The stage is in darkness.
Iggy say it
Gerry no
Pause.
Iggy it might be of use to ya at some stage a the game
Gerry i know what’s of use to me an what’s not
Iggy it’s a journey ya should make the effort to take
The lights slowly come up on Gerry and Iggy.
Gerry have you made it
Iggy no
Gerry well then you look after yer journeys an i’ll look after mine
Iggy that’s typical a you
Gerry that right
Iggy you make no effort to do anythin
Gerry are you there or are ya here with me – makin no effort to do anythin
Iggy typical
Gerry aye – typical a you always talkin – slabberin on an on
Iggy i’ll stop then
Gerry no you won’t
Iggy a will
Gerry good
Iggy good – (Pause.) angel
Gerry leave me alone
Iggy angel
Gerry why the fuck can’t you leave me alone
Iggy don’t know
Gerry take a deep breath count to ten an just stop yerself from talkin
Iggy angel – victoria line
Gerry east finchley – there you go – done it – angel to east finchley – done – right – no need for more
Iggy the journey – the route – the path – the whole thing
Gerry i don’t care
Iggy ya have to care – this is where we’re at – we need to know the routes
Gerry if a say it will ya leave me alone
Iggy no
Pause.
Gerry is this tea different from yesterday
Iggy everythin’s different from yesterday
Gerry nothin’s different from yesterday
Gerry is it
Iggy no
Gerry thought not
Iggy why’d you say
Gerry just in case a was wrong
Iggy right – angel – victoria line – i dug the victoria line – ya know that
Gerry yes i know it – a want to go back to belfast
Iggy fuck that
Gerry fuck you
Iggy always what you want
Gerry never what i want
Iggy angel – victoria line – kings cross – northern line – all northern line straight the way through from there
Gerry if you don’t leave me alone i’m goin to torture ya
Iggy what way
Gerry don’t know – i’ll find somethin
Iggy you couldn’t torture me anyway – haven’t got the stayin power for that
Gerry stayin power alright – still here an many’s a one isn’t – do ya think there was many at it
Iggy no – angel kings cross euston …
Gerry think there was any at it
Iggy you should’ve been at it – angel kings cross euston camden town …
Gerry so should you
Iggy next time – angel kings cross euston camden town kentish town …
Gerry aye next time
Iggy typical – angel kings cross euston camden town kentish town tufnell park …
Gerry i like a good funeral
Iggy used to like a good funeral – angel kings cross euston camden town – kentish town tufnell park archway
Gerry aye – used to – when there was drink involved – you need drink at them types a things – hard goin without it
Iggy needs to be drink involved right enough – hard goin is right – angel kings cross euston camden town kentish town tufnell park archway highgate …
Gerry plenty a drink or plenty a people – one or the other – or both – both’s better
Iggy angel kings cross euston camden town kentish town tufnell park archway highgate east finchley – the cemetery
Gerry god bless wee jimmy – may his arse never feel the heat of a flame
Gerry you just said it
Iggy what happens if i die
Gerry ya stop breathin the world keeps spinnin and time moves on
Iggy you’ll not know yer way
Gerry who says i’d want to go – no drink – no people – a don’t think so
Iggy fuck you
Pause.
Gerry wee jimmy – wha
Iggy drinkin paint thinners takes its toll
Gerry aye – he was good value for it though
Iggy good value for it – did ya ever graft with him
Gerry graft with him – no – don’t think he was at the buildin game – not sure what he did
Iggy never heard him mention it right enough
Gerry never really heard him mention anythin about graftin
Iggy no
Gerry decent man though
Iggy he was – decent wee man
Gerry belfast man – decent wee belfast man
Iggy he was – a dyin breed – not many of us left
Gerry bet ya there was no one at it
Gerry me sayin it makes no difference to it happenin
Iggy he had a woman once ya know
Gerry a woman – wee jimmy
Iggy aye – a women
Gerry he did his arse
Iggy he did
Gerry what ya call her
Iggy don’t know he never mentioned her name – think she was at the funeral
Gerry as much chance a her bein at it as anyone else
Iggy if we had’ve gone we might’ve met her
Gerry met her what way
Iggy met her – stood in front of her an talked to her – met her
Gerry aye – right enough – what was wee jimmy doin with a woman
Iggy not now – not now if it was now she’d be known to us – a long while back it was
Gerry a long while back – where’d he get her
Iggy where’d he get her – he won her in a fuckin raffle – where’d he get her – they used to drink together that’s where he got her
Gerry on the streets an that
Iggy started off on the streets – ended up they had a gaff of their own
Gerry didn’t know that now
Iggy she left him like
Gerry an why wouldn’t she
Iggy it’s not what ya think
Gerry it’s always what ya think
Iggy she wanted some other geezer to move in with the two a them – wee jimmy told her to do one
Gerry move in what way
Iggy move right in – in completely
Gerry the whole shebang like
Iggy oh aye the whole shebang – wee jimmy said he couldn’t handle it
Gerry no – difficult stuff alright
Iggy he told me he wasn’t sure whether he was in love with her or not ya see
Gerry he said that – wee jimmy
Iggy aye – he said because he wasn’t sure about that he thought that a threesome maybe wasn’t the right way to go
Gerry a threesome what way
Iggy he never said – you’d imagine the normal way
Gerry aye right enough
Iggy after she left he gave the flat away
Iggy out on the gargle this day – met some geezer just arrived from belfast – not a sausage on him – jimmy told him the story about yer women and the threesome – jimmy said yer man told him the same thing happened to him back in belfast – but it wasn’t a threesome
Gerry a foursome – like golf
Iggy no – his girl had wanted her ma to move in with them
Gerry three – that’s a threesome
Iggy aye but fuck – not the same territory as wee jimmy is it – anyway yer man from belfast left – he said he couldn’t take the keys of the flat for nothin – and he had nothin to give him but he still wanted the flat – jimmy says he could fight him for it – yer man says aye – jimmy beat the fuck out a him an then gave him the keys a the flat an says there ya are kid
Gerry decent man
Iggy would you do that
Gerry beat the fuck out a someone an then give them a flat – certainly – stuck there on yer lonesome – mustard
Iggy no – share a woman
Gerry share a woman
Iggy aye
Gerry who with
Gerry with you
Iggy with anyone
Gerry don’t know – that’s complex stuff – a mean – ya know – you’re talkin about complex stuff there
Dotty appears. She is clutching her handbag. Plucking up the courage to speak. In the distance – the Tennessee Waltz.
