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@@josephforest7605 Funny. But he really needs an agent who gets up in the morning. Joolz is fabulous and London is the richest cultural destination on the planet for my money.
Hi Joolz, wondering how much a private tour might be, heading to the smoke soon, 4 of us two couples, love music great unusual pubs? Let me know if poss Cheers great informative entertaining videos
I was under the impression, every corner, every building in London had security cameras and within city limits you were filmed all the time so its bizarre that people are not allowing Joolz to film. It helps the businesses and the tourism for the city. They should thank him.
it is odd joolz quite well known, liked in london - it is law you can film from public areas - unfortunately private areas can make their own rules - (its camden and some pubs are known for 'selling' .... well selling things ... if you see what I mean ....)
I lived in London 38 years ago and Camden was my favorite place to go at the weekends It was buzzing !! Have some very happy memories and even bought lovely clothes there then , all rubbish now , sad .!
Definitely I was born there many moons ago. It was a great place full of great people. It has become a total void full of twats who know nothing about Camden Town.
As a teenager living in London, I spent a lot of time in camden and also went to see 'Sid and Nancy love kills' in the Plaza in August 1986. I too used to drink in the devonshire. The pogues and that petrol emotion used to drink in there. In 1989, I returned back to my home city of Derry to go to uni. But, i always return to camden at least once a year. My wife and daughter love the place. We were all in Camden last month and took your recommendation and did the Regents canal. thank you for your entertaining and informative videos.
I played in the Electric Ballroom in the 70's It was a girl band and we played a mix of cajun & funk, we where called initially Blue Cat's then Club Mamoselle. We got the gig as one of our members was going out with one of Killing Joke who played the same gig. Previous to that I was in a band called Stepping Talk we did lot's of gigs along with lots of other indi bands and used to hang out with Scrittie Politti in Camden.
@kyfaydfsoab nope long before that. We had a deal with Rough Trade but we printed our own record sleeves etc often with a rubber stamp and did our own art work too. Really exciting times.
I worked on a tunnel contract at Chalk Farm in 1962 a part of the wall on Adelaide Rd was knocked down for an entrance and site accommodation was erected. The old tunnel was used for empty railway carriages into Kings Cross, electrification of trains meant the tunnel was too small to install the overhead cabling. So it was enlarged using 3 crews of paddy miners working off coal trucks, the old tunnel lining was removed on ring at a time down to track level. The clay excavated and dropped into the coal wagons, new profile tunnel lining segments would be erected to the larger diameter. Each lunch time a train would arrive pulling some empty wagons, plus others carrying the new segments and cement for the grouting these would be dropped off at each work station and the previous days wagon attached to the front of the train and taken away. While mining under the Round House some brickwork was encountered in the top of the tunnel, this was knocked out and a torrent of water flowed into the tunnel. The miners had hit the flooded cellars of the Round House, pump were installed and the tunnel progressed under and away from the area. later the hole was repaired with reinforced concrete and the leaks sealed as well. The singer who kept ripping his pants lived just near the iron bridge, can't think of his name.
Thank you for these wonderful videos and for your humor! I am traveling to London in less than two weeks, bringing my oldest granddaughter for her first trip overseas. Even though I once lived and worked in London for over 2 years and know my way around very well, your walking tour videos have been very helpful.
You gave me a lot of nostalgia with this. I actually saw Lemmy in a pub near the Roundhouse once. The World's end was the pub I used to go to with the people from work as I worked nearby on Greenland Street. I also want to the Devonshire Arms a few times too.
That was good, Julian. So Nostalgic for me. I liked going to Camden Lock. There were good Jazz Sessions there on Saturdays in a bar on the canal. And I liked going to the Roundhouse. I saw String Driven Thing there who were an excellent folk/rock group. I believe they are still going as they are on the Internet. Camden looks smarter now. London looks so much smarter now, with all of its cleaned buildings. Your videos are the nearest I can get to visiting London, so thanks for them.
Geez, I immigrated back to Canada back in 1992. Haven't been back to the UK since, but had a short term live-in job at a pub called the "BUCKS HEAD" , before I transferred to a live-in catering gig in Wimbledon,at Southlands College, just up the road from Putney Village. I wonder if the Bucks Head is still there, on the corner, if anyone can tell me. I know for a fact that Dingwalls is done and over with 1990-s . I went down to London from Glasgow, to stay with a friend, for her 21st B-Day back in November of 1991. When I took the Picadilly Line ,then transferred to the Northern Line to get to Camden Town, on the Saturdays when I got my "pay packet" as they refer to it over there, Yeah Camden Town was the place to be,on a sunny Saturday afternoon, wandering into Dingwalls, stepping back into a "1950's Rock-'n'-Roll time warp" needless to say,in my obvious SKA, REGGAE,SOUL ,I stuck out like a sore thumb, against these 1950's Be-boppers, furiously "Jitter-bugging" away on the dance floor. Sadly, when I went there, on that visit while in London, I went up to Camden Town, Dingwalls was gone, replaced by various overpriced boutique after boutique. But when it was still alive and kicking, going into the joint , but GREAT original vintage 1950 which I still enjoyed inspite of feeling out of place, music and fashion-wi, to say the least. Lol,😂 but still , it was fabulous times, nice folks, & the fondest memories. Here's to good 'ol Camden Town. 🍺🎤🎸🎷🎺🎛️🎶🇯🇲 ⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛ ♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️ ⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛♥️⬛
Great to see the mention of Marine Ices. I was a regular when I lived nearby and found that my Mum, and HER Mum had hung out there in their younger days.
