London Sound Survey news

Blog post: George Gissing and the Nether World

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:04:38 +0000

George Gissing was a late Victorian novelist who, among other things, had an alcoholic wife, did a month’s hard labour in prison, and contracted emphysema. [. . .]

Sound action recording: Penny whistle beggar

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:13:34 +0000

Category: Economic - Hustlers and beggars. Description: A beggar sits by a pair of hole-in-the-wall cash machines and plays the penny whistle. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Blog post: On the Hoo Peninsula

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:51:04 +0000

The Hoo Peninsula is a fat tongue of land stuck in the Thames estuary. Its northern flood plain is the largest area of anything approaching wilderness near London.

Blog post: Car wash in three acts

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:06:30 +0000

Had wanted to do this for a while, record the sounds in a car wash, and luckily a friend who’s got a car kindly obliged.

Sound map recording: Car wash New Cross Gate

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:04:56 +0000

Where: Sainsburys car wash, New Cross Gate, south London. Description: Three extracts of different parts of the wash cycle, recorded from inside a car. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:50.

Blog post: At the banger races

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:04:59 +0000

Two or three times a month, Wimbledon stadium in south London hosts stock car, hot rod and banger races.

Sound map recording: Dawn Berwick Street

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:06:05 +0000

Where: South end of Berwick Street, Soho. Description: Clattering of market stalls, barrows and shop shutters as traders begin setting up in Berwick Street. Coughing and sound of a man hawking up phlegm, distant traffic noise. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: Rush hour at Victoria

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:04:27 +0000

Where: Just outside the main entrance to Victoria station. Description: Announcement tones and voices from inside Victoria station, footsteps of passing commuters, trundling of wheeled suitcases. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound action recording: Banger race Wimbledon

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:05:21 +0000

Category: Social - Other. Description: Brief introductory music then a banger race gets underway at Wimbledon Stadium. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:00.

Sound action recording: Banger race preparations

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:55 +0000

Category: Social - Other. Description: Stocks cars and bangers are worked on in the car park outside Wimbledon Stadium. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:46.

London wildlife recording: Dawn chorus Hendon February

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:42:28 +0000

Where: Hendon, north-west London. Description: Dawn chorus with blackbird song prominent. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:19.

Blog post: Sound and sociability

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:08:20 +0000

Recently came across some fascinating material on radio producer Mark Vernon’s Meagre Resource website about tape recording clubs.[ . . .]

Sound map recording: Bookmakers Bethnal Green Road

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:36:00 +0000

Where: Bethnal Green Road, east London. Description: Racing commentators' voices on the TV, customers talk among themselves. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:00.

Sound map recording: Roman Road market

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:34:39 +0000

Where: Roman Road market, east London. Description: Voices of shoppers and stallholders recorded while walking along the street market. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:10.

Sound map recording: Chrisp Street market

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:33:05 +0000

Where: Chrisp Street market, east London. Description: Shoppers' voices and music from a market stall. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

London wildlife recording: Great Tit

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:27:21 +0000

Where: Railway cutting, Telegraph Hill, south-east London. Description: Song of Great Tit. Recordist: IM Rawes: Duration: 0:32.

Blog post: Head-worn mics for under £300

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:15:46 +0000

It really doesn't have to cost a lot to start making field recordings. A small digital recorder and set of half-decent external mics can come in at less than the price of most entry-level digital SLR camera kits.

Blog post: From Kew Gardens to Battersea Bridge

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:06:35 +0000

A belated update on a long day’s recording Saturday before last. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Roadside snack bar Battersea

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:07:20 +0000

Where: Queenstown Road approach to Battersea Bridge. Description: Voice of snack bar owner and sounds of food being cooked, traffic. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:42.

Sound map recording: Atlantic Road Brixton

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:05:30 +0000

Where: Brixton station stairway above Atlantic Road. Description: Voices of people passing below, occasional vehicles, fainter shouts and traffic from Brixton Road. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:42.

Sound map recording: Grand Union Canal Kensal Green

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:02:50 +0000

Where: By the Grand Union Canal opposite Kensal Green cemetery. Description: birdsong from trees and calls of ducks, faint traffic. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:34.