Iggy should’ve gone to the funeral – maybe wee jimmy’s girl was there
Gerry nobody there – women are all nuts anyway
Iggy she might’ve been alright
Gerry mad – all a them
Dotty hello
Gerry moves into the scene.
A bar. A pint of Guinness.
Young Gerry alright
Dotty are you alone
Young Gerry aye
Dotty i’m with friends – they’re all …
Young Gerry do ya want …
Dotty yes
Young Gerry a drink
Dotty sorry – i thought you meant a dance
Dotty i have a drink thank you – all my friends are up dancing – by themselves – not with men – not that time yet – the time when the men start doing the asking
Young Gerry no
Dotty they say it’s better fun dancing by themselves – i don’t think it is – what do you think
Young Gerry a wouldn’t know
Dotty i don’t normally do this
Young Gerry what
Dotty talk to strangers – it’s just you were standing all alone – and i thought
Young Gerry aye – sure no harm done
Dotty do you want me to move back to where i was
Young Gerry why would a want that
Dotty i just thought – the way you – it doesn’t matter
Young Gerry alright then
Dotty boiling in here isn’t it – all the dancing
Young Gerry it’s been colder
Dotty maybe cooler outside
Young Gerry i imagine it might be
Dotty where are you from
Young Gerry belfast – workin on the roads – all over – england – ya know – no matter where you go there’s a road – an if there’s not there soon will be
Dotty i come from around here
Young Gerry handy enough then
Dotty handy enough
Young Gerry for here – handy enough for here
Dotty i don’t come here that often
Young Gerry right
Dotty too handy maybe – i’ve lived here all my life – i work here – that’s why i don’t – you know
Young Gerry aye
Dotty so you dig the roads
Young Gerry aye
Dotty i work in a shop – my name is dorothy – dotty
Young Gerry dorothy dotty
Dotty just dotty
Young Gerry gerry – i’m gerry
He shakes her hand. Formal. Awkward.
Dotty belfast – i went out with an irishman once – he ended up forgetting i was there – some women seem alright with that – i don’t think i’m one of them – his name was dessie – dessie and dotty – there’s a nice fancy restaurant beside where i work – i thought it would be nice if we had a meal together – he ate the way all big men do – woofed it down – then he sat and watched me eat – didn’t say much – we went for a drink afterwards – a pub around the corner from here – he went up to the bar to get a drink and met another fella from where he was in ireland – the two of them just started talking away – he just forgot i was there – at first i thought he’ll only be a few minutes – i could see him talking and laughing – then as time went on i thought he’s just being polite and he can’t get away – then i realised he’d forgotten i was there – i walked home on my own – i thought i’m never going to let that happen again – i made a special effort that night – new dress – my best make-up – i pictured him at closing time turning around and looking at an empty chair and thinking where’s your woman gone – he hadn’t forgotten i was there – he just didn’t care whether i was there or not – it would’ve been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all
Young Gerry what is it ya sell
Dotty sell
Young Gerry in yer shop
Dotty shoes – we do lovely men’s shoes
Young Gerry good pair a workin boots is more my line a things
Dotty no just shoes
Young Gerry are ya happy with that
Dotty not sure – are you happy with digging the roads
Young Gerry does rightly – money’s good – enough for yer keep an pints an that
Dotty i don’t mind selling shoes – maybe one day i’ll have a shop of my own – or at least run the one i’m working in now
Young Gerry people with feet will always be needin shoes
Dotty i’d rather own a flower shop though
Young Gerry flowers be different – ya need shoes ya don’t need flowers
Dotty smelling flowers is better than smelling feet
Young Gerry right enough
Dotty i got these shoes in the shop i work – do you like them
Young Gerry fine pair a shoes
Dotty i wear them for dancing – they’re my dancing shoes – whenever i leave the house to go out i say to my mum where are my dancing shoes – that sounds really stupid doesn’t it – it sounds like the shoes dance by themselves – the shop would make a fortune if they sold dancing shoes like that – if my shoes could dance maybe your boots could fly – sorry i’m being silly – do you come here a lot gerry – do you live near by
Young Gerry be in the pub across the way most nights – live in digs nearby
Dotty is that where the word digs comes from – diggers working around the country living in digs
Young Gerry don’t know – sounds right though
Dotty gerry
Young Gerry what
Dotty i would really like it if you would dance with me
Young Gerry belfast men don’t dance
Dotty all of them
Young Gerry maybe – a don’t know – that was just somethin my da would say to ma mother when she wanted to dance
Dotty so you will then
Young Gerry maybe later
Dotty no now
Young Gerry would ya like a drink
Dotty i’m going in to dance with my friends – no point in wearing your dancing shoes if you don’t – you know – it was nice talking to you
Young Gerry aye
Dotty moves away from Young Gerry.
Dotty bye then
Gerry (back at table) i used to do some drinkin
Iggy i’d drink more hot lead
Gerry what would you know about hot lead
Iggy enough to know that i’d drink more of it than anyone round this table
Gerry is that right
Iggy don’t start – ya know ya can’t win this – no point in startin
Gerry what size is yer liver
Dotty disappears.