I used to sell vinyl records in the stables on Camden market other sellers had stuff on the floor and it was a real flea market... all cleaned up now with food stalls and new clothes
I live in the United States in Texas always wanted to go to England I'm in my 50s now and I'll probably never get to go huge Maiden and Priest fan I very much enjoyed your videos thank you very much look forward to the next one
I used to go to a good mixer back in the 90s most nights during the britpop years. I remember meeting menswear in there. I also remember playing pool with Finley Quaye plus Adrian Hunter who was Pete doherty's manager and who can forget Scottish Alan used to go around collecting my glasses I was like security. The mixer staff were great because you could always have some banter with them whether it was over cricket or rugby as they would always be Aussies or New Zealanders. You would also find Andy Ross in there who ran food records and was Blur's manager. There was lots of other well-known people if I was to name them all here I'll be here all bloody night. I know it sounds hard to believe during the summer of 94 and 95 but the mixer was so full people would drinking on the road and a pavement outside the mixer, it was Mayhem down Inverness Street. Before it was pedestrianised. After the mixer would Close around 11 you would walk up to the Dublin Castle and stay there until it was closing time, unless it was a Friday and Saturday night and you was going to he monarch which was a nightclub on two floors after the band had finished. When they're closed about 2:30 am in the morning you would headed straight for for the marathon about 100 yards away bar where you could order more beer in Cans. Sometimes the musicians would still be on and after they had finished they would go round with a hat asking for donations, great times during the 90s britpop area. Unfortunately things like this will never happen again because of Council and there stupid rules and regulations. I nearly forgot there was another great britpop kind of club called blow-up on a Saturday night which was at the Laurel tree till it moved in late 95. Anyone who remembers them times will know what a special era it was in Camden
since this video was uploaded, Chalk Farm vintage (the Hawaiian shirt shop) has since closed permanently 😭😭. Also anyone here in 2022?, if so, respect to you.
WONDERFUL video! I'm writing a novel about musicians from Camden in the late 60s/early 70s and I've done a ton of research. Thank you for including so much info about the history of music in Camden unlike any other video or article I've found before. :) Cheers from USA
I've always wondered what this particular area looks like, Joolz, and here we are. What a variety of pubs, clothing shops and virtually everything. So interesting is this video, with so much history of 70s and 80s bands performing there in their earlier days. Many thanks indeed for this.
OK, this is definitely my favorite episode, rock and roll, drinking and a history cover about it, so now I know, if I come to London where to go first, thanks mate :D
Very hazy memories of having good times in the Camden Falcon & played Dublin Castle a few times too. The early 90's, I was 22, in a band and having a right old slice. Great to see Knox, in the vid!
I stood outside the Roundhouse and listened to Jefferson Airplane and The Doors. (couldn't afford a ticket). Next day Airplane played a free concert on Hampstead Heath, but it got rained out.
Camden would have been a wonderful place in its prime. Its legacy has been shat on with a surfeit of tourists, £6 pints, chain pubs, tacky souvenir stores and sheeple donning empty, derivative fashions. Camden was a place brimming with organic culture and personality. It’s now weathered 2 decades devoid of culture or personality. Where everything is a hollow impersonation of better times. The punks, the metalheads, the hippies, the soul singers, have coalesced into a bleak, contrived puddle of phone zombies and Instagram posers. Camden hasn’t been allowed to die with dignity. It’s a wreck festooned in a desolate vibrancy that insists the place still lives.
excellent comment! I was about to write something like that....in the spirit of dominant quick instant culture and digital simulation of everything true and original, this town radiates with soulessnes and fake scenery....really not organic at all. and also amy winehouse pretty much tells it all, her picture fits perfectly in camden....fake character for hipsters, fake music which exploited soul heritage and spoiled it, the only true about her was heroin addiction and her death.
I went to London for the Spring time in 1980 as a 20 year old from the USA and hung out at Dingwalls and The Music Machine....Was that a good time then?
I visited London a few weeks ago and I went round Camden after watching this a few months back. Had to go into Dingwalls just so I can say I’ve been there. £6 a pint of lager was a bit of a shock though, I made the aftershave man in the toilets day for him by giving him a £20 note for a dab of Armani smelly.
I remember so well my nights at the Roundhouse Chalk Farm before it was renovated - this began in 1974 and amongst the great bands I saw there were MAGMA / EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND / KRAFTWERK / STACKRIDGE and GREENSLADE... Great nights in an age where it was cheap to see wonderful groups and I wasn't beset by old age.
I remember when The Devonshire Arms used to be called The Hob Goblin. Great times were had in there, and in The Dublin Castle. I miss living in London.
