Vertical London (New Year’s Day)

Tracklist

• 1
  Early birds and planes in Loughborough Junction
  0:40
• 2
  I am not sure which tube station is the furthest below sea level, but I am visiting quite a few
  2:13
• 3
  Under the Thames with cyclists, joggers and echoes in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel
  3:18
• 4
  Popping up at Island Gardens
  2:45
• 5
  The DLR is quite possibly the best sounding London train, electromagnetically speaking
  2:02
• 6
  Celebrating a squeaky transport barrier
  2:33
• 7
  Walking through Soho with tourists and delivery guys
  4:16
• 8
  Arriving in Bloomsbury: yes I heard my first 'Happy New Year'
  2:44
• 9
  An inaugural trip to Kilburn, which I have always wanted to visit because Doreen Massey lived here
  2:53
• 10
  Overground then all uphill to Hampstead, a whispered neighbourhood of private security signs
  2:07
• 11
  Daydream interlude (eating a not very nice lunch)
  1:23
• 12
  Dramatic build-up to when I dipped into the shopping centre to find a man playing piano outside Aldi
  4:00
• 13
  Why did I decide to go all the way across town to Crystal Palace park?
  4:04
• 14
  I should never have doubted coming to Crystal Palace, a wonderland of crows and dinosaurs
  1:40
• 15
  It was New Year's Day after all, and yes someone really was playing this at the overground station
  2:59
• 16
  I don't think you can hear but people largely discussed dogs all the way back to central London
  2:37
• 17
  A very long queue for the London Eye which is quite shit, and has awful commentary, although the view to be fair is beautiful
  1:27
• 18
  Dramatic drummers on the street as I ran due to being late for my Shard viewing platform booking
  1:16
• 19
  Taking two lifts inside the (rather divisive) Shard
  2:16
• 20
  ‘Hello everyone and welcome to the View’, a sort of cupboard / bar, with London stretched out and twinkling below
  1:06
• 21
  Said cupboard / bar is closing soon but let's have a cocktail still
  1:09
• 22
  Tipsy aboard a Thameslink chariot home on this first day of 2026
  1:59

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  Vertical London (New Year’s Day)

  Digital Media
  17 July 2026