//Clockwise from top left: William Blake; Jah Wobble; King Tubby; Miles Davis; The Stooges; Jimi Hendrix Experience//

An essential element of the current group exhibition The Conformist is the companion soundtrack selected by Jah Wobble.

This blends Wobble’s take on William Blake’s Tyger, Tyger (from the great 1996 album The Inspiration Of William Blake) with tracks to be expected from one of the world’s greatest dub, jazz and soul fiends – including King Tubby & Augustus Pablo, Big Youth, Miles Davis and the Isley Brothers – and some surprises, such as Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi.
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Tags: Alice Coltrane, Belmacz, Big yellow Taxi, Big Youth, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Buzzcocks, Gil Scott-Heron, Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joni Mitchell, King Tubby, King Tubby & Augustus Pablo, Mayfair, Miles Davis, Spiral Scratch, Stevie Wonder, The Inspiration Of William Blake, The Stooges

As a tribute to the late rock star, I have joined forces with map-makers Herb Lester to create an online guide to David Bowie’s London from his birth at 40 Stansfield Road in Brixton in 1947 through his solo art show in Mayfair in 1995 to the giant retrospective David Bowie Is exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington in 2013.

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Tags: Brixton, David Bowie Is, Herb lester Associates, Mayfair, South Kensington, Stansfield Road, Victoria & Albert Museum