Singing Streets

03/12/2024

Singing Streets Manchester, coming later this month!

We have been hard at work on our next release, which will include over three hundred music related locations to discover around Manchester, including many relating to Joy Division / New Order, The Smiths, The Fall, Oasis, John Cooper Clarke, and the other greats of the Manchester music scene.

11/11/2024

A video exploring the origins of the Blues with guest John Jeremiah Sullivan.

Accompanied by award-winning author and historian John Jeremiah Sullivan, Singing Streets travels to Ohio to visit one of the original blues locations: the ...

19/10/2024

Our latest video is now available, from when we recently visited the Savoy Steps, site of the recording of Bob Dylan's famous video for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

The alley was behind The Savoy Hotel, where Bob was staying at the time, and the clip was used in the opening of D. A. Pennebaker's film about Dylan's 1965 tour of England 'Dont Look Back'.

Hundreds of Dylan locations can be found in the Singing Streets app, between London, New York and beyond!

Singing Streets visits the Savoy Steps, the location where Bob Dylan shot the famous 'cue card' video for his 1965 single 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'. It ...

06/10/2024

We recently paid a visit to the location of the location of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album cover.

It's tucked down an unassuming alley off Regent Street in London and is one of the most iconic locations in Singing Streets.

Download our FREE Music Tourist App from the App Store and find it for yourself.

Singing Streets visits the location where the photographs of David Bowie that were used on the front and back cover of his classic 1972 album 'The Rise and F...

11/09/2024

Musical Londoners!

Singing Streets' co-founder Worth Wagers, along with Meetup legend Kevin Clay, will be giving a musical walking tour of Mayfair on Sunday 10 November!

Reserve your spot on the tour, using the link in the comments, to discover the roots of The Police, the home that all four of The Beatles shared, David Bowie's most iconic album cover, where The Spice Girls were formed, Jimi Hendrix sites, and much, much more.

We'll have drinks at the end to cap it off, who's in?

30/07/2024

Happy 66th Birthday to Kate Bush!

While still a teenager, the singer moved to Wickham Road in Brockley, living in the middle flat with one brother above her and another below!

She later moved to Wuthering Heights, in Eltham, where she lived for ~18 years.

Find these and dozens of other sites among the thousands of music related locations in Singing Streets, available for free from the App Store: http://apps.apple.com/ie/app/singing-streets/id1487395261

07/07/2024

A very Happy Birthday to Ringo Starr!

The Beatles drummer, leader of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and all round good guy, was born Richard Starkey in an upstairs bedroom at 9 Madryn Street on 7 July 1940.

When he was a child, the Liverpool neighborhood was repeatedly hit with bombs during World War II.

Ringo’s parents, Richard and Elsie Starkey, rented the house for 10 shillings a week before moving to a smaller, less expensive house in nearby Admiral Grove around which time Ringo's parents separated.

His grandparents, with whom he would often stay, lived down the street at number #59.

Having sat derelict, the house was saved from demolition that had been planned by Liverpool City Council in 2012 and instead refurbished and sold.

Located a stone’s throw away was The Empress Public House, which was the family’s local pub. A photograph of The Empress pub was used for the Ringo Starr's first solo record, 'Sentimental Journey'. An album of standards, it was released on 27 March 1970.

Ringo’s mother Elsie worked here and, according to The Beatles Anthology book, he first heard the songs he recorded on the album when Elsie and her friends would return from the pub and have a sing-song.

The cover features Ringo in a tuxedo superimposed at the front-door of the pub and family members in the windows.

The pub closed in recent years but, as can be seen from the photos, the building has been put to good use.

We visited the area in 2022: https://youtu.be/eQJjhKChvWc?si=33W0sO8PfGYpCsKn

Singing Streets, available for free from the App Store, has hundreds of music related locations to visit in Liverpool, and thousands more in the US, UK and Ireland: http://apps.apple.com/ie/app/singing-streets/id1487395261

06/07/2024

On 6 July 1980, Bob Marley performed his final outdoor concert at Dalymount Park in Dublin.

During the concert, he referenced "the Irish struggle" before performing 'Redemption Song'.

Marley’s played his last gig proper at The Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA, in September 1980, before his death the following May.

Dalymount Park, home of Bohemian Football Club and one time home of the Irish international football team, also held Dublin's first major open air rock festival on 21 August 1977, at which Thin Lizzy and the Boomtown Rats played.

