This is Camden and welcome to Joolz Guides rock n roll camden pub crawl.
Camden’s famous for its market, its live music and of course its pubs so we’re going
to do a sort of pub crawl and try an take in some of the most significant musical and historical
locations en route.
And it’s also famous for being where Bob Cratchitt and Tiny Tim live in Charles Dickens’
Christmas Carol.
But we’re going to start in Chalk Farm.
The reason we’re starting here is because behind there is the railway
In the 19th century when Camden started to get industrialised all these houses around
here were built for the workers who worked on the railways
They were from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and they used to get into lots of
fights with each other
So they decided, I know, we’ll build a whole load of pubs for each nationality
So the Dublin Castle was for the Irish, Edinboro Castle for the Scots, the Pembroke Castle
was for the Welsh people
Yeah, the Windsor castle has typically closed down but that was for the English but we’ve
got plenty of other ones so that’s ok
Over there is Chalk Farm Station which is where Madness took the photo for the album
cover Absolutely.
That was their second album, one of their best in my opinion.
It wasn’t actually that entrance though.
No you’re right, let’s go round to the other side.
I think that the camera was down there and they were like here…like that.
Up there is Haverstock Hill leading up to Hampstead.
Noel Gallagher used to live up there.
Supernova Heights is up there , the Steels Pub and everything.
But we’’re going that way towards Camden
This is such a pity.
This used to be Marine Ices.
This was my favourite ice cream parlour.
Everything’s closing down.
I feel like Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes.
You maniacs.
You blew it up.
Oh damn you, God!
Damn you all to hell!!
That’s how I feel when I look at this place and see what they’re doing, it’s madness.
This is the Enterprise, I did a stand up comedy gig here
A perfectly reasonable place to take your second pint especially if you’re going across
the road to The Round House to watch a gig.
This might look like a kebab shop but it’s a very special kebab shop
I remember you used to be able to come here any time of night and it would have all walks
of life from businessmen to beggars crammed in the back watching this French Elvis called
Daniel Jeanrenaud.
And there were these old saxophone players too.
Great times man.
And it would have poor people, rich people, a man from the city having just come back
from a late night
Yeah they used to play late nights.
He played a good ten years I think.
Good, why did you change it though?
The council reduced the hours, we had to close earlier than used to..
I don’t know, he says that they’ closed down but I bet you any money you can still
go in there.
I reckon they must have a lock in.
There’s got to be.
Just opposite there is the Roundhouse which used to be for train locomotives to pull in
and turn around.
They had a sort of turntable like you got on your Hornby railway.
But it got turned into a warehouse because the trains got too big to fit on it.
In the 60s it turned into a music venue and loads of famous people played there like David
Bowie , Rolling Stones.
Led Zeppelin played their first gig here and they say this is where punk was born when
The Ramones played here.
Oh, and that’s Anthony Gormley on top there.
This is where George Michael did a free concert for NHS nurses, he’s a really nice bloke
George Michael.
And The Doors did their first and only UK concert here I do believe.
This used to be Bartok and before that it was The Belmont.
It was quite popular with musicians because there used to be a recording studio just across
the road.
Lemmy from Motorhead used to be seen by the fruit machine in here.
In fact he was seen by the fruit machine in any pub he went to.
When I’m not wearing a bowler hat and cravat I’m one of the world’s Hawaiian shirt
wearers.
And I can’t resist.
It’s an illness.
All my Hawaiian shirts come from here.
dungaree and Hawaiian shirt combo.
Now we’re talking.
The reason why there’s all these horses everywhere is because this used to be the
stables and this was like the Camden goods depot bringing industry and jobs to the area.
The horses lugged stuff around off barges and trains to be taken off around London.
The last horse was retired in 1967.
It’s amazing really that they still had horses up until then.
We’re going to the Amy Winehouse statue which is in the stables market where they
don’t like you filming so we’re probably going to get chucked out.
They had a fight, The Sex Pistols had a fight in Dingwalls which we can’t show everyone
now.
In there is where they took the photograph for The Clash album cover.
