Vertical London (New Year's Day) - CD

Vertical London (New Year's Day) follows Kate Carr across London through location recordings captured over the first day of 2026, from rail journeys and tunnels to streets, parks and high viewpoints.

This CD presents the complete 22-track sequence tracing the route across London.

TRACKLIST
1. Early birds and planes in Loughborough Junction
2. I am not sure which tube station is the furthest below sea level, but I am visiting quite a few
3. Under the Thames with cyclists, joggers and echoes in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel
4. Popping up at Island Gardens
5. The DLR is quite possibly the best sounding London train, electromagnetically speaking
6. Celebrating a squeaky transport barrier
7. Walking through Soho with tourists and delivery guys
8. Arriving in Bloomsbury: yes I heard my first 'Happy New Year'
9. An inaugural trip to Kilburn, which I have always wanted to visit because Doreen Massey lived here
10. Overground then all uphill to Hampstead, a whispered neighbourhood of private security signs
11. Daydream interlude (eating a not very nice lunch)
12. Dramatic build-up to when I dipped into the shopping centre to find a man playing piano outside Aldi
13. Why did I decide to go all the way across town to Crystal Palace park?
14. I should never have doubted coming to Crystal Palace, a wonderland of crows and dinosaurs
15. It was New Year's Day after all, and yes someone really was playing this at the overground station
16. I don't think you can hear but people largely discussed dogs all the way back to central London
17. A very long queue for the London Eye which is quite shit, and has awful commentary, although the view to be fair is beautiful
18. Dramatic drummers on the street as I ran due to being late for my Shard viewing platform booking
19. Taking two lifts inside the (rather divisive) Shard
20. 'Hello everyone and welcome to the View', a sort of cupboard / bar, with London stretched out and twinkling below
21. Said cupboard / bar is closing - 'let's have a cocktail anyway', said Tanya
22. Tipsy aboard a Thameslink chariot home on this first day of 2026