Unchartered Streets
@uncharteredstreets.bsky.social
London musings by Matt Haynes; also occasional depository for goings on at Sarah Records and suppository for what’s supposed to have gone on.
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South London’s cold, but I like where I’m living...
(Burgess Park, Camberwell, 5th January 2026)
#BurgessPark #Camberwell #SE5 #SE17
(Burgess Park, Camberwell, 5th January 2026)
#BurgessPark #Camberwell #SE5 #SE17
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
South London’s cold, but I like where I’m living...
(Burgess Park, Camberwell, 5th January 2026)
#BurgessPark #Camberwell #SE5 #SE17
(Burgess Park, Camberwell, 5th January 2026)
#BurgessPark #Camberwell #SE5 #SE17
Some people say there’s no better way to spend a cold, wet Tuesday evening in December than sitting in a cold, wet West Stand at Brisbane Road watching Orient fail to beat Luton Town. Some people are idiots. But this is East London, so… come on you O’s.
#leytonorient #lofc
#leytonorient #lofc
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Some people say there’s no better way to spend a cold, wet Tuesday evening in December than sitting in a cold, wet West Stand at Brisbane Road watching Orient fail to beat Luton Town. Some people are idiots. But this is East London, so… come on you O’s.
#leytonorient #lofc
#leytonorient #lofc
Santa! Noooooo!!! You’re my besht mate… I bloody love you…
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Santa! Noooooo!!! You’re my besht mate… I bloody love you…
Ishh… issht beginning to look a lo… a lollike Chrisshmash…
[Green Lanes, Saturday, somewhere south of Manor House station…]
[Green Lanes, Saturday, somewhere south of Manor House station…]
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ishh… issht beginning to look a lo… a lollike Chrisshmash…
[Green Lanes, Saturday, somewhere south of Manor House station…]
[Green Lanes, Saturday, somewhere south of Manor House station…]
Some photos from yesterday’s walk from Aldgate to Enfield via Green Lanes: repurposed clocktower from the Eastern Fever Hospital in Hoxton Community Garden; Wood Green (for those of us of a certain age who grew up listening to Capital Radio, this will always be Wood Green Shopping City); [1/2]
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Some photos from yesterday’s walk from Aldgate to Enfield via Green Lanes: repurposed clocktower from the Eastern Fever Hospital in Hoxton Community Garden; Wood Green (for those of us of a certain age who grew up listening to Capital Radio, this will always be Wood Green Shopping City); [1/2]
Having spent last Saturday walking an ancient route (Roman Ermine Street) from the City to Enfield, we thought this week we'd walk from the City to Enfield along the old drovers' road from Hertfordshire, aka Green Lanes. First, though, breakfast at Copper Coffee in Aldgate (view from the top floor).
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Having spent last Saturday walking an ancient route (Roman Ermine Street) from the City to Enfield, we thought this week we'd walk from the City to Enfield along the old drovers' road from Hertfordshire, aka Green Lanes. First, though, breakfast at Copper Coffee in Aldgate (view from the top floor).
Our walk up Ermine Street on Saturday took us through Tottenham and past this great glassy lump. Orient are currently planning a new stadium too, and the fact that we’ve just engaged the very same architects that Spurs used has got a lot of people extremely excited indeed; [1/2]
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our walk up Ermine Street on Saturday took us through Tottenham and past this great glassy lump. Orient are currently planning a new stadium too, and the fact that we’ve just engaged the very same architects that Spurs used has got a lot of people extremely excited indeed; [1/2]
Having already hoofed it like a Roman down Stane Street and Watling Street, we spent yesterday walking out of London along another ancient trackway, Ermine Street, following it from Bishopsgate to Edmonton; we’d hoped to reach the M25 and Waltham Cross, [1/2]
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Having already hoofed it like a Roman down Stane Street and Watling Street, we spent yesterday walking out of London along another ancient trackway, Ermine Street, following it from Bishopsgate to Edmonton; we’d hoped to reach the M25 and Waltham Cross, [1/2]
Bit late with this, but… Colours Yet To Be Named, the gorgeous new album by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, is a bewitchingly beautiful thing, all hazily layered atmospherics that dissolve into crystalline, heart-melting tunes with words that haunt and linger. It's as good as [1/2]
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Bit late with this, but… Colours Yet To Be Named, the gorgeous new album by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, is a bewitchingly beautiful thing, all hazily layered atmospherics that dissolve into crystalline, heart-melting tunes with words that haunt and linger. It's as good as [1/2]
Pigeons in puddles!
