Archive | July, 2011

Future Heroes?

By on July 27, 2011 in Bored Tonight, Live, Music

Nice little video, eh? Tune ain’t bad either, we think you’ll agree. And, yes, hands up, hands up, we confess this is a cheeky little plug for our sister company’s new management signing Francis Neve, but – always with your best interests at heart – we hoped you might swing by the Bull & Gate [...]

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RIP Amy: Monday, 9am, Camden Square

By on July 25, 2011 in News
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Why is Annie’s Bar so crap?

By on July 21, 2011 in Drink, Food, Kentish Town

It’s surely a question that most of us have asked at one point or another. And last night, during a magnificent rain-soaked midweek rampage that took in the Southampton (for “expresso” ale!), The Vine (for polenta with wild mushrooms!) and Heroes (for some late night divebar fashionableness!), Annie’s Bar was the one place that we [...]

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“She Heard It On The Grape-”

By on July 20, 2011 in Drink, Food

Mrs Kentishtowner wishes to let you in on a little secret. She wasn’t always Mrs Kentishtowner, she’d like to point out! She wasn’t always a wife, an executive, a mother! (And just to clarify: she wasn’t involved in #hackgate, either.) But what she’d really like to confess today is that she has history with The [...]

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Fashion: Blustons in this month’s Vogue

By on July 12, 2011 in Fashion, Kentish Town, Random

Oh my. Does the long overdue Bustons revival start here, in the August issue of Vogue? Let’s hope so. A true London classic. 213 Kentish Town Road.

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Alma Street Festival, or What Summer Sundays Are For

By on July 11, 2011 in Art, Festival, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Music, Random

Mrs Kentishtowner is quite happy to admit that she is not a festival person. The only night she recalls under the stars was at the Secret Garden Party, back in 05, where she was forced to flee at the crack of dawn from the maddening thwub of teenage revellers in the tent next door. And [...]

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Bored tonight? Then check out Joel Sarakula at the Bull & Gate

By on July 4, 2011 in Bored Tonight, Live, Music

Oooh, it’s all go today for our sister company’s rising singer songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist progeny Joel Sarakula. Why? Well he’s celebrating the release of his debut single, Bohemian (watch the quirrrky vid above) with a headline gig at the Bull & Gate (onstage 9pm-ish). Email or tweet us and we’ll see if we can’t sort out [...]

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The World According to Sallis

By on July 1, 2011 in Film &Theatre, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Random, Theatre

George Sallis as Pierre in Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’, 2009 We don’t make a habit of upsetting folk here at The Kentishtowner, but one local whose nose was put out of joint the other week was George Sallis, artistic director of Giant Olive Theatre Company. Yes, you may remember he was the one who, [...]

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