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Life Tips #14: Melody Gardot, 25, Recording Artist

By on April 24, 2012 in Life Tips

We grabbed Grammy-nominated songstress Melody Gardot for a chat after the debut London live performance of her forthcoming album at Freemasons Hall. 1. The body is an instrument. Where language falls short of explanation, the mouth, hands, hips – you name it – can all express exactly what needs to be said. Words don’t tell [...]

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Life Tips #11: Rob Cowan, Music School CEO

By on April 3, 2012 in Life Tips

1. Play the right tunes, in the right order. Ultimately that’s all there is to being a DJ. But being responsible for creating mood in this way requires huge sensitivity to how music makes people feel. 2. You can always reinvent yourself, often unintentionally. I’m on my fourth career. I started as bass player who [...]

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Duck, NW5 – here comes the Crawl.

By on April 28, 2011 in Community, Culture, Kentish Town, Music

Or should that be tortoise? So this year they’ve thrown Kentish Town into the mix. Yes, for the first time, the industrious, annual Camden Crawl staggers north up Kentish Town Road until it collapses, light-headed, and perhaps a bit icky, at The Forum. (En route it swings by such stellar venues as the Abbey Tavern, [...]

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Did Emma Hamilton really drink in the garden at Heroes?

By on April 15, 2011 in Drink, History, Random

Spring is in the air and new boozers are being birthed in NW5 like sticky lambs. The crumbling Lion and Unicorn, on Gaisford Street, is about to re-emerge as a swanky “food pub” with a refreshed upstairs theatre to boot (a peek through the windows drew a gasp of delight from Mrs Kentishtowner the other [...]

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Kentish Town Waltz by Imelda May

By on December 2, 2010 in Culture, Kentishtowner Recommends, Music

Cynics would argue that it must have been a quiet morning at the Standard yesterday, what with the home counties besieged by snow, as our beloved postcode received no less than a whole page of coverage. The news? Kooky Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May, a former NW5 resident, has released a ‘tribute to Kentish Town…and its [...]

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Bull & Gate

By on November 10, 2010 in Kentish Town, Music, Pub

Oooh la la, this classic boozer has had a bit of a makeover. For now, it seems the old whore’s lipstick is just about in place. But for how much longer? So before she crumbles again, gawp at her glistening paint, restored Victorian bar, chandeliers and fireplaces, and wonder why she smells just slightly sterile. [...]

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Grafton Road

By on November 10, 2010 in Art, Culture, Walks, West Kentish Town

Grafton Road is coming up in the world. Why? Because this formerly maligned corner of West Kentish Town’s warehouses, factories and yards (mostly remnants of its former life as the centre of the piano industry in Edwardian times) have been rebirthed as fashion, film, production, media, TV studios and architectural practices. Wander the streets and [...]

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