I have been finding friend’s newsletters a much easier way to stay updated. I hope this will help me spend less time on the bad apps.
Special shout out to Dawn Riddle’s “On A Roll” newsletter. We have sort of similar photo styles (cool friends x point & shoot film). I’ve enjoyed Dawn’s biographic picture telling newsletter style so maybe this will follow similarly? ❤️
I am not much of a writer so let the pictures commence!
Blake and I went to England! Wow already it is so much easier to insert images and text here, thank freaking GOD.
We flew into London and saw the band Heavenly who were reuniting for the first time since 1996, but I didn’t load my camera. They were on Sarah Records in the UK and K Records in the US, and their fan bases was noticeably different between the two in the 90’s which carried over to now. Do record labels still influence fanbases this much?
This trip was very fortuitous and had a lot of emotions relating to music.
We “Hit The North” and visited Hannah in Manchester & you’ll never guess who also happened to be there…
Philadelphia icons Maryn & Alex!
Manchester was sick - Hannah’s cat is the sweetest and her apartment building is so quaint (pictured above). The city hasn’t done much to preserve its rich music history, and we were there on a Sunday into Monday so we didn’t get to see any museums or old libraries. We did make it to the Football Museum (lol), so you could say we did have a bit of -
Bathroom in the Football Museum.
Keeping the green out.
The music tourism begins at The Dublin Castle in Camden Town London. I knew this was where Madness (god-tier music video linked) had their first show. I wasn’t sure what to expect, whether the bar/venue would have any mention of the band, etc.
I wish any venue in NYC could stay open or at the very least preserve it’s musical history in any tangible way. Excuse the framing, I was sticking my arm up and hoping for the best.
We had quite a night as the place was packed (it was Monday night!), and we made friends with a few of the regulars. One of whom took this, thanks Salem! 🏁
That’s all for now, much more to come as I have already hit the email length limit, thanks for reading!
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Wow! Sick!