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 …
Community Pinboard: Local Music Special (plus lots of food & booze, of course) Read More »
1. Ring My Bell? You may be aware that the work that opens the Olympics is Martin’s Creed’s All The Bells, which takes place tomorrow (Fri 27). It’s a large participative project involving anyone, anywhere, ringing a bell for 3 minutes…just after 8am. 8.12am to be precise. And guess what, you can be a part …
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1. Tell People What You Want From Kentish Town Got an opinion or two about the manor? A bunch of folk are trying to create a Neighbourhood Forum, the aim being to set out how Kentish Town should develop over the next 10 years. We attended the first event outside Co-op yesterday, which quizzed passers-by …
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1. The Southampton Arms 2. The Pineapple 3= The Oxford 3= Tapping The Admiral This area of London has a particularly rich heritage of public houses. A stagger deep into the neighbourhood produces a boozer on virtually every street… or more often than not, a former pub. But while there’s no denying the decline of …
Pic by Ellie Baskett Mrs Kentishtowner is not a happy bunny. Her younger, dare we say sexier sibling, Miss KT, has just moved into a gorgeous warehouse building slapbang in the heart of NW5. ‘It’s your own fault.’ She poked her tongue out at her older sister. ‘That stupid blog thing you write made it …
Last night, during a magnificent rain-soaked midweek rampage that took in the Southampton (for “expresso” ale!), The Vine (for polenta with wild mushrooms!) and Heroes (for some late night divebar fashionableness!), Annie’s Bar was the one place that we entered – and weren’t enamoured by. Why is this? Let’s face it, Mrs Kentishtowner will pretty …
Mrs Kentishtowner is frequenting The Abbey more and more at the moment. Why? Well, she maintains that its unflashy interior – the exposed brick walls and giant windows – gives her a sense of karma, a third space from which she can gaze out onto the bleep and rumble of the Kentish Town Road beyond. …
The Abbey (124 Kentish Town Road) is actually really pleasant. I say ‘actually’ because nobody I know goes there regularly, although, on the rare occasions when we do, we will inevitably comment on its red-lit, wooden-floored, rather elegant long bar and interior. Its winning card is a very shady secret garden, with hidden treehouse and …
