You can hear distant bagpipes, the traffic around this busy and historic area, and a hint of Big Ben at the end! I should have stayed for more bells but my recorder was running out of batteries... Big Ben fell silent in 2017 for five years for repairs - I'll need to get some up to date recs of the chime at some point 😋

Parliament Square - March 2025

Growing up in London and spending time skating at the Southbank Centre at the weekend, I would regularly come over this busy rail and pedestrian bridge that joins Southbank to Embankment. The sound of trains rumbling through hidden behind the image on their way to Charing Cross is now joined by an array of voices!

Hungerford Footbridge - March 2025

This is one of London's busiest stations and five years on from my first recordings the concourse is full, including a new resident robot who carefully cleaned around me and my bike as I captured this.

Charing Cross - March 2025

5 years on and Trafalgar square is alive: the fountains are on, the families are congregating with the birds and the bells are ringing... the white noise of the scene shows a massive shift from my first March 2020 recordings.

Trafalgar Square - March 2025

2025 and Covent Garden is in full voice, behind me as I look to the covered market, street performers take it in turns to make themselves heard... a smattering of firecrackers going off in the 2nd half of this recording being one example of their efforts. 💥

Covent Garden - March 2025

Re-recording this location set back from the crossing of Oxford Street and Regent Street, five years on the crowds are back and with more electric overtones from the traffic. You would struggle to catch a combustion engine driven black cab in London now 👀

Oxford Circus - March 2025

I pass through this spot in TCR's underbelly every time I come to work - it was the stimulus for me to first record all these locations in 2020. It's now teeming with travellers and their wheelie bags making their way to the underground network and onwards.

Tottenham Court Road - March 2025

The city’s financial heart - I had an administrative job here when I left school and spent two months eating sandwiches at this spot, teaming with suits and business chat.

Bank Of England - March 2025

Set back from the river Thames, the sounds of commercial vehicles and pedestrians going about their days dominates the soundscape compared to the serenity of March 2020

The London Eye - March 2025

As a kid I spent a lot of time in the London Trocadero arcades just around the corner from this spot. 5yrs on from COVID-19 the square is jammed with life - this great performance happening in the distance behind me by artist Caoirne typifies a regular day in the life of this spot ❤️

Leicester Square - March 2025

As a kid I spent a lot of time in the London Trocadero arcades just around the corner from this spot. Shot just a stone's throw from the main pedestrian square and cinemas, this is where everyone and their family come to get their tickets for the West End theatres.

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