Iggy jesus christ not the size of the liver again
Gerry what size is it
Iggy hold on i’ll take it out an have a look
Gerry aye very good – the size of a dinner plate – is it the size of a dinner plate – no – why – because ya can drink none
Iggy drank plenty
Gerry frightened to get yerself checked out
Iggy frightened a fuck all – i was man enough to make a decision on my own without runnin to the doctor every time a pissed blood
Gerry the size of a dinner plate boy – nothin to do with the doctor – shows you what you know – wake up in the mornin – slip yer hand down in yer trousers to see if you’ve any readies – feels like a roll of notes maybe – happy days – what is it though – what is it – swollen liver – the size of a dinner plate
Iggy i stuck the drinkin out longer than you did
Gerry that’s because you weren’t doin yerself enough damage – sure if ya don’t do yerself enough damage ya could stick it out for ever
Iggy plenty a damage – i handled it better that’s the point
Gerry were ya ever told you were goin to die
Iggy yes i’ve been told i’m goin to die
Gerry by a doctor
Iggy no – not a doctor
Gerry who told ya ya were goin to die – and don’t say god – some moment a weakness or some fuck like that – that doesn’t count
Iggy a was told a was goin to die by myself
Gerry we’re all goin to die by ourselves
Iggy a know that – who doesn’t know that – a mean i told myself a was goin to die
Gerry like the god trick that doesn’t count either
Iggy why does god not count –not that this’ll happen – but if god downed tools an took time out of his day to inform ya that ya were goin to bite the big one is that not a significant thing – is god not higher up the fuckin chain than doctors
Gerry of course he is – that’s not the point and ya know it
Iggy iggy – yes god – you’re going to die – thank you for taking time out to tell me that god – do we know how – are we allowed to say – yes – one more drink and it’s coco pops
Gerry sure ya could make that up talkin to god – standin in front of a doctor is a different matter – it’s real – ya need stones to stand in front of a doctor – ya don’t need stones to talk to god – ya need the opposite of stones for that
Iggy what’s the opposite a stones
Gerry don’t know – gerry – yes doctor – one more drink and you’re a dead man – is that really true though doctor – yes gerry it is – i have no vested interest in whether you live or die – this is not a moral issue – we are not talking about punishment here for leading a fucked-up life – i’m just telling you a fact – what is the story doctor – if you take any more drink your liver will cease to function and your body will poison itself – could you tell me what size my liver is doctor – yes i can gerry – it is the size of a fucking dinner plate
Iggy what would you know about dinner plates anyway eat everythin out of a fuckin tin
Gerry a dinner plate – a big stinkin rotten dinner plate
Iggy couldn’t fit a dinner plate into yer stomach
Gerry how the fuck would you know
Iggy a have a stomach an a know what size a dinner plate is
Gerry dinner plate – dinner dinner dinner – dinner plate
Iggy stop goin on an on
Gerry i’m only doin what you do – all that tube nonsense – ya see you go on an on
Iggy me go on an on – i’m the quiet one
Gerry are we a couple now – has somethin happened that i missed – was there a ceremony
Iggy i’m the quiet one – you’re the slabber
Gerry slabber – an you have nothin to do with me by the way
Iggy only for me you wouldn’t be here
Gerry where would a be
Iggy east finchley – in the dirt – face up – worms in yer eye sockets an a cheap suit warmin yer bones
Gerry it’s me that looks after you – i make sure yer head’s right – have to make sure ya don’t go off in the wrong direction – that wee world a yours ya visit now an again
Iggy what wee world a mine
Gerry the one where you burn everythin that belongs to ya – that one
Iggy why wouldn’t ya burn everythin that belongs to ya if ya have nothin – i look after you – paper in the mornin – breakfast sorted out – clothes cleaned an ironed – all of that – you wouldn’t know how to wipe yer arse if i wasn’t here – stoppin me burnin stuff now an again is the least ya can do
Gerry you’re not right in the head – you need me
Iggy you’re not right in the head and you need me
Gerry i could walk out a here any time – on my own – walk out on my own
Iggy why don’t ya
Gerry why should a
Gerry why should a
Iggy ponce
Gerry scrubber
Pause.
Iggy i’ve drank in more boozers than you
Gerry how do ya know that
Iggy a know it in the same way that you know the size of people’s livers – all over the place – you name the boozer i’ve been in it
Gerry feeneys
Iggy fuck feeneys
Gerry becketts
Iggy aye
Gerry o’hanlans
Iggy which one
Gerry which one which fuckin one – either one
Iggy both
Gerry gibneys
Iggy aye
Gerry spoof – i made that up – ya drank nowhere
Iggy there’s a gibneys – shows you what you know – used to call it the plough
Gerry heard of it
Iggy gibney took it over – mad man – glass eye – used to throw all the punters out when he felt like it
Gerry right – so you’ve been in more boozers an i’ve done more damage
Iggy i’ve travelled an you’re wrecked
Gerry work has me like that too it’s not just the drink ya know
Iggy did i not work
Gerry alright alright – well-travelled an more damage
Iggy if we’re asked that’s the official line
Gerry that would be right
Iggy life’s funny like isn’t it
Gerry ya reckon
Iggy now that i’m officially well-travelled i immediately want to be more damage – we could swap – do ya want to be well-travelled
Gerry no
Iggy it’s that thing isn’t it
Gerry what thing
Iggy life never being quite right
Gerry aye – never quite right
Iggy never – even if it was quite right it wouldn’t be quite right
Gerry correct – there’s no such thing as quite right anyway
Iggy quite right
Gerry funny that
Gerry no quite right but it can be definitely all wrong
Iggy wakenin up in a skip that would be definitely all wrong – always had a razor in ma pocket – a razor a toothbrush some toothpaste an a bar of soap – can’t be goin through the world smellin like a bull’s hole
Gerry not like a bull’s hole no – an it rainin
Iggy the rain – oh aye – rain all over the place an yer mouth as dry as dust
Gerry up an at it for work though all the same
Iggy could’ve dug to china in them days skipperin an all
Gerry half man half shovel
Iggy hardly somethin ya save the day with though is it – diggin a hole
Gerry those that do save the day would be lost without roads tubes an holes
Iggy long-term benefit right enough
Gerry work an wakening up in the street
Iggy an the rain
Gerry aye – always need a drink right away to – hits ya quicker than breathin – strong an weak at the same time – wha
Iggy aye – could’ve dug a hole deep enough to hide a house in in the time it would take to peel an orange
Iggy but – couldn’t keep a wee dribble in the bottom a the bottle to save yer life – the offer of a million pounds or a gun at yer head would make no difference to that situation
Gerry grown men the size a gable walls cryin for the want of a drink
Iggy serious stuff
Gerry weepin
Iggy break yer heart
Gerry never cried myself like
Iggy no
Gerry came close like
Iggy aye – came close
Gerry the drink
Iggy oh aye
Gerry i couldn’t talk for three days once – woke up with no voice – was just gettin used to not havin it an it came back again – don’t know what it was – must’ve drank somethin that banjaxed the throat – coughin up blood an that – maybe somethin burst – thought a was going to have to make up my own language or somethin – sign language – with a shovel – shovel language – a felt good about that – thought a might be better at the shovel language than a had been at the talkin up to that point – only drawback is you’d have to carry the shovels around with ya
Iggy use yer hands
Gerry a know that – a know that – the shovel thing might’ve meant somethin – ya know – meant somethin
Iggy could’ve used wee shovels
Gerry wee shovels – what are wee shovels
Iggy don’t know – i’ve one better than that anyway
Gerry what
Iggy i went blind once
Gerry blind
Iggy aye
Gerry how long for
Iggy just a day like – luckily a had a few quid on me so a didn’t need to go to work
Gerry blindness – fuck me
Iggy pretended a could see like
Gerry sure what else could ya do – blind – sure what chance would ya have
Iggy up out a ma scratcher – clothes on an away down to the boozer – same dander every day so a knew which way a was headin – planked myself in my usual spot – drank until a got full an fell home – nobody the wiser – next day it was away – days that you’re blind ya need money though – ya can drink blind but ya couldn’t work blind
Gerry blind an no talk – serious stuff like
Iggy if the doctor was to give ya somethin an say it would make ya blind an speechless ya wouldn’t take it
Gerry certainly ya would
Iggy right enough – if ya didn’t want to see or talk that day it would be the right thing for ya
Gerry one last drink in belfast – haven’t been there in a lifetime – one last drink there
Iggy no
John appears.
