What’s on in Camden?!
OUR WEEKLY CMDN GIG PICKS FOR YOU
Discover the best live music in Camden this week,
between December 4th to 11th 🙂
MONDAY 4th of December
Cornelis Gerard / at Dublin Castle
TUESDAY 5th of December
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WEDNESDAY 6th of December
Mclusky /DINGWALLS
mclusky were a band between 1999 and 2005, in which time they made a few friends and three albums. slow-forward 18 years and, thanks to the uncanny pull of nostalgia and gravity, they have made more friends at least. originally persuaded to reform – like ham – to help save a local music venue and for other vaguely charitable reasons, mclusky are now in the process of writing and recording a fourth album and travelling around the world playing rock shows whenever circumstances allow.THURSDAY 7th of December
Maria Gadú/ The Jazz Cafe
4x Latin Grammy nominee, Maria Gadú, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.
Following her self-titled debut album, Maria Gadú shot to critical acclaim as her songs composed the soundtrack for soap operas, films and series leading to several award nominations.
Throughout her career, Gadú has always dedicated studies on anthropology, sociology and Brazilian history, and later recorded in Rio Negro, the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, to propose a journey to the sounds, colours and symbols that are the matrix of Brazil.
FRIDAY 8th of December
JANET KAY & CARROLL THOMPSON / THE FORGE
The Queens’ of Lovers Rock announce their annual Xmas concerts.
Janet Kay is best known for the Dennis Bovell produced single Silly Games which went to #1 in the UK charts at the start of 1979. Janet Kay has also had many other underground hits including Lovoing You, That’s What Friends Are For, I Do Love You and more. She has worked with Fatboy Slim, Jackie Mittoo, Aswad, Sly & Robbie and more during her career.
Carroll Thompson first found fame with the reggae smash I’m So Sorry and followed this up with more classics such as Hopelessly In Love, Make It With You, Love Won’t Let Us Wait, I’m Still Waiting and more.
Carroll was lead vocalist and founding member of 1980’s Jazz-Funk group Floy Joy and she has worked with Sugar Minott, Trevor Walters, Courtney Pine, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, Maxi Priest, Billy Ocean, Aswad & Mad Professor.
Megadeth UK + Some Kind of Metallica / DINGWALLS
The World’s Premier Tribute to Megadeth and SKO of Metallica are heading for Camden for a night of utter mayhem! Get Tickets here
SATURDAY 9th of December
The Darkness / ROUNDHOUSE
Overblown with pomp and camp, English rock band the Darkness crashed the mainstream in the early 2000s, resurrecting classic rock & roll bombast and excess with their breakthrough debut, 2003’s Permission to Land. Scoring armfuls of awards and chart records, the outfit imploded just as abruptly as they seemed to arrive, breaking up after sophomore release One Way Ticket to Hell…And Back. New bands were formed, rehab was completed, and old wounds were healed in the years that followed. The band reunited in 2011 and issued their comeback, Hot Cakes, in 2012. Subsequent 2010s efforts expanded their reliably raucous and nostalgia-indebted hard rock catalog, capturing fans with their theatrical live shows and devotion to excess and tongue-in-cheek humor. At the turn of the decade, they released Easter Is Cancelled (2019) and Motorheart (2021).
The Darkness is centered around irrepressible frontman Justin Hawkins (vocals/guitars/keyboards), who, along with his guitar-playing baby brother Dan, bassist Frankie Poullain, and drummer Ed Graham, single-handedly resurrected the rather unfashionable sounds and attitudes of late-’70s hard rock for an unsuspecting generation. Following the demise of an earlier, conspicuously synth pop-based outfit named Empire, the Hawkins brothers sowed the seeds of what would become the Darkness at an impromptu karaoke session on New Year’s Eve 1999. Justin‘s rapturous rendition of Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody” showed them the way, and the suitably dramatic name “the Darkness” was chosen shortly after the arrival of Poullain and Graham.
SUNDAY 10th of December
GREEN LUNG support by Wytch Hazel / ELECTRIC BALLROOM
A cult band in every sense of the word, Green Lung emerged from London’s heavy rock scene with self-released debut EP Free the Witch (2018). Drawing on a host of peculiarly British musical influences, from doomy hard rock to pastoral prog and psych to the Hammer Horror theatrics of the NWOBHM, the band have swiftly risen to the forefront of the UK metal scene. Lyrically celebrating the folklore, myths and legends of Britain, they conjure the wild and witchy spirit of their forebears for a new generation. Signed to Nuclear Blast, Green Lung have released three critically acclaimed albums, Woodland Rites (2019), Black Harvest (2021) and This Heathen Land (2023). They have toured internationally with Clutch, and performed on festival stages from Roadburn to Download. Their latest album This Heathen Land landed at #1 on the UK’s Official Rock and Metal Album Chart.
‘This is heavy metal how it should be done’ The Guardian
Tickets £20 here
MANEQUINN FLOWERS / GOOD MIXER
Check out their
MONDAY 11th of December
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Let us know where you go or if there are other events we have missed to add here 🙂
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Rock on!
