Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Gabby Young, 28, Singer-songwriter
‘It took me seven times to pass my driving test and I’m allergic to alcohol’
‘It took me seven times to pass my driving test and I’m allergic to alcohol’
We’ve featured Gabby and her ‘Animals’ several times but couldn’t resist doing so again, partly because this time there’s double Kentish love with NW5-dweller Gabby Young crooning on the perennially lovely Hampstead Heath. ‘Walk Away’ is classic Gabby: big voice, big sounds, exuberantly heart-felt, bursting with old world charm yet simultaneously truly avant-garde. With slinky …
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It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon. Time for a new weekly column celebrating the best tracks out there. And yes, for this inaugural edition we declare an interest, as Kentishtowner fashion scribe and NW5-based superstar-in-waiting Gabby Young (represented, we’re pleased to announce, by our sister company) is all set to release her second album, The Band …
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Left to right: Chippy, Pepper, Hobbes. Otherwise known as the inaugural meeting of the Kentish Town Jack Russell Club (KTJRC for all you Women’s Institute types). And canine watchers will appreciate that approximately one second after this picture was taken, all three dogs were off, never to regroup again in such perfect formation (despite an …
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Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young And Other Animals , an eight-piece collective who headline KOKO tonight for what they reckon is their biggest show ever. Kentish …