 | 02: Katherine Road London E7 Moving post card The London boroughs that make up this informal area are Barking & Dagenham, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. The total area of this group of boroughs is 318.64 km² and the total population in 2004 was 1.5 million. East London sub regionThe East London sub region of the London Plan additionally includes the City of London which would otherwise be included in Central London, excludes Waltham Forest, but includes the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham which are south of the river and often considered to be either South or South East London. This sub region, the largest in London, contains all of the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone that is in London, on both sides of the Thames within a single sub region. Other organisations including the Learning and Skills Council, the related London East Connexions Partnership and the London Development Agency also use this definition. The sub region had a population in 2001 of 1.9 million. [edit] Present and future East London is today an area of regeneration, with a rising population. The redevelopment of the Docklands area began in the early 1980s, and the Thames Gateway project is now extending regeneration further east, with the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation responsible for planning and delivery of the project in East London. London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics has kick-started regeneration programmes in the area, and is likely to have an impact on house prices. This has been evidenced in August 2005 where East London was one of only three places in England and Wales to have increases in property prices. [1] [edit] Transport East London has seen considerable improvement with transport in recent years and is the focus for further development over the years leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games and beyond. The A12 and A13 trunk roads have been considerably upgraded and the Docklands Light Railway and Jubilee Line Extension constructed. A new extension to the Docklands Light Railway to connect with London City Airport opened in December 2005 while work on an extension under the Thames to connect with Woolwich has already started. Further DLR projects include an extension to Barking Reach and Dagenham Dock, and a direct route, via West Ham, from Royal Victoria to Stratford to connect with Stratford International station on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; itself currently under construction at the heart of Stratford City. Existing transport infrastructure already includes a large network of suburban National Rail routes operated by 'one' and c2c, and the London Underground services of the Central Line and District Line. Transport for London are currently developing an East London Transit scheme for the area and an east-west rail route known as Crossrail is also planned to serve several stations in East London. [edit] History The oldest parts of East London are Tower Hamlets and Hackney. These areas, originally in Middlesex officially became part of London with the creation of the County of London in 1888. The eastern limit of London at this time became the River Lea which was the traditional boundary between Middlesex and Essex. Because the strict planning laws of London were not in force on the eastern side of the river the area began to industrialise quickly in places such as Canning Town and Silvertown, now in the borough of Newham. This area became known as 'London over the Border'. In 1965 the boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham and Havering were incorporated into Greater London. As a legacy of not being in the original County of London, Newham receives less funding, than for example Tower Hamlets, and is campaigning to be officially recognised as an Inner London borough. [edit] Alternative names [edit] East End East London is sometimes erroneously considered interchangeable with the East End of London; however, the traditional East End is a comparatively small area, covering only the innermost (western) parts of East London, centred on Tower Hamlets and part of Hackney, immediately adjacent to the ancient eastern boundary of the City of London. [edit] North East London As no part of London south of the River Thames is considered to be part of East London, North East London would strictly be a more accurate description of the area, and this name is sometimes used to refer to it. For example, there is a North East London strategic health authority and a North East London Assembly constituency (which also covers Islington). The rest of East London is covered by City and East which includes Barking and Dagenham, Newham and Tower Hamlets while Havering and Redbridge form a constituency. [edit] Places in East London BarkingBarkingsideBecktonBethnal GreenBowChadwell HeathChingfordCollier RowDagenhamEast HamEmerson ParkGants HillHackneyHarold HillHainaultHornchurchIlfordIsle of DogsLeytonLeytonstoneLCYLondon RiversidePoplarRainhamRomfordRush GreenSouth WoodfordStratfordUpminsterWalthamstowWansteadWest HamWappingWoodfordWhitechapel [edit] Places of interest Barking Abbey Billingsgate Fish Market Boleyn Ground Brick Lane Market Canary Wharf Columbia Road market Dagenham wind turbines The Diver ExCeL Exhibition Centre Langtons Limehouse Town Hall London City Airport London Gas Museum Lower Lea Valley Museum in Docklands New Spitalfields Market North Woolwich Old Station Museum Romford Greyhound Stadium Romford Ice Arena Stratford Circus Stratford City Thames Barrier Thames Chase Theatre Royal Stratford East University of East London Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia Upminster Windmill V&A Museum of Childhood Victoria Park Walthamstow Stadium Whitechapel Gallery White Cube [edit] See also London Docklands London E postal area Thames Gateway [edit] External links |
