#kilburn

Here's part 1

This is Paddington Old Cemetery, and the remains of the Red Lion on Kilburn High Road.

(Actual pigeon house? shed? loft? in one of those back gardens, I swear.)

I don't think it's a good fit for Rochelle Onifade's funeral, because there's no modern crematorium as described:

The north London crematorium where Rochelle’s funeral was held three days later was chilly, anonymous and depressing. Everything was smoothly nondenominational; from the dark-wood pews and blank walls, carefully devoid of any religious device; to the abstract-stained glass window, a mosaic of little jewel-bright squares.

The Red Lion as was is, I would say, a good 15 minutes walk from Paddington Old Cemetery.

A nice little history here. Quack cures, robbery, Idris Elba, the lot!

The absurd weirdness not just of seeing Buck-Tick in London, on streets I know, walking past Victorian row-houses like the one I live in...

And specifically in "Kirubahn" (as Atsushi calls it, and I'm not even taking the piss - that is literally how it’s transcribed - he’s just being adorable in translation, anyway, he's reading Melody Maker in this so clearly his English is 1000x better than my Japanese as I can barely read the title of Japanese music mags)

But in MASTER ROCK STUDIOS where I have seen so many video clips of Suede on the brink of breaking up / jettisoning their guitarist out the door down the alley at the start of the clip.

Yet here's Imai just casually smoking in the control room where Bernard Butler would later lose his mind...

There's a better quality clip of Atsushi's interview here but unfortunately the others' interviews seem lost to the static: