The Camden Crawl and Coachella Music and Arts Festival
Hi, this is Gemma Dempsey and welcome to another edition of The Global Gig Guide. We head to Camden Town, London for the Camden Crawl and to Indio Palm Springs for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, as well as a quick round up of who's currently on tour around the world.
By Gemma Dempsey • • 5m ListenHi, this is Gemma Dempsey and welcome to another edition of The Global Gig Guide. We head to Camden Town, London for the Camden Crawl and to Indio Palm Springs for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, as well as a quick round up of who's currently on tour around the world.
The Camden Crawl, LondonThe Camden Crawl has been dubbed the unofficial start to the festival year by the UK’s NME magazine . It takes place in Camden Town, a north London district known for being a great place to hear all types of music from goth rock to to acoustic folk. It also has loads of brilliant markets selling everything from vintage threads to arty thingameebobs, and gets really crowded on the weekends – if the streets are too chaotic you could take a barge (narrow river boat?) from nearby Regents Park Zoo and float through the melee. For the first time since its began in the late nineties The Camden Crawl will take place over two days beginning at noon each day. This year there will be 90 acts on the bill – 40 of those bands will perform both days to help with the constant festival problem of scheduling clashes. The venues include some Camden classics such as the Dublin Castle, the Barfly, the Electric Ballroom and Koko – this venue was formerly the Camden Theatre; built in 1900 and designed in the baroque style by the famous theatre architect W.G.R Sprague. I knew it in the 1980’s as the Camden palace or Camden pally as me and my chums would call it – when it was curated by Steve Stange and I was in my New Romantic phase. And yes , I’m afraid there are photos to prove it! Returning to 2007, the Camden Crawl has an excellent line up of up and coming bands, some home grown such as Nottingham’s Late of the Pier and Brazil’s Bonde Do Role, some KCRW faves such as Tunng, Shout out Louds, New Young Pony Club, I am Kloot – and just announced Travis, BRMC and The Charlatans will also take their place on the Camden Crawl. If all the music and mayhem proves too much for you and the weather is fair, why not take a stroll up to Hampstead Heath and enjoy the view of London stretching out below you.
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Coachella Valley, Palm Springs
AMR festival in Geneva,Switzerland
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