Ich Bin Kentishtowner: James Eder, 31, entrepreneur
‘I am just trying to change the world. I guess sometimes that can sound a bit full on’
‘I am just trying to change the world. I guess sometimes that can sound a bit full on’
Right in the heart of industrial west Kentish Town is a world-class film and photographic studio that’s a fave for superstars, from Madonna to Gaga
In the first of a month of sport-themed columns, Tim Sowula celebrates local level football and the thriving youth teams here in Kentish Town
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
1. Zabludowicz Collection 2. Cob Gallery 3. Spring Projects Best gallery was an interesting one. Whilst many of you were headstrong in your opinion, a good few were foxed by the category. (‘Call me a philistine’, quipped Mark, Conrad and several others.) We thought you all read The Kentishtowner? Oh, you do… Happily, votes did …
The lights are dazzling on Kentish Town Road, the tree seller is parked outside the station, and newly-arrived Miss KT – giddy at the prospect of her first Christmas in NW5 – is already on her seventh consecutive night out (yes, it was her you saw stumbling, ‘bab in hand, out of E.Mono last night). …
‘Perhaps,’ I wondered, ‘she was an illusion?’ ‘More likely,’ said Mrs Kentishtowner, ‘she was a portent of our impending doom.’ No, we weren’t discussing a Somerfield sighting of Sam Cam in baseball cap and shades; we were, however, pondering the whereabouts of a mixologist who, having served some delicious libations at Blues Kitchen, gave us …
It’s the last entry of the year so, wrapping up our first season here at the KT, we’re pleased to unveil our inaugural Kentishtowner Top 10 for 2010. #1. Southampton Arms.
We heart the long-established Spring Studios and this custom-built 3000ft commercial gallery, which provides a platform for contemporary art, design and fashion, opened in 2008. Typifying the ongoing cultural regeneration of West Kentish Town, it’s a fabulous white space and, if you’re really polite, they may let you have a peak around one of the …