Gerry get the boat over
Iggy no – i’m not goin to belfast
John jab jab jab
Iggy enters the scene.
They shadow box.
Young Iggy jab jab jab – bang – guard up
John jab jab jab – bang – guard up
Young Iggy elbows in – guard up
John elbows in – guard up
Young Iggy bang bang – whack whack whack – bang bang
John whack whack – bang bang bang – whack whack
They stop shadow boxing.
you goin back to the boxin
John of course a am – i’ve been goin for months
Young Iggy then aye – wasn’t sure if i’d like it – but it’s good – ma ma doesn’t want me to go – says it messes up yer face – she says look at the wee lads that boxes all the time – all as ugly as sin
John doesn’t mess yer face up if you’re good – guard up – always guard up
Young Iggy aye
John do ya think big frankie the trainer was any good
Young Iggy as a boxer
John no iggy as a ballet dancer – aye a boxer
Young Iggy he’s not as ugly as sin so maybe he was good
John how do you know whether he’s ugly or not – he was ulster champion or somethin like that – ya know the way at the start a the fight ya go to the centre a the ring an touch gloves – i heard one a the fights he was in yer man went to touch gloves an big frankie smacked him – knocked him clean out – if you’re any good ya know he puts ya in for the championships – i won the first two fights then lost the third – up against this big skinny moron – too tall couldn’t get near him – if a had’ve got near him i’d have done him – he got through to the semi-finals – got beat by another big skinny moron – it’s a good laugh – he’ll ask you to go – even though it was yer first night – he’ll ask ya – you’re good
Young Iggy ya think so john
John aye
Young Iggy i punched the head off yer wee man mckeown the other day
John he’s a moron
Young Iggy felt good diggin him like
John what he do
Young Iggy spat at my wee sister – bang bang – whack whack – take that – waitin to get into the kids’ club at the pictures – had to take her – ma ma made me – she’s runnin about – a don’t know what happened – next thing he spat at her – thought because he has loads a brothers an that i wasn’t going to do anythin – take that – a big lamp in the gub
John what was on at the pictures
Young Iggy kids’ club – roy rogers an all that
John rubbish
Young Iggy aye
John ya goin to stand round the chippie tonight
Young Iggy don’t know – might
John everybody be there – carmel
Young Iggy you say anythin to her – don’t be sayin anythin to her
John a didn’t say anythin – what would a say – she said to me
Young Iggy said what
John said she thought you were very handsome – maybe yer ma is right about the boxin – ask her to go to the pictures
Young Iggy no
John why not
Young Iggy just not
John ya get a grope off her
Young Iggy how do you know – did you go out with her
John no – if a did sure wouldn’t you know
Young Iggy maybe you did on the sly
John why on the sly
Young Iggy whenever she was goin out with junior – maybe you saw her on the sly
John wise up
Young Iggy how’d you know then about the gropin
John from junior – you ask her i can ask linda
Young Iggy why can’t you ask her on yer own
John a would but it’s just easier in couples – wee girls are like that – talkin to each other about the wee lads they’re on the date with – be better anyway the four of us
John the two of us together – be more of a laugh
Young Iggy why linda
John she’s nice – didn’t you see her – why did you see her
Young Iggy don’t know
John she let ya slip the hand
Young Iggy i’m not sayin
John wise up – don’t be a girl – top – bottom – what
Young Iggy nearly the top
John nearly the top – what does that mean
Young Iggy it means a was goin for the top an she wasn’t stoppin me – then her ma came into the room
John ya never try again
Young Iggy no
John why not
Young Iggy she blow me out
John because ya were too slow – that’s why – bet ya ya were too slow
Young Iggy wise up
John what then
Young Iggy nothin
John what – can’t be nothin – ya don’t get blown out for nothin
John is it somethin big
Young Iggy no just stupid
John what
Young Iggy she said she would just rather be friends
John that oul one
Young Iggy i didn’t mind
John they never say that after ya get slippin the hand – always before – we’ll go to the chippie tonight an talk to them
Young Iggy you talk to them – i think junior fancies linda anyway
John all the more reason to get in there first
Young Iggy he’ll slabber
John slabber all he wants – box him round the street
Young Iggy junior
John yes
Young Iggy what does that mean
John what
Young Iggy that someone would rather be friends
John don’t know – maybe it means they’d rather be friends
Young Iggy aye but why – any wee girl ever say that to you
John no chance
Young Iggy nobody wants to be friends with you that’s why
John no wee girls do
Young Iggy who have you been out with anyway
John loads
Young Iggy who
John a just said – loads
Young Iggy it’s none isn’t it
John no
Young Iggy you’ve never been out with a wee girl round here – we’ve been standin at the chippie for two years an you haven’t been out with any a that crowd
John ones from other areas – why would ya want to be going out with ones from around here anyway
Young Iggy linda’s from around here
John right scrub it then – don’t ask her
Young Iggy it’s no one isn’t it – it’s alright to say
John it’s not no one
Young Iggy alright – but it is – i’ll not tell anybody
John ya better not
Young Iggy a wont
John don’t
Young Iggy won’t – you never ask anybody
John no
Young Iggy why not
John don’t know
John what about linda
Young Iggy she asked me
John did she
Young Iggy aye
John she asked you an then she said she just wanted to be friends
Young Iggy at least i’ve gone out with one – you must be the world’s best at not goin out with any wee girls
John that’s why we need to stand round the chippie tonight
Young Iggy it’s better here
John how’s it better here – nothin here – it’s just a street corner – no chippie – no wee girls – nothin
Young Iggy we’re here
John we need more than us
Young Iggy no we don’t – we’ll practise boxin – jab jab jab – bang – guard up
John jab jab jab – bang – guard up
Young Iggy bang bang – whack whack whack – bang bang
John whack whack – bang bang bang – whack whack
They shadow box. They get into a clinch. They move away from each other. They get into another clinch. Young Iggy kisses John. John pushes him away.
