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
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 legendary 90s band synonymous with the venue. For our younger readers, the duo, formed in the late 80s, divided everyone, with their signature drum machine-plus-guitars-and-noisy-vocals sound, and cartoon monikers Jimbob and [...]
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 [...]
Could this building be the next Bull & Gate?
Now that the end is nigh for the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town’s most famous small live music venue, isn’t the door wide open for this peeling, rather forlorn old boozer? Readers will remember its moment in the sun came and went as The Flowerpot (2009-10), with its crystal-ball championing of global artists like Mumford [...]
Bull & Gate to Close as Live Music Venue
And now for news just in. It’s just been announced that the Bull & Gate, our much loved K-Town bastion of indie rock, will cease operating as a live venue on May 4th. The entire building has been sold to the Young’s chain and will be closed for refurbishment, to reopen as a “pub restaurant” [...]
Community Pinboard: Local Music Special (plus lots of food & booze, of course)
This week we thought we’d zero in on the rude health of local music scene. So we’ve plucked out some choice highlights, which sit alongside a couple of intriguing foodie developments in the hood this week too. Arise, The Abbey! 1. Indie-pendence at the Bull & Gate. K-Town’s busiest promoters, Club Fandango, are lining up [...]
Wednesday Picture: Dawson & Briant, since 1840
Kentish Town has been respecting its merchant past in recent months with the happy discovery and restoration of original hand-painted shop front signage. Concealed for decades under the achingly dull Brassino Café sign was the legend, ‘E.Mono’, now a sign of the best ‘babs in all London Town. And earlier this week we highlighted another [...]
Best Live Venue 2011
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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Big Review: Hawksmoor, Air Street
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Pinboard: Kentish Town carnival weekend
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Wednesday Picture: Carnival on the former wastelands of Talacre
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Why It Matters: “Suspended” Coffee
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Free Weekend? Walk to Kensal Rise
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Wednesday Picture: Carnival on the former wastelands of Talacre
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Ed Berman, founder, Inter-Action
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Why It Matters: “Suspended” Coffee
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Catch Kentishtowner artist Russell Loughlan at the Affordable Art Fair this weekend
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Big Review: Hawksmoor, Air Street
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Debbie M (@heavenstobetsie): "Any reader of these comments from both camps mus...
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KAte: We love him here in Cape Town...
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Sally: Yes, I think I took pictures of nearly all the ban...
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TJ: The " the posh apartments now known as The Gates...
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David Farrant: Stephen Emms’ article on the Highgate ‘Vampire...
