Portobello Road Market

That has brought thousands and thousands of new visitors to Leicester Square, which is fantastic.

No, it's very interesting, that, 'cause where I live in near Portobello Market, and you get lots of visitors going there to see the-

Yeah

... sights from the film Notting Hill.

And so, uh, my girlfriend and I, who I went to school with, we went and we'd got fabric in Brixton Market, and we made these hair bows.

Then we went to Portobello Market, got these little v- pretty broaches for £1.

I remember they were £1, now they're about 50.

Um, [laughs] inflation.

I showered.

I went to Notting Hill and went through Portobello Road Market just to make sure that there was nothing there that I wanted.

There never really is.

That market's kind of a bit of a junkyard if you're asking me.

I love waking up and having a really concise wardrobe.

Um, but I also love going to Portobello Market and treating myself to something a bit bonkers and a bit vintagey, but I can afford it-

Yeah

... 'cause I've got money in my pot.

So you will be having to take the tube most days.

And Portobello Market gets extremely crowded on a Saturday.

So weekday mornings, calmer if you'd rather avoid the crush.

But again, a lovely area to stay in.

And he's written this on his lengthy blog about Majesties.

He said, Fleming's working title for Majesties was The Bells of Hell, but Fleming's friend, Nicholas Henderson... who would go on to be the UK's ambassador to the USA, spotted the title Honor Majesty's Secret Service on an old sailing book in Portobello Market, and the rest is history.

Well, that's fascinating, actually.

I never knew that.

And I went out and left that business and, met a guy in a nightclub who had an idea of selling space invaders t-shirts, which I knew nothing about, but it sounded very exciting.

And we started on a market stall in Portobello market.

So I'm not sure how well, you know, well know, how well you know London, but Portobello Market is in Notting Hill.

It's a very famous street market, gets tons of tourists and visitors every year, millions actually.

And that's what we did.

And we've all got unique stories.

I also think we have some element in us that should give back and share any of our learnings.

And so what I did, I set pen to paper and I talked about how I got into business that time at Portobello Market.

If ever there was one, I started to go to Portobello road at weekend.

Someone told me about Portobello road market.

And that was the big change because that had sound systems.

I had reggae blaring out.

I don't need to worry about what's coming next on the set list, et cetera, et cetera.

Ian, let's talk about The Clash.

You've mentioned them in passing a few times now, including, I think you said, Portobello Road Market.

You saw Joe Strummer wandering through at one point.

And Theo and I actually, we called our last supper, ironically.

But we and Daniel walked to Portobello Market and had our favorite falafel for lunch that we loved.

I started having pretty severe panic attack, but I was trying to keep it really, like, on the down low because I didn't want to freak everybody out.

So when they finally left, I crawled back into the living room, and I was trying to distract myself, and this had been going on for a while, like, trying, and I finally turned on the television to just watch anything to keep my mind off of why I was feeling this way and the BBC popped up and it said a plane was missing.