From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #175 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, July 8 2001 Volume 06 : Number 175 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: White City revisited ["Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: White City revisited Just a little vindication... Ages ago, Jon wrote in response to Tim: > (Tim) 3) Drug cathedral shape of an Octahedron in the White City > : I like to think this is the BBC Television centre Building > opposite White City Tube station but of course the BBC dont do > drugs do they..... > Seriously though - Milton Keynes ? > > (Jon) I remember reading an article back in 1984 from Thomas > where he explained about this song. Maybe I dreamt it but I'm > sure that this is about Keith stuck in the bleakness of Milton > Keynes, which for those not in the know is a 'new' town built > from scratch in the 70's smack in the middle of green fields. > Milton Keynes was designed in a strange shape with streets > radiating out of central boulevards with underground walkways > and the like... Well, Jon, I recently bought a copy of the Feb. 11, 1984 issue of Record Mirror in which TMDR discusses The Flat Earth and says: "Then there's 'White City', which is set very much in Milton Keynes on a sunny Sunday morning with this incurable hippy character who couldn't really relate to the modern world, so he builds this Utopian setting, but then finds out he doesn't like it very much. Robyn Hitchcock was the clotheshorse for this character, Keith." So there ya go! Europa ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #175 ***************************