a whole other amazing night.
Great reaction as always, hope you're well 😀
I saw The Kinks twice in ‘93 at Glasgow Barrowlands in the March then Glastonbury in the June and they were outstanding both times.
22:59 DAW less is the way!! i am old 😂
4:43 Mate, Big up to you on your music knowledge 👊
Ian Dury and the block heads - must hear song hit me with your rhythm stick! game changing.
I noticed it gave Ian's cause of death, but seldom do these types of videos say much about him overcoming Polio.😢
New Boots And Panties by Ian Dury is a classic album
They never mentioned Squeeze. What a great band.
My daughter were lucky enough to see them when they did a free concert in our Canadian city during one of our weekend festivals. It's crazy the band's that the organisers have gotten to play for free over the years. Squeeze was definitely the biggest English band that ever played!!
"No. No thank you." 🤣🤣🤣
Please, name drop all you want!! I love it when you throw out the little mentions!!
I grew up in a small town. It included at least one recording studio (someone converted his flat). There wasn't a problem with getting equipment outside of big cities. Bands move to London because that's where the music *PRESS* were located. You had to make an impact on the London music scene to have a chance of success (more often than not), so that's where bands move to.
So much British "pop" music is from the cities outside of London. Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol have all had outsized influence.
…and Stomp was from Brighton.
@@AlBarzUK nobody gives a fsck about Stomp. Weirdly, Brighton hasn't actually done that much.
@@spacechannelfiver Stomp was great. Much missed. I even managed to get my wife to one of their shows, probably the last she’ll ever have gone to that didn’t have a symphony orchestra.
Mousse? MOUSSE?!!
Hard core pinks used super glue.
Allegedly.
Consider yourself lucky to have not been dragged along to watch the S club 7 reunion tour 😂 a night of my life I will never get back 😭
4:49 you didn't mention Peter Green. One of the founders of Fleetwood Mac and another British guitar legend (check his story. Its kinda interesting and tragic)
I love listening to you talk about music stuff. I could happily sit round a camp fire, drinking beers and listening to songs whilst talking to you for hours... we're going camping next week, let me know if you want to join us 😂
Check out the British artist, Ren. His video "Hi Ren" is a good place to start, and he doesnt mind people doing reactions to his videos, so you wouldnt have to mute the audio in your reaction to it.
Love him. It's been a long, long time since I've discovered an artist that excites me as much as Ren. The last time an artist wowed me the way Ren does, was waaaay back when Eminem released The Slim Shady LP. And I'm still a huge fan. I hope I'm still listening to Ren in 25 years.
@@Terri_MacKay yeah, I felt the same, first time I heard Ren it absolutely blew me away. I'm in my late 40s, pretty big at 6ft 5" and around 300lbs, and I'm not ashamed to admit I had a little cry, amongst all the other emotions he made me feel. He's definately as real as it gets. I hope things go really well for him, with all the shite he's gone through bless him.
It takes a strong mind to go through all that and still come out the other side and do what he does. And he's done it all himself. No big record labels pushing him and moulding him in to what they want. He presents as himself, warts and all, and he's all the better for it. He's probably the best music artist the UK has produced in the last few years, and potentially could go on to be one of the best in the world. He deserves any success he gets.
the spiky hair wasn't mousse - it was superglue
Wish Kate Bush had been given a mention
JJLA Hi! Your reaction to music is surprisingly intelligent and informed. Please see comments below regarding what was missed. London is a load of villages that expanded and joined giving each area its own identity. Keep Reacting!
The Roundhouse is by the railway tracks because it's first use was as a locomotive shed.
@@trevorveail A turntable for engines, in fact. I saw so many bands there in my youth. A truly iconic venue.
I saw "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" at the Kursal in Southend-on Sea Essex after he released his hit "Fire".
You really need to check out Ian Drury, his stuff was brilliant. Also The Ruts are well worth a listen xxx A couple of other musicians to check out are Skunk Anansie and Faithless. As to forgetting everyone is British that is because you are American and your world view is Americancentric. Most Americans think that anyone who has done anything has to be American. Not a dig just an observation xx
Ian Dury, nor Drury. Also, the theme tune for The Sopranos is a British band. That band did pub gigs for years.
Love the biopic of Dury with Andy Serkis ‘Sex and Drugs and…’ really takes you into the time.