Iggy (back at table) never worked in belfast – in fact never drank there either
Gerry did both – worked in a brewery – on an off – no good – not enough money an too much drink – bad combination
John disappears.
Iggy did enough workin an drinkin when a got over here to do me a lifetime – two lifetimes
Gerry ya wouldn’t know what work was if it spat in yer gub an kicked ya up the hole
Iggy spit in yer gub an kick you up the hole
Gerry aye
Iggy did more graftin than you ever did
Gerry diggin tunnels – that’s children’s work that’s not grafting
Iggy not what – how’s it not the same as diggin roads
Gerry how is it
Iggy how’s it not
Gerry you’re protected from the elements underground – no rain beatin down on ya – makes everythin twice the weight it’s meant to be
Iggy you know fuck all ya know that – there’s water everywhere underground ya eejit – get drown – floods as big as the ones in the bible – no chance a gettin drown in the rain is there
Gerry where do floods come from but the fuckin rain – there were times it was so heavy ya could’ve been drown in it – raindrops the size of a tin a soup
Iggy it’s easier workin outside – get the sun on yer back – there’s no sunnin yerself under the ground
Gerry doesn’t too much a the sun give ya cancer – i’ve never heard a light bulbs doin that
Iggy you’re tellin me you got cancer from the sun
Gerry might have – don’t know – the information about the liver was enough for me – didn’t want to delve any further
Iggy ya haven’t got cancer
Gerry a might have
Iggy ya don’t look as if ya have it
Gerry you a doctor now – diggin the underground equip you to give out medical advice did it
Iggy a didn’t just dig the underground ya know
Gerry you tellin me you worked in the medical industry are ya
Iggy a helped build a hospital
Gerry ya helped build a hospital
Iggy aye
Gerry and from that you know i haven’t got skin cancer from the sun – fuck me that’s some trick – you help build somethin an from that the knowledge used in that place gets into yer head – how does it do that – does it seep in through the shovel or what – funny that it never worked for me – dug the motorways an still know fuck all about cars
Iggy i’m only sayin a just didn’t dig the underground – did loads a shifts at everythin – all i’m sayin is – the point is – workin out in the sun is an easier shift than workin underground with no natural light
Gerry there wasn’t a great deal a sun back in those days anyway
Iggy no – that’s right – you wouldn’t let there be
Gerry the point is with my work there was a possibility of cancer – with yours nothin
Iggy fuck cancer – mini-sewers in birmingham
Gerry an what
Iggy sorry not birmingham norwich
Gerry i was an asphalt spreader in birmingham
Iggy i dug the canals there
Gerry kip of a place
Iggy it was
Gerry probably still is
Iggy probably is – mini-sewers in norwich – every week – an you could bet yer last feg paper on this – one was either drown or gassed – bein gassed was better – no struggle – off to sleep – unless a naked flame hit – then the war was all over – see drownin down in them tunnels – ya could hear the water flowin through the stone walls – didn’t know how close it was until – bang – hit the wall with a pick – gush – a fuckin gush like a water explosion – people behind the ones gettin it first knew to – could hear it everywhere – like the rumble a thunder it was – all scramblin – couldn’t turn round – tunnels too narrow had to move backwards – movin backwards – hear the water comin towards ya – it was close – there were times it was very close – all them men died just tryin to earn a few quid – no statue anywhere for them men
Gerry i did the roller mills – makin copper – mustard
Iggy where was that
Gerry enfield – middlesex – hotter than the sun in that place – hotter than hell – furnace was on the go all the time – you’d say to the foreman – furnace is gettin too hot – bastards always wanted to leave it to the last minute – fuckin penny grabbin – called it right most a the time – but then sometimes they called it wrong – it would blow like a volcano – any man caught in somethin like that better off dead – the screamin of them – men still alive an bits a them meltin away with the heat – but sure what can ya do about them things – that’s what the work was so that’s that
Iggy had to go where it was – just two jobs then – the motorways an makin copper
Gerry no – asphalt spreader – a said that
Iggy three then
Gerry plenty more
Iggy not as many as me
Gerry go
Iggy timber yard in scotland – hands chopped off in a second if ya didn’t keep yer wits about ya
Gerry factory worker in newcastle – cannin peas – bored ya stupid – i’d rather it be dangerous than borin – couldn’t face a pea after that stint
Iggy worked for all the builders a did
Gerry name them
Iggy john murphy
Gerry correct
Iggy r s kennedy
Gerry correct
Iggy an lavery’s
Gerry correct – worked for them all
Iggy miner’s labourer
Gerry that’s a hard number
Iggy had to watch out for the gas there
Gerry how do ya watch out for somethin ya can’t see
Iggy correct
Gerry concrete leveller – a liked that – a could’ve stayed doin that – you do that
Iggy no – i’ve seen it done though
Gerry would’ve stayed at it rightly – up in leeds it was – where a was livin wasn’t brilliant but a liked the job – ya know the way ya can be doin somethin and ya think to yerself i could stick this out rightly – it was like that
Iggy what happened – the drink
Gerry no – not the drink this time – the foreman came into the boozer this night – midweek – he wasn’t meant to be there – gettin paid by the week – friday was his night – he knew that too – went to buy us all a pint – there was no way i was havin any a that – he treats ya like dirt an he thinks a pint is goin to sort that all out – a didn’t have any problem with how he treated us by the way – that’s his job – a man does what a man does – ya make a decision an ya have to stick by them things – him comin in there to say he was one of us – can’t have that – no respect – i threw the pint round him smacked him a few times then turfed him out the door
Iggy had to be done
Gerry it did – there’s rules
Iggy you ever do the railways
Iggy no me neither
Gerry irishman – navvies – railways – felt like it was mapped out for ya – that’s why a never went near it
Iggy hard enough without that round yer neck
Gerry did jail
