Wear Sensible Shoes - The Coil Guided Tour of London
The Coil Guided Tour of London
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Wear Sensible Shoes:
The Coil Guided Tour of London
Meet: Sherlock Holmes Statue, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5RS (outside Baker St Underground) What3words ///solved.shock.folds
Drown yourself in the lost history of Coil’s London - the city that permeated the English experimental band’s art, life and mythology from 1982 through to 1998.
Ben Waddington has created a second guided tour of Coil's London that dips into the locations of Coil’s album art, song themes, biography, photo shoots and twenty years of associated folklore. Wear Sensible Shoes is more than the revelation of locations—some of which will be known to fans already—but gets inside the fabric of the band by looking at the greater dynamic of their lives, motives and outlooks, and how perhaps we can apply their aesthetic and legacy to our own lives. The tour visits around a dozen Coil-related locations from across their timeline, both major and minor, but the exact locations and themes will be revealed as the walk unfolds.
Wear Sensible Shoes works in a two-way, informal and informative environment, meaning our discoveries and conversations will prompt as many questions as answers. Occupying the best part of a day, the ambitious route will be by foot and by London Transport. Accordingly, the group will be limited in size to facilitate movement and participants will be equipped with an itinerary of meeting points. Participants should expect to be mobile for the duration but the afternoon will be interspersed with rest breaks. Bring water and snacks! Wear sensible shoes, obv.
This £22 ticket version of the tour responds to the sold out Sunday original event, which does not visit one weekend-only location and so doesn't include the extra admission price. The tour will instead visit other locations not on the weekend tour.
The Monday tour precedes a chance performance by COH (featuring Ivan Pavlov, formerly of Soisong along with Peter Christopherson) at Café OTO on Tue 25 June. Anyone traveling to London especially has the option of extending their Coil universe accordingly :O)
A waiting list will operate in the event of a sold-out walk; please add yourself and the organiser will contact you if a space becomes available. Refunds will ONLY be possible when a ticket can be re-allocated. Tickets ARE transferable; please contact the organiser to re-assign a name and email to a ticket you can't use.
Full public liability insurance exists for the event.
Wear sensible shoes, obv.
About your guide:
Ben has been a Coil fan since discovering Horse Rotorvator at his local lending library in Manchester in 1987. With his Still Walking organisation, he has explored the possibilities of the guided walk format beyond purely heritage culture. He is the author of the 2023 guidebook 111 Places in Birmingham that You Shouldn't Miss and, along with Spydeee Gasmantell, is the co-author of the 2018 epistolary publication Conscience.