Camden Underworld
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Beneath the Worlds End Pub, right opposite Camden Town tube.
Home of such Drowned in Sound shows as Span + Winnebago Deal + Colour of Fire (March 3rd 2003) Biffy Clyro + Redjetson (March 2003), Kinesis + Reuben + Miss Black America (February 2003) and many more.
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Aereogramme, Fly Pan Am at London Camden Underworld, Fri 04 May
The instrumental collective Fly Pan Am have, thus far, lived under the weighty shadow of fellow Montrealites Godspeed You Black Emperor!. They share both a label, the wonderful Constellation, and a band member, the equally wonderful guitarist Roger, but their music shares only an instrumental aesthetic. W»
Hundred Reasons at London Camden Underworld, Thu 09 Aug
A band who appreciates their fans will give them free stuff. Tonight, Hundred Reasons are playing their fans a free gig at The Underworld, Camden. My expectations for tonight were low as I have been largely disappointed by the new recorded material with the shift away from the heavier metallic side of t»
Two Day Rule at London Camden Underworld, Sat 09 Mar
Bristol’s Two Day Rule are an exception to the current tidal wave of home-grown pop punk bands who seem to think that they can do it better than their American counter-parts. Basically because they can. Backed up by a stunning rhythm section, joint vocalists/ guitarists Andrea and Neil bring to the»
Hoggboy, The Candys at London Camden Underworld, Fri 26 Apr
"Modern" guitar music should die. The last 12 months have seen rock n roll return to its roots: The Hives, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Strokes (contentious, i know ..) and Trail of Dead and everything points towards a continuation of the trend: The Hellhounds, The Mooney Suzuki, The Parkinson»
Caretaker, Tyler at London Camden Underworld, Thu 30 May
Camden (home of historical style, London-cool and very little legal substance..) @ The Underworld, are Tyler from Exeter. This band perfectly sum up the venomous hate I have for Hundred Reasons. I’m not sure how to make that statement make sense to you, but it’s basically down to their emulation an»
Queen Adreena at London Camden Underworld, Wed 12 Jun
"Beauty is a form of Genius-is higher indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation" - Oscar Wilde A shimmering mirror, shattering glass, delicate beauty burned to a cinder in a white hot flame, the primal physical force of creation, of sex, usually hidden away as we revel in clichés abou»
The Bardo at London Camden Underworld, Wed 12 Jun
Smashing Pumpkins. It’s an obvious comparison, and one I’m sure Queen Adreena’s second Underworld supports, The Bardo, are repeatedly infuriated by, but hey, if the black-glitter guitar strap fits… Still, with an abundance of humid, thundery guitar lines and enigmatic moody bass, The Bardo fill the »
The Distillers at London Camden Underworld, Mon 24 Jun
It’s horrifying in here. You can feel the sweat dripping off the walls, good enough to scare a few small children with. The cider tastes like acid, good job I’m standing in the corner, I wouldn’t want those crazy animals to find me. The terror is apparent, like bulls waiting for the slaughter, with only mohicans and st»
Goldrush at London Camden Underworld, Wed 26 Jun
I was once given a couple of shots of flavoured vodka and I had no idea what they were going to be. The colour of it was odd for starters, which should’ve been a clue as to whether or not to drink it. Naturally being a sucker for a freebie, I thought it couldn’t have been too bad. Let me tell you now that garlic-flavou»
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at London Camden Underworld, Thu 04 Jul
Any band who enters the stage accompanied by Patti Smith's 'Babelogue' demands respect. It's Independence day for our American cousins today and the leather clad bike boys are taking back their control by playing a small and intimate gig on the eve of more festival madness, this time at Finsbury park. A warm up maybe»
Converge, John Holmes at London Camden Underworld, Fri 20 Sep
The Underworld in Camden is sold out. Groups of people are audibly venting their frustration outside, visibly upset at the prospect of missing out on one of the most talked about bands in extreme, aggressive music making their first appearance in the UK in over three years. Make your way down the stairs however, squeez»
Kids Near Water, Garrison, Jerry-Built at London Camden Underworld, Thu 14 Nov
“Isn’t it ironic. Don’t ya think”, crooned that woman, whose voice resembles the sounds of a cat being strangled by a gaggle of dolphins. A chilling thought, but her musings strike a particularly pertinent chord tonight where three bands of insanely talented proportions have come together only to be faced with a»
Labrat, Decapitated, Insision at London Camden Underworld, Tue 01 Apr
Ah… the joys of loud, fast, ugly death metal. Like snarling, grunting, seething, hairy beasts commandeering the upper echelons of a misanthropic realm of riff-hunting saboteurs too frighteningly real for any cameos in Lord of The Rings, let alone Night of The Living Dead. Undertaking hellish, perilous mis»
Poison The Well, Hondo Maclean at London Camden Underworld, Sun 27 Apr
Hondo Maclean have come to fuck shit up and they know how to do that pretty well, even if British audiences still need to get to know them. They’ve toured with Steve-O from Jackass alright?! So no wonder their performances are pretty mental. We’ll get to the music later, half the immensity of Ho»