Iggy aye jail alright – wouldn’t consider that work though
Gerry time spent – time spent might as well be work if it’s not the fun it’s meant to be – only time a dried out
Iggy it was handy enough that way – bognor regis – have ya ever been in bognor regis
Gerry oh aye
Iggy kip
Gerry it was alright from what a remember
Iggy kip – waitin on a shift this mornin – skint – been on the gargle hadn’t worked for a while – builder a didn’t know says do ya want a turn in bognor regis – few weeks before christmas
Gerry get the readies for the dead time between christmas an new year’s
Iggy correct – me an another one – english fella
Gerry english fellas – there was work in some a them an not in others
Iggy ya could say that about any tribe – we had to go down to this site an dig founds – no bed an breakfast an that – the guy had a caravan on the site so we stayed in that – left us there – had enough readies for grub an that – he came back that thursday with the week’s money – me an the english fella had done all the money in – but that wasn’t a problem because he was comin back the next week when we were finished up – pay us an take us home – worked like trojans all week – nothin else to do – come pay day – the whole site’s closin up for christmas – everybody leaves half day – we’re stuck waitin on yer man – just worked on to the death – he never weighed in – ten days in the caravan with the english fella – no readies – nothin – no one to tap – tin a soup for christmas dinner – ended up not talkin to the english fella – ten days stuck in a caravan – there was no fun with that man – ten days – put yer head away – stuck with somebody for that length of time ya need them to be a bit like yerself in order to get on with them – not enough talk about him – or maybe too much of the wrong talk it was – good lookin fella – looked like he shouldn’t have been on a buildin site – too refined – not like us – site opened up in the new year – tapped the foreman for a tenner – some grub an get us home – funny thing too – see the ten days we were sittin around – after a while ya just went out an did some graftin – even though ya knew there was no money in it an it was for yer man who did the dirty on us – rather than just sit there ya grafted – you do what you’re used to a suppose
Iggy that’s right
Gerry all subbies are the scum of the earth
Iggy worse than that they are
Gerry the worst ones too were the irish – never knew an irish subbie that wasn’t a scumbag
Iggy every last one a them
Gerry what way is that to treat yer own – you’re meant to look after the ones that come behind ya not treat them like muck
Iggy they knew what they were doin too – not like it happened by accident
Gerry certainly they knew it – wouldn’t have done that had we been back in belfast
Iggy no – gettin squared up for yer day’s wages in the boozer – what way did they think it was goin to end up
Gerry aye – a know
Iggy drunk all the time – no roots – no thinkin ahead – if you don’t think ahead you’ve no real need for money do ya – ya just need enough that’s goin to do ya for that moment
Gerry wasn’t money – drink vouchers it was
Iggy drink vouchers
Gerry drinkin cheap gargle in the street an yer hands boggin – damn sure they weren’t doin that – come to london and make yer fortune – wha – you could understand if it was the english keepin ya out – but yer own
Iggy that’s the way it is all over
Gerry that’s no excuse – we’re irish – we’re meant to be different
Iggy no different
Gerry i’m different
Iggy different what way
Gerry different
Iggy ya came over here to work – ended up an alcoholic that’s lived most of his life on the street – how’s that different – every irishman in this place tell ya the same thing
Gerry you’re the same – you’re no better
Iggy i wasn’t sayin i was better – it’s not a competition – i’m just sayin we’re no different
Dotty appears. Dancing.
Gerry i never did another man a bad turn – that’s how i’m different – any man that ever drank with me knew that i was a sound solid dependable man
Dotty stops dancing. She addresses him.
Dotty do you know what it takes for a woman – any woman – to walk up to a man they don’t know and say something – say anything – thinking what if they don’t like me – to say things that will let you know that it is ok – in fact i want you to tell me you like me – everything i am trying to do is saying tell me that you like me – or even that you might like me – or just to notice that i am there – that i am not invisible – tell me that i am not invisible – that’s all – and to think that that mightn’t work – what it is like to try and make yourself seen – and that to be told by a look – a noise – by no noise – by a punch – by a scream – by silence – that you cannot be seen – that you are indeed invisible – do you know what that’s like – one dance – one dance – what that dance could’ve led to – what was on offer – maybe everything – maybe everything all the time – making you sandwiches the way you like them – knowing how tired you are – wearing a dress you like – my smell – my walk – my body – to lie together and not speak because there is no need – to feel me shiver – to know why you hate yerself – to let you be a man – a woman and a man – to let you respect me – to know that even though you never say it that you love me – to listen to you talk – just to love my voice if nothing else – or – to see my lying in the gutter covered in my own dirt – having drank my life away because i felt that no one understood – no one understood my soul – or to hate the very air i breath because i am a fat useless lazy slob who would drink a glass of her own spit rather than get up and turn the tap on – who beats her children and never baths them – a woman who ignores the cries of her own baby because she needs to dry her nails before she goes out to meet her fancy man – no sandwiches – yapping in yer face morning noon and night – a life of bile – a life of love – everything all the time – it can always go either way – but how do you know if you don’t speak – if you don’t dance when you’re asked – if you never take the chance – do you know what it feels like to be told that a man would rather stand on his own drinking in silence or be in the safe company of those like himself – rather than be with you – if nothing else – if nothing else – it could’ve been a laugh – a laugh
Dotty disappears.
