Camden Town + two days + 40 venues + 150 artists + some of the best London gigs all year = total and utter carnage. We have a feeling we're going to be running around like kids in a sweet shop, indulging in as much sweet musical goodness as our bodies can handle, before collapsing in a sticky but happy mess.
Of course, the harsh laws of time and space render it impossible to see every single artist performing, so in order to assist in overcoming the usual quandary of who to see, we asked some of the line-up who they definitely won't be missing at this year's Camden Crawl.
Bryn Fowler - The Holloways
I'd like to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs but not sure if I'll be able to. I'm also excited about Echo & The Bunnymen.
I'll try and wander about and see as many bands as possible. When there
are bands I don't recognise I try to watch them instead. That's what
the Crawl's all about; it's about the little band that no one's ever
heard of. That's what's good about Camden Crawl.
Matt Bigland - Dinosaur Pile-Up
Holy shit! Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing? I'm probably most excited about them, I think they're cool... I think their first two albums are killer. And I'm a sucker for Miss O. Little Death are pretty freaking sweet as well. A little less known, but I'll try my best to get to see them too. You can quote me on that.
Sebastian Muravchik - Heartbreak
I am excited about seeing 808 State. I've been fascinated by their sound for a long time they're one of the bands that first got me interested in electronic music back in Buenos Aires. Their music intrigued me and inspired landscapes in my mind, and I tried to imagine what sort of place this music came from. It seemed to be escaping reality into a deeper realm, which to me wasn't so much space as it was abstraction per se. Now that we gig regularly in Manchester, and I got to know this great city and their spaced out people, I think I understand it more, yet it remains inspiring.
It'll also be a pleasure to see our great friend Victoria and her Little Boots. We've toured together and are really good friends with her and her musicians, Ben and Chris, and her management - they have a lovely tour crew. My favourite track of hers is 'Stuck On Repeat' - great bass line and chorus hook it has Tango potential if you ask me! Maybe someday we'll do a Milonga version of this song.
Roddy Woomble – Idlewild
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are always good live, and Billy Bragg. The View might be good fun too.
Than Luu - Black Gold
Choosing a fave from this line-up is like asking a momma to choose her fave pup, but I'm going to have to say the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Even though we're both New York bands, I've never seen them before. K.O. is so fucking sexy - I won't be content until she spits, sweats or spews some type of bodily fluid on me. Bless.
David Chin – Plugs
There are so many of our peers playing this year, it's going to be amazing. I mean Post War Years are playing and we're good friends with them and love seeing them.
We're playing Koko though on one of the nights with Echo and The Bunnymen and that's a huge deal for me. Seeing Ian McCulloch is going to be amazing. I'm wary of meeting your heroes but I hope he catches us.
It would be quite cool to catch The Fall as well, Mark E Smith is pretty astonishing . I remember seeing him with The Magic Band at The Royal Albert Hall, that was sensational.
Camden Crawl is just nuts though. There is so much good stuff on. Where ever you end up it’s going to be good.
Josh Weller
Golden Silvers sound like Elvis Costello and Morrissey french kissing in a student bedsit listening to T-Rex, then cuddling to Leadbelly afterwards with a Vogue cigarette.
Broadcast 2000 are everything that's right with this folk revival right now. They're pushing pop down a dusty, countryside road in the summer then stuffing ice down the back of your t-shirt.
Die! Die! Die! – Yes! Yes! Yes! And the Maccabees. Orlando from The Maccabees did all artwork for my new EP 'PUSH'. Thus, by saying I'm looking forward to The Maccabees, I get to cheekily plug myself. Woop.
Alessio Natalizia - Banjo or Freakout
808 State because it could be great, it could be terrible...
The Camden Crawl runs in various venues across Camden from the 24th to the 25th of April. Cheers to Jonathan and Gemma for working on this - thanks guys!
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