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Wear Sensible Shoes - a Coil Guided Tour of London - Solstice Edition!
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Wear Sensible Shoes - a Coil Guided Tour of London - Solstice Edition!

Who's up for next month's Coil walk?

This is Wear Sensible Shoes, my Coil-centric guided walk that since 2019 has explored London's outer realms.

This year, the three different walks are all around the Solstice week - Sat 20, Sun 21 and Fri 26 June. Good light and good weather followed by rest, refreshments & conversation that usually goes on til dusk.

The walk dips into many locations of the band's biography, song themes, album art, photo shoots and twenty years of associated Coil-lore. The exact locations will be revealed as the walk itself unfolds. Be sure that the city of London is packed with relevant locations and the routes taken merely scritch the surface of Coil's darkly shining domain.

Three price tiers from £22 to £55 as some indoor locations require separate ticketed access.

This year, the walk includes a bonus extra for all attendees. Shadows for Sale will be an ePub digital book which cobbles together the various Coil essays I've written over the last few years, expanded updated and corrected. Plus a few extra relevant images from my own archive. It's currently around 30K words. This will be sent to attendees ahead of the walk along with a few other bits and bobs which will help the walk you attend make sense.

Places still remain and can be booked in advance here:

https://www.stillwalking.org/coil

See you on the Marylebone Road, and of course wear sensible shoes!

u/WearSensibleShoes — 6 days ago

I'm looking for instances of true crime style murders making it into pop music. I only really have The Smiths 'Suffer The Children' about the Moors Murders, and which caused a lot of fuss when it appeared in 1984. Eventually it was recognised for being a sensitive song rather than a sick joke. I'm especially looking for songs about real killers or murders, so not Talking Heads' 'Psycho Killer' or songs that just mention a murder as do a whole lot of murder ballads. The song should be primarily about the murder or killer enough to be obvious to listeners or DJs.

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u/WearSensibleShoes — 10 days ago