A bit of an unexpected gig for me until a friend suggested it, but good company and a night in Camden was too good to miss so... Thursday night has been 'The new Friday Night' a few times recently, but tonight Wednesday night is the new 'Thursday Night'. All the 'Weekend Warriors' who never go out during the week miss out on so much good stuff. This was my first visit to this venue since the massive fire which seemed sure to be the end of it - I really thought there was no chance of it ever reopening, but like Camden's Hawley Arms it has also risen Phoenix like from the ashes. I must say they have done an amazing job of rebuilding it - you really wouldn't guess that the place had been gutted by fire several years ago.
We were actually there because of the support band as my friend really wanted to see them. Essex punkers
Bad Nerves were very lively and surprisingly danceable - although I
wasn't the one dancing as I'd only had one pint! Good tunes too - nothing not to like here.
I'd heard some stuff on the radio by headliners Black Honey and they seemed OK. They were definitely worth sticking around for.
Marketed as more of a 'rock' band than their commercial sounding pop/rock sound and image suggests, but they were polished and professional - maybe a little bit
too slick but certainly worth checking out.
Decent tunes, and although they had mostly slipped under my rock radar they managed to fill a fair sized Camden venue like KOKO.
A good evening's entertainment, but the night wasn't over yet as after leaving the venue we bumped into another friend from London's underground rock scene and ended up in the
Good Mixer until perilously close to the times of the last tube leaving town. That's the great thing about a night out in Camden - you never know who you are likely to bump into and where you might end up!
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