Hi there,
It might surprise some of you to know I
have a day job. However, if you know any musicians or songwriters
they all most likely have a day job (unless you are mates with Katy
Perry or someone like that). This is by no means a blog-rant about
the music bizz & the plight of the indie muso & more of a
thing about my new job...
My new job is in Soho, London. I’m
still getting used to that fact.
The past several years I have worked in
the depths of Way West London, for some reason what I do by day
gravitates to that part of the world. I have always lived in North-Northeast London resulting in epic commutes for years.
I have written most of my songs/albums on the tube = FACT!
Now I work in Soho. That’s a nice
sensible place to work, no? It’s the middle of town so anyone can
get there with relative ease. This in itself is a good thing! When
I have a meeting, I can literally pop out and have the meeting, I no
longer have to budget an hour to get there and an hour to get back meaning a 30 minute meeting really takes 2.5 hours of the day.
There are limitless options for lunch.
I heard that Obama’s favourite Hawaiian burger joint opened a
branch in Soho, so I tried the halloumi and sweet potato fries there
= winner! Fancy a burrito? = check! Ah, I could really do with some
proper Italian pizza by the slice = oh there it is! Nice, sunny day?
Why not cue up for Savage Salads? (Savage Salads is my fave Soho
food truck & apparently a lot of other people’s favourite food
truck too). Heck, you could even meet a friend for lunch (unless
you’re working up against the clock on a brief & that DOES
happen - well it's a job after all).
Going for a drink after work doesn’t
mean getting home super late (unless you end up at Trisha’s or The
Pheonix, natch!).
But what I’m finding most interesting
about working in Soho is the Crossrail project. I bet you didn’t
expect me to say that!
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| London's historic 'Astoria' is no more. |
I’m sad The Astoria is gone (although having played there a couple of times, I’m pretty sure there were plenty of rats backstage)... but all in all I’m pleased with this development. For a start it should help commuters & I’m all for that. But what’s cool is my office looks right over it. I can peer into the pit and see the Crossrail developing and changing and it’s really cool. I’m right by the hole where they discovered the Roman Ruins. See? http://www.crossrail.co.uk/sustainability/archaeology/
What’s also funny about the Crossrail
is the number of builders’ conversations I have overheard. It’s
been a hot summer, so I’ve been working with my window open & I suppose they don't know I can hear them. Now,
it’s not been like the famous Diet Coke Ad, believe me! BUT I have
overheard chaps talking about methods they use to chat up a girl in a bar, say. As a girl who hangs around in bars, this interests me. This particular group
of builders seems to like to watch “An Idiot Abroad” - so do I! And I
heard one of them talking about taking his girlfriend to Paris. It’s
sweet & has been an insight into the mind of the average man because men talk differently when a girl is around. I
seem to meet a lot of middle class fopps to be honest (that’s not a
diss, I too am a middle class fopp & I’m fairly sure builders
are more well-off than me and my foppish friends & our low-paid
media jobs funding our flat-shares). Perhaps builders get a bad
wrap. They don’t all wolf-whistle or swear like the stereotype of yesteryear, and yes it's true... some women are known to fantasise about some hot builder whisking them off to Paris, and ladies it would seem that's an achievable goal!
Xx
Piney
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