Carnaby / Kings Road

Are they anything like they used to be in the swinging 60s?

 

ummm...no

 

what are they like now?

 

corperate...the "swinging 60's" wernt overly swinging tho, only a few people who were into stuff you could link to being swinging

 

I guess I mean in terms of the shops. Have they made it all touristy gimmiky like now?

 

The closest you're gonna find to hippy shops in London (or the UK, for that matter) is in Camden.

 

yes its not bad still a lot of hippy shops in london. as i live in london and i tell you all the best hippy places to go. are Notting Hill Gate is very cool camden market Kensington Market, Kensington High Street lots of punks hippy and goths. i like to go down notting hill gate all the time i love that place

 

hmm and even camdens gone down hill....with all the cameras, and making it into serious shopping place, not skanky hippy place where it should be with random stuff happening, they've started calling it now covent garden as well

 

Oh Man I wanna get hold of Performance so bad!!!!

 

hey performance is my favourite movie. i have it and the sound track to it. i have even got bed like in the movie with all the afghan hangings on it. performance was made in Notting Hill Gate i have been in that house thats why i like Notting Hill Gate so much

 

*envy*

 

i more picture of performance

 

Also if you don't mind a train journey, Brighton lanes r super kool for hippy items.

 

I dont mind a train journey, its just the taxi, plane, taxi, train journey that would bother me hehehe

 

and a lot of jet lag also hehe your down under

 

I agree... its a mission from OZ but its a great place to go (not that im bias cos i just moved here or anything) GO ON come visit, you can stay with me

 

lol that would be so awesome to go to England, I've always had this mini obesession with its far away properties. Maybe thats what I'll save for

 

What are you on about Kensington Market went years ago. Both Kensington High street and the Kings Road in Chelsea are now full of upmarket boutiques and trendy bars. The punks, goths and hippies vanished a long time ago from those places. Carnaby Street however has managed to keep its alternative culture feel to some extent, but that is probably due to the seedy nature of Soho.

By the way if you are ever in London make your way to the Intrepid Fox pub on Wardour Street in Soho, its' a classic punk, goth, hippie, biker drinking hole, one of the very few left in London and the only one left in the West End.

 

Pretty much the "swinging 60's" excisted in a small triangle area of london which was Carnaby and Kings Road.. if you visited there now.. its all highstreet shops, its all small boutiques its all latest fashion, its all run of the mill stuff passing itself off as something specail. The "swinging 60's" pretty mcuh only excisted inside those lines then, as for now no chance you'll not find anything vagually 60's unless it comes back into fashion!

 

I don't suppose there are other stores in other parts of London which sell a lot of the kinds of stuff which Carnaby and Kings Road had at the moment?