Excerpt from ITV London report on new release of the 1967 film 'The London Nobody Knows'. Featuring the Roundhouse then and now - www.roundhouse.org.uk.
My dad and his company, Compton, made this film, The London Nobody Knows, when I was just starting out in the film business. I even did a tiny bit of work on it as a holiday assistant assistant editor for a few days helping out for Greg Smith and Norman Cohen who were actually making the film. It was and is a real piece of London history and well worth a look.
I was 9 yrs old playing in Parfett St with my brother & cousin when we heard the salvation army band from a near distance...I said ' Cmon lets go .....' Im the middle kid doing a silly dance in front of the band....im 64 next week! Memories........
I lived in the area in the late ‘60s and Camden Town - an entirely working-class enclave that was also home to a large elderly population - was truly dark, desolate and seemingly devoid of people after about 6 pm. The streets would empty out when the few small shops on the high street closed and the only people in the pubs were Irish construction workers in black Oxfam suits. In about 1968 or ‘69, an independent bookstore called Compendium opened and it began to draw a few young people and, of course, the Roundhouse brought them in on Sundays for Implosion daylong events. What may well have been London’s only ice-cream shop Marine Ices operated opposite the venue. It was a wonderful, peaceful, incredibly safe time - completely unimaginable today.
Those Irish construction workers lived mostly in the pubs. Came here for work and a vast majority of them lived a very lonely life of work and drinking. A lot of their employers would tell them to meet in a pub to collect their wages, and so whilst there, they end up spending it on booze. There's a documentary on here, I think it's called 'The Forgotten Irish' or something similar. Very sad.
@@Steve-K.G. A lot of those Irish, my father and some of the uncles included, ended up at one time or another in the Rowten House on Inverness Street - a vast hostel where you could get somewhere to lay your head after work. Camden Town for the cheap lie down was a phrase I heard often when growing up.
In about 1968-69, every Friday night into early Saturday morning, there was an event called Middle Earth with musicians performing. In about Jan. 1969 I saw the Pretty Things do their rock opera there, with folk singer Melanie 2nd on the bill.
@@DBZ483 Number 29 Hanbury street. It's now a car showroom. When James Mason visited the house he went through to the back yard where the murder was committed but unfortunately he pointed to the wrong place in the yard where the body was discovered.
@@DBZ483 No problem. I recently spent time going round making my own film about the murder's of JTR. Unfortunately I got one part wrong. But never found out till after my film was finished. I will go back one day to correct it.
@@wanderer1955 nice man! There will be mistakes on the way but just like you said keep at it and correct them, would love to see that when it's ready let me know!
Yeah, in 1968, man and you can buy "The Doors Live at the Roundhouse" on DVD (though it is in black and white and was made by and for TV broadcast). There's also a nice boot album of the concert. I got my vinyl version at Skydog Records in Paris in 1975.
Yes, The Doors played at The Roundhouse in 1968. I bought the bootleg vinyl LP "Live at The Roundhouse" at Skydog Records (who I think produced it) which was down a tiny side street near The Louvre in Paris in 1975 along with Tyla Gang's original "Suicide Jockey" single. When we visited Morrison's grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery, in the days when you had to search for it, as there was no assorted shit or graffiti there, I put the vinyl LP cover at the end of the grave and photographed it like a small tombstone. The concert was later released on VHS, then DVD and blu-ray as "The Doors Live at The Roundhouse". "Purty good, purty good, purty neat, purty neat".
How this bloke manages to soldier on year after year while the female co-presenters get ever increasingly younger is a total fucking mystery.. must have shares in ITV is the only thing I can come up with....
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My dad and his company, Compton, made this film, The London Nobody Knows, when I was just starting out in the film business. I even did a tiny bit of work on it as a holiday assistant assistant editor for a few days helping out for Greg Smith and Norman Cohen who were actually making the film. It was and is a real piece of London history and well worth a look.
Abe Blade Any chance of posting it on RUclips?
@@GilbertSyndrome It is on.
I watched it this morning it was very good! I real time capsule. Unfortunately Mason got one or 2 bits wrong though.
