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ORDuring his years as a London resident from 2006 to 2012, Andrés Lokko was happily surrounded by the Anglophile popular culture that has shaped him. He used to see Damon Albarn rush by with his daughter on his way to school in the mornings, former The Clash bassist Paul Simonon could stand and squeeze avocados alongside him at Tesco, he owned the indie pop trio Saint Etienne and music producer Brian Eno living in the attic above him. A dream, nothing less than that.
Now the 53-year-old is looking over the gray box at Gullmarsplan, his home area for a few years. Liquor store. Sefir pawn shops. That glass incubator in the plaza with chronically cheap stout, and then the Bajen hook next to where the hammer towns used to charge for the pre-crown match. Of course, it is also possible to extract pop anecdotes from this local environment, mostly due to the proximity to the Globe, Tele 2, Slaktkyrkan and Hovet – Andres Lokko still calls it the “ice stadium” – where he has seen artists as diverse as Rihanna , Motörhead and Mr Fingers … But for every day? Isn’t there an early forgotten drummer on, say, the Reeperbahn who buys his breakfast rolls nearby?
