This Pin was discovered by Matteo B. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadip elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod. Saturday, October 29, 2005 What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? (Saint Etienne at the Barbican) Back in July while I was wandering the lower Lea Valley taking pre-Olympic photographs, it seems I wasn't alone. Real Estate Investment Opportunities - ReAlert offers institutional buying and real estate investing information. Watch the video for Milk Bottle Symphony from Saint Etienne's Tales from Turnpike House for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Setting [ ] The exact setting of the stories told by the album's setting is somewhat amorphous. The real Turnpike House is a high-rise block of flats in,, an area of ex-council blocks between and. The band had spent a lot of time in Turnpike House, as filmmaker lived there during the period in which they were collaborating on. However, has said that the building imagined in the album is 'not nearly as smart' as the real Turnpike House. Bob Stanley has said that he imagined the album's setting to be more suburban, 'probably somewhere like or possibly '. Pete Wiggs has said that his experience of living in Croydon was the inspiration for 'Side Streets' and 'Slow Down at the Castle' (the Castle is a water tower in ).

However, the title of 'The Birdman of EC1' refers to the in which the real Turnpike House is located. Collaborations [ ] The album features two tracks co-written and produced by ('Lightning Strikes Twice' and ') as well as a guest vocal from 1970s pop star on 'Relocate' (Essex had earlier appeared on the Saint Etienne album via sampled dialogue from the 1973 film ). Releases [ ] Tales from Turnpike House was released 13 June 2005 on and preceded by a single for 'Side Streets' on 6 June 2005. In the United States, the album was released 24 January 2006. Initial quantities of the UK release came with a bonus EP of titled Up the Wooden Hills. The band felt that music for young children under seven was fed into unexceptional pop music, and wanted to make music that children and parents could enjoy together. [ ] Double-disc editions of the US release included instead the Savoy Groove, containing six tracks from various Savoy Jazz releases, including 'Side Streets' from the album itself.

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