Going underground - 2 comments

The Guardian Unlimited Blog has published a London Underground map that turns the various tube lines into musical genres, and stations into bands and artists, with intersections denoting (not too surprisingly) those artists who have "traversed the genres", in the opinion of its creators.



It's quite clearly a bit of Friday fun for young and hip, PC-bound, Guardianistas (help us reclaim that wonderful word!), though about 50 commenters seem not to have realised that. If I'm able to get over the omission of such luminaries as The Orb, Autechre, A Certain Ratio, Pet Shop Boys, Faust, and The Fall, without condemning the whole enterprise, surely they too can find it in their hearts...

A number of my current favourites seem to be in the Notting Hill area, and even more on the journey from Bow out to Dagenham, which, coincidentally, is the journey that Bill Drummond describes in the 1998 addendum to his and Jimmy Cauty's The Manual, as he dwells upon the success of the KLF, and how the Golden Rules of Pop have changed (or not) since the heady days of 1988.