Northumberland Street

Yes.

And he had one of the biggest flagship stores outside of London on Newcastle in Northumberland Street.

and so he was kind of he was cutting a business shape for himself and he had two very good partners Phil Mitchell and Paul Lydford and between them and with us they just used every talent they had to kind of push things now they were the management but they also became Kitchenware Records And they were a record label until they could sign us to record labels.

And that was for all of the labels, for all of the bands on the label.

Spot on, Steve.

Northumberland Street and the buskers, man.

How loud.

Alan, I wrote a poem about it, as you know, the other week.

It's, you know, there's people down there can't sing now, man.

Northumberland Street's a mess.

It's an absolute mess.

I was up there again today and, you know.

So when you come back, you're away for long periods of time.

What's it like walking through Newcastle City Centre for you these days? Do you think it looks better? Do you think it looks worse? They've spent the best part of two years trying to do the Northumberland Street Open.

I'm not a fan of what they've done, to be fair.

Yeah, well, if that's the one thing I was going to mention, the Thumblin Street, which is meant to be your flagship street, isn't it, for Newcastle? And the few times I've been over in the last few years, it's always been blocked off, closed, there's works going on, and now it's apparently open.