I love Hawkwind. Peak time early 70s. Lemmy was in the band before Motörhead. Brock of Hawkwind had nurtured Clapton on the busking scene. Later featured Ginger Baker too.
@@keithreynolds Serkis was amazing as Dury. While watching that drama I completely forgot he wasn't Ian Dury, the voice, the mannerisms, everything he had down to a T.
@@keithreynolds I love Hawkwind too. Saw them at least 4 times (that I remember) including Stonehenge. I was going to list favourite tracks but that would be whole albums. Mirror of Illusion, Golden Void and Hippy stand out though.
Please dive into Ian Dury's discography you will not be dissapointed
Yesssss!! ! ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
Madness!!
@@louiselucilla4019 I never really cared for Madness but ended up at one of their day festivals it was AMAZING I now follow them x
@@louiselucilla4019Madness not to have included Madness! More London than 80% of the dross shown in this vid.
@@glennaustin37 What about the two tone label ...not a mention!! Much as I appreciate the bands that were mentioned, I'm peeved at the ones left out!!!
Ian Dury and the Blockheads were great! As were 'The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band', that even Paul McCartney recorded a track with them. Where was the 'Orbital'? Their recent track with the 'Sleaford Mods' is great! And of the latest stuff, 'Venbee' replicating the 90's rave sound is great!
Love the reactions to music based videos, would love to see you do more stuff from Trash Theory and Polyphonic
Similar to The Ramones gig in London, there was Sex Pistols gig in Manchester in 1976 that spawned a few bands including Joy Division and The Buzzcocks
Love Joy Division
Completely a US perspective especially when it comes to the likes of ‘The British Invasion’ as that has never been a term used for a UK music scene anywhere in the UK and seems to only really discuss bands that had some level of US success.
The Roundhouse wasn’t really in use for a few years but eventually re-opened as a venue.
The cheesy pop of the likes of The Spice Girls and S Club 7 were not really considered as part of a London Music Scene, they were just really generic pop bands aimed at tweens and those in their early teens.
“Bands are still flocking to London”, no sh!t Sherlock, it’s a city that’s around double the size of New York but I doubt that she’d be surprised that New York still attracts bands trying to make it big.
Ian Dury was a one off.
I'm surprised early Genesis were not mentioned.
I love London in general. I can get to central London fairly quickly and love the south bank, having a drink and food there on a sunny day, I love the museums and the posh shops, but Camden, Camden makes me happy in a way that the rest of it can’t. It’s more touristy these days whereas when I was a teenager in the early 80s it was much more raw. I also used to frequent the Kings Road as it was the place to be seen so why not go and see if you could spot a famous person. Later when I became a hairdresser I have memories of seminars in London and nightclubbing. My best friend was a young lad who was learning hair and he did extensions for me and we danced the night away. Seditionaries, the shop formerly named Sex was a huge target for us kids trying to be cool. I’m 56 now but I’m so glad I have those memories. By the way it wasn’t so much mouse in the hair but drying upside down with your palm going in circular motions on the crown, then back combing, brush the other part straight while the inside was a clump of tangle, and spraying the best part of a can of hairspray on. Spraying while setting the spray with a hairdryer made your hair bullet proof. I ended up needing clarifying shampoo in order to get it all off afterwards.
@NailHeavenAshford Thank you. I loved reading your post. You are truly blessed. By comparison, I’m in a relatively nowhere town in Tennessee with very little going on .
Wow very impressed that you recognised Jeff Beck so quickly
Ian Dury is much missed. New Boots and Panties still a brilliant album.
It's surpising to me how underrated/overlooked the bulk of his catalog still is (and never mind Kilburn!") Toward the end of his life critics were saying that in fact he had at least two classic albums to his name - the other being Mr Love Pants - but the critical pendulum soon swang back to "one album wonder". No-one remembers that the Bus Driver album got some rave reviews on release, or that Laughter and DIY have their devotees. And finally the "posthumous release effect" somehow never touched Dury, with the much-more-than-fair Turnips From The Tip soon forgotten.
