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My groovy 45’s: ‘What’ by Judy Street
Very few singles from my days as ‘Funky Genghis’ survive, but some did – and still sound great today! This is ‘What’ by Judy Street, which will be known to most for the 1982 synth version by Soft Cell.
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Trouble @ Home – events that would have a dramatic impact on my life – part 3
After a great Easter weekend I arrived home to find all my possessions on the wrong side of a locked door. The realisation that I was homeless dawned on my only slowly, and all I had were the clothes I stood up in.
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Trouble @ Home – events that would have a dramatic impact on my life – part 2
50 Years Ago: my last day at City & Guilds; drinks with work colleagues; home to a growing sense of fear… how long would I have a place to live?
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The first week of April 1976 – finding a temp job, buying a Gentle Giant ticket, a Eurovision win for Britain and an interview with Michael Foot
The first week of April 1976 saw me arriving back in London from Swansea and setting off first thing for a temp agency to find work. It ended with buying a Gentle Giant ticket, a Eurovision win for Britain and a TV interview with Michael Foot MP.
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Swansea field trip: the final days fading away into beer and a failed attempt to get home
The fag-end of the geography field trip seems to have just faded away. I was wandering around trying to find potential tourist attractions – for a forthcoming essay – and failing to hitch back to London. Back at home I learned that sadly my flatmates had lost Tigger in Market Rasen.
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Who decides what is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
Two days on the Gower Peninsula evaluating the landscape. How can you apply a score to hills, valleys, lakes and rivers? I had no idea, but that is what we had to do.
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Geography field trip: late nights, parties, cooked breakfasts, mystery tours – and lot’s of Welsh beer!
Swansea days 1 & 2: fast train from Paddington, numerous beers, late night parties, cooked breakfasts, Old Grey Whistle Test. Oh, and a bit of geography too.
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Four long days of temp work and evenings of study. And then I bought a ticket to Swansea…
Week ending 21st. March was very tiring, and my first experience of work through a temp agency. Long days of learning a new job and long evenings of study. But joy was on the horizon – a residential geography field trip to Swansea!
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Easter break – and that meant finding work! Got a temp job at Harrap Publishers
50 Years Ago – Unlike some of my fellow students my parents were unable to subsidise the student grant, so it was essential to find work outside of term time. Today I managed to get work at Harrap Publishers in Upper Holborn.
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Mike Absalom, The Listener & Infra-red Mapping
An obscure and bizarre celtic poet and musician, The Listener magazine and other journals, and lectures on energy flows in ecosystems and infra-red and satellite mapping. A day in the life of a student in 1976.
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Trouble @ Home… the start of events that would have a dramatic impact on my life
My LSE Diary on this day in 1976 records events that would be the beginning of one of the most difficult periods in my life.
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Gordon Giltrap free gig; GeogAss festivities… & lectures!
Friday, 20th. February 1976… a good day with a free lunchtime gig – Gordon Giltrap – and a GeogAss party in the evening. Some thought-provoking lectures too – that still have relevance today!
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Bandy Legs, Medicine Head & Loschian Models – a perfect day for a student
Pretty much a perfect day – for me as a student in London in 1976. Morning and afternoon lectures, lunchtime and evening gigs, plenty of beer – all for £2.91!
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Planning for a Country House on Skye!
Found a location for a substantial country house plot on the Isle of Skye. Sadly, I would not be moving in…
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Student Cash Card & Network Analysis
4th. Feb. 1976: Network Analysis in geography & a visit to the CBS Studios in Soho.
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King’s Hustings, Spatial Analysis, Fish & Chips
2nd. Feb. 1976: 19p for lunch and 28p for fish & chips! A day of lectures and hustings at King’s College.
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Spy photos, air pollution & Tomorrow’s World
29th. Jan. 1976: geography lectures and measuring air pollution around The Aldwych and Kingsway.
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The first commercial flight of a BA Concorde
21st. Jan. 1976: statistics, technical drawing, my dreams of flying – and the first flight of Concorde!
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Morning exam; evening gig – Kursaal Flyers & Eddie and the Hot Rods for 85p!
Fifty years ago: after a harrowing exam it was good to make it to the Marquee in London’s Soho for a gig – two bands for 85p!
Colin Anderson 