I used to love going to Marine ices. A had a friend who was Italian and his cousin was the owner of Marine Ice. I stared going there and loved the ice cream so much. I knew Amy Winehouse from my days working in Kentish Town (she used to come same cafe)
This was a great guide.. I really enjoyed it .I visited camden in 2006 and wished your guide had been around back then . i love music and to have passed these sites by without knowing the past history makes me want to revisit. cheers n beers joolz
Great to watch these videos and remember all the memories i had down there, Im from the highlands of Scotland but moved down to Camden in the nineties to early 2000s, you can actually see the tower block where i ended up living at the very beginning of the video, Anyhoo since this video talks about the music scene i just wanted to say my wee surprise i got one evening when i was selling drugs ( not happy about that part of my life btw lol ) but anyway im serving up and i got a knock on the door and there was some wee guy with long hair and a long trench coat. he asked for 5 half gs but i only had a couple left so said to the guy you can wait here for 10 mins or come with me to the re up and ill give you the rest there. He decided to come but as we were on the lift down he says to me btw when we get out side you will see Shane McGowan sitting in a car so please don't approach him or anything, so yeah i sold him his 5 half gs ( forgot to say i think he said he was the manager) and little did i know at the time but for a time lol i was supplying Shane with most of his drugs, I always wondered if he wrote any of his hits while wasted on my behalf. Rest in peace Shane
great video. i remember in 1990s you could get great fitted levis, rarest records, the best leather jackets (70s style) just really good. i feel its a real tourist trap now with little untouched corners only camden residents would know. the camden palace was great on wednesday nights (twist and shout) with a theme of northern soul to dance to. i've still got some flyers for the night
The Hawley was a popular pub in the early eighties for bikers, hippies,punks etc and most of the Camden squatters a lot of ganja was consumed there, and sold there too, along with acid and speed. ;)
My favourite place once,now a commercial bore now with tourists everywhere. London lost that edgey feel in all parts. But a good video from the man in the bowler hat.
I was born in Kentish Town in 1947 and went to school in Chalk Farm (same school as Madness but a few years before them). The area has certainly changed a lot since those days 😃
Wow! I never knew the history of Holts Dr Martens shop. Back in the day (before graphics went computerised) I used to get my typesetting done above the shop by a nice, cool guy.
@@Joolzguides Pity I didn't know where the colorful folks go when I was in London and great to have some of it all. Stranglers among my great favs along with many other of the mantioned; oh Talking Heads, Madness... Beautiful to connect music, films and books with the places!
When, worked for Camden Council, Arlington House was one of properties I had to manage. I would go there on Monday once a month and spend the whole day filing in benefit forms for homeless who could not read/write.
Used to drink in the back of the Marathon in the 90s after nights out in Camden- Lived a couple of miles up the road .. it was my stomping ground from late 80s to 2000. Was full of characters does anyone remember the state of the toilets in the Hawley Arms it was really rough then !!! All very posh now.
Visiting London from SA, I never got to visit Camden, bummer. The first thing that comes to mind is Madness, up there with the greats. I agree with you about their LP, Absolutely. I think it is on par with their first album One Step...Great to see where the The Clash (also a favorite ) had the photo for their debut, taken. Them and Madness shared a rehearsal room and there is a story about Madness arriving for practice in Police uniforms as they had just shot the video for Shut Up. They knocked on the door saying they were the police and members of The Clash ran in the opposite direction flushing what ever illegal substances they had, down the drain. ‘We dressed as coppers and raided the Clash. They didn’t speak to us for five years’
Hi! Joolz Guides. Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, many more Psychedelic bands in 1966 at Round House. I been Camden Stables Market. John Lennon show up at Round House in 1966.
LOVED IT i just subscribed after watching Plymouth video but I also lived in Kentish Town in my early 20s for 10 years and Camden Town was our Hangaround place . Cycle courier for 6yrs in early 80s again thanks for the memories
First proper gig I ever went to was at the Roundhouse as a teenage Punk....XRAY SPEX supported by the original incarnation of Adam and the Ants. I think I was only 14 and scared shitless there and all the way back to South London after on my own!
I used to run the Oddbins off licence at Chalk Farm in 97-98, pretty much opposite the kebab shop. Daniel the guitarist was a regular and we would go over for dinner and plenty of booze every weekend. He was out of this world. He told us he lived and played in California during the psychedelic era with the grateful dead being a session musician. Great times.
Other useful information is 'Bauhaus' filmed 'ziggy stardust' music video in the roundhouse in the '80s. I was there at the shooting but did not appear in the video.Camden Palace was called the music machine in the seventies/eighties and many great bands from the punk era played there. Camden market was much more interesting back then.I had friends who had stalls in the electric ballroom back in the 80's who also had stalls in Kensington market which was another amazing place to buy fantastic clothes and also hang out. My friend Bid the singer of a band called 'the monochrome set' who did music a bit like the smiths but before the smiths appeared on the London scene became quite big in the late seventies/eighties..Kensington market closed down sadly...Robot was a shoe shop down the king's road in Chelsea.the great gear market was next to the Chelsea Potter pub. The king's road and Carnaby street were a major fashion spot for hippies, glam rockers, punks, mods, etc. The great gear market and ken-market is where we would hang out at weekends and i worked in ken-market for a short while...Shelleys show shop used to be down church street but then moved opposite to Ken-market....In the 60's,70's 80's the music and fashion scene was at its peak in London then..after that it all went tracksuits and Nike trainers and Dj's took over from live bands..But then live gigs made a big come back after the rave scene died out...i might be writing a book about my life in a band in the late seventies/eighties and being part of the scene in Chelsea and Kensington back then...a few years back i decided to pay a visit to my old haunts but it had all gone all that remains are the memories of a British major fashion and music culture which was vastly diverse...The word 'Goth' was again coined by people who labeled the way people dressed after the punk era/Post-punk..Because of the theatrical bands like 'Bauhaus'...Joy division,the cure, dead can dance who were underground at the time..it was due to the art that was used on record covers of gravestones etc..bands like the dance society also used gravestones and angels on covers..I grew up in fulham which is in between Kensington and Chelsea.hammersmith was also a major venue area with the Clarendon, hammersmith Palais and hammersmith Odean which then became the Apollo...Carnaby Street was a hang out for people like David Bowie and Marc Bolan when they were mods.carnaby street was a major fashion center and hang out for many famous musicians,actors,actresses etc...