Its on TV this Christmas eve 2021 on London live
I was 9 yrs old playing in Parfett St with my brother & cousin when we heard the salvation army band from a near distance...I said ' Cmon lets go .....' Im the middle kid doing a silly dance in front of the band....im 64 next week! Memories........
I lived in the area in the late ‘60s and Camden Town - an entirely working-class enclave that was also home to a large elderly population - was truly dark, desolate and seemingly devoid of people after about 6 pm. The streets would empty out when the few small shops on the high street closed and the only people in the pubs were Irish construction workers in black Oxfam suits. In about 1968 or ‘69, an independent bookstore called Compendium opened and it began to draw a few young people and, of course, the Roundhouse brought them in on Sundays for Implosion daylong events. What may well have been London’s only ice-cream shop Marine Ices operated opposite the venue. It was a wonderful, peaceful, incredibly safe time - completely unimaginable today.
Those Irish construction workers lived mostly in the pubs. Came here for work and a vast majority of them lived a very lonely life of work and drinking. A lot of their employers would tell them to meet in a pub to collect their wages, and so whilst there, they end up spending it on booze. There's a documentary on here, I think it's called 'The Forgotten Irish' or something similar. Very sad.
@@Steve-K.G. A lot of those Irish, my father and some of the uncles included, ended up at one time or another in the Rowten House on Inverness Street - a vast hostel where you could get somewhere to lay your head after work. Camden Town for the cheap lie down was a phrase I heard often when growing up.
In about 1968-69, every Friday night into early Saturday morning, there was an event called Middle Earth with musicians performing. In about Jan. 1969 I saw the Pretty Things do their rock opera there, with folk singer Melanie 2nd on the bill.
16 years to get 179 likes. Crazy. I’d love to see the whole show with James Mason.
He visits the site of Jack the Rippers 2nd victim, amazingly it hadn't changed till they pulled it down.
What part??
@@DBZ483 Number 29 Hanbury street. It's now a car showroom. When James Mason visited the house he went through to the back yard where the murder was committed but unfortunately he pointed to the wrong place in the yard where the body was discovered.
@@wanderer1955 that's crazy man thanks for the response
@@DBZ483 No problem. I recently spent time going round making my own film about the murder's of JTR. Unfortunately I got one part wrong. But never found out till after my film was finished. I will go back one day to correct it.
@@wanderer1955 nice man! There will be mistakes on the way but just like you said keep at it and correct them, would love to see that when it's ready let me know!
I love the female presenter in her chic see-through black top but with a shiny white bra underneath totally spoiling the effect!
It’s working for me. 👍🏻
Yeah, in 1968, man and you can buy "The Doors Live at the Roundhouse" on DVD (though it is in black and white and was made by and for TV broadcast). There's also a nice boot album of the concert. I got my vinyl version at Skydog Records in Paris in 1975.
Yes, The Doors played at The Roundhouse in 1968. I bought the bootleg vinyl LP "Live at The Roundhouse" at Skydog Records (who I think produced it) which was down a tiny side street near The Louvre in Paris in 1975 along with Tyla Gang's original "Suicide Jockey" single. When we visited Morrison's grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery, in the days when you had to search for it, as there was no assorted shit or graffiti there, I put the vinyl LP cover at the end of the grave and photographed it like a small tombstone. The concert was later released on VHS, then DVD and blu-ray as "The Doors Live at The Roundhouse". "Purty good, purty good, purty neat, purty neat".
Sunday 27th February
This is on UK tv at 4.25pm on London Live
@roundhouselondon thanks for the info i know some of that doors gig is on film
did the doors play the roundhouse in the 60's
Yes the Doors and Jefferson Airplane played the Roundhouse for 2 nights September 1968
How this bloke manages to soldier on year after year while the female co-presenters get ever increasingly younger is a total fucking mystery.. must have shares in ITV is the only thing I can come up with....
You see Alastair Stewart every weekend on GB News at miiday!
London when it was still an English city.
Actors pretending to be this or that.