Centre Point - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The Centre Point building is visible in the beginning of the music video for "Check the Meaning" by Richard Ashcroft. It also appears in the background of the music video for Midnight Madness by English electronic music band The Chemical Brothers, and during the music video of "Bang" by Blur
• Centre Point is one of the locations Jim (Cillian Murphy) walks past in the 'deserted London' scenes of UK horror film 28 Days Later (2002), Director Danny Boyle also references this (as "a famous empty/partially empty building in London") on the DVD commentary.
• The character Old Bailey camps on top of Centre Point at one point in Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere. He describes it as an "ugly and distinctive Sixties skyscraper" and goes on to remark that "the view from the top was without compare, and, furthermore, the top of Centre Point was one of the few places in the West End of London where you did not have to look at Centre Point itself".
• The building is mentioned in the sixth episode of the BBC comedy series The Thick of It. During an inquiry into the UK government's culture of leaking information to the press, Stuart Pearson, a Conservative spin-doctor is asked about an analogy he has made between government transparency and the Pompidou Centre. A member of the inquiry suggests that rather than creating a "political Pompidou Centre," Pearson has created "the opposite, Centre Point - I mean everyone sees it looming over them but nobody has the faintest idea what happens in there." To which Pearson replies, "I think there's some kind of club on the top floor."