I REMEMBER CAMDEN HIGH STREET FROM THE 70S AND 80s, when I used to have naughty gay bookshop at number 283 near the Canal bridge (Zipper). When we moved in around 1978 there was a working class cafe next door, Alfredo's was it? Lots of chips - and tea came already-sugared with 5 spoons, and automatically bread and butter would arrive without asking. Nobody had heard of Polenta. Honest John's records was next door, and a Greek Cypriot dress-factory at the back. Compendium Books was opposite, and a great place. There were loads of great Cypriot restaurants, and one nice Armenian one too. Inverness Street was full of fruit stalls run by sexy barrow boys, and a Fine Fare on the corner set the down-market tone of the place. I had a photo studio nearby, later on, on the corner of Parkway, nudged between the bingo hall and the cinema. Happy days! Lots of booze at the Black Cap, and kleftiko in Zorba's.
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@@josephforest7605 Funny. But he really needs an agent who gets up in the morning. Joolz is fabulous and London is the richest cultural destination on the planet for my money.
Hi Joolz, wondering how much a private tour might be, heading to the smoke soon, 4 of us two couples, love music great unusual pubs? Let me know if poss
Cheers great informative entertaining videos
@@velvetraptor8540 haha, yeah, if you already live there, for everyone else it's overcrowded and expensive....
Excellent video, I will share
I was under the impression, every corner, every building in London had security cameras and within city limits you were filmed all the time so its bizarre that people are not allowing Joolz to film. It helps the businesses and the tourism for the city. They should thank him.
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it is odd joolz quite well known, liked in london - it is law you can film from public areas - unfortunately private areas can make their own rules - (its camden and some pubs are known for 'selling' .... well selling things ... if you see what I mean ....)
I lived in London 38 years ago and Camden was my favorite place to go at the weekends It was buzzing !! Have some very happy memories and even bought lovely clothes there then , all rubbish now , sad .!
Definitely I was born there many moons ago. It was a great place full of great people. It has become a total void full of twats who know nothing about Camden Town.
same goes for majority of London
Agree. 40 years ago i used to drink in the Monarch, pop over to Dingwalls and a lot of weekends in the Ballroom... Camdens character is long gone.
The Dev is a great night out for us metalheads though.
same as that we used to start in the Kentish town Assembly rooms and end up in the Dev or the hawley arms good old days early 80s@@teegee0
As a teenager living in London, I spent a lot of time in camden and also went to see 'Sid and Nancy love kills' in the Plaza in August 1986. I too used to drink in the devonshire. The pogues and that petrol emotion used to drink in there. In 1989, I returned back to my home city of Derry to go to uni. But, i always return to camden at least once a year. My wife and daughter love the place. We were all in Camden last month and took your recommendation and did the Regents canal. thank you for your entertaining and informative videos.
9:10 “The bloke in the shop” is Knox, original vocalist in the Vibrators.
Wow you're right
Who is he
Who?
...Knox.
...Original vocalist in the Vibrators....
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Fond memories of Camden Town Electric Ballroom, Dingwalls and The Elephant’s Head that was pure rock n roll for me!!!
And the Hope & Anchor in Islington.
Amazing place. Steeped in history from way beyond. And musical icons never to be forgot. Legends
Camden is so compact with stuff to do
Lived there in 85-86 & it was wonderful!
Floyd Solo cool
Camden is my favourite place in London , the atmosphere is buzzing
I played in the Electric Ballroom in the 70's It was a girl band and we played a mix of cajun & funk, we where called initially Blue Cat's then Club Mamoselle. We got the gig as one of our members was going out with one of Killing Joke who played the same gig. Previous to that I was in a band called Stepping Talk we did lot's of gigs along with lots of other indi bands and used to hang out with Scrittie Politti in Camden.
@kyfaydfsoab nope long before that. We had a deal with Rough Trade but we printed our own record sleeves etc often with a rubber stamp and did our own art work too. Really exciting times.
remember the milkshakes ?@@alexandrajames8734
I worked on a tunnel contract at Chalk Farm in 1962 a part of the wall on Adelaide Rd was knocked down for an entrance and site accommodation was erected. The old tunnel was used for empty railway carriages into Kings Cross, electrification of trains meant the tunnel was too small to install the overhead cabling. So it was enlarged using 3 crews of paddy miners working off coal trucks, the old tunnel lining was removed on ring at a time down to track level. The clay excavated and dropped into the coal wagons, new profile tunnel lining segments would be erected to the larger diameter. Each lunch time a train would arrive pulling some empty wagons, plus others carrying the new segments and cement for the grouting these would be dropped off at each work station and the previous days wagon attached to the front of the train and taken away.