 | Somers Town Trailer - Released in UK cinemas 22nd August Tommo, just turned sixteen and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive - he is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads the two to form an unexpected partnership. Unknown to his father, Marek begins hiding Tommo in his flat and the two boys begin to earn money from an entrepreneurial and eccentric neighbour, Graham. Maria, the French waitress at their local café, already a photographic muse for Marek, now becomes more of an obsession for the two boys and the centre of all their attention. When Maria suddenly leaves their lives, the two boys are bereft. Tommo and Marek seek escape through an evening of drunken abandon, but are discovered by Marek's father, who throws Tommo out and all seems lost. Shot in black and white in contemporary central London, Somers Town shows that in alienating urban environments and fractured family relationships, redemption is found through friendship. |
 | Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony One of the legendary liaisons of the 20th century between conductor and orchestra is that of Sir George Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti himself described it as a "love affair" and he influenced the orchestra with the the elegance and impeccable taste of Central European music making. His remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony began in 1954 and he was named Music Director in 1969, a post he held for a phenomenal 22 years. As one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, his readings of the major composers of classical music have often been referred to. The present recordings on DVD show conductor and orchestra at the peak of their music making with three unforgettable works. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London 1978 was a concert of Beethoven's beautiful First Symphony. Sometimes labelled a " farewell to the 18th century", as it is still very much following the structure of 18th-century symphonic music. The concert recording from Chicago in 1979 features two of Schuberts symphonies, his "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8, one of the most universally beloved works in the symphonic repertoire and his lesser played Sixth in C major, known as the "Little Symphony", which he wrote before he was 21 years of age. Directed by Humphrey Burton, the DVD features almost 100 minute concert performance plus an eight minute introduction to Schubert's Symphonies Nos.6&8 by Sir Georg Solti as a bonus film. A fitting hommage to Sir George Solti and his special relationship to „his" Chicago Symphony Orchestra. |
 | ELLIS HOOKS & JON TIVEN: DINGWALLS LIVE BBCRadioANDY KERSHAW Ellis Hooks Until the arrival of Ellis Hooks on the 21st century blues and soul scenes with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the great stories surrounding these musics had already been told and passed into antiquity with the great names assigned to them -- Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James Carr, and Sam Cooke, to name a few. Not so. Ellis Hooks was born in Bayminette, Alabama, between Birmingham and Montgomery. He is the 13th of 16 children born to sharecroppers. According to legend, he didn't own a pair of shoes until he was eight. Hooks began his singing career as a child leading the church choir, but fell under the sway of the soul, blues, and country music his older brothers listened to on the radio. The voices of Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and Little Milton were sheer enchantment for the youth. At the age of 15, Hooks decided to seek his fortune as a singer and left home. He hitchhiked across the United States, working odd jobs, and playing and singing for anyone who would listen on street corners, and eventually landed in New York. In the city he slept where he could, played the occasional club gig on Bleeker Street, and spent many days singing in Central Park. In the storied way Hooks' life has unfolded, Diana Ross heard him in Central Park and, taken with his unique vocal style which blends the soul croon and blues growl, offered him a recording session at the famed Power Station studio. Hooks balked and never showed up, later claiming that he wasn't ready and his songs weren't developed enough. Hooks wasted no time in making his next career move. He earned enough for a one-way trip to Europe and spent time living in Paris, Amsterdam, and in Milan, where he played tube stops and street corners. It's a time he looks back