The final line up for 2011’s Gaymers Camden Crawl has been announced, including some exciting late additions such as 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 across the Camden Bars venues includes live music from Tribes, Jon Fratelli, Bright Light Bright Light, Gallops, Jonquil, The Good Natured, The Russian Futurists at the Enterprise and Monarch, and loads more including folk music at the Abbey Tavern, plus comedy from Pappy’s, Late Night Gimp Fight, Patrick Monahan, Abandoman and more all day/night at The Camden Head. If it all gets too much for you then The Crown & Goose is open as normal tucked away on the corner of Delancy St and Arlington Rd.
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