Camden Crawl Line Up Deconstructed

When Camden is not on fire it is one of London's premier attractions. It boasts dingy pubs vibrant nightlife, drug dealers trendy eateries on every street corner, and an overpriced jumble sale a world famous market. Every year some boys in skinny jeans the cream of the music industry descend on this cultural epicenter to experience Camden Crawl - two days of live music spread over a number of Camden's top venues (and Jongleurs).

All amusing cynicism aside, Camden does still manage to retain an air of excitement and trendiness (a horrible little word) rarely seen elsewhere in the UK, and the organisers of this years Camden Crawl have pulled together a rather interesting line-up.

Here's who we will watch if we go. What usually happens is that we go to one venue, get horrendously drunk and then don't go anywhere else...

The Drums:
Everyone will go to see them play 'Let's Go Surfing'. Right now you're probably thinking "I haven't heard that (but I have heard Surfin' USA)", but you have heard it. It goes like this:



NME said they are "New York's official Coolest New Band", which, whilst not making much grammatical sense at all, sounds wonderful and hip.

The Sunshine Underground:
A band so criminally underrated that we are going to pretend they are entirely new and that no-one has ever heard of them before. So go and see this wonderful new band and tell all your friends that YOU SAW THEM FIRST. (Buy their debut album 'Rasie The Alarm' here, and their new album 'Nobody's Coming To Save You' here)

Alex Metric (Live):
It's nice to know that Mr Metric will appear live rather than dead *chortle*. We suspect what this billing indicates is that everyone currently thinks of Alex Metric as a DJ, and forgets that he actually writes wonderful songs, which he also sings AND appears in the videos of. Although, we've still not forgiven his press people for ignoring our guest list request recently. So we can't vouch for his live show. Sorry : (

Autokratz:
A friend of Kitsune is a friend of RobotPigeon. We have seen Autokratz several times, but can't remember a single one of them: we just know we had a lovely time™. We really like the track 'Always More', and it has a video to go with it which is handy for, you know, posting and stuff:



Chew Lips:
The album 'Unicorn' is fucking brilliant.

Invasion:
WARNING: Invasion are about as far from Same Difference as you can get and play loud guitars. Luckily you don't need floppy hair and sweaty arm pits to enjoy them because their songs bounce along at the pace of dance music. They have charmed RobotPigeon and we think they will charm you too. We wouldn't have written about them here otherwise as it would have been a waste of everyone's time and money wouldn't it?

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Last, but not least, more like last and most favourite. This video tells you everything you need to know, but we'll write some words afterwards as well for the more inept amongst you.



Here are the aforementioned words to describe Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: WE LOVE YOU.

And that is Camden Crawl sewn up in one blog post *dusts hands off*

Tickets and all that boring, money grabbing nonsense are here.