(One for old readers of Smoke: a London Peculiar…)
#WalworthRoad #ElephantAndCastle #Camberwell
(One for old readers of Smoke: a London Peculiar…)
#WalworthRoad #ElephantAndCastle #Camberwell
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pigeons in puddles!
(One for old readers of Smoke: a London Peculiar…)
#WalworthRoad #ElephantAndCastle #Camberwell
(One for old readers of Smoke: a London Peculiar…)
#WalworthRoad #ElephantAndCastle #Camberwell
A 3-hour walk through East London in the rain, then 2 hours in a freezing West Stand seeing Orient fail to score in the rain - small pleasures Premier League fans will never understand. Don't think much of the Blackpool team bus, by the way. This is East London, come on you O's.
#leytonorient #lofc
#leytonorient #lofc
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A 3-hour walk through East London in the rain, then 2 hours in a freezing West Stand seeing Orient fail to score in the rain - small pleasures Premier League fans will never understand. Don't think much of the Blackpool team bus, by the way. This is East London, come on you O's.
#leytonorient #lofc
#leytonorient #lofc
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Watering the pitch? Today??? This is East London. Come on you O's.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Watering the pitch? Today??? This is East London. Come on you O's.
Juxtapositions.
(Hackney Wick, en route to Brisbane Road.)
(Hackney Wick, en route to Brisbane Road.)
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Juxtapositions.
(Hackney Wick, en route to Brisbane Road.)
(Hackney Wick, en route to Brisbane Road.)
Also this, outside St George’s in Beckenham, a church which, coincidentally, has possibly the UK’s oldest lychgate. I did say “coincidentally”. And also “possibly”. (It’s 13th century.) So, if you want to feel Bowie’s magic as the cool cats of Beckenham once felt it, head to St George’s on the 21st.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Also this, outside St George’s in Beckenham, a church which, coincidentally, has possibly the UK’s oldest lychgate. I did say “coincidentally”. And also “possibly”. (It’s 13th century.) So, if you want to feel Bowie’s magic as the cool cats of Beckenham once felt it, head to St George’s on the 21st.
Three more photos from our trip deep into the London Borough of Bromley, which is so proud of “former Beckenham resident and entertainer David Bowie” that it’s painted an Aladdin Sane lightning bolt on the pavement outside Zizzi.
#Beckenham #DavidBowie
#Beckenham #DavidBowie
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Three more photos from our trip deep into the London Borough of Bromley, which is so proud of “former Beckenham resident and entertainer David Bowie” that it’s painted an Aladdin Sane lightning bolt on the pavement outside Zizzi.
