Local Talent Q&A: Alice Greenfield, filmmaker and photographer, 24
Earlier in the summer we put out a call to local artists to send in their work. We display the entrants weekly
Bull & Gate
Home Style: Cat Dal talks interiors
We meet the former model who has turned her attention to making homes look stunning
10 things we learnt on a hard-hat tour of the Bull & Gate
An exclusive peek inside the famous soon-to-be-reborn boozer
These two local pubs have just been flattened by developers
Wander down these streets a few weeks ago, and you’d have found a local watering hole on the corner
Review: The Spread Eagle, Camden Town
A spendy refit – including posh kitchen – sees this classic Parkway pub transformed into a destination
Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Andy Macleod, Promoter, Club Fandango at Bull & Gate
It’s the Bull and Gate’s final week as a live music venue and so who else could we feature than its hard-working resident promoters Club Fandango? Since 2001 the thoroughly independent Club Fandango company has been at the forefront of unsigned music in London, promoting up-and-coming new bands across virtually every notable small venue in …
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Bull and Gate classics: The legacy of Carter USM
[quote] Fruitbat put on the one and only performance of his musical at the Bull and Gate. He hired gold chairs and everybody dressed up in dinner suits and gowns.” [/quote] It’s just over a fortnight till the Bull and Gate closes, and I thought it may be time to ponder Carter USM, an almost …
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Pinboard: New free April print issue out now! Plus Bull & Gate, Spaniards Inn and St Pancras Old Church
1. New FREE April/May issue out Oh my days. The new issue has “hit the streets” officially, with co-editors Tom and Stephen once again performing a Krypton Factor-style hand delivery to around 40 local outlets. It was also a very interesting anthropological experiment standing at the tube station this morning handing out copies. We shifted …
Top 5 Gigs: The Bull and Gate
Last month we reported that the Bull and Gate, that K-Town bastion of alternative rock and indiepop rumblings for over 30 years, will cease operating as a live venue on 4th May 2013. As most of you know, the entire building has been sold to the Young’s chain and will be expected to reopen as …
“Any sign of my cheese sandwich?” Martin James on the march of NW5’s pub-trade progress
Every couple of years or so I repeat the above question to the invariably charming bar staff at the Pineapple pub in Leverton Street – and they always look blank. Well they might: it was in 1984 that the then landlady disappeared upstairs to make it, but my cheese doorstop never appeared. Now I’ve almost …
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