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Guided tours worth booking: walks led by people who know the streets, and the bus, river and cycling tours that earn their fare. Open one and the map shows the ground it covers, from where it meets.
Fifteen musicians were each given a spot along the railway viaduct and asked to write about it. Walk the line and listen.
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The Low Line is the name Southwark has given to the Victorian stock-brick viaduct that runs from Bankside through London Bridge to Bermondsey, and to the slow work of opening up the arches under it. Musicity's part was to hand fifteen musicians a location each and commission a track about it.
The result is a route rather than an album. Erland Cooper took the Underdog, William Doyle the Shard, Throwing Shade Borough Market; Chihiro Ono wrote for the tunnel where Bermondsey Street ducks under the line, Lola de la Mata for the Old Union Yard arches, Frog Morris and Darren Callow for the Blue down in South Bermondsey. James Alec Hardy's piece is for the wildflower meadow on Druid Street, which is three hundred square metres of native grasses where there used to be road.
You walk it east, out from the centre towards the suburbs, and play each track where it was written. It takes about two hours at a listening pace and costs nothing. The stops are strung along roughly three miles of viaduct, and most of them - Borough Market, Flat Iron Square, Vinegar Yard, the Blue - are worth stopping at anyway.
Free. The tracks stream from the project's own site; there is nothing to book and no fixed time.
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