on fondly: "European audiences receive you; they're open and they treat you like family. In the United States you have to fight for every audience member," he told this journalist in an interview. Hooks returned to New York in 1995 where lightning struck for the second time upon meeting producer Jon Tiven. Hooks accompanied a young singer as a chaperone to an audition at Tiven's studio. While the producer was unimpressed with the singer's audition, he challenged Hooks, asking him what he did. Hooks, miffed by the dismissal of his friend, told Tiven he sang. Tiven offered the young man a guitar and a chance to prove it, and a partnership was born. Hooks and Tiven began a working partnership that has yielded no less than three fine recordings. Undeniable was issued on the European Zane label in 2002. Using a backing band under the directorship of Tiven, who plays guitar, keyboards and alto saxophone, and his bass-playing wife Sally, Undeniable caught the ear of critics all over Europe, Time Out, in the U.K., acclaimed it the soul album of the year and it earned Hooks the headline spot on the BBC's World Music Festival on New Year's Day 2003. Hooks toured incessantly,playing club gigs, and he won an opening slot for Terence Trent D'Arby, where he played for over 40,000 people. Hooks also won the admiration of Carla Thomas and appeared at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and Poretta Soul Festival as her special guest. Hooks has issued two more albums. First, there's the rollicking Up Your Mind, on the Evidence label; it was released in late 2003, and garnered Hooks a W.C. Handy Award nomination. March 2004 saw the release of the stunning Uncomplicated (entitled Hand of God in Europe) on the Artemis label, and it gathered a storm of notoriety and praise on both sides of the Atlantic from critics and fans. An album project Hooks worked on in the 1980s, The Godson of Soul, was reissued by Evidence Records on CD in 2005, followed on the label by a new album, Another Saturday Morning, in 2007. Hooks is the true continuum in the celebrated Southern traditions of soul, blues, and gospel; his voice, while reminiscent of some of the greats, is nonetheless his own, and his phrasing is a trademark. Given the powerful nature of his recordings and his now-storied intensity in concert, Hooks may indeed be the artist who brings these historic traditions back into the musical dialogue and onto the charts in the 21st century. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
 | BBC ELLIS HOOKS JON TIVEN GLEN MATLOCK M DITCHAM & A.KERSHAW ELLIS HOOKS & JON TIVEN DINGWALLS LIVE BBC Radio ANDY KERSHAW - " I WAS there and i filmed them". Silvana. Ellis Hooks Until the arrival of Ellis Hooks on the 21st century blues and soul scenes with his now-signature meld of R&B, blues and Southern gospel, it seemed that the great stories surrounding these musics had already been told and passed into antiquity with the great names assigned to them -- Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, James Carr, and Sam Cooke, to name a few. Not so. Ellis Hooks was born in Bayminette, Alabama, between Birmingham and Montgomery. He is the 13th of 16 children born to sharecroppers. According to legend, he didn't own a pair of shoes until he was eight. Hooks began his singing career as a child leading the church choir, but fell under the sway of the soul, blues, and country music his older brothers listened to on the radio. The voices of Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and Little Milton were sheer enchantment for the youth. At the age of 15, Hooks decided to seek his fortune as a singer and left home. He hitchhiked across the United States, working odd jobs, and playing and singing for anyone who would listen on street corners, and eventually landed in New York. In the city he slept where he could, played the occasional club gig on Bleeker Street, and spent many days singing in Central Park. In the storied way Hooks' life has unfolded, Diana Ross heard him in Central Park and, taken with his unique vocal style which blends the soul croon and blues growl, offered him a recording session at the famed Power Station studio. Hooks balked and never showed up, later claiming that he wasn't ready and his songs weren't developed enough. Hooks wasted no time in making his next career move. He earned enough for a one-way trip to Europe and spent time living in Paris, Amsterdam, and in Milan, where he played tube stops and street corners. It's a time he looks back on fondly: "European audiences receive you; they're open and they treat you like family. In the United States you have to fight for every audience member," he told this journalist in an interview. Hooks returned to New York in 1995 where lightning struck for the second time upon meeting producer Jon Tiven. Hooks accompanied a young singer as a chaperone to an audition at Tiven's studio. While the producer was unimpressed with the singer's audition, he challenged Hooks, asking him what he did. Hooks, miffed by the dismissal of his friend, told Tiven he sang. Tiven offered the young man a guitar and a chance to prove it, and a partnership was born. Hooks and Tiven began a working partnership that has