Carnaby Street

Advantages: Different shops, unique, less crowded than Oxford St, near oxford circus tube, easy to get to
Disadvantages: None

...This review is way out of date, Carnaby Street has changed a lot over the past few yrs. Ignore it. Introduction ~~ Carnaby Street, well it was once the place to go in the 60's and 70's but now it's a bit less well-known. Which I think is rather good as it is less-crowded than Oxford St, Covent Garden, Regent St, etc. Location ~~ Carnaby Street could not be in a better location. It is just 3 or 4 minutes from Oxford Circus. tube station and is also within easy reach of Marlborough St and is no more than a 15 minutes walk from anywhere in Soho. Shops ~~ The shops in Carnaby St. vary quite a lot from trendy fashion shops to the old cheap and tacky tourist shops. My favourite particular shop on Carnaby St. is the Mambo shop. If you haven't heard of Mambo they are a Australian surf/skate brand. Well I did mention cheap...

Disillusioned 06.09.2001 · Read review
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i do not rate carnaby street

Advantages: Famous Landmark
Disadvantages: Over rated, over priced, over crowded

...I am going to upset some people by writing this, but i do not like visiting Carnaby Street at all! To me, Carnaby Street is awful. 75% of the shops are full of the same stuff; Tee Shirts and Posters of film and music stars, cheap sunglasses and shoes and hats, all of which is abundant in nealy every other shop along Oxford Street, Camden Market and most other 'tourist oriented' shopping areas. I have also been told by the 'older' generation, that Carnaby Street used to be an amazing place during the 60's and 70's, full of individualism and fun. They, like me, do not see that now. To give credit where it's due, there is an amazing but pricey Computer Console Games shop which specialises in Import Games stuff, but to be honest, for great clothes and records etc, cut through one of the side roads off Carnaby Street (it runs...

mbmb11 16.03.2001 · Read review
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Less Austin Powers, more surf, skate and flowers.

Advantages: one-off shops you won't find anywhere else
Disadvantages: commercial crap in between, not what it was!

...Austin Powers has a lot to answer for. According to him, Carnaby Street was the swinging sixties place to be seen, a pyschadelic shopping mecca full of funky boutiques selling Pucci prints and Mary Quant minis, Biba bib-front dresses and Paco Rabanne perspex jewellery. If you're expecting that now, you may feel a bit let down when you do get there. There's no psychadelia, no Union Jack topped VW beetles and no zebra crossings. Carnaby Street is in fact a relatively small pedestrian zone nestled behind Liberty, and running parallel with Regent Street in the heart of London. Once you get over the fact it's only about 100m long, you realise Carnaby Street does maintain some of that funky, trendy charm that it had in the 60s. It's the slightly less crowded alternative to Covent Garden, a street lined with funky boutique-like specialist...

PrincessGem 07.12.2003 · Read review
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A brilliant shopping experience

Advantages: Great shops
Disadvantages: Is a bit expensive

...Carnaby Street must be one of the best shopping streets in London, never mind in the Country! Having visited Carnaby Street on a number of occasions, it's one of those places where the time just flies by while you wander round all the little shops. Situated near to Regent Street and Oxford Street, the nearest tube station is Oxford Circus tube. There's shops galore down here selling things like clothes, shoes, nicnacs, and everything that you completely associate with London and the tourist industry. Famous more so in the sixties for the trendy fasion styles back then, people shopped here for all the weird and wacky outfits that were on sale. Once, while shopping in London, my feet were killing me. (My fault for wearing the wrong shoes!). As I was then down Carnaby Street, I popped into a shoe shop, looking for a more...

Louise90 16.03.2001 · Read review
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You should never go back

Advantages: Shopping ... if they are selling what you want to buy, I guess.
Disadvantages: Tacky, mainly souvenir places now, the magic is long gone.

...That Carnaby Street has a place in history as the fashion spot of the Swinging Sixties is a fact. Here, the Mods got their clothes, Mary Quant became famous, and anyone who was anyone back then shopped here. Back then, Che Guevara smouldered from posters, tee-shirts and flags, a revolutionary who was a hero to many and yet most knew very little about why. Situated off Regent Street in London's West End, this little street had a big reputation back then. Easily reached from Oxford Circus tube station, it is accessible for people in wheelchairs as well as the able-bodied. Unfortunately, despite various attempts over the years to rejuvenate the area, it is now looking decidely tacky and a lot of the shops are full of the same tee-shirts and tourist-y stuff as each other. There are a couple of nice little shops down there, one has...

poet831 26.07.2001 · Read review
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Get on your Vespa, the Mod Revival Starts Here

