Advantages: Great food and atmosphere. Disadvantages: Parking for cars and possibly have to queue to get in.
Location and History.
The Hard Rock Cafe in London is situated at Hyde Park Corner. It was formerly a Rolls Royce dealership. 150 Old Park Lane to be precise.
This is the original Hard Rock Cafe, there are now hard rocks all over the world. I have been in this one and also the one in Dublin. 138 in total. They now also have a hotel chain too.
The are all basically the same with artefacts of rock stars past and present adorning the walls and floors.
The centre piece of the London one is a Harley Davidson motorcycle downstairs behind the bar.
I always go to the downstairs bar as im a life memberof HOG (Harley Owners Group) this gives you a kind of VIP status as you never normally have to queue to get in.
The owner normally has his Harley parked outside by the entrance adorned in Hard Rock paintwork.
Recently the cafe has ...
Advantages: Some great songs from bands you may not have heard before Disadvantages: Some poor tunes
disappointed. The Tsunami Bomb remix of 'Roundabout' is really good. I have found Tsunami Bomb to be a bit of a hit or miss band in that you never know whether you will see the good, or the bad side of them. Here, we are truly seeing the good side of them and the quality of the remix really does do them justice and add excitement to the tune. However, on the other track the band have to offer, 'Dawn on a Funeral Day' we unfortunately seem to be experiencing the downside to the band.
A definite stand out band on this CD is Useless I.D. - a band who offer up two fresh sounding songs that are quite happy sounding and you can have a really good dance to. I am not usually a fan of this sort of vibrant, upbeat pop tinged PunkRock music but the band really do it well and as a result really are the highlight of this CD. I would give the two tracks ...
Advantages: Plenty of hits with well written lyrics Disadvantages: None
No, this isn't an album of John Terry and Petr Cech singing, it's a bit of a punk classic. A compilation album covering punk band Chelsea's work from 1978 to 1982. Originally set up by Gene October and containing a band full of talent, initially including Billy Idol , Tony James and John Towe who quickly left with no hard feelings to Generation X while Gene October went through numerous line-up changes and focussed on the more political side of punk. Struggling for decent promotion, the band failed to release much in the way of albums but this album proves they definitely had some top hits.
Gene October's vocals are quite unique, neither raw and raucuous or prim and poppy, they have a stylish 60s sound added to a bloke in the pub belting out a punk anthem. The lyrics tend to be political but are not completelly in your face ...
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