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[kacas]

Hi,

Thinking of going to this this year. Anyone got experiences of it? Whats it like etc??

Thanks

[ivan]

I went a few years ago !

Wolfmother in the Camden Underworld were the climax that year ! , and saw an excellent Macabees
at Camden Lock.

Basically you turn upto Camden and at various places ( I think there is more than one )you exchange your ticket for a wrist band and bag of goodies.  Which includes a timetable of all the bands/venues.

Then subject to crowd numbers being OK you are let in all the venues free.

I really enjoyed it.  Prob the best bet is to restrict yourself to one or two venues and spend your time
there, cos if a venue is full , they will not let you in.

I remember we had no problem getting in to see Wolfmother , and a couple of the bands before , but
afterwards the q for the club night at Koko was horrendous.

It is a very good place to see some up and coming bands , and do plenty of drinking in Camden !!!

  

[kacas]

How easy is it to find out band times? Cos I heard they don't give you the times or places on the pieces of paper they give you?

ivan, on Jan 8 2009, 03:50 PM, said:

I went a few years ago !

Wolfmother in the Camden Underworld were the climax that year ! , and saw an excellent Macabees
at Camden Lock.

Basically you turn upto Camden and at various places ( I think there is more than one )you exchange your ticket for a wrist band and bag of goodies.  Which includes a timetable of all the bands/venues.

Then subject to crowd numbers being OK you are let in all the venues free.

I really enjoyed it.  Prob the best bet is to restrict yourself to one or two venues and spend your time
there, cos if a venue is full , they will not let you in.

I remember we had no problem getting in to see Wolfmother , and a couple of the bands before , but
afterwards the q for the club night at Koko was horrendous.

It is a very good place to see some up and coming bands , and do plenty of drinking in Camden !!!

  

[ivan]

What you are thinking about is that they do not tend to publish the times etc in advance.

But everything is on the timetable they give you that you can get from early afternoon when you
get your wristband.

Without that timetable we would have been screwed obviously.  

I remember the first band we saw was I think The Pipettes at the Dublin Castle , we got into that
no trouble.

They do put a few suprise bands on , but nowadays everyone seemed to know who they were anyway.

Hope you go !

[kacas]

Well its a toss up between this and Glastonbury, I know it's a tough one.
But I am hoping to be able to see some decent bands in some tiny venues!
I'm a hard-up student music journo so I can only afford one.

ivan, on Jan 8 2009, 05:28 PM, said:

What you are thinking about is that they do not tend to publish the times etc in advance.

But everything is on the timetable they give you that you can get from early afternoon when you
get your wristband.

Without that timetable we would have been screwed obviously.  

I remember the first band we saw was I think The Pipettes at the Dublin Castle , we got into that
no trouble.

They do put a few suprise bands on , but nowadays everyone seemed to know who they were anyway.

Hope you go !

[adt]

The Camden Crawl is always good for up and coming bands but the headliners were pretty woeful last year,  and there seems to be a dirth of new bands I'm excited about.  Also, despite the numbers of bands playing you'll be lucky if you see many more than 4, maybe 5 bands in one day.

[Paul ™]

kacas, on Jan 8 2009, 06:00 PM, said:

Well its a toss up between this and Glastonbury, I know it's a tough one.

It certainly isn't, Glasto without a doubt  

[ivan]

1 days drinking in Camden watching a few bands , does not compare to a week in the Enchanted
Forest !

But a days drinking in Camden watching bands beats a day at work , and that is how you look at it

[kacas]

ivan, on Jan 9 2009, 09:31 AM, said:

1 days drinking in Camden watching a few bands , does not compare to a week in the Enchanted
Forest !

But a days drinking in Camden watching bands beats a day at work , and that is how you look at it

Its a difficult one!
Glastonbury costs alot more then Camden Crawl by a long way

[ivan]

kacas, on Jan 9 2009, 04:23 PM, said:

Its a difficult one!
Glastonbury costs alot more then Camden Crawl by a long way

If you are a bit skint !

Do what my mate did

Set up a PR Co , to promote bands , club nights , manage acts etc and all sorts of promo.