Sound map recording: Kew Gardens conservatory

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:01:41 +0000

Where: Kew Gardens main conservatory. Description: Loud hissing of plant mister then water dripping onto leaves all around. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:08

Sound map recording: Old Oak Common sidings

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:59:31 +0000

Where: Footpath north of Old Oak Common railway sidings, west London. Description: Factory noise and clattering of railway maintenance vehicle. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:14.

Blog post: Rituals of public shaming

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:32:59 +0000

Twenty years ago or more you might have occasionally heard the word ‘sherricking’, as in ‘she gave him a right good sherricking’. It referred to a woman giving her husband or boyfriend a public and relentless dressing-down for his various failings. [. . .]

Sound map recording: 21st floor Balfron Tower

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:47:05 +0000

Where: 21st floor balcony, Balfron Tower, Poplar. Description: Constant traffic noise from the Isle of Dogs to the south, a police siren, faint aircraft noise, a dog barks. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound action recording: St Paul's bells

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:30:16 +0000

Category: Officialdom - Nonverbal signals. Description: The bells of St Paul's Cathedral sound at 1:00pm, recorded from the garden adjacent to the south entrance. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 0:33.

Blog post: Notting Hill Carnival 1984

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:14:06 +0000

Cameron McNall from Los Angeles has very kindly uploaded some recordings of his made in London back in 1984 [. . .]

Sound action recording: Island jam session Notting Hill Carnival 1984

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:02:10 +0000

Category: Social - Notting Hill Carnival 1984. Description: Musicians jam in a small park near the Carnival. Recordist: Cameron McNall. Duration: 13:04.

Sound action recording: Reggae DJ Notting Hill Carnival 1984

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:59:46 +0000

Category: Social - Notting Hill Carnival 1984. Description: A lone DJ plays music in the street. Recordist: Cameron McNall. Duration: 2:36.

Sound action recording: Chelsea vs Liverpool 1984

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:57:21 +0000

Category: Social - Football. Description: Cheering, chanting and applause among Chelsea fans as their team plays Liverpool. Recordist: Cameron McNall. Duration: 2:40.

Sound map recording: Notting Hill pub 1984

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:55:08 +0000

Where: Inside a pub near the Notting Hill Carnival area. Description: Pub ambience with a group of men discussing buying football tickets. Recordist: Cameron McNall. Duration: 0:55.

Blog post: Binaural sounds from Russia

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:48:39 +0000

After highlighting the recent surge in site visitors from Russia, a welcome email arrived from Vladimir of Sergiyev Posad, which is a town some forty miles north of Moscow. [. . .]

Blog post: Night-walking and the poet of Villiers Street

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:14:18 +0000

One of the two reasons why the London Sound Survey doesn’t have search boxes is that they close off the possibility of serendipitous discovery. The other reason is I don’t know how to do them. [. . .]

Sound action recording: Villiers Street poet busker 2

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:02:08 +0000

Category: Economic - Street entertainers. Description: The Villiers Street poet recites a second poem, entitled 'It's a long day, lady'. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:38.

Sound action recording: Villiers Street poet busker 1

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:00:50 +0000

Category: Economic - Street entertainers. Description: A busking poet with a pitch in Villiers Street recites a poem entitled 'A London Ode'. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:07.

Sound action recording: Violin busker Villiers Street

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:59:14 +0000

Category: Economic - Street entertainers. Description: A busking violinist plays on a Saturday night in Villiers Street, central London. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:45.

Sound grid recording: TQ 4023 9205

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:01:43 +0000

Where: Woodford Green near Snakes Lane West. Description: Loud traffic noise, faint birdsong and voices of dog-walkers. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: Atlas pub closing time

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:00:13 +0000

Where: Seagrave Road, West Brompton. Description: People spill out of the Atlas pub into the street, talking and hailing taxis. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: Fulham Broadway tube

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:58:51 +0000

Where: Outside Fulham Broadway Underground station. Description: Night-time revellers laugh and chatter as they gather outside the station. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Blog post: Sound is Art

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:09:51 +0000

Margaret Noble, a US-based electronic musician, runs a blog called Sound is Art which presents a range of fascinating and unusual sound recordings. [. . .]

Blog post: Hello and welcome, Russian listeners

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:08:40 +0000

Server logs show around 15,000 unique visitors so far this month, with a fair proportion of those coming from Russia. [. . .]

