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The Camden Crawl has added another batch of whipper-snappers and elder statesmen to its expansive line-up.
Not content with a line up already containing Echo and the Bunnymen, Idlewild and Billy “politics or ballads, them's your options” Bragg, organisers have added Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 808 State, and Peel's relish, The Fall.
Add to that pile the good: The Maccabees, The Big Pink, Hockey, The Virgins and Dinosaur Pile Up; and the not-so-good: Justin Hawkin's tight trousered Hot Leg, and Dundee's disappointment, The View.
Littered amongst the music, comes comedy stages, poetry & book slams, magic & theatrics, arts & crafts, pop quizzes, bingo & karaoke. See you at the magic show? See you at the magic show.
The crawl takes place in 40 venues across Camden on the 24th and 25th April. Tickets are on sale at £55 for a 2 day pass, with day tickets available at £32.50. They can be bought from here and here.
DiS has 3 pairs of tickets to give away to some lucky scamps. All you have to do is tell us below: what would be in a Camden cocktail? Interpret at will.
We'll pick our three favourite responses on Friday April 10th and inform the winners via private message.
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Hemp
Tofu
Water
and the fourth ingredient is omitted for conservation reasons.
You are discouraged from using too much water.
Totally blind to the world I am.
Camden cocktail?
purified canal water
soy sauce
jagermeister
twist of bitter irony
A mix of
Cocaine, Semen and sweat. Served in one of Noel Fielding's shoes.
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milk and ego
The Camden Cocktail has a sweet, exciting flavour to begin with but leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste.
This recipe is best prepared one hour before serving, in order to let your favourite record infuse with the room prior to consumption.
Ingredients:
The fresh sweat from a impromptu encore.
The blood off an eager young guitarists unhardened fingertips.
The tears from a fallen hero reduced to performing the songs of yesteryear.
An A&R’s wet dream.
Preparation:
Muddle the guitarist’s blood with fallen hero’s tears until you can feel the eagerness ebb away being replaced by the strong smell of desperation. Add in the encore sweat, and shake, rattle, and roll. Now gently heat the A&R’s wet dream until fever pitch is reached (cocaine may be used as a catalyst if available). Strain this into an immaculate trilby hat and stir in the juice from the shaker. Garnish with any other indie clichés you see fit.
808 State?! Fucking hell.
I almost want to go. Almost.
4 parts highly flamable spirits, a twist of bus top deck, a dash of portable fuel cell, witha drizzle of collapsing buildings
served in a sea of entertainment, overflowing with a variety of colourful markets, shops, restaurants, bars, pubs, clubs, theatres and cinemas.
a few self aware twats
on the rocks
Camden cock tails you say?
Tales of people in Camden being cocks? Are you pilfering stories from the message boards again about Amy Winehouse? I smell a lawsuit!
A Camden Cocktail would have in it:
Stale bong water
The dregs of a pint originally costing £8.74
The little bit of wee made by a love torn teenage indie fan caught in two minds when Pete Doherty starts an "impromptu" gig on one side of the street and Noel Fielding spills all his cocaine on the other side....
It would be overpriced and after drinking a couple it would make you mumble "pillsketamin?" in a seedy drunk kind of way.
Alcohol
I thought this would be one of those easy a) b) or c) questions :'(
..
the blood of four fat goths
a lock of winehouse's beehive
a collection of sweat beads and hairgel drippings off the koko wall. post club nme.
the remains of a dodgy joint found on the floor outside the world's end
all mixed with a pint of snakebite into an oversized leather bondage boot
Camden Apple Martini
1 ounce green toilet duck
1 ounce sour apple
1 ounce bin juice
1/2 ounce Buttershots
Mix all ingredients in cocktail shaker on ice. Shake and pour into plastic pint glass, garnish with apple slice
The Winehouse
1 shot of red wine
2 shots of camden lock water
and a fuck load of sniff MMMMMMM
The Camden Barf(ly)
I found a bar by Camden Lock
Serving a locally-made tail o'cock
Of mohawk gel from hair of punk
And a woman called Amy's stash of junk
And eye shadow from Ballroom vamps
And Special Brew off shirts of tramps
I can't say that it tasted pleasant
Vomming all the way to Mornington Crescent
Orange Juice
Vanilla Ice
Iron and WIne
Whiskeytown
Blood Brothers
The cocktail of Camden Crawl
Credibility – liberal amounts spread around the place
Alcohol – copious quantities to keep you going for two days
Moshing – limited supply but there if you look
Drowned In Sound – always in the mix (this is Camden CRAWL!)
Excitement – another fine element to be found
New bands – generally the tastiest element there.