Advantages: Shops for everything, trendy to the extreme and generally fab! Dig that swinging vibe etc...
Disadvantages: A few tacky souvenir stores, and some of the shops are expensive (you gotta pay to look good, baby)

...Back in the sixties, or so I'm told, Carnaby Street was the centre of all that was hip in Swinging London and was quite possibly The Coolest Place On This Planet®. Back then, you were nobody unless you rode a scooter (except, of course, if you were a rocker, in which case you wouldn't be seen within ten miles of a Vespa), wore clothes which you knew your mother wouldn't approve of, and worshipped the new found ideas of youthful creativity and being generally "groovy". Of course, that's all in the past, and nowadays the only scooter you're likely to see is one of those little metal things being ridden by a rather ashamed yuppy, so why am I doing a review of Carnaby Street? Surely a place like this is now as dead as a Lambretta after a nasty encounter with a postal van(see Quadrophenia). Well apparently not, as a recent visit to London has...

ClangerWrangler 11.08.2001 (13.08.2001) · Read review
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Street Lurvin'

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: A couple of tunes lack energy

...The Atlanta R&B singer Lloyd (Polite) released his second album in 2007. The record, ?Street Love? featured some of his most well-known tracks, and although he broke through with his debut, this is the album which had him really come up with some of his highest-quality work. 1. ?Lloyd? (Intro) 2. ?You? Samplign Spandau Ballet?s ?True?, this one finds the artist doing a banger of a collaboration with Lil? Wayne, in the time when Weezy started off his streak of featured tracks designed as a build-up to his ?Tha Carter III? album. It gets this thing underway well and shows off his incredible vocals form the get-go. **Five Stars** 3. ?Certified? It is Jazzy Pha who is seen to behind this one, and it appears that he really knows what to do (based upon his Crunk & B work with other Atlanta R&B singers, and so in order to bring in that...

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Well past it

Advantages: the public loos
Disadvantages: Unclassy tourist tat!

...I have to add my two penn'orth on this one! As a young teenager, I hung around with a gang of kids who were all into Mod styles (I often wondered why they mocked my quiff!) and so Carnaby Street was THE place to be seen. Apparently. Personally, I couldn't make the leap of imagination from the hype from yesteryear, when Carnaby Street was 'swinging', to the mid-80s, when it just sucked. And I don't think it's improved since, either. Sometimes I wonder if the hype WAS only hype - perhaps the place was never really that hip. There's the usual London tourist junk: wacky t-shirts, mugs, badges, big hats. But expect to pay a premium on things that you'll find in tatty shops all over the capital. There's not even really a scene, as far as I can tell; you don't see as many teenagers 'hanging around', just shoppers walking up and down...

faithbuck 29.08.2001 · Read review
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Street Hawk

Advantages: Partially entertaining
Disadvantages: a bit far fetched and sometimes dull

...Creators: Bruce Lansbury, Paul M. Belous and Robert Wolterstoff. Directors: (Various including) Birgil W. Vogel, Richard Compton, Daniel Haller and Joel Zwick. Producers: (Various including) Burton Armus, Paul M. Belous, Robert Wolterstorff and Medora Heilbron. Writers: (Various including) Hannah Louise Sheare, Burton Armus, Deborah Dean Davis and Robert Wolterstorff. Stars: Rex Smith, Joe Regalbuto, Richard Venture and Jeannie Wilson Released in January 1985 this short lived series lasted only until May of the same year? creating 13 quite good 50 minute episodes about a rather special motorbike. ** BRIEF IDEA ** When ex-police officer Jesse Mach, (played by Rex Smith) is chosen by federal agent Norman Tuttle, (played by Joe Regalbuto), to trial "Street Hawk", a top secret creation of a futuristic and very powerful...

blissman70 08.11.2008 · Read review
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Straight from the Street

Advantages: fascinating, in depth, great price, amazing read, good length
Disadvantages: none

...In all honesty, my relationship with ITV soap Coronation Street has declined a lot over the past few months. I think I have watched one episode this year, and that was a repeat from last December. However, even though I may not keep up with the storylines, there are indeed several members of the cast who I completely worship. One of these is the fantastic William Roache. William Roache plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street, a very intelligent and short-tempered man. Roache was born in 1932 in April, and from this book it is clear that he has led a very interesting life, though one that may seem normal to him. He was awarded an MBE in 2000 for his service to Coronation Street, and he is now the only original cast member left. Though its not only the MBE that makes Roache a fascinating and amazing man! In 2007 Roache published his...

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