Thanks for the memories. All the old greats; Lennon, Clapton, Richards etc went to see "The American Folk Blues Festival" that toured Europe in the early sixties. It featured Howlin Wolf, Lightnin Hopkins etc.and one cannot overstate the importance of it's influence on British musicI saw it about 1965 and got Sonny Boy Williamson's autograph; long since lost! I went to the Roundhouse in 1968 and saw Nicol Williamson's Hamlet with Marianne Faithful as Ophelia. You must look into Ian Drury. There is a great biopic. I saw him in Manchester in the early 70s. After the gig, I went to a club in Moss Side and saw a nascent Adam and the Ants. Nostalgia is not what it used to be!
Where are Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet? They were huge!
Duran Duran are from Birmingham.
@@Shoomer1988 Yeah,, I didn't realise they were only talking about London.
@@calibraxLess than half the acts featured have anything to do with London! Spandau yes.
Saw Jon Bonham doing a 20 min drum/percussion solo Ealing 1975/6. Magnificent!
Ian Dury was so underrated in my opinion. If he had lived I think he would be Sir Ian now!
You need to check out Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Squeeze for cheeky London 80s pop. Lyrically brilliant. Reasons to be cheerful, hit me with your rhythm stick, cool for cats, up the junction, labelled with love, all brilliant tunes. You will love them.
John's dropping names like they're hot.
Definitely check out Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Start with the album New Boots & Panties - the word "musicianship" could have been invented for them. There is also a really good movie about Ian Dury starring Andy Serkis (of Gollum fame), called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. And Ian's son, Baxter Dury, is also putting out some great music.
You have to investigate Ian Dury. Start with the album New Boots and Panties.
Definitely big up for skills n knowledge 20:43
She missed out a small but influential Genre - 2 tone - which developed in Coventry about 10 miles East of Birmingham in the early/mid 70s which incorporated black and white artists as a movement against racism in the 70s and 80s. They also incorporated SKA, Reggae and rock influence into their music and influenced such bands as the London based 'Madness' and other bands. Original 2 tone bands included The Specials, The Selecter and Madness and influenced Elvis Costello and UB40 (a UB40 was an unemployment form when people were fired and the period was one of high unemployment due to economic disasters of the period), among many others. They often originally confronted social problems before Punk did.
Dave Clark was a dear friend of Freddie Mercury, and i believe he was with him on the day he died. The Dave Clark Five came from my area of London, and I saw them a few times in the 60's playing in a local dance hall (Which has now been taken over by an estate agent!)
I've got the partial memories enough telling me the acid house and rave scenes were pretty strong here. But we went new wave straight to brit pop....
The Ramones gig mentioned was in the Rainbow on new year's eve 1977. Great gig (check out the album and TH-cam vids of it).many of the London punk bands members were in the audience but they'd been around a while. I think what they were refering to was a much earlier Stooges gig.
absolutely crazy to me how there is absolutely no mention of any electronic music, at all - but then again its a watchmojo video so I guess I shouldnt be suprised. No mention of the rave scene in the early nineties, which led on to the birth of Jungle and Drum And Bass, no mention of the acid house movement either and thats just for starters. madness
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Missing the Blitz kids... SKA bands from London and of course Grime...
i know someone who shared a house with Lemmy. got spiked every day. ill not mention his name but he was in a band called The Rats
The first landlord may have chosen the name Elephant and Castle in homage to a group of medieval craftsmen who made swords and knives. Called the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, its crest, granted in 1622, shows an elephant carrying a castle
They missed the Ska and Two Tone Scene!
Some missed out: Pretty Things, Steve Harley, Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Mott the Hoople, Hot Chocolate, Dire Straits, Kate Bush, Stranglers, ASWAD, Depeche Mode, Madness, acid house (not properly referenced), Sleeper, The Prodegy, Pete and Bas (!). Radiohead and One Direction are not really London.
Bruh, LED Zepplin were from the Black Country. Sure Jimmy Page was from London but to say Zepplin are a London band hurts. We don’t have much in the Black Country, give us this one 😭
Don't get why Heavy metal is in a London video when is was invented in either Birmingham with black Sabbath or led zeplin from the black country . Heavy metal name comes from the sound of metal being forged with the Midlands being famous for metal forging . This video is taking everyone else from all over the UK and saying it's from London. It's a wonder they didn't mention ska music saying that was from London . And that was from Coventry. Another from the midland
Hi, There was no such thing as hair mousse back in the day, we used sugar solution, never a problem with wasps tho'. Judas Priest were playing Metal at the same time, if not just before Black Sabbath in the West Midlands town of Stourbridge, about 10 miles West of Birmingham, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin also came from Stourbridge. "It's right by the train tracks" that's because the 'Roundhouse' was a locomotive storage, service and repair facility. Originally it would have had a turntable at its centre and locomotives stored radially around the building. Most major railway centres had roundhouses for this purpose in the days of steam, and gave the ability to store many vehicles in a small area. The on in Camden was converted into a music venue after the end of the steam era.
