The Quest For K West

"It was cold and it rained..." Ziggy is beamed thirty years
forward to another K WEST, Richmond Way, London W14.
Photograph and image manipulation by Total Blam Blam.

Nothing could be harder than the kwest for fun...

On the way home from a jolly good Suede concert at Shepherds Bush last night, (at which I met a couple of BowieNetters) three large neon letters caught my eye. K WE. Could it be, I thought to myself. I asked my driver, Simon, to edge forward a little, and sure enough there it was, big and electric blue, K WEST!

Obviously I wasn't going to miss out on a photographic opportunity such as this, the conditions were perfect, dark, wet and extremely Heddon Street-like. And so the picture above, with the PhotoShop addition of Mr Ziggy Stardust himself, is the fruit of my labour.

After a little research this morning, it transpires that this particular K WEST has no connection with the company of the same name on the original Ziggy album sleeve. The above K WEST is actually a flash new hotel that was formerly know as KENSINGTON WEST. Anyway, my photographic reinterpretation is a spoof record sleeve just waiting to happen. You read it here first.

Click on Ziggy's head if you want to see a larger version of this picture, where you can also just make out the car's personalised license plate. Well done to those of you on the MBs that sussed out what this picture was all about... Oh what fun! };-)