2016 -The 40th Anniversary of Punk Rock supports The Save Tin Pan Ally campaign
Save Sex Pistols’ home for the nation
By Geoff Baker in Local People
CONSERVATIONISTS have launched a campaign for the National Trust to take over the former West End home of The Sex Pistols after leading archaeologists claimed that cartoons by Johnny Rotten which are preserved there are just as important to heritage as cave man art.
The Save Tin Pan Alley campaigners are to ask the Trust to add an outbuilding at 6 Denmark Street to its property portfolio, which includes the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon in Liverpool. The campaigners argue that the building, where the Sex Pistols lived, rehearsed and made demo recordings for their first album, which gave birth to the worldwide punk rock phenomenon, is just as important to the nation’s musical heritage as The Beatles’ homes.
Westminster & Pimlico News February 24th 2016
London Weekly News, February 24th 2016
Tin Pan Alley’s proposed Bowie Memorial
LWN Reporter
Film-maker and music activist Henry Scott-Irvine, creator of the Save Tin Pan Alley campaign, is backing calls for some sort of monument to be erected in Denmark Street, where Bowie hung out with his friend Marc Bolan before he and the T Rex idol became stars. “Denmark Street was where David worked at Southern Music Publishing originally, I believe, in 1965,” said Mr Scott-Irvine adding, “David had an American Second World War ambulance that he used to park in the street until the traffic wardens arrived at dawn. The popular story is that he slept in this and drove it to gigs. He did indeed hang out at the Gioconda Café there when he was in the band Lower Third and then known as Davie Jones.” http://www.londonweeklynews.co.uk/article.cfm…
‘Yet another blow to live music in the capital’
The 12 Bar Club closed on February 2nd 2016 following it’s switch from
Tin Pan Alley to Holloway Road, London
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FEBRUARY 5th
Picture of the former 12 Bar Club Denmark St December 2014
by Jerry Tremaine Photography
The Westminster & Pimlico News
The Fulham Chronicle
The Kensington & Chelsea News
The London Weekly News
2nd FEBRUARY
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WEST END EXTRA
22nd JANUARY
Developer ‘100% committed’ to saving music street but fears remain for the future of
Tin Pan Alley
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THE GUARDIAN
7th JANUARY
“The grubby end of Oxford Street is being tamed, but this isn’t regeneration, it is devastation”
by Peter Watts
THE GUARDIAN
THE CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL
7th JANUARY
“They (the Developers) have offered Camden planning department three magic beans … ” says Phil Ryan THE CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL
2015
OXFORD STREET REVEALED – SERIES 2 EP #8
BBC1 and BBC 2
2nd + 3rd DECEMBER 2015
This docu-soap series features Save TPA’s
Henry Scott-Irvine followed by two segments on the demise of Denmark Street’s ‘The 12 Bar Club’ and the occupier-squatter eviction in February 2014
BBCTV’s OXFORD STREET/DENMARK STREET SPECIAL
GUITAR & BASS MAGAZINE
1st NOVEMBER
Sid Bishop founder of the first dedicated guitar shop in Denmark Street called ‘Top Gear’ – later to become known as ‘Rockers’ – provides a feature on the demise of Denmark Street
Click on the image and hit the control key on your keyboard to enlarge it to read Sid’s excellent feature …
Click on the image and hit the control key on your keyboard to enlarge it to read Sid’s excellent feature …
BRAVEWORLDS.COM
18th OCTOBER
‘Michael Monroe tries to save Denmark Street with his ‘Dead Hearts On Denmark Street’ song and video’
MUSIC MERCHANDISE REVIEW MAGAZINE
1st OCTOBER
‘The Slow Death
of Denmark Street’ by Phil Ryan
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
28TH SEPTEMBER
‘Denmark Street:
the threatened birthplace of the
British record industry’
Six page feature by Mick Brown
THE RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
24th SEPTEMBER
A FILM BY TALI CLARKE – ‘A RIOT GOING ON’
The last days of The 12 Bar Club
VUE CINEMA. PICCADILLY. LONDON
JOCKS & NERDS MAGAZINE
Summer issue 2015
An 8 page “Style: Denmark Street” feature on
Page 116 to Page 123 embracing the music and the campaign issues within the heritage site that is
Tin Pan Alley
THE INDEPENDENT
23rd AUGUST
‘The Tragic Denmark Place Fire of 1980’
Six page feature by Simon Usborne
“Henry Scott-Irvine, the leader the Save Tin Pan Alley campaign, says that, where it is remembered, the fire is lumped in with anecdotes about the area’s insalubrious past to justify its gentrification. “It’s like the push to get rid of the gin houses of Hogarthian London, which these buildings replaced,” he says
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21st AUGUST
‘REGENERATION CITY BLUES’
‘Jane Palm-Gold’s exhibition of rock ‘n’ roll Soho and Covent Garden
reveals some historic gems that remain hidden amid the controversial developments of Tin Pan Alley in the Borough of Camden‘
“CAMPAIGNERS fighting to maintain the future of a famous music heritage street have warned that independent firms may not be able to afford to stay once a major redevelopment takes place.Denmark Street, known as “Tin Pan Alley”, was the heart-beat of British rock music culture in the 1970s and 1980s and is famed for its cluster of music shops and former recording studios that drew massive bands such as the Sex Pistols and Rolling Stones.
Camden Council has created a clause in the deal with the developer that it says will ensure many music businesses can get first dibs on new shops after the street is redeveloped to make way for the multi-billion pound Crossrail railway. But campaigner Henry Scott-Irvine said: “We want the rents frozen at the current rate and tied in to inflation only. We are concerned that the music businesses will be paying market rents and will not be able to afford to stay there.”
Denmark Street, Denmark Place and St Giles High Street is due to reopen in 2018 when the Crossrail works are finished.
A council spokesman said: “All existing tenants will be offered a minimum three-year lease on their premises at a market rent for music-related uses in the local area.”
by Tom Foot, The West End Extra
WEST END EXTRA
21st AUGUST
‘An art exhibition explores the cost of regeneration in Soho and Fitzrovia and Denmark St’
Jane Palm-Gold’s ‘Regeneration City Blues’ shows The Gioconda Cafe in Tin Pan Alley with Bolan & Bowie circa 1965 ‘Art exhibition explores the cost of regeneration in Soho and Fitzrovia’
by CHER THORNHILL
AN exhibition featuring some of the hidden gems of the West End are on display in Covent Garden.
Regeneration City Blues by Jane Palm Gold celebrates the social and creative richness of Soho and Fitzrovia and warns against the over-development of the areas.
Landmark social hubs for cult fans with shared music and fashion tastes like The Intrepid Fox pub, the Roxy Club and La Gioconda Cafe, are shown in a new light.
“I’m hoping people will come and enjoy looking back,” said Ms Palm Gold, who lives in New Compton Street. “It’s a history exhibition first and foremost. There are historical text panels, different shops. Denmark Street, north side – all the music publishers were there in the 1960s.” • Regeneration City Blues is open daily, from 10am to 6pm, at 55 Neal Street until August 31‘
Artwork by Jane Palm-Gold – click on it to enlarge it and to link to the Travel Guide Feature online here
JOCKS & NERDS ONLINE
19th AUGUST
‘Regeneration City Blues’ rock ‘n’ roll art exhibition by Jane Palm-Gold at 55 Neal St, Seven Dials, London
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