Ask any music aficionado in London and one of the big events for the year will most likely be the Camden Crawl. It’s a yearly event that has been going strong for a number of consecutive years running with numerous venues in Camden effectively hosting an entire music festival for an entire day. Best of all most of the bands tend to be up and coming. The ticket gains you entry into any of the various places, and gives you a double CD sampler containing at least one song from each band, and with the inset playing the double role of map and timetable for the event. Many of the artists consequently make it big with a number of last years performers including The Kooks, Hard-Fi, Maximo Park and The Magic Numbers.

Thanks to an ever efficient organiser (thanks Liz!), I had my ticket booked a while ago, but both due to being located in Poole for my current project, and missing a train by 10 seconds, I ended up joining the trailing flanks of a dissipating crowd to only catch the Dirty Pretty Things do their stuff in the Electric Ballroom. I did still get my CD and am listening to it right now, discovering the new talent. Til next year then (maybe)!