Music Maps

Our first trip out of the UK takes us to Brooklyn, New York, where Alec Ounsworth was given the inspiration to call his then unnamed band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Ounsworth spoke to Pitchfork about some graffiti (see left and, as ever, click the thumbnail to enlarge) on a wall on Baltic Street, off […]

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The location on the sleeve of Oasis’s first ever number one single Some Might Say is Cromford railway station in Derbyshire.
Located on the Derwent Valley Line which operates from Matlock to Derby and back, Cromford station sits between Matlock Bath and Whatstandwell stations. Designed by G.H. Stokes, it’s a Grade II listed building which was […]

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A double A-side with Kinks cover David Watts, the road referred to in The Jam’s 1978 ‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street single is located in London’s Soho, running from Leicester Square up to Oxford Street.
The street’s most relevant occupant was the Marquee Club, which moved from Oxford Street to Wardour Street in 1964 and stayed […]

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It’s fair to say that I was very pleasantly surprised to see us featured on Google Maps Mania this morning (especially seeing as we’re only a fortnight old!), so greetings to anyone who’s followed the link over.
If you’re unsure what we’re about, Google Maps Mania have done a better job of describing us than I […]

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From The Fall’s City Hobgoblins:
So Queen Victoria
Is a large black slug in Piccadilly, Manchester
Click on the thumbnail (right) to see the large black slug in question - Edward Onslow Ford’s Queen Victoria Monument in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens (a 2 minute walk from Station Approach).
The 1901 (also the year of Onslow Ford’s death) Grade II […]

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