
I was reading an article in the Grauniad the other day , which mentioned a little studio under Putney Bridge. I thought to myself "I've walked past that!". And so my curiosity was rather piqued about the subject of the article, The Xx. Living about five minutes from that studio, on the north side of the River Thames, in a charming if somewhat musically bereft suburb 1 , I've always looked a bit enviously at the south side, where such luminaries as Hot Chip and Burial are from, and Grace Jones now lives (seriously, I've been [...]