Canaan, Give Up The Ghost, Amulet, Sworn In at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Tue 06 May
Classic hardcore shows - and I mean raging, emotionally draining, sweat-dripping-off-the-walls classic - are becoming increasingly rare to find in my experience. Even those bands you can rely on for a storming performance every night can sometimes start feeling the brunt of a six-week non-stop tour - especially »
Charger, Today Is The Day at London Camden Underworld, Thu 08 May
Stoke on Trent's impressive sludgecore merchants Charger are one of those bands that feel as though they've been around for years. It seems surprising, therefore, that they've only just gotten around to releasing their debut album ["Confessions of a man (mad enough to live amongst beasts)", Peaceville Rec»
Killing Joke at London Camden Underworld, Thu 14 Aug
A challenging time in any band’s career: the compulsion to diversify wanes, familiar successes and time-honoured formulae rear their head. Unpredictability loses its appeal, both to fans and band members; we grow old and we stick to what we know. We don’t fear the new, but nor do we view it with the same esteem our »
The Locust at London Camden Underworld, Thu 28 Aug
Three bands best described simply as noisy bastards in one miserable, dank hole charging £3.20 a pint. The makings of the best gig of the year, right? Hmm, wrong I’m afraid. Yes, you're assured of seeing something rather different tonight, but the noise borders on the unbearable on at least one occasion. Trenc»
Paint The Town Red, Razor Crusade, Steel Rules Die at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Wed 24 Sep
Maybe the Underworld was a bit ambitious for this bill. Although Paint The Town Red were last seen in this room supporting ferocious skull-crushers Converge roughly this time last year, the mind only boggles at the thought of these Germans pulling the same amount of people this time around. Choice of venues aside though, this was an absolutely storming line-up.»
Coheed and Cambria at London Camden Underworld, Wed 08 Oct
Coheed & Cambria should be an emo band. Indeed, prior to this show I was led to believe exactly that. With this show coming at the end of a tour with the kings/queens (depending on your opinion) of heart-broken hysterics, Thursday, and with Further Seems Forever playing second-fiddle, everything's in place for a night of grown men whining about lost loved-ones to a bunch of backpack-clad kids who'd give anything for a group hug. Only, the emo never arrives.»
Velcra at London Camden Underworld, Tue 18 Nov
Fronted by the blonde-haired Jessi - a girl whose sassy stage persona comes off like Pink trapped in the body of Aimmee Echo - Finland’s Velcra are metal’s best kept secret. Fusing savage razor-sharp riffs with head-thumping dance beats their intense, riotous eclecticism showcases a band not so much pushing the envelope as posting it to another galaxy!»
AKO, Send More Paramedics, Avenged Sevenfold at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Thu 26 Feb
Live, Avenged Sevenfold are huge and expansive, with songs that manage to clasp at every thread of emotion in your body. But tonight, I’m afraid, these Californian goth-metal superstars were upstaged by bunch of snarling zombie troopers from Leeds.»
Q And Not U, Bullet Union at London Camden Underworld, Tue 27 Jul
For one night only, Q And Not U own us. Wholly.»
Capricorns, Pelican at London Camden Underworld, Tue 03 Aug
The music gatecrashes your senses like a Trojan Horse, striking from behind fortifications that you'd previously figured would hold.»
Hot Snakes at London Camden Underworld, Mon 18 Oct
This is music that hits all the adrenal boosters and pleasure centres. It calls on the body to move while punishing the eardrums. It’s straight-up, teeth-gritting, fist-pumping rock and roll and you will have less fun if you stand at the back.»
The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg, Challenger, Minus The Bear at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Wed 20 Oct
There is no better band in the world right now at this game – splicing genres with such ease, it’s like Minus The Bear have been doing this for 20 years rather than the two and a bit that they've been together for.»
Youthmovies, Fightstar at London Camden Underworld, Wed 03 Nov
You have to realise that it doesn’t matter how good, or bad, this band are going to be, they are still going to be massive; sell massive; be massive. They are going to be bigger than your favourite band without even trying. There is nothing you can do about it. This is Fightstar.»
The Blood Brothers at London Camden Underworld, Sun 21 Nov
I should be doing so much more that standing, static, by a mixing desk cradling a half-pint of pee-flavoured continental lager. I should be losing myself in the moment.»
Girls Against Boys at London Camden Underworld, Wed 16 Feb
Face it: things were better when you were a kid. Well, they were when I was a kid.»
Bullet Union, The Explosion at London Camden Underworld, Mon 28 Feb
...whilst the Bostonians provide more in the way of visual thrills, their music is no more than Sunday league punk when compared to Bullet Union’s upper tier league leaders.»
The Dillinger Escape Plan at London Camden Underworld, Mon 11 Apr
...the kid’s voice drowns in a torrent of chugging guitars and f*ck me-fast drums that force the listener into either immediate refuge or come-and-take-me resignation. They may have 'crossed over', but The Dillinger Escape Plan remain absurdly extreme...»
