Don't know if "reasonably priced accommodation" is possible any more - it was once in another life.
Wherever you end up, use London to the full, it has a lot to offer, otherwise you don't "live" there, you only exist
There isn't as much music as there was, but it's still around understand - particularly Irish music.
If you get a chance, have a pint in 'The George, Borough High Street in Southwark - surely one of the most beautiful historic pubs in the world - but go out of season to miss the coachloads of 'emmets'
Jim Carroll