Me & Clerkenwell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell
There is no more famous or even infamous part of old London Town.
From John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Keat's, Blake, Dicken's, Dr Johnson
we all loved Clerkenwell even Karl Marx resided here.
the list of past & present locals is endless,
I should be so lucky to walk where they walked and to drink where they drank.
Here's a piece I recently found: by Daniel Defoe..
"A Woman that to a whore-monger is wed,
is in a most desperate case:
She scarce dares performe her duty in bed,
with one of condition so base:
For sometimes hee’s bitten
with Turnmill Street Fleas,
The Pox, or some other infectious disease.
Wherever I walk round my manor, I walk in the footsteps of history.
My 'artistic, type community, charitable, rave, gangster type club/venue in Turnmill St,
The Tardis ticked all the Clerkenwell requirements, It was a home, a community, of like-minded minds and everybody there wanted to be a winner,
they strove to be better to achieve the best that was within them, this I promoted big time...
And besides hosting some of the best ever parties in London...
When I managed to acquire 15,000sq feet of Turnmill St on three floors I never realised the historical attachments to this area, later finding out my gaff was situated on a once infamous photographic/porn 1950's studio.
Within was 1 floor below ground, one at ground level and the our roof bar and chill-out space.
Once on a mad night we had three live bands on 3 stages and over 800 guests never to be repeated. ever!
Great things come and great things go, it's all to do with timing, we came, we partied, we left a trace...
Bowie came to us we never went to Bowie that's how f***in cool we were.
"Bowieart.com is pleased to announce, Window Pain Project, an off-line project in partnership with the Tardis window space that will further increase the profile of a selection of young, fresh and talented artists currently given space"
Last week yesterday in fact I went to the three kings and they were filming a car chase in-front of the pub, that's Clerkenwell, weird fashionable type people with weird stupid dogs all drinking stupid coffees, personally I think they are missing the point that Clerkenwell is bigger than they ever will be.
spit!