Yep. People had their own homemade recipes to get all those spiked do’s and all the variations, there of. My younger cousins cooked up their masterpieces in those days.😅
I actually saw Fleetwood Mac back in the day when Peter Green was the main man and they were superb, Need Your Love So Bad, Albatross and my all time Mac favourite Man Of The World. They'd actually shifted slightly towards the mainstream and there were blues diehards screaming for them to just play blues and bit like when Dylan picked up an electric guitar 🇬🇧
Ngl. You are adorable and I love your videos. Keep the name dropping up
Ian Dury is an ICON whole rabbit hole to himself that one. The ministry is in the Elephant and Castle. Triphop was Bristol x
It's a travesty that Depesh Mode never get a mention on these videos.
They have been making class music and filling stadiums world wide for 40 years.
Depeche Mode are not from London.
She missed the Roman music scene. AD 70
Hi just wanted to say I love your voice I use your videos to listen to while I go to sleep I do still watch the video tho
Talking bout inspiring concerts my favourite story is about a cancelled Clash gig in Belfast. It was the first time punks in Nortern Ireland realised they weren't alone when they met fellow fans outside the Ulster Hall from both sides of the religious/political divide. They announced that the concert was cancelled because of security concerns and there was a mini riot. However friendships were made and bands were formed, an independent label Good Vibration promoted them. Soon bands like Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones had hits as well as an underground but vibrant scene. There's a great film about the Belfast punk scene called Good Vibrations, check it out
16:20 i think you’d like robby and his antics 😂 he’s a very good showman and abit of a Lad init.
Iggy Pop not the Ramones
Roundhouse because it was a train turntable.
Many genres and acts missing.
Led Zep didn't "steal" blues music, they played it and gave credit where credit was due, like all the other brit blues acts. This also boosted the careers of original blues artists like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker etc. It also made a tour by blues artists around the UK possible - The Stax Records tour I think. Some stayed, like Champion Jack Dupree.
She mentions a lot of acts coming to London but there are a few on there that I wouldn't consider London Bands per se. One act that WOULD have been interesting to mention was Jimi Hendrix. Obviously American but his career would probably not have happened if he wasn't championed by Chas Chandler and become part of the 60s London scene. He is even one of the few on British people to have a English Heritage blue plaque
@daveholly9005 You got me curious. What is an English Heritage Blue Plaque?
I like how it jumps from first-wave punk straight to the Petshop Boys, no New Romantics, no Two-Tone, misses out all the foundations of Brit Pop before going straight to Blur, no Alan McGee no Paul Weller in this version of London...what a terrible hatchet job and diservice done on British music...
Madness not to have included Madness. More London than most featured here.
Metal was not a thing until the 80s.When I was listening to Purple, Zep and even early Motorhead, we were calling it Heavy Rock. Metal only became a genre at the end of 70s and turn of the 80s and was really a blend of the Punk and Heavy Rock.
The phrase "heavy metal" was being bandied about as early as the late '60s - but the distinction between "metal" and "hard rock" wasn't really made until the 1980s, by which time all the subgenres were happening and as a result the definition of "rock" itself was narrowed down.
I love the look of horror you gave when s club 7 came on
The roundhouse is a great venue.
You have such great, extensive music knowledge. Do you now, or have you ever, worked in the music industry?
@viviennerose6858 I know he has mentioned on another video that he is a drummer. He has met Elton John and others. I think he said he has produced music ,but I’m not 100% sure about that one.
15:55 also I don't think Radiohead could be called London scene, they were from Oxfordshire and recorded mostly outside London I think.
The vaccines are so good, they were insanely big in my late teens at my uni, same with of monsters and men. Like 2012-2016 was such a good time for poppy indie/folk rock.