Thanks to the nice woman in the office she’s phoned all the security guards and told them
not to let me film in here so we have to do this a bit surreptitiously.
This is what I have to put up with, in case you’re wondering why you don’t get a video
every week on the channel.
Because honestly anywhere, I had a big argument with them in the bakery as well.
The Hawley Arms is where Amy Winehouse used to drink and she used to have a special drink
called a Rickstacy which I suppose for the sake of this I have to have one
Three parts vodka, one part banana liquor, one part Southern Comfort, one part Baileys.
But you don’t do them anymore?
In that case I’ll have a pint instead.
It sounds disgusting.
There’s Dingwalls.
It’s where the bass players from The Clash and The Stranglers had a bit of a fight and
it resulted in The Stranglers being ostracised from the punk scene.
And there’s this little bit on the right there where the cow barges go inside and it’s
called dead dog’s hole because it’s where all the detritus and dead dogs and dead bodies
used to wash up.
It used to be…trains used to go into there in the 1800s and they’d lift off goods and
stuff and put them onto..
Stop saying yeah.
You sound so interested!
When morning TV was quite a new amazing thing in Britain...
it was like, Oh wow we've got TV am it starts at 6am
all those egg cups on there were because it was the tv am building but now it's the MTV building
I did used to work there and there was this woman who was doing the hair and make up for
Adam Ant when he came in and she came down the stairs in a terrible
state crying, she was like, I just had to attach his toupee
she was mortified as were we all that poor old Adam Ant the 80s beauty icon for all of
us
nothing to say about this pub except that Pat who used to do the quiz in there
he used to think he was hilarious he used to say there's a free pint for this
and he'd ask a question someone would answer the question
and he's go stand up, what's your answer?
Go the the bar Get a free pint.......of water, you're wrong,
sit down! but he did it in a northern irish accent whereas
I did it in some sort of weird Welsh Australian accent.
Do you know that song by madness?
Walking round you sometime, hear the sunshine and that's a song about Arlington House is
this house which is a doss house
just along from the homeless hostel is The Good Mixer a notorious Camden hang out for musicians and fans and stuff.
It became really popular after Blur started hanging out here in the 90s
because this has always looked like a bit of a scuzzy pub to me.
It looks like the kind of place to get beaten up
Listen you don't get beaten up in a place where everyone's a fan of Brit pop.
Dude everyone in there now is a vegetarian and remembers the good old days of boys who
do girls who like boys
I need to pop in Are you in a band?
I heard only people in bands are allowed in here.
There's Amy playing pool.
Apparently she was known to have a game of pool in here.
have you ever been to Mecca Bingo?
I went with you!
This is the dublin castle this is one of the most famous music pubs in camden.
Amy Winehouse used to pull pints behind the bar here.
I think it all started when Madness played there around 1979.
I bet you any money you've played a gig there.
I have indeed, I've played many a gig there.
How many bands can we see that have got names similar to other bands but aren't actually the real thing
the real thing . Yeah like the Sex Sells Deep Fury , Deep Purple
The Uptown Monotones is a kind of like a mixture between the Boomtown Rats and the Undertones
The Flaming Lips Squidge Squeeze
People are really getting a bit desperate with band names these days arent they.
Johnny Cash, oh god I just got that, I'm so thick
Have you ever been to the rock n roll rescue shop?
So where does the money go to though?
Tony Blair's new wallpaper for his Las Vegas penthouse suite.
Wonderful It goes here
see there... and the last thing it goes to is bees, we
give money to bees.
I'm pretty sure this is Depeche Mode's keyboard.
It is.
This is still programmed for one of their gigs
It's got all the songs programmed in for I think it was the Violator Tour or something
but the bloke in the shop doesn't know how to use it properly so he's terrified of turning
it on and deleting everything When I work at Rock n Roll rescue I like to
drink Amphtamine Annie's coffee!
The Camden Palace which down there, t was actually the Camden Theatre opened in 1900
it's called Koko now Oh beg your pardon, I'm so old school!
For about 15 years Bon Scott who was in AC/DC, the last place
that he went for a drink was in the Camden Palace.
