Upper Street

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I mean, I still don't understand why 50% of the shops that open up on Upper Street have still got stepped access.

Or the station near Highbury and Islington has got a ramp, a platform that requires the guards to throw down a manual ramp.

When one station away at Canterbury, there is level access.

happening outside the West End before the sort of rise of the off-West End theatres, the Donmar and the Almeida and places like that.

And now I think their thunder's been sort of stolen by that mid-tier of sort of purpose-built places like Southwark, like the New King's Head, which used to be a pub theatre and is now basically a sort of nuclear bunker under Upper Street.

But yeah, it's great pity.

It's definitely a moment, isn't it? Because it did have a huge impact on UK theaters.

There's quite a lot of pressure on you to get it, you know, get it done, but it's for real.

It's all for real, you know? And, uh, yeah, so, so we would, both of us be, would be doing a lot of pacing, and then I'd be the one to sit down and do the, do the final version with, with, with David prompting, and then there would be the, then there would be the, the trips- Down the road, down to Upper Street, 'cause we were in Islington, uh, to the, to get the pizza.

A quick, very quick pizza, and back again.

[laughs] Right.

What's there?

Well, no, now I'm clear, right? So now I'm on Upper Street, right? And two lanes, so I can go around the scooter or the hazard lights, whatever.

Except you know how some mornings you get every light you roll up to, it turns green, it's just beautiful? Opposite that.

Right.

I stayed because Arsene had come and I said, all right, I quite like it.

And literally, he gentrified Upper Street.

They sort of these, you know, granita opened up in little bars and then people were drinking coffee all the time.

And I think...

It's because you're a hipster.

You would look really good in a retro Arsenal JVC kit on Upper Street because you're all hipster and cool.

It's very Arsenal.

I didn't think I was giving Arsenal vibes, Jase.