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I just acquired a copy of Wobble’s new Chinese Dub, a nice daub of sound sprayed from various angles, sort of reminds me of going up to the centre from say, New Cross, or Brixton, and pausing in the old Chinese musical instrument shop on Cambridge Circus and fingering the strings and dragon feted drums on display, painting them in my head over the rhythms left behind a few miles back.

So perhaps as someone said, when I turned and headed out to Harwich, to the ferry, one fine September morning.

Wotcha wanna leave London for mate, you got everyfink ‘ere innit?

and indeed, at times,

Sagt Sie: Die hat diese Kreuzberg-Arroganz und denkt, dass das hier die Welt ist – wie so viele. Berliner gehen schon krass auf ihre Stadt

Translation: every metropolis has its provincial airs.

However,

there was a man in Baghdad who dreamed of wealth in Cairo...