Marylebone

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just down the road in Marylebone at Vitsu, where we've been for the last, I think, two, maybe three years.

We're going back there to hold it.

It's an afternoon.

Gavin Rossdale, he's the lead singer for the band Bush.

Gavin's 61, born in Marylebone, England in 1965.

Helped co-found Bush in 1992.

Now, their original name, yeah, they were the Baby Animals.

Cultured.

The Wallace Collection in Marylebone, which is so good and so worth your time.

And there was a woman there who was the most incredible art historian who did a guided tour.

And I loved it so much.

His parents ran a shop.

and they were a kind of Greek extraction but they ran a shop in Marylebone just around the corner from where I was born and I went to school in Marylebone I lived down the road in St John's Wood in London which was only about a mile or two away but I went to school in Marylebone as well and I still go there regularly to meet up with all my mates we go to a pub and round the corner from Cat Stevens' parents' shop.

I'll have to tell them when I go next time.

But anyhow, this is Cat Stevens and Kitty.

I'm going to cough in a minute.

So excuse me.

ah there you go perhaps he will catch me up now but uh yeah so we were we were good mates we went to the isle of wight festival together and i gave him a guitar and he taught himself you know what i kind of taught him to the rudimentary guitar when we were kids and yeah you know we were kind of saw him on and off you know when he was really famous and i was not really famous not that i ever have been but um i'm a bit more famous than i was back in the 70s when i wasn't famous at all and in the 80s and 90s i got a bit more well known and still i am you know stewart is still around making music but i haven't seen him now for a getting on for 20 years, you know, although, you know, he occasionally mentions me in interviews and stuff, you know, in glowing terms, I have to say, you know, he recounts a story about when we bumped into Mark Bolan in the park, and he was a big Bolan fan, and I said, well, go over and talk to him, and he did, and he got Mark Bolan's autograph, and he tells that story, I was with my mate Nick, and yeah, we were all mates together, you know, when me and my London chums meet up, which we do about three or four times a year in a pub in Marylebone.

He's one of the ones who isn't there anymore.

As always, I'm your host, Zoe Getzman.

For this month's episode, we're taking you to Marylebone, London, where we recorded live at Spilt Milk, the debut solo exhibition of British figurative painter, Alice King.

Alice explores the emotional and psychological realities of womanhood through contemporary figurative painting and self-portraiture.

Her latest exhibition, Spilt Milk, delves into the psychological perspectives of women exploring the complexities of female identity, vulnerability, and the experiences women are often expected to keep hidden.

We'd have got a couple of manuscripts.

And we really were chancing it, you know? But I remember saying to my business partner, Yvonne, right, we've no money, but we have to stay in the landmark in Marylebone.

It's like a five-star hotel.

We have to be seen.