youtube/watch?v=ezxe_0Sobno Two things dear to Steve: Coil and the lost rivers of London. Im sure one of the main reasons he favored Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Tavern was because of its proximity to the subterranean River Fleet. Also a few months ago I visited the Minesweeper in Deptford with Steve for a round of performances. We met at Lewisham DLR, he said do you mind if we go to look at the Thames first? I asked him why, He said he was not sure but needed to see it... According to Peter Ackroyd I truly believe that there are certain people to whom the territory, the place, the past speaks ... Just as it seems possible to me that a street can materially affect the character and behavior of the people who dwell in them... is it not also possible that within this city [London] and within its culture are patterns of sensibility or patterns of response which have persisted from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and perhaps even beyond? I think Steve was one of those certain people Lyrics from Coils The lost Rivers of London from Hubert Montague Crackanthorpes Vignettes [1896] The daylight faded. A shroud of ghostly mist enveloped the earth, and up from the vaporous distance crept slowly the evening darkness. A sullen glow throbs overhead: golden will-o-the-wisps are threading their shadowy ribbons above golden trees, and the dull, distant rumour of feverish London waits on the still night air. The lights of Hyde Park Corner blaze like some monster, gilded constellation, shaming the dingy stars. And across the east, there flares a sky-sign, a gaudy crimson arabesque. And all the air hangs draped in the mysterious sumptuous splendour of a murky London night
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