This is a place that has fascinated me since I first read about it.
The Cutteslowe Walls location is out to the NE of the city, just off the A40 bypass.
There is an unassuming road junction, and where the 'T' of the junction is, two roads meet, and at one point, walls divided two estates: one rented and one privately owned houses.
A wall was erected for a while, separating the two types of housing.
Perhaps the best album of the year was a long form instrumental piece from the Pat Metheny Group.
Pat Metheny / acoustic, electric, slide, toy & synthesizer guitars, producer
- Lyle Mays / piano, keyboards, toy xylophone, co-producer - Cuong Vu / trumpet, toy whistle, vocals - Gregoire Maret / harmonica - Steve Rodby / acoustic & electric basses, toy violin, cello, co-producer - Antonio Sanchez / drums, toy xylophone
With: - Richard Bona / percussion, toy guitar, vocals - Dave Samuels / percussion
I went to see the concert as part of the tour for this album at the Hammersmith Odeon with my friend Simon. It was awesome. The Way Up was just the first half and then we had loads more classic tracks as well.
Here's a section, filmed in South Korea....
The album has competition from another album released that year.
There are some great tracks on the album. I've heard parts of this album played numerous times over the years since.
The song title is a univerbation of hoppa í polla (the -a in hoppa is not pronounced), which is Icelandic for "hopping into puddles", and the lyrics are mainly in Icelandic, with some nonsensical phrases, a "language" the band calls Vonlenska ("Hopelandic"). As with many of the band's songs, it was given a nickname in the early stages of writing. "Hoppípolla" was "The Money Song", as the band was certain they had written a song which would have commercial success.
