The final line up for 2011’s Gaymers Camden Crawl has been announced, including some exciting late additions including appearances by top grime MC Tinchy Stryder and former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

The festival, which is now in its sixteenth year, takes place over the May Bank Holiday weekend (30th April-1st May) in 39 bars and venues in the Camden area of North London, including The Forum, Koko, Barfly and ‘Camden Bars’ venues The Camden Head, Enterprise, Monarch and Abbey Tavern.

Highlights include performances by established acts such as The Lemonheads, British Sea Power, Killing Joke, Razorlight, Guillemots, Saint Etienne, The View, and Simian Mobile Disco.

In addition to this year’s extraordinary live music line up, the festival continues to develop the breadth of its daytime fringe arts festival. Featuring a vast array of comedic talent, visual art and crafts exhibitions, spoken word and performance theatre, interactive events & games and, of course, live music, the daytime carnival of entertainment sprawls across an additional thirty Camden Town venues for the weekend from 12 – 6pm both dates.

Immediately following the festival’s fringe programme of cutting edge arts during the daylight hours, the streets of Camden will literally come alive with music. Straddling more than twenty venues, the Crawl evening schedule features over 200 of the best up & coming artists from the UK and abroad alongside seminal greats and very special guests. The evening line up kicks off from 5:30 pm and runs until the wee hours on both days of the weekend.

Upon arrival at the festival each ticket holder is presented with an all-access wristband, programme guide, timetable and free download album to help plot his/her day’s adventure. ‘Crawlers’ are then granted unlimited access to all official daytime and evening venues and parties capacity permitting. As is tradition, the full venue schedules will remain secret until the event and surprise guests may appear at any time and at any venue.

Taking place at THE ABBEY TAVERN this year are folk clubs LANTERN SOCIETY and MAGPIE’S NEST so expect lovely sounds from the likes of Song Dog, Jason Mcniff, The Kilcawley Family, Firefly, Lisa Knapp And Gerry Driver and lots more throughout the day.

VISIT WWW.THECAMDENCRAWL.COM FOR FULL GAYMERS CAMDEN CRAWL LINE UP & FOLLOW THEM AT WWW.TWITTER.COM/THECAMDENCRAWL FOR UP TO DATE INFO

www.thecamdencrawl.com / www.twitter.com/thecamdencrawl

Free Admission, First Thursday Night Of Every Month

With entry to all Club 88 gigs at The Abbey Tavern rigorously free, don’t miss your chance to see some quality music at one of North London’s most entertaining pubs. With great pub food served every day until 10pm, the best beer garden in Kentish Town bar none and some pretty hot bar staff the Abbey is the perfect location for a musically enhanced night out.

SATURDAY 26TH MARCH

WILDFIRE

http://www.myspace.com/bandwildlifeband

Wildlife are the four piece ”Post Punk” band from London//Hertfordshire. Armed with a deep, loud and rhythmic sound that’s influenced by bands isuch as Slint, Queens Of The Stone Age and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Having only been together for just under 6 months now this band are causing ripples across the south east and are romping through the capitals underground venues including recent shows with O.Children, Rum Shebeen, Electricity In Our Homes & The Vaccines.

ABI MURRAY & BAND

http://www.myspace.com/abimurraymusic

ABI’s unique brand of rock edged soul is as refreshing as it is energetic. Her music is full of lush harmony and coloured with infectious hooks that are both fun and moving in equal measure. Following a recent headline slot at Camden’s Proud Galleries, ABI and the band will be playing more shows in and around London to promote her up and coming debut album

MARSHALL ARTS FAMILY

http://www.myspace.com/marshallartsfamily

The Marshall Arts Family were founded on love of country and folk music. Given their early awakening into the day old sound of folk and blues (Son House, Charlie Patton, Willie Brown) it became apparent you sometimes need to go backwards before you can go any further forward. By embarking on that they have a tentative sound on their findings. The months past have been spent wisely, drinking in cider festivals and writing songs amongst the common heather.

LUCY DAGG

http://www.myspace.com/lucydagg

Lucy is a London based musician from Leeds. Her passion for music has manifested itself in many many different forms since she picked up the recorder at age 4. Throughout the various versions of Lucy the musician, music has always led her home to singing and more recently, song writing. Poetry and music combine 2 of her greatest loves and songwriting gives her the most satisfying outlet for both. It also idyllically sedates her melodramatic character and (put politely) her fear of silence, if only for a blissful moment.

New Year’s Eve at The Abbey Tavern. Who’s in?

Visit musosguide.com to see what they’re about.

Guests are invited to bid in a silent auction on anything they wish to
purchase.

Creator of the event, Andy Cyrus of Shafted Promotions, says: “Camden is the
creative hub of North London and as an area with a strong artistic and
vibrant multi-cultural community, we wanted to pay tribute to the vibrancy
and creativity of North London.”

Bidding lasts until the end of the month so why not pop into the Abbey Tavern to bid?

Canapés

Smoked salmon mouseline
Feta and olive tapenade (v)
Sweet potato rosti with bacon
Brie and cranberry croque monsieur

Mains

Roast turkey crown wrapped in bacon with a mushroom, sage and chestnut stuffing and port jus
Roasted lamb and braised ox cheek in a Madeira sauce
Wild mushroom and chestnut strudel with roasted red pepper and tomato sauce (v)
Sole, prawn and spinach roulades with hollandaise sauce
(All served with roast potatoes, braised red cabbage with apple, pigs in blankets, creamed sprouts with chestnuts, winter root mash and market vegetables)

Desserts

Mulled wine poached pear, cinnamon mascarpone, biscotti biscuit and mulled wine shot
Homemade Christmas pudding with brandy and orange butter and spiced custard
Champagne sorbet with spiced berry compote
Panettone bread and butter pudding

Join us and reminisce on the good times had and the good times yet to come, as we toast a good friend on her future and give the evening an Unstable drunken twist, with great bands, great vibes and lots of Tequila.

FREE ENTRY!! FREE FUN

Lineup

The Marshall Arts Family

The Marshall Arts Family are a rising star on the London underground music scene, renowned for their re-imagining of folk, blues and other such things.

http://www.myspace.com/marshallartsfamily

Andy and The Prostitutes

Andy McKay is a genius. He needed a band to help him share his genius. They decided to call themselves The Prostitutes. They will not stop selling their wares until you ALL pay attention!!!

http://www.myspace.com/andyandtheprostitutes

The FreeWheelers

Rockin’, rollin’ and raucous foot-stomping good times music from Jonny Berliner and his motley crew of talented musicians. Firm Unstable favourites and irresistibly entertaining.

http://www.myspace.com/themightyfreewheelers

DJ Postscript

Presenting a mash up from the lightest Electro to the deepest of dub with some guilty pleasures in between….

Big Love

Terri & The Unstable Family

Move On Up, Paint It Black, Can’t Hurry Love, Rock N Roll, I Wanna Be Your Dog, Back In Black, I Fought The Law, Too Much Too Young, Atomic, True Faith, Bigmouth Strikes Again, Debaser, Once In A Lifetime, Lithium, Welcome To Paradise, She Said, Charmless Man, Buddy Holly, Mis-Shapes, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Block Rockin’ Beats and much much more!

Saturday 21st August
Suddenly Jelly with DJ Postscript
FREE

An eclectic mash-up set including hip-hop, electro, indie, rock, oldskool, dubstep and a healthy serving of cheese.