He staggered out and he stumbled down towards the Dublin Castle and he bumped into an old
school teacher of his who thought he looked a bit worse for wear and he sort of helped
him into a cab and then he died later that night.
Just opposite inverness street market is the electric ballroom which is one of the most
famous and iconic music venues in camden.
It had many incarnations under the same ownership.
In th 70s when they first opened up as The Electric Ballroom the first band to play there
was a band called The Greedies and that consisted of Steve Jones from the
Sex Pistols, Paul Cook who was the drummer from the Sex Pistols and the guys from Thin
Lizzy and I think Gary Moore.
Sid Vicious was present at that gig and it inspired him to form a kind of one of band
called The Vicious White kids and do a show called Sid Sods Off to raise money for his
trip to New York with his girlfriend Nancy.
Actually it was a trip from which he would never return.
Why didn't Sid Vicious ever come back?
Because he had a drugs overdose and after having been accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Weird because when that film Sid and Nancy first came out the one starring Gary Oldman,
that was the first time Iever went to the cinema to see an 18 certificate film, it was
called an X in those days.
Funnily enough, I went to see it in the Camden Plaza cinema which was just opposite the Electric
Ballroom and I didn't realise the irony of that or how appropriate it was until now.
This is one of the oldest pubs in camden.
It's been here for ages.
I think it's from 500 years ago, although it wasn't called the Worlds End back then,
it as called the old Mother Redcap.
Where there was a cottage where this woman called jenny Bingham used to live.
Jenny Bingham was pregnant by the age of 16 but the bloke who made her pregnant got hanged
at Tyburn Gallows for having stolen some sheep.
her next bloke disappeared mysteriously, then her parents were hanged for witchcraft, her
next fellow got found burnt to a cinder in an oven, but she was let off because it was
found out that he often slept there in order to escape her nagging tongue, which is fair
enough I suppose.
She ended up just sitting on a stool here with her red cap and black cat.
She was a bit scary and regarded to have mystical powers or something.
I'm more of a melodic death metal kind of guy.
I'm a rocker I'm a metal head I'm a punk.
I'm all of those things.
I like everything from Elvis to death Metal, I span the generations.
People wearing all sorts of outlandish mad stuff, yet the only person who is getting
stared at is me.
Madness actually used to live upstairs?
I didn't know that, I know Madness used to buy their Doctor Martin boots at this shop.
Is that the one about which the song is?
Our house in the middle of our street.
This fellow says that that's the one he's talking about.
That's what I thought, that's the first ever Doctor Martin shop.
In Camden Town I'll meet you by the underground.
This is the Devonshire Arms.
It's on kentish Town Road.
It used to be a proper like goth biker leather type hang out.
You might look at that thing on the ceiling and think it's just an air conditioning unit
but actually it's a relic from the days that you could smoke in pubs.
It's actually a smoke extractor.
Now when you go into a pub it just smells of B.O. and sweat and beer.
If you look at the poster as well they all have a nice yellow tint.
More of a goth pub back from the early 80s.
We've got live music there's a stage down there.
Yeah we support lots of local bands.
Tonight we've got a band called Gattaca.
Very good.
Check them out youtube facebook.
And in general you can find us on facebook as in The Dev N.W.1.
full schedule of shows.
One of the most famous musicians to come out of Camden was of course Amy Winehouse.
I'm just coming up to her house where I think she died.
Number 30 Camden Square.
It seems to have turned into a sort of shrine.
Amy winehouse died on 23rd of July 2011 aged just 27 of alcohol poisoning.
She was the first British female artist to win 5 grammies.
People keep trying to nick the road signs as sort of mementoes.
Not to be encouraged that kind of behaviour.
I'll buy you both a drink for your help.
So after that rather sombre interlude this is our final pub.
This is the one that was built by the English for the Scots.
Don't ask me why it's spelt like that.
I've heard that it's because the English were trying to take the piss of the Scots or something.
The idea was that the Scots the Irish, the brits and the welsh were all fighting each other
That's why they built these different pubs.
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