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Camden Crawl 08 Reviewed
23rd Apr 2008
There’s no obvious big name headliner, which is part of the charm.
It’s impossible to catch every band, but with all the venues in such a small area you end up catching bands you’ve never heard of and end up being glad you did.
The Good Mixer played host to Winners early on Friday afternoon, and we felt like the winners for being in the right place at the right time.
Bar Vinyl turned into a full on rave for Hadouken! at 5:00pm. The stage was so small the guitarist had to stand on the side behind the speaker stack.
Proud’s first artist of the night was Californian ironic disco rapper Kennedy, whose pimp-daddy appearance and songs of all things white trash left a smile on everyone’s face.
Johnny Flynn at the Underworld Friday night was an amazing display blue grass indie folk that is sure to see him at the top of ‘the one’s to watch’ lists very soon.
Crystal Castles drew one of the biggest queues of Friday night at the Purple Turtle. It seemed to be style over substance at this gig, but apparently their set on Saturday was better.
Saturday afternoon saw SixNationState play their second outstanding set of the Crawl at the jam packed Tommy Flynn’s. Their raucous DIY rock n roll is as infectious as it is original. This was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend.
Ironic rockers The Wave Pictures packed out N.W.1. bar at 6.45pm and even managed to get a sing along going. Rumour has it their set on Friday was even better.
Fox Cub at the Good Mixer Saturday was so rammed quite few peered through the window to catch a glimpse. It wasn’t much better with the fantastic American alt-rockers Eastern Conference Champions playing straight after, but at least a few more did managed to squeeze in.
An unexpected star was discovered at the Underworld when Sweden’s Lykke Li took the stage. Her soulful voice and street attitude twist into an electro pop dream. She’ll be an indie darling before long.
Through out the two days, you see musicians walking up Camden High Street with their equipment trying to get to their next gig. You over hear conversations between punters about who they just saw and who they’re rushing off to see next. You intend to head to one venue, and then get distracted by the noise coming from another so stop to have a look just so you don’t miss anything.
The Camden Crawl is one of the UK’s best inner-city music festivals, not only because it’s a taste-maker showcase of emerging talent, it’s also the brilliant and remarkably chilled out atmosphere it creates for fans to discover great music.
To keep the indie vibe flowing long after the Crawl has ended, each ticket holder was given a free download code through 7 Digital, where you can get a 32-track compilation album of artists who performed.
With tracks from The Bookhouse Boys, Fanfarlo, Tellison, Does It Offend You Yeah, Operator Please and Metronomy, just to name a few, you get another opportunity to discover the bands you missed.
Reviewed by: Alison Kerry
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