yielded no less than three fine recordings. Undeniable was issued on the European Zane label in 2002. Using a backing band under the directorship of Tiven, who plays guitar, keyboards and alto saxophone, and his bass-playing wife Sally, Undeniable caught the ear of critics all over Europe, Time Out, in the U.K., acclaimed it the soul album of the year and it earned Hooks the headline spot on the BBC's World Music Festival on New Year's Day 2003. Hooks toured incessantly,playing club gigs, and he won an opening slot for Terence Trent D'Arby, where he played for over 40,000 people. Hooks also won the admiration of Carla Thomas and appeared at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and Poretta Soul Festival as her special guest. Hooks has issued two more albums. First, there's the rollicking Up Your Mind, on the Evidence label; it was released in late 2003, and garnered Hooks a W.C. Handy Award nomination. March 2004 saw the release of the stunning Uncomplicated (entitled Hand of God in Europe) on the Artemis label, and it gathered a storm of notoriety and praise on both sides of the Atlantic from critics and fans. An album project Hooks worked on in the 1980s, The Godson of Soul, was reissued by Evidence Records on CD in 2005, followed on the label by a new album, Another Saturday Morning, in 2007. Hooks is the true continuum in the celebrated Southern traditions of soul, blues, and gospel; his voice, while reminiscent of some of the greats, is nonetheless his own, and his phrasing is a trademark. Given the powerful nature of his recordings and his now-storied intensity in concert, Hooks may indeed be the artist who brings these historic traditions back into the musical dialogue and onto the charts in the 21st century. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
 | Samsonite Coupons http://www.EscapeTheCycle.com Samsonite Coupons Get Samsonite Coupons savings and cash back, click the link above. The Samsonite company makes luggage from large suitcases to small toiletries bags. It started in Colorado in 1910 by Jess Swayder, as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. Shwayder named one of his initial cases "Samson," after the Biblical figure. The company changed its name to Samsonite in 1966. Samsonite moved its marketing and sales offices from 91 Main Street in Warren, Rhode Island, to Mansfield, Massachusetts, effective 1 September. Samsonite had offices in Taif for 13 years. The building was decorated with an inflatable gorilla three stories tall, which remained along with a Samsonite retail shop at the Main Street building. The gorilla was the company mascot following a 1969 advertising campaign. In July 2007, finance investor CVC Capital Partners took over Samsonite for $1.7 bn. [edit] Iconic advertising campaign In the early half of the 1900s, Samsonite promoted its hard-shell luggage by emphasizing its durability with taglines such as "Strong Enough to Stand On." Samsonite is identified with a 1970's advertising campaign that actually was for American Tourister, a brand which Samsonite did not acquire until 1993. Current advertisements use the gorilla motif and Jurassic Park dinosaurs: "American Tourister: Tough luggage for a tough world." In the American Tourister 1970 television ad, a gorilla pounds a bright-red American Tourister case, throws it around a cage, jumps on it, and finally drags it out the back door. It lasted 15 years, and is cited as an example of "branding," even though the branding has elided in the public mind from American Tourister to Samsonite. The 1969 advertisement was by Roy Grace, who also made the Alka-Seltzer ad "Mama Mia! That's a spicy meatball!" campaign. Ad Age names the gorilla ad one of the top one hundred advertising campaigns of the 20th century. The gorilla campaign was reprised with three new advertisements between 1980 to 1983[3] and again with a gorilla-dinosaur-suitcase vignette capitalizing the 1993 film Jurassic Park, which combined costumes, CGI and animatronics Samsonite Brands Samsonite American Tourister Trunk & Co. Lark Lacoste (bags and small leather goods) Samsonite by Starck Hedgren Timberland (bags only) Where Samsonite is sold A shop at Central, Hong KongCirca 1910-1920, shunned by luggage specialty stores, the company used department stores to sell. The company survived the slowdown of luggage specialty stores (Bentleys and El Portal bankruptcies), the demise of the catalogue showrooms (Service Merchandise, etc.) and new mass merchants (Wal-Mart and Target). Samsonite is distributed primarily through: Samsonite Factory Outlet (US Locations) Samsonite Black Label Stores US Stores (Boston,Ma; New York,NY; Short Hills,NJ; San Francisco,CA; Woodfield,IL; Dallas,TX; Cherry Creek,CO; Santa Clara,CA; Las Vegas, NV ; Paramus, NJ ; Stamford,CT) Samsonite Black Label Stores International ( Brussels, London(Slone St, Bond St, Harrods), Milan, Moscow, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo ETC) Samsonite Classic Stores (King of Prussia,PA ; Ann Arbor,MI ; Arlington,TX ; Tampa,FL ; Concord,CA ; Nashua,NH ; Paris, FR;Antwerp, Belgium ; Amsterdam, NL ; I Granai,Italy ; London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, UK ; Attica, Greece ; Dubai,UAE ;Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Pakistan ; Bangkok,Thailand; Tokyo, Japan; Busan, South Korea; Taipei,Taiwan ; Vivo city, Singapore) Department Stores like Macys in the USA, John Lewis Partnership in the UK and Harrods en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsonite |
 | New York At Christmas - Ed Rambeau music: Richard Currier words: Jim Piazza Traffic, rent and fear make me wonder why I'm here When a homebound train sounds like music to me But come December I suddenly remember That Manhattan is the only place to be... A Santa Claus on every block, Radio City Skyscrapers wrapped with a bow It's Christmas Eve around the clock In New York City Wish you were here for the show Thought it won't be as merry without you tonight I've still got Broadway to make Christmas bright The neon glow of falling snow lights up the city New York is Christmas to me If dreams come true and here they do Soon I'll be seeing New York at Christmas with you If you long for the song of a snow crested lark It's just a subway to old Central Park The neon glow of falling snow lights up the city New York is Christmas to me If dreams come true and here they do Soon I'll be seeing New York at Christmas with you... Light up the City! New York is Christmas to me. © 2007 currier/piazza music Ed Rambeau is one of those rock & roll vocalists from the mid-'60s who ruled for a couple of years, until the band acts overwhelmed him on the radio and as live attractions. A rival to such pop/rock crooners as Tommy Roe, Gary Lewis, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vinton, Joe Tex, (Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons) and Bobby Vee. Rambeau had only one major national hit (ironically, a cover of "Concrete and Clay") but was a reasonably successful songwriter for much of the 1960s. Born Edward Cletus Fluri and from Pennsylvania, Eddie took his aspirations to Philadelphia. He was signed to the Swan Records label, the poorest of the three majors in the city (after Cameo-Parkway and Chancellor) in the hope of being another Frankie Avalon or Fabian and re-christened Eddie Rambeau, chalking up a regional chart single with "Skin Divin'." He recorded for the label into the early to mid-'60s, but never broke on any charts outside of Pennsylvania. In his partnership with producer/writer Bob Crewe he enjoyed his first success as a composer, with the song "Navy Blue," which was a Top Ten hit for Diane Renay in 1964, on Mercury Records. He also co-wrote her next hit single, "Kiss Me, Sailor". Rambeau was signed to Crewe's DynoVoice label when he heard "Concrete and Clay," an original song by the British acoustic/electric rock group Unit Four Plus Two. Rambeau's version, released to catch up with London Records' issue of the British original, followed an identical path up the charts and peaked at the same level as the original in the same week, both making the Top 20 and elbowing each other on radio station playlists up and down the East Coast for much of the spring and summer. Apart from the slightly more spirited reading and perhaps a little less hint of melancholy than the Unit Four Plus Two version, the two records sound almost exactly alike and Rambeau released a virtually identically arranged follow-up song of his own, "My Name Is Mud," co-authored with Crewe and Bud Rehak, as well as a Concrete and Clay album. On his first long-player, Rambeau did lively, if unthreatening, versions of "It's Not Unusual" and "Save the Last Dance for Me," and the early Al Kooper co-authored "I Fell in Love So Easily," which gets a smooth, sophisticated rendition; perhaps the best cuts on the album were "(Look for the) Rainbow" and "Don't Believe Him," on which he sounded uncannily like Gary Lewis. And that pointed up Rambeau's limitations as an artist, as rock music evolved past him. He saw more releases on Dynovoice through the mid- to late '60s and then moved to Bell Records, but most of Rambeau's success after "Concrete and Clay" was confined to songwriting, and he later became a music producer, before turning to acting in the 1970s Ed recorded a few more singles for DynoVoice, including "Good Morning, Starshine," in 1968 which was released under the name Eddie Hazelton (as a nod to Rambeau's hometown of Hazleton). Coincidentally, a few years later Rambeau would appear in the Broadway production of Hair, the musical which spawned "Starshine" among other songs that went on to become hit records. By the early 1970s, Rambeau had turned his attention to acting, and in addition to Hair, he was also a cast member of Jesus Christ, Superstar and Heathen. He also made a guest appearance on the television show "The Secret Storm". In 1976, Rambeau produced the single "The Big Hurt" by The Front Runners, on Tom Cat Records. During the 1980s and 1990s, Rambeau (now going by the name Ed Rambeau) broadened his repertoire to include the easy-listening genre and Broadway show tunes, and he resumed his live performing, mainly on cruises. Today Rambeau continues to record and to keep in contact with his fan base by way of personal appearances, interviews, and the Internet. DiscoverEddie@: http://www.craftweb.org/web/ed/ |
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