Rang round the festivals , and try to blag  press tickets etc !.  Loads said no , but he managed
to get IOW and an foreign one !

[jump]

They have added The Roundhouse this year, so it may mean a few more headliners.

[Jamie_Campesinos]

I did Camden Crawl for the first time last year and it is an amazing festival to do.

If your looking to stay somewhere there is a youth hostel that we stayed at last year that was called the Camden Inn and it was £20 each for a private room of 6 for the two nights and the hostel is right in the mix about 2 mins from the tube station.

The best thing you can do during the day is stay in some of the bigger pubs during like the Worlds End etc as you can often get the suprise gigs there, we got to see Pull Tiger Tail and Lightspeed Champion doing secret gigs there.

When it comes to the evening you will be kidding yourself if you think you can move from pub to pub and expect to get in so best to look at what bands you wanna see and see if there are any in the same place and just plot up there for the day. As we tried to go see Johnny Foreigner and then Los Campesinos but had no chance of getting in to LosC. But if you do stay in one pub you often get a good surprise when a band you have never of plays an amazing set, Operator Please is the band that gave me a massive surprice.

Don't bother with the headline acts (if you can call Robyn or Wombats a headline act) and just see a smaller band, will be a much better gig, just wait til reading of glatonbury if you wanna see a "bigger" band.

[Dave]

I went in 07, I thought it was good fun... saw BRMC in Camden Underworld that was f**king amazing, blinding gig with no barrier and a proper mental crowd. Shame TCTC decided to cancel before them, that would have been an unreal gig. Thought it was a bit expensive for what it is, I only saw 5 bands I think in the end and spent about £35 on a ticket but was enjoyable.

[loko]

Whats happening with the Line Up announcement ?


Was meant to be at the beginning of Feb

[Jamie_Campesinos]

loko, on Feb 18 2009, 12:29 PM, said:

Whats happening with the Line Up announcement ?


Was meant to be at the beginning of Feb

I thought the same, I emailed the enquiries contact and they line up will be up on the website this Friday!!!!!

[ukdannyb]

I think they're taking the piss with the price this year.  I've been to the last 3 and the price has been going up and up.

If you go you'll have a great time though, but if it's this or Glastonbury there is no contest.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

There's a line up poster for this in NME today, more of the smaller bands.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Chavmeisterdeluxe, on Feb 18 2009, 09:58 PM, said:

There's a line up poster for this in NME today, more of the smaller bands.

Care to share any of these smaller bands with us?

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

Matt - Ed Banger Records, on Feb 18 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

Care to share any of these smaller bands with us?

Nah  

The Barker Band, Dan Black, BLK JKS, Bleech, The Chapman Family, The Computers, Drums of Death, Experiment on a Bird in the Airpump, Fight Like Apes, General Fiasco, Hexes, Jim Jones Revue, The King Blues,I Blame Coco, It Hugs Back, Little Comets, Man Like Me, Pulled Apart By Horses, S.C.U.M, Tommy Sparks, The Temper Trap, Thee Trapped Tigers, Peggy Sue, The Von Bondies, Josh Weller

[stephanie88]

Both Days

Bleech
Chew Lips
Dan Black
Danny & The Champions Of The World
Datarock
Fight Like Apes
Flashguns
General Fiasco
Goldielocks
Heartbreak
I Blame Coco
It Hugs Back
James Yuill
Jim Jones Revue
Kasms
Peggy Sue
Pulled Apart By Horses
The Computers
The Joy Formidable
The King Blues
The XX

Friday Only

Brakes
Detropix
Drums Of Death
Foy Vance
Goldheart Assembly
Newham Generals
S.C.U.M
Skint & Demoralised
Sleepercurve
The Author
The Baddies
The Barker Band
The Chapman Family
The Cordelier Club
The Temper Trap
The Von Bondies
The Whip
Three Trapped Tigers

Saturday Only

An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump
Blk Jks
Die! Die! Die!
Hexes
Lion Club
Little Death
Man Like Me
Marina And The Diamonds
Patrick Wolf
The Dead Formats
Threatmantics
Three Trapped Tigers
Toddla T


FINALLY