Camden
Dub Pistols at KOKO in Camden
Do you like reggae music served on a bed of bouncy ska with the merest dash of oestrogen spicing the boy’s brigade that is Dub Pistols?
Dub Pistols Prepare to Play Camden’s KOKO
London-based big beaters Dub Pistols headline Camden’s KOKO this Saturday as they unveil their new album, Rum & Coke, through Sunday Best.
Proud Galleries Promotes Peace One Day
The benefit concert can often be a strange experience as it is both a deception whilst at the same time, it is an effort to try and use different art forms to go about trying to rectify the world’s problems. It’s a deception in that no-one present here tonight has come in support of the [...]
Talent Spread Thinly
There is a debate within the reviewing field about whether you have a responsibility to support the art form you criticise or whether you are just a culture detective answerable only to the public.
Zeen for Indian in Euston
After my initial booking at Zeen was cancelled due to fire (in the area, not the restaurant itself), my sister and I rescheduled, when instead we had to path-find our way there through a blizzard. Euston’s Drummond Street is known for its Indian restaurants. Located in a ’70s-style, orange-lit basement, the tube rumbling beneath you as [...]
AC/DC Rocks Proud Camden
Proud Galleries, in Camden’s notorious Stables Market (famous north London celebrity *ahem* hangout), is renowned for being an underground drinking pool with stimulating visuals; a home to arty creatives looking for a dark, cagey corner to be inconspicuously spotted. Maybe the galleries’ reputation has been strengthened by the fact that they have housed secret gigs by [...]
Gilgamesh and the Glorious Globe Girls
The grand entrance to Gilgamesh says it all: red carpet, flambeaus, escalators rising from the madness of Camden market bound for culinary heaven. And when we reach the top what meets us defies all expectations, for inside is a vast palatial shrine; a bejewelled Babylon tribute of Eastern opulence and a unique dining experience to [...]
Dega Breaks, Haunts and To The Bones
Just over my left shoulder hangs a large black and white print of the late, great Muddy Waters, the celebrated ‘Father of the Chicago Blues’. As a struggling country blues musician in Issaquena County, an impoverished patch of pre-war, segregated Mississippi, Waters scraped a living playing to illegal juke joints filled with gamblers, brigands and [...]
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.
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