Travel tales

Thread for thrilling us with the places you’ve been. I’ll start.

1981 or 2 I’m living with punk squatters in London. I’m also working with a pirate station called Our Radio. My big contribution was an interview with the press officer of Sinn Fein – maximum provocation to the Home Office.

This part of the story I wasn’t a part of, but what evuh. So on broadcast night members of Our Radio go onto the roof of a tower block to set up the transmitter and the cassette deck that played the program. It was a building they’d used before. One noticed movement in a stairwell – it was the law. So they began racing down the stairs while the authorities ran down the other stairwell to catch them at the bottom. Then Our guys crossed through a hallway to the same stairs the Man just went down. Then they calmly descended all innocent. They got grabbed and questioned, but let go. Good times.

Interesting. Was the squat in West London where so many punks and ex-punks squatted?

Don’t remember the geography at all. It was in walking distance of Brixton.