While mining under the Round House some brickwork was encountered in the top of the tunnel, this was knocked out and a torrent of water flowed into the tunnel. The miners had hit the flooded cellars of the Round House, pump were installed and the tunnel progressed under and away from the area. later the hole was repaired with reinforced concrete and the leaks sealed as well.
The singer who kept ripping his pants lived just near the iron bridge, can't think of his name.
Was the singer PJ Proby? Also, your comment was very insightful and interesting. Thanks
The good ol days throw the boys around Camden underground a bob or two on pay day what? for a purple one .
I loved living around here, it could be a bit rough at times but always a laugh. The dev and elephants head is where I would spend most my evenings
so much musical history in one area
Yes, and I didn't even go into much detail. I missed out a lot of stuff. It's remarkable really.
Scope for a sequel?
STILL IS
Its so giving
Thank you for these wonderful videos and for your humor! I am traveling to London in less than two weeks, bringing my oldest granddaughter for her first trip overseas. Even though I once lived and worked in London for over 2 years and know my way around very well, your walking tour videos have been very helpful.
Thanks Raymond. Yes, they're just intended as a bit of fun. If I can give some history and interesting facts too then I think they're doing the job!
You gave me a lot of nostalgia with this. I actually saw Lemmy in a pub near the Roundhouse once. The World's end was the pub I used to go to with the people from work as I worked nearby on Greenland Street. I also want to the Devonshire Arms a few times too.
If I ever retraced me steps from 75' I'd give this bloke a ring,great tours.
That was good, Julian. So Nostalgic for me. I liked going to Camden Lock. There were good Jazz Sessions there on Saturdays in a bar on the canal. And I liked going to the Roundhouse. I saw String Driven Thing there who were an excellent folk/rock group. I believe they are still going as they are on the Internet. Camden looks smarter now. London looks so much smarter now, with all of its cleaned buildings. Your videos are the nearest I can get to visiting London, so thanks for them.
Geez, I immigrated back to Canada back in 1992. Haven't been back to the UK since, but had a short term live-in job at a pub called the "BUCKS HEAD" , before I transferred to a live-in catering gig in Wimbledon,at Southlands College, just up the road from Putney Village. I wonder if the Bucks Head is still there, on the corner, if anyone can tell me. I know for a fact that Dingwalls is done and over with 1990-s . I went down to London from Glasgow, to stay with a friend, for her 21st B-Day back in November of 1991. When I took the Picadilly Line ,then transferred to the Northern Line to get to Camden Town, on the Saturdays when I got my "pay packet" as they refer to it over there, Yeah Camden Town was the place to be,on a sunny Saturday afternoon, wandering into Dingwalls, stepping back into a "1950's Rock-'n'-Roll time warp" needless to say,in my obvious SKA, REGGAE,SOUL ,I stuck out like a sore thumb, against these 1950's Be-boppers, furiously "Jitter-bugging" away on the dance floor. Sadly, when I went there, on that visit while in London, I went up to Camden Town, Dingwalls was gone, replaced by various overpriced boutique after boutique. But when it was still alive and kicking, going into the joint , but GREAT original vintage 1950 which I still enjoyed inspite of feeling out of place, music and fashion-wi, to say the least. Lol,😂 but still , it was fabulous times, nice folks, & the fondest memories. Here's to good 'ol Camden Town.
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used to drink in the Bucks Head 83 - 87 on way to town or electric ballroom. good ol daze
Great to see the mention of Marine Ices. I was a regular when I lived nearby and found that my Mum, and HER Mum had hung out there in their younger days.
It's Always Awesome when Lil Lost Lou , Joolz's sister , is in the video !!!!
Ohh, missing Camden. Lived there for a while and know most of those places he shows. Those were the times
I used to sell vinyl records in the stables on Camden market other sellers had stuff on the floor and it was a real flea market... all cleaned up now with food stalls and new clothes
I live in the United States in Texas always wanted to go to England I'm in my 50s now and I'll probably never get to go huge Maiden and Priest fan I very much enjoyed your videos thank you very much look forward to the next one
I live local it’s a wonderful place to live!!!
I used to go to a good mixer back in the 90s most nights during the britpop years. I remember meeting menswear in there. I also remember playing pool with Finley Quaye plus Adrian Hunter who was Pete doherty's manager and who can forget Scottish Alan used to go around collecting my glasses I was like security. The mixer staff were great because you could always have some banter with them whether it was over cricket or rugby as they would always be Aussies or New Zealanders. You would also find Andy Ross in there who ran food records and was Blur's manager. There was lots of other well-known people if I was to name them all here I'll be here all bloody night. I know it sounds hard to believe during the summer of 94 and 95 but the mixer was so full people would drinking on the road and a pavement outside the mixer, it was Mayhem down Inverness Street. Before it was pedestrianised. After the mixer would Close around 11 you would walk up to the Dublin Castle and stay there until it was closing time, unless it was a Friday and Saturday night and you was going to he monarch which was a nightclub on two floors after the band had finished. When they're closed about 2:30 am in the morning you would headed straight for for the marathon about 100 yards away bar where you could order more beer in Cans. Sometimes the musicians would still be on and after they had finished they would go round with a hat asking for donations, great times during the 90s britpop area. Unfortunately things like this will never happen again because of Council and there stupid rules and regulations. I nearly forgot there was another great britpop kind of club called blow-up on a Saturday night which was at the Laurel tree till it moved in late 95. Anyone who remembers them times will know what a special era it was in Camden
since this video was uploaded, Chalk Farm vintage (the Hawaiian shirt shop) has since closed permanently 😭😭. Also anyone here in 2022?, if so, respect to you.
