A whole load of artists are taking over The Forum
DRAF gallery’s yearly arty party takes place in Kentish Town next week – and it’s free entry
Koko
Pet Shop Boys in Camden: Top 5 locations revealed
Which Camden Town backstreet gave birth to worldwide hit West End Girls? With their critically acclaimed new album Electric out this week, we unveil the secret local haunts behind the UK’s most successful pop duo
Community Pinboard: Halloween 2012 Special
It’s Halloween so there are plenty of fancy dressing opps this week as well as chances to scare yourself witless. Ahem. Pub Frights Time to crack out the devil’s horns. The Princess of Wales is getting in on the scares this year, hosting a Halloween-themed bash this Friday (26th). Swing by for spicy bat wings, …
Review: King Charles, KOKO
On the way to one gig on Thursday, I heard about another, an impromptu, secret affair on the high street. The king of crooning, Tom Jones, was playing to 150 people crammed into the Wheelbarrow. Although I turned up as the stage was being packed up and the Welsh wonder had disappeared into the night, …
Why It Matters: Gigging for the Over 50s
When you get to a certain age, you still kid yourself that your peers are somehow older than you. After all, you are young. Nothing has changed despite the advancing years. You like the same things you always did – gossip, lipgloss, bags, jewellery (like Patsy, I seem to have forgotten the word accessories). Not …
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 …
Oh and one more thing: Best Live Music venue
Roundhouse or Wheelbarrow? The Forum or Heroes? Proud Galleries or Blues Kitchen? Black Heart or Koko? Bull & Gate or Lock Tavern? Downstairs at The Torriano or upstairs at The Oxford? What about Barfly? God knows why this category slipped through the net. We blame the dog; or maybe the mulled cider. Still, our corner …
Gabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town
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 …