Blog post: Crowds and crime in Defoe's 'Moll Flanders'

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:45:40 +0000

Daniel Defoe was a restless and energetic writer who produced over 270 books and pamphlets from the late 1690s to just before his death in 1731. [. . .]

Sound action recording: St Alban the Martyr bell

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:38:46 +0000

Category: Religious - Calls to worship. Description: The bell of St Alban the Martyr, parish church for Holborn, tolls for Mass on a Friday. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:00.

Sound grid recording: TQ 3231 9963

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:16:19 +0000

Where: Whitewebbs Wood, Crews Hill. Description: Constant traffic noise from Whitewebbs Road and the M25 to the north. Birdsong, voices of dog walkers, aircraft drone towards the end. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: Whitewebbs brook

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:55 +0000

Where: Whitewebbs Wood, Crews Hill. Description: Recorded while kneeling beside a small brook. The brook was swollen by recent rain. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: Roadside snack bar Surrey Row

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:05:44 +0000

Where: Junction of Surrey Row and Great Suffolk Street. Description: The snack bar owner hands over some change, an egg fries in a pan, chinks from pots and pans, traffic, a train passes along the nearby viaduct. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:06.

Blog post: Weird Vibrations and the politics of sound

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:40:56 +0000

Some recommendations for other sound-related websites are long overdue, and there’s no better one to begin with than Ben Tausig’s Weird Vibrations blog. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Asda Old Kent Road

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:23:31 +0000

Where: Asda supermarket, Old Kent Road, south London. Description: Loud humming and fainter rattling from chiller cabinets next to the queue for the cigarettes-and-scratchcards counter. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Blog post: Two warm and sunny afternoons in south London

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 14:38:17 +0000

A sound-walk is where the recording is made on the go, rather than in a single location. It’s easy to make one so long as you pay attention to your breathing and don’t wear clothes that rustle or creak as you move. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Brixton afternoon

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 14:36:54 +0000

Where: central Brixton, south London. Description: Market and crowd sounds recorded while walking through central Brixton on a Saturday afternoon. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 6:34.

Blog post: Voices of animals and men

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:21:38 +0000

Following on from an earlier post about budgerigars, I was listening recently to this CD produced by the British Library Sound Archive [. . .]

Sound map recording: Rye Lane Peckham

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:36:03 +0000

Where: Walking south along Rye Lane from Peckham Rye station. Description: Weekday late afternoon on Rye Lane. A busker plays a guitar in the station, sounds of street cleaning vehicle, traffic, butcher's cleaver hitting a wooden block, music from shops, and passersby. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 4:42.

Blog post: Gone to the dogs

Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:14:56 +0000

Greyhound racing, like speedway, was once a mass spectator sport in London. Today the only races left are held at Wimbledon and Romford, the latter being technically in London but spiritually in Essex. [. . .]

Sound map recording: At St Pancras International

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:59:44 +0000

Where: St Pancras station. Description: .A train leaves from the First Capital Connect platforms for Bedford and then various announcements are heard. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:22.

Sound action recording: Ice cream van January

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:49:31 +0000

Category: Economic - Newspaper and other street sellers. Description: An ice cream van prowls the streets of south-east London while sounding its chime. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:28.

Blog post: Wishing you all a happy 2010

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:39:19 +0000

The London Sound Survey has now been online for seven months. In that time, the number of recordings has nearly doubled to around 450. [. . .]

Sound action recording: Rickmansworth steam engine whistle

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:32:04 +0000

Category: Officialdom - Nonverbal signals. Description: A steam engine approaches and sounds its whistle as it travels from Rickmansworth. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 0:40.

Blog post: Toothache hotel

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:31:08 +0000

I had been meaning to record the sounds of hospital environments for a while, but somehow never got round to it. [. . .]

Blog post: Modern voices of authority

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:29:57 +0000

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, controlling unrest is very different to the ‘With a loud voice command’ of the 1714 Riot Act [. . .]

Blog post: A new website feature

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:21:40 +0000

Over a hundred short videos have now been added to the London Sound Survey YouTube channel, where they get a small dribble of views. [. . .]