I lived in Camden in 2011 and this video was a great walk down memory lane. Thank you.
WONDERFUL video! I'm writing a novel about musicians from Camden in the late 60s/early 70s and I've done a ton of research. Thank you for including so much info about the history of music in Camden unlike any other video or article I've found before. :) Cheers from USA
Oh, please, tell us what is that book called. Did you know Suggs book about London, 'Suggs and The city'?
I've always wondered what this particular area looks like, Joolz, and here we are. What a variety of pubs, clothing shops and virtually everything. So interesting is this video, with so much history of 70s and 80s bands performing there in their earlier days. Many thanks indeed for this.
Roundhouse..I saw Talking Heads and The Ramones in 77 there.
WOW JEALOUS would have loved to had that memory/story
OK, this is definitely my favorite episode, rock and roll, drinking and a history cover about it, so now I know, if I come to London where to go first, thanks mate :D
Love this, but you've made me homesick
love round there, some of the best battles in London......
KOKO and Camden Palace was The Music Machine in the Punk Heyday!....I went there!
Very hazy memories of having good times in the Camden Falcon & played Dublin Castle a few times too. The early 90's, I was 22, in a band and having a right old slice. Great to see Knox, in the vid!
Love the video of camden,I was born at 1 Greenland Rd Camden Town. It's changed so much,❤
Camden palace was called " THE MUSIC MACHINE " in the 80"s saw Motor Head There ... " GREAT NIGHT "
Loved ' the palace ' good times
I saw Japan there.
I stood outside the Roundhouse and listened to Jefferson Airplane and The Doors. (couldn't afford a ticket). Next day Airplane played a free concert on Hampstead Heath, but it got rained out.
Camden would have been a wonderful place in its prime. Its legacy has been shat on with a surfeit of tourists, £6 pints, chain pubs, tacky souvenir stores and sheeple donning empty, derivative fashions.
Camden was a place brimming with organic culture and personality. It’s now weathered 2 decades devoid of culture or personality. Where everything is a hollow impersonation of better times.
The punks, the metalheads, the hippies, the soul singers, have coalesced into a bleak, contrived puddle of phone zombies and Instagram posers.
Camden hasn’t been allowed to die with dignity. It’s a wreck festooned in a desolate vibrancy that insists the place still lives.
excellent comment! I was about to write something like that....in the spirit of dominant quick instant culture and digital simulation of everything true and original, this town radiates with soulessnes and fake scenery....really not organic at all.
and also amy winehouse pretty much tells it all, her picture fits perfectly in camden....fake character for hipsters, fake music which exploited soul heritage and spoiled it, the only true about her was heroin addiction and her death.
CAPITALISM.
GO THERE IN THE NIGHT STILL FUCKING CRAZY
I went to London for the Spring time in 1980 as a 20 year old from the USA and hung out at Dingwalls and The Music Machine....Was that a good time then?
Cheery Chap aren't you.
I visited London a few weeks ago and I went round Camden after watching this a few months back. Had to go into Dingwalls just so I can say I’ve been there. £6 a pint of lager was a bit of a shock though, I made the aftershave man in the toilets day for him by giving him a £20 note for a dab of Armani smelly.
I remember so well my nights at the Roundhouse Chalk Farm before it was renovated - this began in 1974 and amongst the great bands I saw there were MAGMA / EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND / KRAFTWERK / STACKRIDGE and GREENSLADE... Great nights in an age where it was cheap to see wonderful groups and I wasn't beset by old age.
@kyfaydfsoab I'm 70 and that feels old enough
Visited The World's Eng last year... because it was the first pub I saw while exiting the bus.
It's quite spacious in there. I wouldn't spend a whole evening there myself but ok for a couple of light ales! Maybe I felt a bit too old.
I remember when The Devonshire Arms used to be called The Hob Goblin. Great times were had in there, and in The Dublin Castle. I miss living in London.
I used to watch madness at the Dublin castle every week...50p to get in and I used to buy all my shoes in that shop
When I saw the Changing of the Guard, the brass band was playing "Our House".
@@studogable wow amazing
Spent many a Sunday lock in at the steeles back in the mid 80s.. And many a Friday / sat night in the stores Hawley arms and Dingwalls.. Good memories
It's amazing London, I lived 15 years ago. ARE you so funny when show the city, Thanks, I will come back to visit again.
I used to love going to Marine ices. A had a friend who was Italian and his cousin was the owner of Marine Ice. I stared going there and loved the ice cream so much. I knew Amy Winehouse from my days working in Kentish Town (she used to come same cafe)
Decent pic of my old house.
Wait for it....
