Camden
Camden Arts Centre Goes Solo
For some reason the Camden Arts Centre runs two solo shows of two very different artists and CAC’s declaration that they ‘share an intensity which is both personal and profound’ seems quite farfetched to me.
Lucha Libre: They Came, They Conquered
What do you get if you mix muscle men, midgets, transvestites, skin-tight costumes, sequins and sweat? One of the funniest and strangest nights out in London: Lucha Libre arrived…and then departed.
Haunts at Camden’s Barfly
Walking into the Barfly in Camden and seeing the crowd awaiting the first band, Haunts, at the front of the stage was a good sign. It displayed an intention, a collective desire to kick the night off with gusto. From the start, Haunts rocked the shit.
Les Gars Rocks KOKO’s Club NME
As the projector screen that hid the stage at Club KOKO in Camden rose, so the three figures of Toronto’s Les Gars exploded. Loud and fast un-syncopated, down-struck guitar, a stage-bounding bass player, and relentless mashing drums not so much shook our hands but ripped our arms unceremoniously from our polite and pointless bodies.
Lukestar & Airborne Toxic Event at Dublin Castle
According to the God-sent font of wisdom that is Wikipedia, there are some 44,000 Americans resident in London. A quick headcount reveals that all but three of them are here tonight, packed to the gunwales inside the inexplicably prestigious Dublin Castle to witness the heroically chiselled angsty-ness of California’s The Airborne Toxic Event and Norway’s [...]
Staying Forever 27 at Proud Gallery Camden
What do Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all have in common? Okay they all have the letters ‘I’ and ‘N’ in their names. Yes, they’re all iconic rock legends. And, they all took pleasure in copious chemical substances, which tragically lead to their untimely deaths, of which circumstances were [...]
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