Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Narrow, Limehouse
Posted by art vanderlay on 5 August 2011 - 8:54pm.
Went to this pub for lunch today and saw 2 guys sitting at an outside table with a stack of albums between them ( at least 2 record boxes worth, clearly vintage, although the only one I got a look at was an old Traffic album with an orangey cover)'and copy of the record collector book.
I thought it might have been an east London mini mingle for a minute, either way it looked a great way to spend an afternoon in the sun.
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I wasn't either of them
but lived just up the road from there about 15 years ago
Couldn't think of a nicer way
to kill an afternoon.
That's what I thought MAM
And the pub has great views, but since my last visit( some time ago) it has been taken over by Gordon 'fucking' Ramsey so shelled out way more than planned for lunch.
Taken over by Ramsay?
Those records must have been more valuable than anyone thought!
Vinyl..
I was thinking yesterday how, as much as digital downloads are convenient in their own way, it is ridiculous to have a format of music that you don't have a cover for. No matter how brilliant the technology is I will always feel the need for artwork and info, otherwise it just seems like a throwaway commodity. I read recently that vinyl sales last year were actually up 50% on the year which is a sign. Spending an afternoon in the pub looking at our MP3 players isn't the same is it..
Something I've been pondering over lately is
What will blokes do when everything is all digital. Every man I know loves compiling and discussing lists of 'stuff' that he's got, solid things he can proudly display - the grown-up equivalent of ticking off the models that you'd already got in the airfix catalogue.
As you say, it's not quite the same just showing someone your mp3 player. Are current and future generations really going to be content with digital music and ebooks temporarily on whatever device happens to be the in thing - have they got a different mindset now. What will they get nostalgic over in their forties and fifties!
Future generations
They'll be nostalgic for food and electric light.
Banks, petrol, television sets...
...actual money - coins and notes, high street shops...