Cool Venues – nice venues generously sprinkled
Really good performances in my experience
Alcohol – have another lot
Waiting in Queues – an unfortunate side effect
Lasting memories – after its finished the outcome should be positive
The Camden Traditional
1/2 can of warm Fosters that you didn't finish drinking on the tube.
2 litres of Frosty Jack cider from the off licence.
Pour the Frosty Jack gently over the Fosters, topping up each time the can gets half empty.
Drink rapidly until you feel drunk enough to go to the Devonshire.
it would be a bit like that heston blumenthal drink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nyVrGFFkLY
except it would be as black as that "emily the strange" merchandise which seems so popular with the under 18 girls that frequent the place.
it would contain;
- the taste of britpop decadance (it tastes pretty rancid, it's been years)
- a hint of those punks in rancid tops and leathers at the lock always asking for money.
- a dash of "anyweedpillscokemate?"
- finished with a slice of Madness
Cocktail
Bit of Winehouse, hypocritical dose of self hatred, some cheap noodles.
A Camden coctail
It would contain incense, the innards of a cyberdog glow stick and gross chicken noodles from 'noodle alley' where you get verbally assaulted by the chinese vendors.
It would be served in one of those punks with sings' DM and called "skunkweedhash"
Camden Cocktail
Take one tall cracked glass, preferably with an Amy Winehouse lipstick mark on the rim.
Crush a poor quality bootlegged Libertines CD into the glass, and pour over a generous helping of spit and bile. Add a twist of bitter disappointment from a Spanish tourist who spent all day outside the Good Mixer hoping to spot Graham Coxon, but instead saw only Jonny Borrell.
Finally, garnish with a cheap 80s referenced T-Shirt and serve with a vacant expression.
We know 'ow to 'ave a fookin party
Strongbow
Skinny Jeans
a Guitar
And a broken dream
(In a plastic pint glass, we don't drink it, we pour it over ourselves, then throw it at someone.. FUCK YEAH, we are the children of the revolution)
The White Line shooter
(blood) Red Aftershock, with a layer of bacardi then topped off with squirty cream.
So wrong it has to be right, just like Camden and all that can be found in it.
The Forgotten Sunday
One shot of KY bought by a postcard punk with his photo-money, one glass of fresh squeezed orange juice and one donut (blended) so those two guys will stop shouting at eachother, a tall glass of turkish tea and some lighter fluid that came free with a novelty zippo lighter. Lace with head-shop "legal high" and drink on the steps.
A Camden Crawler
one shot Sailor Jerry (a drink which I discovered for the first time in the mixer) with one shot vodka (for merryment) with lime juice and ginger ale served in a plastic bottle so you can drink it walking around camden town without getting arrested.
Lock you lips around this
Put a measure of Koko and a bit of spirit in a Good Mixer.
Pour into an antique goblet. Stir up an ambience and serve on fire.
The Camden Cocktail
A unique and highly potent cocktail due to the sheer history of its contents:
A 1966 bottle of Pink Floyd, the first ever major rock drink to be brewed in Camden. It was brewed at the Roundhouse.
A 1976 bottle of Ramones whiskey, the first to be brewed in the UK at the Roundhouse.
A 1983 bottle of Madonna Champagne also the first to be brewed in the UK at the Camden Palace (now known as the Koko)
A dark 1985 bottle of The Cure brewed at the Camden Palace (now known as the Koko)
A summer 1995 bottle of Britpop, its birthplace all over the Camden area
A 2009 bottle of Amanda Palmer red wine brewed at the Electric Ballroom.
How to concoct:
1. First add a splash of Pink Floyd to form the roots of the drink. This will also provide an aftertaste of the Soft Machines.
2. Then pour an over-generous portion of the Madonna Champagne to add some pop to the mix.
3. Almost spill the bottle of Britpop in to the mix to infuse the early tastes of Blur, Pulp and Oasis.
4. Gently pour The Cure on top, a thick and potent drink that will descend into the mixture slowly yet deadly like a dark smoke.
5. Fill a phial with a shot of the Amanda Palmer red wine and frantically pour it in, bringing out the punk showman in you.
6. Take the bottle of Ramones whiskey and smash it over the mixture, the sharp taste will tear through the drink inspiring the taste of The Sex Pistols.
Camden Cocktail
A tonne of eccentricity
A splash of colour
A bottle of rum with a hint of coke
A handful of homos and hobos
A slice of uncertainty
A touch of the unknown
A lacing of musical history and nostalgia
A group of dodgy market dealers
A spoonful of food from around the world
Mix all together, adjusting slightly for personal taste. Leave until dark for it to really come alive. This is a cocktail that has something for everyone and is most definitely a unique and unforgettable experience. Drink irresponsibly.
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