No, Pollo.
I donât remember Pollo. I did spend many a lunchtime in La Perla in Brewer Street having âbusiness lunchesâ then sleeping off the effects in the office. The Eighties were great
Classic tatty Soho Italian cafe serving piles of tasty grub. Presto was good too.
I miss how that whole area was back then. You used to have to be careful how you walked on wet streets at night there - I slipped over a few times on bits of cabbage discarded from the markets.
We probably drank in the same places in the 80s. We used to start in one called molly moggs and work our way down via the coach and horses in old Compton street which would still be almost empty at 7pm to maybe the dog and duck or pillars of Hercules.
Sometimes weâd end up in the Greek restaurant Jimmyâs made famous in a Stones song that was also great and also long since gone.
The whole area oozed rundown charm.
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We used to start the other side of Wardour Street, The Duke of Argyle, on to the Ship and then the Nellie Dean I think it was called, The Nellie Dean had the first video juke box in Britain, we spent a fortune watching James Brown doing Please Please Please at the 1964 TAMI show. It was a technological miracle at the time
Soho was such a great place in those days
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Thatâd make sense - you were the Wardour St music end and I was out with the St Martinâs art/film student lot at the Cambridge Circus end which looked like this
until it too got merged with Central and moved to a new home in Kingâs X that looks like this
Meh
Pretty obvious which of these two is likely to produce more interesting artists. In the end everything becomes monetised.
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Yeah the Ship was a real Muso hang out. I used to be really good friends with Sarah Cracknell, and I once ended up in the Ship on a long session with her The Gallagher brothers and Bobby Gillespie
That reminds me, there is a great documentary on Sky about Robert Lloyd from the Nightingales atm, has a couple of nostalgic shots of the area
Thereâs my problem. I should just learn to like slime. Lol okra (never had it deep fried, though.)
Enjoy 
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Thanks, that gave me an enjoyable break.
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is anyone on clubhouse? is it worth it? can i bother you for an invite?
Iâm curious about this as well. Whatâs it all about?
I never heard of SIFT. I learned this information evaluation process by osmosis while reading UP and predecessor sites.
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Stop.
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Investigate the source.
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Find better coverage.
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Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context.
Otherwise known as SIFT.
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Whenâs the last time you wrote something more than a dozen words long by hand rather than typing? Itâs hard. Feels like an art project if you want it to be anywhere near legible.
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I did a written exam a few years back, 3 hours writing. I thought my hand would fall off by the end and I was stunned to pass given that implied it was mostly legible.
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Though that wasnât as hard as a French language test I had to do to apply for nationality last year, which involved having to write an essay on an AZERTY keyboard. That nearly broke my brain, not just a stupid hand.
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Marianne LeVine⌠zomg
So the entire Midwest is now dunking on this poor sap:
https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1362863293593960451?s=20
https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1362880254013038596?s=20
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