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Shovell of M People and Lee Bennett at Camden Lock
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Chilli Peppers back walkway for the stars
CAMDEN’S streets could soon be paved with gold discs in a musical imitation of Hollywood Boulevard.
Rock giants the Red Hot Chili Peppers are already backing plans to create a walk of fame, and have promised to visit should they be honoured.
New Journal readers are being invited to help by voting on how they would like chosen musicians to be immortalised.
The present designs are gold discs as plaques or paving stones bearing band or artists’ names. Organisers are hoping to include hand or footprints of the stars themselves.
Artists will then be invited to an unveiling ceremony.
Lee Bennett, who used to run bar WKD in Kentish Town Road, and now runs SIN in the West End, has enlisted Camden’s venue owners as well as big names in the music industry to turn his plans into a reality.
Mr Bennett said: “The more people I speak to about this, the more it seems this is what everybody wants to see happen.
“This will put Camden even more on the worldwide radar. When I spoke to Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers when they were here a few weeks ago he said: ‘It sounds amazing. If we get a stone we will definitely fly over for the unveiling and play a gig for the people of Camden’.”
There will also be an annual musical event to raise money for music charity Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Trust.
Representatives from MTV, the Roundhouse, NME, Metropolis Music, Camden Council Arts and Leisure department, Barfly, and Camden Police will form part of a 25-strong panel making the final decisions on the musical walkway before they are presented to the council.
But, most importantly, Mr Bennett is looking for comments and opinions from New Journal readers.
He said: “I want them to say which they like, paving stones or plaques or both, what do they think of the whole idea? Will they back it?”
Opinions can be sent to ukwalkoffame@hotmail.co.uk. |
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