Sound action recording: Croydon phone card seller

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:30:15 +0000

Category: Economic - Newspaper and other street sellers. Description: A man stands behind a tiny stall and repeats his sales cry for international phone and SIM cards. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:08.

Sound action recording: Croydon beggar

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:29:06 +0000

Category: Economic - Hustlers and beggars. Description: A female beggar sits on the pavement near West Croydon station and asks for money for a cup of tea. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:15.

Blog post: 'Please keep your belongings with you at all times'

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:41:46 +0000

Please keep your belongings with you at all times. Any unattended items could be lost or damaged or destroyed by the security services. [. . .]

Blog post: A warm welcome to Dave Ackrill and Ben Cripps

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:23:13 +0000

More of your recordings have been arriving at the London Sound Survey DropBox, and very much appreciated they are too. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Victoria Embankment

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:37:23 +0000

Where: Victoria Embankment, alongside the ship 'The Wellington'. Description: Water can be heard lapping up to the stairs that lead down into the river. Traffic is waiting at a traffic signal light near Temple Underground station, and moves off when the signal comes off. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: First Capital Connect train journey

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:01:33 +0000

Where: On a northbound First Capital Connect Class 319 train from City Thameslink to Farringdon. Description: The train makes all sorts of weird sighing, creaking and groaning noises but these are normal! Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:52.

Blog post: Bleak House and Babbage's library of sound

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Charles Dickens' acute sensitivity to the dramatic uses of sound makes his novels a good source of auditory descriptions of 19th century London. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Princess Louise pub High Holborn

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:12:23 +0000

Where: High Holborn, central London. Description: Busy atmosphere with hubbub of conversation, bright-sounding due to the interior's mirrors and tiles. Recordist: Dave Ackrill. Duration: 1:35.

Sound map recording: White Hart pub Drury Lane

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:10:36 +0000

Where: Drury Lane, Covent Garden. Description: Busy, warm-sounding pub atmosphere with animated conversations from the clientele and the sound of glasses being collected. Recordist: Dave Ackrill. Duration: 1:12.

Blog post: Some field recording tips

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:03:45 +0000

This is really only a list of things that I try to remind myself of from time to time. There’s no technical tips among them, because you can find plenty of those elsewhere on the internet, written by better-qualified people. [. . .]

Blog post: Out and about

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:38:43 +0000

Saturday just gone found plenty of people in the city centre making music. Oxford Street was of course a human log-jam, but the sounds of a steel band had me quickening my pace to find their origin. [. . .]

Sound action recording: Trafalgar Square carol singers

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:45:09 +0000

Category: Religious - Religious festivals. Description: Carol singers and brass band perform 'Come All Ye Faithful' in Trafalgar Square in the evening. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:44.

Sound action recording: Underpass sax busker

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:43:20 +0000

Category: Street entertainers. Description: A saxophone player gives an impressive and improvised performance while busking in an underpass at Charing Cross. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 4:18.

Sound action recording: Ebony steel band

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:41:34 +0000

Category: Street entertainers. Description: A steel band plays 'Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer' to an appreciative audience of Oxford Street Christmas shoppers. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:08.

Sound action recording: Park Lane beggar

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:39:56 +0000

Category: Economic - Hustlers and beggars. Description: An elderly beggar sits in an underpass beneath Park Lane and politely asks for money. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:27.

Sound map recording: Wood Green tube night

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:38:18 +0000

Where: Entrance to Wood Green tube station, north London. Description: Classical music from inside the station, voices of passersby, traffic noise and other sounds from the street. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:24.

London wildlife recording: Blackbirds Telegraph Hill

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:56:14 +0000

Where: By Telegraph Hill Park, south-east London. Description: Before dawn, blackbirds call from the trees surrounding a small park. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:13.

London wildlife recording: Winter dawn Hampstead Heath

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:54:31 +0000

Where: Hampstead Heath, west of Spaniards Road. Description: Robins, blackbirds, crows and other birds join the dawn chorus around deciduous woodland. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:00.

Blog post: London Sound Survey on Lost Steps/Resonance FM

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:32 +0000

Last Monday I was invited into the Resonance FM studios to talk about London Sound Survey for the weekly Lost Steps program. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Farringdon station

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:37:42 +0000

Where: Eastbound Metropolitan/Circle lines platform at Farringdon station. Description: Sounds of underground and overground trains, crackling from a train's pantograph, station announcements and passengers' voices. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 3:30.

