I don't know why Razorlight are so down on Dalston in their song 'Don't go back to Dalston' because as far as I can tell it's just as good (or scuzzy) as anywhere else in that bit of north-east London. I used to live up the road there decades ago and it's only got slightly worse since then. But I suppose it was a dire, sub-wasteland hell then too, which never recovered from 15 years of Thatcher. Apart from the little sub-wasteland hell problem though, there's now a cool little wholefood shop on a corner of Dalston Lane there called 'Wholesum' (I might have got that totally wrong, come to think of it) and they do what in my humble opinion is the best loaf of bread in London - some kind of dark rye bread from a bakery up the road from there in Stoke Newington. They obviously use some sort of magic to make it and it's so good it has ruined all other bread for me. Every cloud has a tragic lining :O