Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Black Gull Books is a bit of an institution in Camden Market; owner Chris has been there as a stallholder from the market’s birth. His second hand and antiquarian books have a more all-weather home these days and …
Camden streets were empty as London watched the Chelsea and/or Arsenal match on Wednesday night. Koko however, was sold out with London hipsters checking out NYC home county kids Passion Pit. Their ‘Manners’ album is a synth infused electro style similar to hipstersuperband du jour …
Here’s a first glimpse of plans to rebuild the Canal Market in Camden Town. Meh, looks OK. But is anyone else reminded of Jabba’s sand barge from Return of the Jedi? The shabby but loveable congeries of booths, barrows and brickery was gutted by fire …
Not content with festivals putting tickets on sale the minute doors from the previous year have shut, the Camden Crawl is today getting in on the bandwagon by putting tickets for it’s 2010 event on sale next week, 29th October. Held next year on May …
On Friday, the slacker rock icons Dinosaur Jr. returned to London to play Camden’s Koko in support of their recent “Farm” album. When the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. (J Mascis, Murph and Lou Barlow) reunited four years ago, much to everyone’s surprise after such …
The ‘museum extension fever‘ we mused about earlier in the year was soon threatened by a combination of funding fumble and council kybosh, but what’s happened since then? The British Museum’s £135 million extension, designed by Richard Rogers’ firm, was snipped by Camden Council who …
An occasional series on the plight of London’s abandoned bears. It’s been a few months since our last post in this series. As Spring turned into summer it seemed that the widespread cruelty habitually meted out on London’s stuffed bear population was on the wane. …
A natural woodland park jam packed with graves and riddled with ivy.
New music to try this week: the bound-to-be-beautiful performance by local indie band Painting of Ships, playing at The Dublin Castle on Tuesday at 8pm. We discovered them at a quaint little house party where Christmas lights were strung and meringues were made and instantaneously …
Is a bench. In a disused shop. On Chalk Farm Road. Local residents Russell Loughlan, Charlotte Haigh and Stephen Emms will install a common-or-garden (or park) bench, plus bonus rubbish bin, inside a new gallery space from 3 August. Anyone at all can turn up, …
Splat the Dog by Zefrog. Not so dangerous. Dog crime is becoming more of a problem than knife crime on Camden streets. The borough is still only 7th on the list of dog derived danger hotspots for the capital with Lambeth and Southwark leading the …
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