Explore the life and times of rock legend Jimi Hendrix during his short but eventful stay in London in 1968-70, the final (and arguably most important) years of his musical career.
This is a prototype walking tour of Mayfair, Soho, and other relevant districts encompassing several of the performance venues and shopping venues frequented by Jimi Hendrix during his years of residence at 23 Brook Street, London.
The starting point of the tour is at Handel and Hendrix in London – the museum devoted to the lives of these two different but enormously significant musical figures, who lived in the same building, separated by a wall, and 200 years of history.
Though the street address of the museum is 23 Brook Street, the public entrance is actually in Lancashire Court, which is the first laneway to the left of the 23 Brook Street entrance. The tour will end at Piccadilly Circus Underground Station.
Optionally, you can continue all the way back to the starting point, if you choose.
Where we'll go...
The points of interest on this route are associated with the musical performance and shopping venues of Jimi Hendrix, as derived from notes by this biographers (see the Guardian article At home with Jimi Hendrix for background information).
The route starts at Handel and Hendrix in London Museum, and includes the following points of interest (performance and shopping venues frequented by Hendrix):
You can end your tour at Picadilly Circus Underground Station, or you can continue back to Handel and Hendrix House to complete the loop.
This tour is a prototype only. It is designed to test the performance of the interpretours / guidetags digital interpretive platform in the challenging environment of a dense multi-millennial city, which poses many forms of interference to its operation.
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