Around 1974 Malcolm McLaren, later manager of the Sex Pistols, produced a T-shirt with a couple of colleagues (including Bernie Rhodes, manager of The Clash to be) for sale in the shop he shared with Vivienne Westwood at 430 Kings Road, Chelsea. The t-shirt was divided into two lists, one of which named their most ‘hated’ objects and the other their most ‘loved’. We always liked the loved list, especially as it featured references to reggae which was largely ignored by the mainstream media at the time. In homage, we’ve produced our own list of ‘loves’ (but not ‘hates’) below.
You’re gonna wake up one morning and know what side of the bed
you’ve been lying on!
Loves ‘21
Beirut/Tish Murta and juvenile jazz bands/FC St Pauli/the great dals of India/Janot pastis/‘Florence’ by The Paragons/Medellin/Svetlana Alexievich Vasily Grossman Rysard Kapuscinski/Ackee and salt fish/Poor Scouser Tommy/Jean Michel Basquiat/Potato y Totico/George Peckings/Brick Lane market in the 1970s/Liverpool 8/Encona hot pepper sauce/Fatman Hi Fi/Chief brand curry powder/Laoganma black bean sauce/jaguars (the animal not the cars)/Instrumentos João Batista/Akai MPC/Salvador da Bahia/Biber salçası/The Bouncing Ball Club, Peckham/Peter Kavanagh’s pub/Roland Space Echo/Carl Gayle Penny Reel Nelson George/Flor de Caña rum/Hector Lavoe/‘Beneath the pavement, the beach’/‘Hoy como ayer’/Vivienne Westwood/Shaolin Temple/‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith/The Worst from Manchester/Jean Adebambo/Bruno Ganz/Giulietta Masina/ ‘The bitter tears of Petra von Kant’/‘The lost honour of Katherina Blum’ / L’Avventura/The Somali Club The Silver Sands The Ibo The Sierra Leone The Nigerian Social Club/ ‘Time longer than rope’/Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus/Cartola/Bobó de camarão/Plentiful Foods, Drummond Street WC1/‘Great Googley Moo’ by The Spaniels/Dhal puri roti/The Four Aces, Dalston/Shepherds Bush market/Lloyd and Gerald – ‘Thy man look into thyself’/‘Lumuba’ by Bonnie and Skitter/Ganesh/Ho Chi Minh/ Le retour des évadés de Ponton la Belle
FOOD, FILMS 'N' TINGS 