Loads of change since my day. ;-)
This was a great guide.. I really enjoyed it .I visited camden in 2006 and wished your guide had been around back then . i love music and to have passed these sites by without knowing the past history makes me want to revisit. cheers n beers joolz
THE HAWLEY ARMS!!!!!!!! Was 7 years ago around when the whole baby Reindeer thing was going on!! Lucky escape Jools!!!!
Great to watch these videos and remember all the memories i had down there, Im from the highlands of Scotland but moved down to Camden in the nineties to early 2000s, you can actually see the tower block where i ended up living at the very beginning of the video, Anyhoo since this video talks about the music scene i just wanted to say my wee surprise i got one evening when i was selling drugs ( not happy about that part of my life btw lol ) but anyway im serving up and i got a knock on the door and there was some wee guy with long hair and a long trench coat. he asked for 5 half gs but i only had a couple left so said to the guy you can wait here for 10 mins or come with me to the re up and ill give you the rest there. He decided to come but as we were on the lift down he says to me btw when we get out side you will see Shane McGowan sitting in a car so please don't approach him or anything, so yeah i sold him his 5 half gs ( forgot to say i think he said he was the manager) and little did i know at the time but for a time lol i was supplying Shane with most of his drugs, I always wondered if he wrote any of his hits while wasted on my behalf. Rest in peace Shane
love your vids Joolz always make me homesick! keep up the good work.
great video. i remember in 1990s you could get great fitted levis, rarest records, the best leather jackets (70s style) just really good. i feel its a real tourist trap now with little untouched corners only camden residents would know. the camden palace was great on wednesday nights (twist and shout) with a theme of northern soul to dance to. i've still got some flyers for the night
The Hawley was a popular pub in the early eighties for bikers, hippies,punks etc and most of the Camden squatters a lot of ganja was consumed there, and sold there too, along with acid and speed. ;)
My favourite place once,now a commercial bore now with tourists everywhere.
London lost that edgey feel in all parts. But a good video from the man in the bowler hat.
Holiday in Camden Utopia
Majestic Wines was there 30 years ago and still there today...…...(3.55 mins)
I was born in Kentish Town in 1947 and went to school in Chalk Farm (same school as Madness but a few years before them).
The area has certainly changed a lot since those days 😃
blown away by this tour, amazing work!
Yes its really good
Wow! I never knew the history of Holts Dr Martens shop. Back in the day (before graphics went computerised) I used to get my typesetting done above the shop by a nice, cool guy.
I saw David Bowie at The Roundhouse. He was one of the support acts. The Groundhogs were the headliners. Hunky Dory had just come out.
Wow 👌
ahh the wonders of london although i never been, i have learned a lot about it from my living room on youtube!
Great! Glad I could be of service!
Love Camden love London. I always visit there!!!
It's changing a lot but still has a good atmosphere
@@Joolzguides Pity I didn't know where the colorful folks go when I was in London and great to have some of it all. Stranglers among my great favs along with many other of the mantioned; oh Talking Heads, Madness... Beautiful to connect music, films and books with the places!
Great video, I've always enjoyed visiting Camden. Very informative, nice mention of The Stranglers too.
Best song I will use it on my channel playlist!
Oh great! My sister will be very pleased. She's www.lillostlou.com/
Sevilla Mia and the Marathon Bar. Great memories of 1990...!
When, worked for Camden Council, Arlington House was one of properties I had to manage. I would go there on Monday once a month and spend the whole day filing in benefit forms for homeless who could not read/write.
I worked on the renovation of the Camden Interchange back in late 1988 and spent a fair lump of my wages in The Oxford Arms 😜
Used to drink in the back of the Marathon in the 90s after nights out in Camden- Lived a couple of miles up the road .. it was my stomping ground from late 80s to 2000. Was full of characters does anyone remember the state of the toilets in the Hawley Arms it was really rough then !!! All very posh now.
Amazing. One of your best. Thanks alot.
Loved this film, my daughter lives in Camden so it was a bit like a typical Friday night crawl around the boozers, lovely jubbly
enjoyed watching your videos i live in Australia and have not been to England since i was 12 i was born in london so its fun to watch this
Thanks. I'm glad they're going down well over there too!
Good to see Danny with his mega-phone.
Visiting London from SA, I never got to visit Camden, bummer. The first thing that comes to mind is Madness, up there with the greats. I agree with you about their LP, Absolutely. I think it is on par with their first album One Step...Great to see where the The Clash (also a favorite ) had the photo for their debut, taken. Them and Madness shared a rehearsal room and there is a story about Madness arriving for practice in Police uniforms as they had just shot the video for Shut Up. They knocked on the door saying they were the police and members of The Clash ran in the opposite direction flushing what ever illegal substances they had, down the drain. ‘We dressed as coppers and raided the Clash. They didn’t speak to us for five years’
Hi! Joolz Guides. Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, many more Psychedelic bands in 1966 at Round House. I been Camden Stables Market. John Lennon show up at Round House in 1966.
Another fantastic video. I don't go to Camden enough. This has given me some inspiration & motivation to go.
Yes, I'm all nostalgic but actually they've spruced it up a lot since the 70s!
It's Camden Town, the yuppies started calling it Camden in the 90s.
Triple L's album was well worth it, a true Honky Tonk Angel! Can't wait to visit the UK!
Nice history lesson on both punk venues and Camden history further back to ....
This is my favorit episode of Joolz Guides, and Camden is my favorit place to visit in London.
