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Thursday Video Club: Dry The River, live at Electric Ballroom

By on May 17, 2012 in Music, Thursday Video Club

‘New Ceremony’ is the current single from Dry the River, a London five-piece gazing at the shiny face of stardom. Angelic harmonies of Fleet Foxes? Check. Lyrics with a gloomy hint of the National? Check. A hardcore rock-tinged live show you’d never expect from the likes of Mumford & Sons? Absolutely. And this is what [...]

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Why It Matters: Gigging for the Over 50s

By on May 14, 2012 in Music, Why It Matters

When you get to a certain age, you still kid yourself that your peers are somehow older than you. After all, you are young. Nothing has changed despite the advancing years. You like the same things you always did – gossip, lipgloss, bags, jewellery (like Patsy, I seem to have forgotten the word accessories). Not [...]

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Thursday Video Club: BIGKids ‘Superhero’

By on May 10, 2012 in Music

Billy Boyd Cape, born and bred in Kentish Town, is studying film production at university. But how many 19 year olds get to direct a video for Kanye West-signed Kentish Town-grown superstar Mr Hudson? (Answer: not many). ‘When I was 14 I knew him as my pop-star neighbour,’ he enthuses. ‘I never thought that five [...]

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Thursday Video Club: ‘A Local Man’ by Patch & The Giant – live @Boogaloo, Highgate

By on May 3, 2012 in Music, Thursday Video Club

This rousing tune from 7-piece London folksters Patch and The Giant combines heartfelt lyrics with an uplifting melody and chorus so catchy it’s unbelievable they’re still unsigned. Even better, Patch are ‘band in residence’ at Highgate’s Boogaloo, where once a month they whip out the bunting for their already-cult ‘Sunday Fete’ night. Despite it being [...]

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Thursday Video Club: Gledhill’s classic single, ‘Remain’

By on April 26, 2012 in Music, Thursday Video Club

I’ve worked with dozens of bands over the years, but one whose story stands out is that of former Sheffield five-piece Gledhill, whose keyboardist Tracey sadly died last week. Seven years ago, I travelled to Sheffield to meet the band for a curry. Laughing, beers in hand, they revealed one small goal: ‘to write the [...]

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Thursday Video Club: Gabby Young’s ‘In Your Head’

By on March 15, 2012 in Music

It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon. Time for a new weekly column celebrating the best tracks out there. And yes, for this inaugural edition we declare an interest, as Kentishtowner fashion scribe and NW5-based superstar-in-waiting Gabby Young (represented, we’re pleased to announce, by our sister company) is all set to release her second album in June [...]

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Thursday Music Club: Kentish Town favourites Saint Etienne are back.

By on January 26, 2012 in Music

Folk of a certain age tend to clasp local trio Saint Etienne (the ‘Et’ to their nearest and dearest) close to their (probably more than ample) bosom. For example, Mrs Kentishtowner fondly remembers the day, back in 1992, when she skived off Sixth Form to get her vinyl copy of ‘So Tough’ signed at HMV’s [...]

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Best Live Venue 2011

By on January 5, 2012 in 2011 Best Ofs, Music

1. Roundhouse 2. Bull & Gate 3= Koko 3= Barfly And so to our final (belated) 2011 awards category. Despite the Xmas rush, it’s fair to say votes came pouring in. And the more we – and some of you – thought about it, the harder, and perhaps more futile, it actually seemed to plump [...]

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Oh and one more thing: Best Live Music venue

By on December 24, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Music

Roundhouse or Wheelbarrow? The Forum or Heroes? Proud Galleries or Blues Kitchen? Black Heart or Koko? Bull & Gate or Lock Tavern? Downstairs at The Torriano or upstairs at The Oxford? What about Barfly? God knows why this category slipped through the net. We blame the dog; or maybe the mulled cider. Still, our corner [...]

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Bored Tonight? Watch Francis Neve in Camden

By on December 21, 2011 in Bored Tonight, Camden, Live, Music

Eagle-eyed readers will remember our connections with fast-rising East London-based singer-songwriter Francis Neve. And since we last mentioned him six months ago, he’s had a couple of BBC 6 Music Breakfast Records of the week, the lucky boy. Like this one. And if you can weave it into the no doubt hideously complex social schedule [...]

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