Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Camden Crawled
We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.
We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.
Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.
Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.
London :: Live Music
A London Indie 101.
Today I bid thee farewell with a heavy head. I'm not being metaphorical here; my head feels like the first day on the Somme. Yesterday was the beginning of the Camden Crawl; a yearly two-day indie-a-thon that takes place in a collection of venues around Camden, which I undertook with vigour.
Now I realise this is a dramatically early heads up for next year's crawl, but more, much more than that, one should use it for educational purposes. The Crawl is pretty much a snapshot London Indie 101 on bands and venues.
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Camden is the spiritual home of the British indie/alternative scene, with a cornucopia of gig venues within a ten minute walk of the tube station, all of which the Crawl eats up. Ok, deep breath, linkfest warning, there's
Electric Ballroom,
The Underworld,
The Barfly,
KoKo, The Dublin Castle (94 Parkway), The Earl of Camden (55 Parkway),
The Purple Turtle, and
Dingwalls to name a few.
And the lineup? Good God. Well there's
Amy Winehouse (a Camden local, often found gorging on booze at the
Hawley Arms),
Jack Penate (who "absolutely killed it" according to
6Music- a claim I can corroborate),
Adele,
Cajun Dance Party,
Kid Harpoon,
New Young Pony Club,
Foreign Beggars,
Foals, and, and....I can't do this anymore. I need to sleep.
Click here to check out Benji's full Camden Crawl photo set.
Cheers for tuning in. If you wanna find me, I'll be talking shit on
Different Directions and
Benji's Balls. It's been emotional.
[Photo:
benjilanyado]
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