Wapping Music Videos: Ghost Town by the Specials

Part of a series of music videos filmed in Wapping.

Ghost Town, by everyone's favourite Coventry 2 tone ska revival band the Specials, spent 3 weeks at number 1 in 1981. The video shows the band driving around Wapping, Southwark and the City in a Vauxhall Cresta. A nice reminder of what Wapping High Street looked like before the new blocks of flats were built.

Wapping Music Videos - OMD - Messages

Last Friday lunchtime I was enjoying a crafty pint at the Prospect of Whitby with my housemate @potoft to celebrate my membership of the exclusive '100 Club'. The music changed, and OMD's Enola Gay came on. What followed was a bizarre three minutes and thirty three seconds (less fade out) of what a passerby might mistake as the Pilsbury Doughboy body-popping whilst remaining seated and drinking a pint of real ale. However, I like to ramp up the surrealism by making sure that my song and dance numbers attain a mythic quaity, by not only including 'air keyboard' but also performing them during less appropriate moments, which I think adds a certain aesthetic edge. On this occasion my performance may have coincided with a pair of American tourists saying grace, and I'm not sure if they appreciated my interpretation of Psalm 149 (Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp).

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Wapping Music Videos (1)

Walking on Sunshine - Part one of a series of short posts on the East End in popular culture.

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