Greatest UK Prog rock album is probably Misplaced childhood by Marilion although they are not a London band.
Kirk Hammett now has the Peter Green Les Paul from the blues breaker album
You can hear very good amateur bands in many pubs in London.
Jesus The Ramones so desperate to claim they invented Punk, believeme they did not .
More impressed by your knowledge than the fairly average video! Two blues bands basically were the schools for the musicians who went on to be the heart of British rock. You mentioned John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - the other was Alexis Corner's Blues Band. The alumni of those two groups are a who's who of British rock. I definitely wouldn't call Bonzo's drumming as chaotic as Keith Moon's - both brilliant, but in completely different ways. Elephant and Castle was named after a historic pub in the area. BTW, Radiohead aren't from London but from Oxford, 60 miles to the northwest.
I lost count of the amount of bands being linked to London even though they were from Birmingham, or Liverpool, or the South-West, or Newcastle or...you name it.
ahahah his face at 16:28 with S Club 7 ahaha
No, Aha were Norwegian!
They may have recorded there and played a few venues there but I disagree with many of these bands being associated purely with London. EG: Pink Floyd = Cambridge. This is probaby due to many foreigners not having a clue about other places in the UK. Also, one of the genres that was a big London music scene, pre punk, was 'Pub Rock', with the likes of Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, The 101ers with John Graham Mellor, otherwise known as Joe Strummer etc.......
Ian Dury (& the Blockheads) had one debut album's worth of stunning songs - well worth checking out. Then the well ran dry, which was kinda sad
TH-cam 'Kenny Everett and Rod Stewart'
You've clearly never tried to style your hair into a mohawk if you think they did it with mousse...
LOL!
Where's me egg whites?
SO MUCH was left out.
The sub genres alone would take a 4 hour video.
Also,the Roundhouse gig that kicked it all off (literally) was NOT The Ramones (great as they were) but the mad man and his crazy men,Iggy and The Stooges.
Radiohead brought out OK Computer. That was the death of Britpop.
Blur weren't from London they were from Colchester. just saying!
12:25 see the two people standing on the top of the Roundhouse?
I would have chucked out Classic Rock from this list as that was not a movement as much as it is "The 70's". Glam Rock is what I would have put there instead (David Bowie, Elton John, Roxie Music, T-Rex)
RIP John Mayall
16:34 😂
New York is the London of the USA. Never forget!!!!
imo the rave scene was more dynamic in the north, although it began in Landan, it morphed into a stronger variant in manc/leeds areas. As a geordie, am def biased. My brain denies anything from the vile lands of cockneyville(the cockroach kingdom)
Missed spandeau ballet, Duran Duran, Wham, George Michael and a lot more.
16:37 how dare you scowl at SC7, your going to rot 😂 try reaching one day mother Fubba.
John Mayall died earlier this week aged 90.
Sadly John Mayall passed away this week
Grear review!
Led Zeppelin weee definitely more rock blues than metal... Robert Plant lives about 4 miles from me! What a rock legend. But he's definitely not from London.... he's a Black Country chap (a region of the West Midlands)! As waa John Bonham, I believe.
I saw the reunion gig in 2007. It was awesome....and Jon Bonham's son nailed it!
She completely missed several centuries of the story.
There were people singing in pubs, around a piano. For a good couple of hundred years before the Beatles.
There is also the history of the music halls.
She completely forgot about the wartime classics and bomb shelter singalongs. That were a huge part of the culture at the time.
She didn't mention any of the country artists who recorded huge hits in London in the 40s and 50s.
She completely forgot about the black blues artists. Who recorded in London in the 40s and 50s. Because American recording studios didn't like recording black artists.
She never mentioned that it was white blues bands from London. Who first brought blues riffs to white America for the first time.
She didn't even mention the London philharmonic orchestra.
She actually started a film about the history of London music. By talking about a band from Liverpool.
Crazy.
Rod Stuart.. man he gives me the creeps
Rod Stewart is fine tho.
The 'best gig ever' was when Rod Stewart came to our small village school and performed 'Sailing' with 2 classes of 7 year olds, simply because they wrote to him and asked him to come. This was, I think, in 2018 or 19.
@@carolineskipper6976 he may be a great guy, he simply gives me the heebie-jeebies lol