Sound action recording: Steam on the Met 1998

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:03:12 +0000

Category: Social - Other events. Description: An ex-LNER 4-6-0 blasts up Chorleywood bank with a down special during London Underground's 1998 Steam on the Met event. Recordist: Ben Cripps. Duration: 1:33.

Sound action recording: Bank lift voice

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:44:56 +0000

Category: Officialdom - Public transport announcements. Description: Recorded voice and beeps in a lift at Bank Underground station, City of London. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:59.

Sound map recording: Elephant centre night

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:43:30 +0000

Where: Upper gallery of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre, south London. Description: The last shop units in the centre are pulling down their shutters. People talk and loiter in the upper gallery, watching the train departure screen for the adjoining railway station. Sounds of sirens from the streets outside. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:25.

Blog post: VE Day celebrations and a tram's final journey to New Cross

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:03:01 +0000

Two more references to London sounds from around the middle of the twentieth century. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Jubilee Place

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:30:30 +0000

Where: Between Jubilee Place shopping mall and Canary Wharf Underground station. Description: A chilly, impersonal atmosphere with footsteps as people cross the foyer space, and the constant rush of an air conditioning system. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Sound map recording: On the Docklands Light Railway

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:28:58 +0000

Where: On a DLR train at Shadwell station, east London. Description: Two young City workers chat and joke with the train conductor and each other. A recorded voice intones the station name and destination. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1.30.

Sound map recording: Leadenhall drinkers

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:27:17 +0000

Where: Leadenhall market in the City of London. Description: Sounds of evening drinkers and passersby in Leadenhall covered market in the City. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:30.

Sound action recording: St Magnus the Martyr

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:25:45 +0000

Category: Religious - Calls to worship. Description: The bells ring at St Magnus-the-Martyr on Lower Thames Street in the City just before 7pm. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:00.

Blog post: Some auditory curiosities

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:22:00 +0000

The website of the Acoustic Ecology Institute is always worth checking up on, and recently there appeared a couple of interesting links about singing sands. [. . .]

Blog post: Ding dong merrily on high

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:32:42 +0000

. . . the cash tills they are ringing! A lot of the one-to-many sound actions in London are commercially motivated, and with the West End now stuffed full of Christmas shoppers, this afternoon seemed like a good time to try to capture some more of them. [. . .]

Sound map recording: Ridley Road market

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:50:13 +0000

Where: Ridley Road market, Dalston, east London. Description: Stallholders' voices and cries, music from stalls and small shops. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 6:34.

Sound action recording: Leicester Square funfair

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:48:08 +0000

Category: Economic - Fairgrounds and amusements. Description: Showmen's voices at prize-winning stalls and girls' screams on a ride in the small Leicester Square funfair. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:37.

Sound action recording: Hare Krishnas Regent Street

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:24:21 +0000

Category: Religious - Proselytisers. Description: A small group of Hare Krishnas chant as they make their way down Regent Street. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 2:37.

Sound action recording: Toy helicopters Hamleys

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:22:28 +0000

Category: Economic - In-store announcements and promotions. Description: A toy demonstrator in Hamleys gets a bit carried away showing off model helicopters. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:27.

Sound action recording: Magic pens Hamleys

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:20:47 +0000

Category: Economic - In-store announcements and promotions. Description: A product demonstrator shows off a range of 'magic pens' to customers in Hamleys toy shop. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:07.

Sound action recording: Beggar London Bridge

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:19:23 +0000

Category: Economic - Beggars and hustlers. Description: A beggar near London Bridge station asks quietly for some spare change. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 0:16.

Sound action recording: Charlton vs Bristol intro

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:44:25 +0000

Category: Social - Football. Description: Stadium announcer and club anthem at the start of the Charlton Athletic vs Bristol Rovers match. Recordist: IM Rawes. Duration: 1:09.

Blog post: Two great sound references from 'History is Made at Night'

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:43:48 +0000

If you've followed the link on this site to Transpontine, easily among the best London blogs, you’ll also enjoy reading another one by the same man: History is Made at Night. [. . .]