“This is where I became a man 44 years ago!” Negotiations for entry are underway – we are off to find a sheik at a restaurant to seek permission to film inside the mosque. Many phone calls are being fired off in the Somine Restaurant on the corner of Crossway and Kingsland High Street. The…
On the way to an old synagogue in Stoke Newington, one which has been converted into a mosque. Tony spent a lot of time with his grandparents just round the corner from this building. His grandfather, Isaac Cross, was a runner for him. “I was born into an orthodox family who came from eastern Europe…
Outside the old Middlesex Hospital, a Rolls Royce goes past. “Get one of these,” calls Tony to Felix Dennis’s chauffeur, pointing at the fleet of Cubes. The chauffeur’s not impressed. “I’ve outlived a building,” says Tony. “I don’t know where it went. We should have started here. But now we’ve seen where I was born…
One of my friends, the filmmaker Tony Kaye, is in London this week to launch a series of Design Inspiration events at The Cube Store, a unique, pop-up destination and creative forum in Brick Lane set up to celebrate the launch of one of Japan’s greatest design icons, the Nissan Cube. To celebrate Tony’s arrival…
The journey begins in a fleet of Nissan Cubes. We’ve arrived at The Basil Street Practice at 9.15 to put into practice the day’s theme: Tony Kaye’s journey to immortality. Kaye insists that he is overly cautious, so a visit to a doctor in Knightsbridge is a thematic essential – added to that, Kaye has…