#Beckenham #DavidBowie
#Beckenham #DavidBowie
On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
Highlights from the Catenary Wires on Saturday were the gorgeous Things I Love, with its namecheck for The Fall and @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social’s vocal as beautifully, perfectly fragile and tremulous as I remember from that first gig at the Arnolfini back in 2014, and Mirrorball, surely the [1/4]
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Highlights from the Catenary Wires on Saturday were the gorgeous Things I Love, with its namecheck for The Fall and @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social’s vocal as beautifully, perfectly fragile and tremulous as I remember from that first gig at the Arnolfini back in 2014, and Mirrorball, surely the [1/4]
A photo of @brianbilston.bsky.social from last night’s fantastic gig with the Catenary Wires. Songs being poems and poems being songs and guitars being utter guitars – what more could you want? Tickets still available for the rest of the tour. @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social [1/2]
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A photo of @brianbilston.bsky.social from last night’s fantastic gig with the Catenary Wires. Songs being poems and poems being songs and guitars being utter guitars – what more could you want? Tickets still available for the rest of the tour. @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social [1/2]
I was always so impressed that @clarewadd.bsky.social did her first fanzine when she was just 16; when I was 16, I was still hiding away in my bedroom, listening to John Peel with a tape recorder jammed up against the transistor radio… it hadn’t occurred to me I could actually be a part of all this…
Really pleased I made it to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social for the Music Leeds Us exhibition today - in which me and my old fanzines feature a tiny bit. A really nice trip down memory lane with lots of old gig tickets, posters and exhibits reminding me of my early gigs in the mid-late ‘80s.
November 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I was always so impressed that @clarewadd.bsky.social did her first fanzine when she was just 16; when I was 16, I was still hiding away in my bedroom, listening to John Peel with a tape recorder jammed up against the transistor radio… it hadn’t occurred to me I could actually be a part of all this…
This morning I discovered – somewhat belatedly, on account of not being very cool these days – that there’s a band in Shenzhen called Atta Girl, named after the Heavenly classic; and it got me wondering whether any of the members of Heavenly had ever gone on to do anything else interesting, [1/3]
As excitement mounts for the Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires tour (starting on Thursday), we’ve produced this short video explaining the exclusive tat/merch available at each show.
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This morning I discovered – somewhat belatedly, on account of not being very cool these days – that there’s a band in Shenzhen called Atta Girl, named after the Heavenly classic; and it got me wondering whether any of the members of Heavenly had ever gone on to do anything else interesting, [1/3]
The lights went out when I was halfway down the cereal aisle in Morrisons this afternoon. I look on this as an omen. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. [1/2]
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The lights went out when I was halfway down the cereal aisle in Morrisons this afternoon. I look on this as an omen. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. [1/2]
Whenever we wanted to annoy the bands, which was surprisingly often, we used to claim that the best thing on Sarah Records was Saropoly, the board game we made to celebrate our fiftieth release. And now this gorgeous [1/4]
Saropoly - Sarah Records
Saropoly There’s more to popmusic than seven-inch-diameter plastic discs with grooves cut in them; in fact, seven-inch-diameter plastic discs with grooves cut in them have mostly had very little to do...
sarahrecords.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Whenever we wanted to annoy the bands, which was surprisingly often, we used to claim that the best thing on Sarah Records was Saropoly, the board game we made to celebrate our fiftieth release. And now this gorgeous [1/4]
Back in 1986, when I was working on the fourth issue of my old music fanzine, @leytonorientear.com published its first. I managed to do one more. The Orientear have done another 299. I'm not sure what this proves. But it seems good reason for a beer. As does Orient 1 Lincoln 0. So, two beers...
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Back in 1986, when I was working on the fourth issue of my old music fanzine, @leytonorientear.com published its first. I managed to do one more. The Orientear have done another 299. I'm not sure what this proves. But it seems good reason for a beer. As does Orient 1 Lincoln 0. So, two beers...
I’m a bit late with this, given we got back over a month ago, but – a small piece of travel advice. If you’re going to Lyon from Paris, Trenitalia’s Frecciarossa is about half the price of the French TGV. If you choose the Silenzio (“Quiet”) coach instead of the Allegro (“Party!”), though, you [1/2]
October 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’m a bit late with this, given we got back over a month ago, but – a small piece of travel advice. If you’re going to Lyon from Paris, Trenitalia’s Frecciarossa is about half the price of the French TGV. If you choose the Silenzio (“Quiet”) coach instead of the Allegro (“Party!”), though, you [1/2]