Home from home
Every now and then I can get a little home-sick for New York. Only occasionally, though, as most of the time London and my friends here keep me so busy I don’t have much chance to miss the Big Apple! Luckily, you guys in the UK are so obsessed with American “culture” that I can always find some way to imagine myself back in New York without ever leaving the Greater London area. Missing genuine American hamburgers? Why, I simply head to the diner behind the Palace Theatre that serves burgers, chilli dogs and glass bottles of Coca Cola with a straw. Hell, I only need to turn on my TV to watch some of my favourite shows from home. Do you guys make any TV programmes of your own? I’ve got more chance of finding a red diesel supplier who delivers to Camden than of finding an original idea on British telly…
Of course, there are plenty of areas where the UK does things better than the US, and that’s why I moved here in the first place. Your theatre is much less “jazz hands” and more about real acting; your museums don’t cater to the lowest common denominator; and your up-and-coming bands have a freshness that has been missing from New York clubs since the days of punk.
Every now and then, though, I think how nice it would be to go and see a New York band play live, to hear a familiar accent and to have something to talk to my friends at home about that they won’t mock as “limey”. London’s vast music scene means that on any given night there is usually some band or performer with a New York connection in town. When I get homesick, genre isn’t as important as where the musicians hail from; in fact I’m just as likely to go and see a classical music quartet or a death metal band!
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