Great video! Many a drunken gig night on these shores 💋
My daughter lives at the back of The Round House. All my kids born in Camden.. great place.
LOVED IT i just subscribed after watching Plymouth video but I also lived in Kentish Town in my early 20s for 10 years and Camden Town was our Hangaround place . Cycle courier for 6yrs in early 80s again thanks for the memories
I fancy a pint now. 09.38 am
What a wonderland of a place....🎸😎
Bonn Scott born in Kirriemuir where there is a statue in tribute to him.
Tally Ho.....
Hey Joolz! Thanks for the vid and the connection to your sister and her music. Wow! Just downloaded her album. Cheers!
Sh'e'll be delighted!
It’s a shame they don’t let you film. One shop you visited, I called and ordered goods I saw on your show. They delivered during covid pandemic.
*_THIS WAS WHEN THE PUBS WERE OPEN... STAY SAFE JOOLZ'S_* 👁️👁️
Brings back memory's
Anyone watching this to remember the good old days?
Saw Marc Almond walking around Camden market @1989.
Was he covered in spunk... as usual.
First proper gig I ever went to was at the Roundhouse as a teenage Punk....XRAY SPEX supported by the original incarnation of Adam and the Ants. I think I was only 14 and scared shitless there and all the way back to South London after on my own!
My cousin was a PUNK,in the 80s,thank you for bringing back good memories,PIP-PIP,🎶🎵🎼.
I used to run the Oddbins off licence at Chalk Farm in 97-98, pretty much opposite the kebab shop. Daniel the guitarist was a regular and we would go over for dinner and plenty of booze every weekend. He was out of this world. He told us he lived and played in California during the
psychedelic era with the grateful dead being a session musician. Great times.
I went to Camden last week for the first time, just to get away from it all. It's all that you said here and so much more.
It's changed since I were a lad!
Other useful information is 'Bauhaus' filmed 'ziggy stardust' music video in the roundhouse in the '80s. I was there at the shooting but did not appear in the video.Camden Palace was called the music machine in the seventies/eighties and many great bands from the punk era played there. Camden market was much more interesting back then.I had friends who had stalls in the electric ballroom back in the 80's who also had stalls in Kensington market which was another amazing place to buy fantastic clothes and also hang out. My friend Bid the singer of a band called 'the monochrome set' who did music a bit like the smiths but before the smiths appeared on the London scene became quite big in the late seventies/eighties..Kensington market closed down sadly...Robot was a shoe shop down the king's road in Chelsea.the great gear market was next to the Chelsea Potter pub. The king's road and Carnaby street were a major fashion spot for hippies, glam rockers, punks, mods, etc. The great gear market and ken-market is where we would hang out at weekends and i worked in ken-market for a short while...Shelleys show shop used to be down church street but then moved opposite to Ken-market....In the 60's,70's 80's the music and fashion scene was at its peak in London then..after that it all went tracksuits and Nike trainers and Dj's took over from live bands..But then live gigs made a big come back after the rave scene died out...i might be writing a book about my life in a band in the late seventies/eighties and being part of the scene in Chelsea and Kensington back then...a few years back i decided to pay a visit to my old haunts but it had all gone all that remains are the memories of a British major fashion and music culture which was vastly diverse...The word 'Goth' was again coined by people who labeled the way people dressed after the punk era/Post-punk..Because of the theatrical bands like 'Bauhaus'...Joy division,the cure, dead can dance who were underground at the time..it was due to the art that was used on record covers of gravestones etc..bands like the dance society also used gravestones and angels on covers..I grew up in fulham which is in between Kensington and Chelsea.hammersmith was also a major venue area with the Clarendon, hammersmith Palais and hammersmith Odean which then became the Apollo...Carnaby Street was a hang out for people like David Bowie and Marc Bolan when they were mods.carnaby street was a major fashion center and hang out for many famous musicians,actors,actresses etc...
I REMEMBER CAMDEN HIGH STREET FROM THE 70S AND 80s, when I used to have naughty gay bookshop at number 283 near the Canal bridge (Zipper). When we moved in around 1978 there was a working class cafe next door, Alfredo's was it? Lots of chips - and tea came already-sugared with 5 spoons, and automatically bread and butter would arrive without asking. Nobody had heard of Polenta. Honest John's records was next door, and a Greek Cypriot dress-factory at the back. Compendium Books was opposite, and a great place. There were loads of great Cypriot restaurants, and one nice Armenian one too. Inverness Street was full of fruit stalls run by sexy barrow boys, and a Fine Fare on the corner set the down-market tone of the place. I had a photo studio nearby, later on, on the corner of Parkway, nudged between the bingo hall and the cinema. Happy days! Lots of booze at the Black Cap, and kleftiko in Zorba's.
Ah, Camden - how you've changed. Nice to catch a glimpse of the Hare Krishnas - still out there at 07:30.
Saw the pink fairies at Dingwalls.. Excellent and very drunken night 🤣
If you look when he says about marine ices being closed you can see a sign above saying that it has moved 3 minutes away.
I saw Bob Mould in the Worlds End, great gig.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING 🔥🌎🔥
Adam ant wore a toupee! Cor- never knew that until now.
@MrGunboat78 he does have his ups and downs, but he is actually pretty normal in person.