Iggy fuckin no
Gerry fuckin yes
Iggy fuckin no
Gerry yes
Iggy no
Gerry no
Iggy this is bloody stupid – it isn’t just about sayin the friggin word
Gerry you can’t go back on yer word – once it’s said it’s out there floatin around for all to hear
Iggy i didn’t say yes – alright fuck it – here we go – yes
Gerry yes
Iggy no – i’m not doin it
Gerry one last drink in belfast – that’ll do the two of us – one last crack at it – finished – over – done
Iggy go back to belfast to die
Gerry what are ya sayin it like that for – there’s no need to say it like that
Iggy what other way is there to say it
Gerry the way i said it a moment ago – one last drink in belfast
Iggy aye but what does that mean
Gerry it means we’ll have one last drink in belfast
Iggy no
Gerry it would be class
Iggy no
Gerry it’s the right thing to do
Iggy i’m not goin back on the drink
Gerry you’re not goin back on the drink
Iggy how is takin a drink not goin back on the drink
Gerry one last drink – the big word there being last
Iggy ya see
Gerry what
Iggy it’s about dyin
Gerry why do you always have to pick up on the negative
Iggy say we survived – say we gave it our best shot an still survived
Gerry what’s the chance a that happenin for fuck sake
Iggy say it does – say we go over there – plank ourselves somewhere – an start gettin tore into the drink – how long – a week
Gerry aye a week would do it – you’d need no more than that
Iggy say after a week of hammerin away at it we’re still up an at it – what then – livin like that in belfast would be a fuckin disaster
Gerry livin the way we live now isn’t fuckin brilliant is it
Iggy don’t give me that shit it is what it is
Gerry it’s nothin
Iggy an say you die over there an i don’t – what about that
Gerry if it looks like that’s the way it’s goin to go just hammer more drink into ya
Iggy very good – that’s me left on ma tod in belfast – on the drink
Gerry come back here then
Iggy aye – as if that would happen – what part a me would be able for that decision
Gerry go back off it again then
Iggy aye – as if that would happen
Gerry there’ll be someone there to look after ya – a relative or somethin – someone ya know
Iggy i don’t want anyone there to look after me – jesus christ what’s wrong with you – goin back there like this what type of a man would they think i am
Gerry who thinks like that – people’s other things to worry about than the fuckin way we ended up
Iggy is that right – if that’s the case you go over then an get in contact with some a yer ones – have one last drink with them – they’ll look after you
Gerry don’t have anyone over there – all dead
Iggy you don’t know that
Gerry i sense it
Iggy i sense it too well
Gerry there ya go then – not there – make up who the real you is
Iggy a think people know by the look of me who the real me is – anyway – that just means we’re back to me alone an drunk in belfast
Gerry do it for me – i’d do it for you – in fact that could be the way it goes – you could take bad and die an i’ll be left on ma tod
Iggy the difference is you want to be there – i don’t – it would be happy days for you – walkin around belfast – street to street – tin in yer hand fuckin slabberin at everyone – the king of fuckin belfast
Gerry if that’s all a wanted i’d go over on my own – it’s better if the two of us go
Iggy stop talkin about this – i’m sick to death talkin about it
Gerry no – what’s the point in what we’re doin at the moment – sittin here day after day at this table drinkin big mugs a tea an pretendin we’re alive
Iggy let’s do somethin then
Gerry like what
Iggy who knows the world’s a big place
Gerry ours isn’t
Iggy go for a walk – sit in the park – look at the birds – talk to the birds – talk to people – go out for somethin to eat – talk to people – i don’t fuckin know
Gerry go out for somethin to eat – talk to people – who the fuck would want to talk to us – that’s not doin somethin – that’s just pretendin to do somethin – still come back here an end up round this table with the tea – same thoughts clatterin around in there
Iggy you’ll have the same thoughts clatterin around over in belfast
Gerry not right away – for a while they’ll be different – an by the time the old thoughts creep back in it’ll all nearly be over – it’ll just be good to see what’s different about the place
Iggy it’s a kip
Gerry places change iggy – belfast is no different
Iggy it’s a kip
Iggy people don’t change – it was a small place full a small people when i left it – that won’t have changed
Gerry fuck people then – just look at the buildins – there has to be different buildins – half the place was blown up – different scenery ya know – don’t know how that effects people’s minds – make them think they’re livin somewhere else – buildins ya know
Iggy there’s buildins here
Gerry shut up about here
Iggy have a drink here what’s the difference
John appears. He is shadow boxing. His punches are vicious.
Gerry what would a want to do that for – what would be special about that – one more trip for no one to make from here to east finchley
Iggy a drinks a drink
Gerry it’s not just the drink it’s the whole deal – if all i wanted was a drink i’d be doin it right now
Iggy it doesn’t matter anyway – i’m not going back to belfast – i left it and that’s that – fuck it
John stops.
John you’re nothin but a dirty fruit – scum you are – all those times in the gym – you lookin at us all – dirty fruit – i’m goin to tell everyone – everyone in the gym is goin to know about you – there was an oul lad like you – a fruit – used to hang around the toilets in the park – i got him to go behind the bushes – everyone was there waitin on him – we all beat him with lead pipes – only for someone seein us we’d have beat him to death – screamin like a wee girl he was – no fight in him – didn’t stand up for himself – he just let us beat him – maybe he liked it – dirty fruit – i’m goin to tell everyone about you – everyone in the district – yer ma an da will know they have a fruit for a son – everyone know about you – chase ya out a the place – you’re not fit to live with people anyway – wee kids runnin about the street an you lookin at them – is there any other ones in yer house like that – you an yer brothers all dress up in wee girls’ clothes – maybe yer da’s a fruit is he – is that where ya get it from – tell the whole place about him too – run you an him out a the district – out a the city – there’s no fruits in belfast – do you hear that – no fuckin fruits in belfast
John disappears.
Gerry ya know what a was thinkin the other day
Iggy probably
Gerry the amount a walkin i’ve done – i was a walker ya know even when a was a young man in belfast
Iggy ya don’t do any now – wouldn’t walk the length a yerself
Gerry no – you learn a lot about a city that way – street after street
Iggy what you learn
Gerry don’t know – forgotten – a learnt if you’re goin to do a lot of walkin ya need a good pair a shoes – up an down the streets a belfast – all that walkin an i’ve forgotten what it was for
Iggy stop it
Gerry look – we’ll not drink – all that it becomes then is about goin back somewhere – maybe that in itself is enough – not to see anybody – not to do anythin – just to be there – just to sit somewhere – sit on a bench in the middle a town – watch the world go by – take a deep breath – fill yer lungs with the smell of yer own city – i don’t want the london version of belfast in my head any more i want the belfast version
Iggy it’s not my city – it doesn’t mean anything to me – it’s a fucking dirty kip – i’m not going back – i’m never going back
Gerry are you listenin no drink a said
Iggy i’m not goin back – not with you – not on my own – not with drink – not with no drink – ya got that straight now – ya understand what i’m saying
Gerry we’ll talk about it later
Iggy no – no later
Iggy don’t have me to slap you
Gerry don’t be talkin like that to me
Iggy then stop – just stop – it’s not my city – that’s it – there’s no point in this
Gerry where is then – here
Iggy no – nowhere – i belong nowhere – and so do you – you have no one and you belong nowhere – that’s it – that’s who we are
Digging and rain. This continues for more than a moment. Gerry and Iggy sit in silence, no tea drinking.