Weird War at London Camden Underworld, Tue 03 May
Weird War are - they claim - a band on a mission. Ian F. Svenonius' current gang of rock and roll anarchists plan to change the world through subliminal messaging but his fey, stop-start jive rhetoric seems more integral to the entire performance than 90% of the musical output... and therein lies the problem.»
65daysofstatic, yourcodenameis:milo, Twin Zero, thebigsleep at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Sun 05 Jun
Rock Sound's 6 In The City takes us far away from four on the floor in Camden, giving us a chance to research the researchers of rock, back to back ...»
Million Dead, Gay For Johnny Depp at London Camden Underworld, Thu 22 Sep
Million Dead’s penultimate show always promised fireworks; when they came, retinas were scarred in seconds and ears popped like crisp packets...»
Minus The Bear, Darediablo at London Camden Underworld, Wed 02 Nov
That Seattle’s Minus The Bear find their Evening’s Highlight status usurped by a four-eyed guitar maverick and a brace of drum-thwacking and organ-mashing comrades is a strange occurrence indeed...»
The Locust at London Camden Underworld, Mon 28 Nov
This is a certainty of a show, a complete no-brainer. It’s a purely does-what-it-says-on-the-ticket experience, and that’s both sad and absolutely unsatisfying...»
These Arms Are Snakes, Meet Me In St. Louis, PRE at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Tue 08 Aug
We each take a breath. We each take a step back. We each feel a surge of nervousness shoot through our bodies. We each look about ourselves, at the faces similarly frightened. We each edge back a little more...»
Breed 77 at London Camden Underworld, Mon 25 Sep
Now then, Breed 77 have been plying their flamenco-tinged hard rock for quite some time. They began life in a quite terrible nu-metal incarnation, gently easing themselves out of that shit-ridden pigeonhole and into their infinitely more noteworthy current form...»
Gojira at London Camden Underworld, Wed 04 Oct
When the only band to have come out France with the express intention of making our ears explode and an ulterior motive related to the preservation of the world’s ecology play a gig in London, I’m always the first one to throw my name into the hat... »
Capricorns, Torche, Baroness at London Camden Underworld, Thu 02 Nov
Ringin’ stingin’ ears cooled by the first freezing winds of winter, legs traversing an out-of-commission crossing as motorcycles slice personal space like butchers knives through warmed feta, neck cramped and knees sore from perpetual rocking back and forth, back and forth, rhythmically consistent and unfaltering: this is me shortly after the climax of Torche’s first-ever London performance, stumbling from venue to Underground, dazzled by Camden’s takeaway lights and drug-offloading stand-arounds. Yeee-ouch, that was some set...»
Mono at London Camden Underworld, Thu 09 Nov
Four individuals walk slowly onto the stage; as they settle into their positions a hush descends and all and sundry point their faces forward, towards an equally muted quartet now bathed in a wash of red. A few whispers tickle the senses of those towards the back, but that aside we could conceivably be in the catacombs of a church...»
Trencher, These Arms Are Snakes, DiS DJs at London Camden Underworld, Wed 29 Nov
This is a team effort, for sure, but the four men of These Arms Are Snakes each go to their own special places once the first riff of each and every set they deliver rings within the ear canals of those before them. They’re like a football squad of international superstars – each individual contests for their time in focus, for their moment of virtuoso r’n’r excellence...»
Cult of Luna, Blueneck, Bossk at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Thu 22 Feb
Sadly, the devastating energy of Cult Of Luna's startling crescendos and giddying explosions of sound just aren’t evident tonight. Everything they do seems lacklustre and fails to fully capture the attention of their audience...»
High On Fire, Russian Circles at London Camden Underworld, Thu 06 Sep
High On Fire? We leave the Underworld high on bloody everything. This is what heavy music was made for...»
The Locust at London Camden Underworld, Mon 17 Sep
It’s a far cry from halcyon days circa Plague Soundscapes; then, with the mainstream infected and NME jerking to the tune of ten-outta-ten, possibilities were abundant and attentions buzzed critical. Safely re-ensconced in the pits from whence they initially sprouted, it seems The Locust are presently doing their bit to shun wandering might-cares..»
Envy, Bossk, Beestung Lips at London Camden Underworld, Mon 05 Nov
Envy have a hard job in following Bossk's sublime set. And, to be honest, they don't: the crowd don't seem in any way shape or form bothered either»
A Wilhelm Scream, Failsafe at London Camden Underworld, Tue 22 Jan
There's a moment of calm about 40 seconds into A Wilhelm Scream's final song, 'The King Is Dead', where only the five band members are onstage and the entire venue simultaneously takes a breath. Then, kick-off: utter chaos takes hold and bodies crawl above heads, light rigs kicked in»
Earth at London Camden Underworld, Tue 12 Feb
On hearing of the shocking news that Camden Market was on fire, and that the Hawley Arms had been gutted, my first thoughts were if the Earth show would be cancelled. Call me doomier than thou, but this weighed somewhat heavily on my mind»
Nadja @ The Underworld, Camden, Nov. 25th
Avant-metal outfit Nadja typical track length is 19 minutes. Surprisingly, though, this was quite the nicest, fluffiest, loveliest evening I’ve spent at a gig in a long time.»
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