In January 2022, Bohemians secured the rights to use an image of Bob Marley on its 2022 away jersey - see: https://www.shop-bohemianfc.com/products/marley-away-jersey-2022

Singing Streets, available for download from the App Store, has hundreds of music related locations to visit in Dublin, and thousands more in the US and UK: http://apps.apple.com/ie/app/singing-streets/id1487395261

01/07/2024

Thanks to friend of Singing Streets and bassist extraordinaire Eddie Carlson for sending in these photos of sites in Brooklyn that he's discovered using our music location app.

* Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, a former movie theater that helped introduce Brooklyn to jazz, where artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis played. Rock and Roll package tours, featuring Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Buddy Holly also played.

* Man's Country was a former bath house where, according to guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls played their first paying gig on August 10, 1971. It's now St Charles Jubilee Senior Center.

* Saint Ann's School, is a private school in Brooklyn whose famous attendees include: MIKE D and Lucy Wainwright Roche.

* St Ann & the Holy Trinity Church is where Jeff Buckley made his public debut on April 26, 1991. He performed here at a tribute to his father, Tim Buckley. A few years earlier, Lou Reed and John Cale performed 'Songs for Drella', their Andy Warhol tribute here.

Find all these sites and more in the FREE Singing Streets app, available from the App Store.

27/03/2024

A big thank you to good friend of Singing Streets, Karl McDonald, for sending us his photos from when he recently used our app in Woodstock, New York:

* The famous Cafe Espresso folk club, where Bob Dylan is said to have written much of ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’, now home to ‘ Folkadelic Acoustic Instruments’.

* The site of Joyous Lake (now SILVIA restaurant), a celebrated cafeteria and club where musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, and Paul Butterfield would play.

* The Woodstock Playhouse, where THE BAND recorded ’Stage Fright’ in 1970. The theatre was established in 1938 and the current building, which opened in 2011 after a fire destroyed the original, remains fully operational.

* The location of Sled Hill Cafe, where Van Morrison would drink scotch with The Band’s Richard Manuel and recruited musicians for his album ‘His Band and the Street Choir’.

Singing Streets is a two-man operation that relies on our users to help drive content for the almost 5,000 (and growing) music related locations across the USA, UK and Ireland that are to be found in our free app (http://apps.apple.com/ie/app/singing-streets/id1487395261).

We welcome any input from our users, particularly photographs of any locations that we may not have yet been able to visit in person (we will make sure to credit you any time we use them!).

23/03/2024

Last weekend, Singing Streets visited the great city of Manchester ahead of the release of Singing Streets Manchester later this year.

Among the music locations we visited were:

* The site of the legendary Haçienda night-club, run by Factory Records and the heart of the Madchester acid house and rave scene, but now an apartment block.

* The Lesser Free Trade Hall, where the S*x Pistols played their legendary June 1976 gig (arranged by Buzzcocks and famously attended by Morrissey, Tony Wilson, Martin Hannett, the future members of Joy Division and, em, Mick Hucknall) and site of the famous Bob Dylan “Live at the Albert Hall” concert. Now The Edwardian Manchester, hotel.

* The Boardwalk, where Oasis played their first ever gig (before Noel joined the band) and an early performance and rehearsal venue for The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Inspiral Carpets.

* The house Morrissey lived in Stretford, where Johnny Marr showed up at in May 1982 and asked him to form a band.

Singing Streets, available from the App Store for free, has thousands of music related locations to discover in London, New York, Dublin, Liverpool and Belfast, with more to come!

http://apps.apple.com/ie/app/singing-streets/id1487395261

25/12/2023

Born on Christmas Day 1957, Shane MacGowan would have been 66 today.

During a bitterly cold New York week in November 1987, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl filmed the video for what would be the greatest of all Christmas songs.

The opening to the video, set on Christmas Eve in the drunk tank, was shot at the former 23rd precinct of the NYPD at 138 West 30th Street, a stone’s throw from the Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building.

The video features a young Matt Dillon, playing a police man, leading our hero into the cells for the night.

The building now houses the NYPD Citywide Traffic Task Force.

Happy Christmas from Singing Streets!

https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=xSMrlbHP_elgbNVJ

24/12/2023

In addition to over 1,700 New York locations, the new release of Singing Streets also has many new spots to discover around London, including:

The album cover locations of Rod Stewart’s ‘Gasoline Alley’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Song Remains The Same’.

The houses around the corner from each other in Hammersmith where S*x Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook and guitarist Steve Jones grew-up.

Where Iggy Pop stayed when he wrote ‘Raw Power’ and where the Eagles lived when they were in London to record their debut album.

guitarguitar in Camden, storied live venues such as Brixton Jamm, and the site of Man In The Moon on King’s Road (where X-Ray Spec played early gigs).

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