Gerry not talkin
Iggy aye
Gerry that’s what it’s like
Iggy correct
Gerry no point now
Iggy not really
Gerry no point in there bein no point really is there
Iggy not really
Gerry all dressed up an nowhere to go
Iggy aye
Gerry i was taught not to talk ya know that
Iggy we were all taught not to talk
Gerry waste like isn’t it – fuckin waste
Gerry by the time ya work that out it’s too late
Iggy it is – too late
Gerry belfast taught me not to talk
Iggy doesn’t make sense does it
Gerry aye
Iggy a city built on the notion of not really saying stuff – an then you’re kicked out with not enough words in yer pocket
Gerry aye
Iggy desperate
Gerry work as well like wasn’t it – same type a thing – men with men
Iggy didn’t help – that type a world like – i spent my life punchin people – any incident – any problem – a solved it by whackin somebody – before i left belfast a was a boxer ya know – a kid like – me an this other fella john – he became a professional – came over to england an that – round the circuit – did alright for himself – went to see him fight a few times – never hung around after to talk to him or anythin like that – on the drink ya know – he wouldn’t want me to be botherin him – wasn’t as good a boxer as me like – i’d have punched the fuckin head off him – last time a heard he was livin in liverpool or somethin – married an all – runnin a gym a think – good luck to him – funny thing about that – never really wanted to do it – hit anyone – it was like a reaction or somethin – immediate – see if i had’ve had time to think about it – wouldn’t have done it
Gerry same with me an the drinkin – the whole world looks at you an thinks that’s what ya want – not what i wanted at all – didn’t know how to get what a wanted – didn’t try
Iggy aye
Gerry lazy
Iggy frightened
Gerry frightened to use the words ya need to use to get what ya want
Iggy diggin all day every day – built like a house – frightened of no man – but scared to talk – what the fuck’s that about
Gerry belfast taught ya not to talk – wha – fuckin joke
Iggy aye
Gerry and the point is what’s the point in knowin that now
Iggy don’t know – we’re talkin now
Gerry aye – right enough
Iggy talkin now an no harm in it
Gerry no – (Pause.) – i met this woman once – a was standin in a boozer – she kept lookin at me – an then she came over an talked – lovely looking girl – from london like – can’t remember what ya called her – worked in a shoe shop but was more interested in flowers – the whole time she was talkin to me – ya know – you could see the way she was movin – the way she was talkin – her tone – you could see that she was makin an effort you know – she was makin an effort ya know – she made an effort to talk to me – to make contact – didn’t know what to say to her – head full of words – an nothin – she asked me to dance – i told her belfast men don’t dance – i could dance alright – ya see whenever i said no – the look on her face – it was like she had offered me somethin and i spat at her – i remember watchin her walk away – different from when she walked towards me – a little less spring in her step – you think ya don’t care – and that somethin else will always happen – you do care – an nothin else happens – i wanted to dance with her – and i didn’t – simple as that – that’s what all this is about – me not dancin when a had the chance
Pause.
Iggy a know what you mean
Gerry i’ve never told anybody that
Iggy right
Gerry you somethin like that – somethin ya never told anybody
Iggy no
Gerry if you have say it – no harm in talkin
Iggy a haven’t
Gerry right – sure
Gerry right
Pause.
Iggy do you want to dance
Gerry dance
Iggy aye – a just thought – ya know – we’re talkin an that – ya know
Pause.
Gerry who’s goin to lead
Iggy you lead
Gerry right
They stand and get into position.
Iggy do ya know the kentucky waltz
Gerry no – a know the tennessee waltz
Iggy ya know the tennessee waltz but ya don’t know the kentucky waltz
Gerry correct
Iggy jesus christ you’re awkward
Gerry how’s that awkward – america’s a big place ya know – you know one thing doesn’t mean you know another – not all fuckin connected
Iggy can you sing it
Gerry no i can hum it
Iggy thought ya said ya knew it
Gerry humming it is knowing it
Gerry aye
Iggy well start fuckin hummin it then
Gerry been a long time – might be a bit ropey
Iggy a bit ropey aye
Gerry and Iggy waltz. Gerry hums the Tennessee Waltz. They part. Iggy walks off the stage. Gerry continues to dance on his own for a moment.
The noise of a busy London street at night. Gerry is sitting in a shop doorway, a polystyrene cup with money in it beside him. He is talking. The noise of the street drowns him out. The noise of the street dies. We hear him.
Gerry rivers a tea an mountains a sugar –
Dotty appears waiting to be asked to dance.
dotty – remember now – dancin dorathy dotty and her dancin shoes – better smellin flowers than smellin feet – always be needin roads – dead maybe – all dead – a life of love – a life of bile – go either way with dancin dotty – belfast men don’t dance –
Dotty disappears
didn’t believe you by the way – there’s no man hasn’t got somethin they keep to themselves – somethin that’s theirs – should’ve told me somethin – said somethin about yerself – shared – fuck – no difference – fuck all difference – go to the cemetery tomorrow – not right today – bad day today – no quite right – quite right – bring two mugs a tea with me – ya got it wrong by the way – no kings cross – should’ve looked at the map – never looked at the fuckin map – i have –
He takes a tube map from his pocket. But doesn’t read it.
angel to east finchley – thought i wasn’t listenin – fuckin listen alright – angel euston camden town kentish town tufnell park archway highgate east finchley – cemetery – fuck kings cross – fuck feeney’s – fuck feeney’s wha – that was good – got ya there – wee jimmy wha – wee jimmy and his woman and the threesome and yer man and his girl and his ma and the flat and the keys and the fight – wee jimmy wha – decent wee belfast man – and you – decent belfast man – the blindness and the cancer from the sun – and the english fella in the caravan and the tin a soup for christmas dinner – big iggy wha – i’ll pass it on – no sweat about it – i’ll do that boy – the blindness – ya can drink blind but ya can’t work blind – i’ve started learnin off street names –now that i’ve done the tubes know what a mean – streets that are in both belfast an london – walked the same streets in two different cities – walked them as two different men – when you think about it i walked them as two different people – not get back to belfast now – aye – sure if nothin else sayin them gives me somethin to do – ya want to hear them – could tell ya them tomorrow – but just in case somethin happens an a don’t go tomorrow i’ll tell you them now – learned them alphabetically – easiest way – (Pause.) – dotty – if she asked me now i’d dance – no fuckin use in that though is there –(Pause.) – invisible –(Pause.) adelaide street – amelia street – argyle street – arthur street – bedford street – cadogan street – castlereagh street – catherine street – cavendish street – chichester street – church street – college street – conduit street – curzon street – danube street – denmark street – dock street – donegal street – durham street –
Lights begin to fade down.
essex street – finsbury street – galway street – gloucester street – great george street – gresham street – harrow street – henrietta street – india street – james street – john street – kendal street – lancaster street – lombard street – london street –
Darkness.
marlborough street – marshall street – molyneaux street – mill street – mount street – nassau street – northumberland street – oakley street – oxford street …