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5. Live music this weekend at Poppies

Don Pipkin and chums. Image: Poppies
Don Pipkin and chums. Image: Poppies

New 1940s-themed fish ‘n’ chip parlour Poppies is really pushing the live venue angle at weekends, and why not? It’s spacious but quite intimate, if you know what we mean. And unlike most chippies, it’s a nice spot to linger with a Pale Ale.

We’re big Paloma Faith fans at Kentishtowner HQ and so were excited to read that her pianist Dom Pipkin and the Ikos are doing an intimate gig tomorrow, 730pm.

Don has just returned from touring with the peroxide Hackney chanteuse, so we bet he has a story or two. And he’s a left-hand driven pianist as well (if you follow us) who leads his outfit in playing lively New Orleans-style jazz, rhythm ‘n’ blues and funk.

Meanwhile on Saturday at 730pm, it might be worth trying to catch Nicola Emmanuelle, whose songs and “show-stopping” voice evoke the sound of the original jazz pioneers of the thirties, forties and fifties. 30 Hawley Crescent NW1

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3 thoughts on “Pinboard: New free April print issue out now! Plus Bull & Gate, Spaniards Inn and St Pancras Old Church”

  1. Joe C

    I’ve always found the row of shops on Fortess Road leading up from the junction with Kentish Town Rd to The Junction a little disconcerting:

    -the hat shop that never looks open
    -the thai restaurant that never seems to have any customers (but does seem to have a revamp on an annual basis)
    -the junk shop with the cage permanently outside (often with furry handcuffs on)

    Having previously lived in the piano shop that’s no longer a piano shop, it was a very odd road to walk along daily. Genuine new arrivals would distinctly improve that road.

    1. Robin

      The hat shop? You mean the tailor Chris Ruocco? Try a bit later in the day. I think earlier in the morning Chris is busy organizing things at the men’s pond on the Heath. He has a harmonium (or some small keyboard instrument) in the front of the shop, and has specialized in clothes for musicians, including – most famously – George Michael in the Wood Green early years. Very much worth asking Chris for a Kentishtowner interview: has many stories to tell.

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3 thoughts on “Pinboard: New free April print issue out now! Plus Bull & Gate, Spaniards Inn and St Pancras Old Church”

  1. Joe C

    I’ve always found the row of shops on Fortess Road leading up from the junction with Kentish Town Rd to The Junction a little disconcerting:

    -the hat shop that never looks open
    -the thai restaurant that never seems to have any customers (but does seem to have a revamp on an annual basis)
    -the junk shop with the cage permanently outside (often with furry handcuffs on)

    Having previously lived in the piano shop that’s no longer a piano shop, it was a very odd road to walk along daily. Genuine new arrivals would distinctly improve that road.

    1. Robin

      The hat shop? You mean the tailor Chris Ruocco? Try a bit later in the day. I think earlier in the morning Chris is busy organizing things at the men’s pond on the Heath. He has a harmonium (or some small keyboard instrument) in the front of the shop, and has specialized in clothes for musicians, including – most famously – George Michael in the Wood Green early years. Very much worth asking Chris for a Kentishtowner interview: has many stories to tell.

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