The Monarch

Bloody Awful Poetry have announced their Patrick Swayze tributes for Saturday’s SOUNDTRACKS at The Monarch. Alongside the usual film greats they’ll be playing EVERY SINGLE SONG from Dirty Dancing throughout the evening.

“On each one we’ll be raising a shot to Swayze” they say “Which we encourage everyone else to do too. Its the Gold Dirty Dancing disc… so that’s 5 songs/shots on it. Woo yeah!”

Once again they’ll be attacking your emotions with nostalgia, triumph, jubilation and double vodkas so remember, ITS FREE BEFORE 9PM!
Just £3 after! And only a pitiful £2 for students!

Featuring as ever,

Soundtracks DJs
The best songs ever from the finest movies beamed to screen
Dancing
Drinking
Free popcorn

Remember when Grandpa announced that he never could stand “All the damn vampires”?

When David Bowie was reminded of the babe?

When we were all at Cauldron Point…with what appears to be…a pirate ship.

When all Ms Pfeiffer needed was a rider that’s cool?

When Danny Laruso was the Best Around?

Or when Marty Mcfly instructed the band to “Follow me for the changes”.

Or when, despite his apearance at this function, he remained and always would be…a duck man.

Now…STOP THINKING OF THE MUSIC!

Can’t can ya?

Course not.

Soundtracks brings you all your favourite movie themes. In fact, it simply is THE BEST MOVIES EVER…without the talky bits.

Come jive to Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller, Pulp Fiction, Grease, Pretty In Pink, Lock Stock, St Elmo’s Fire, The Commitments, Superfly, Top Gun and all their many many friends.

Doors 8pm – 1.30am

Now make sure you don’t forget.

Because as we all know – “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to look around once in a while – you might just miss it.”

There maybe other Bring Swayze Back tributes too – Nobody puts Swayze in the Coroners!!!

Rogues return on Tuesday 6th October at Camden’s The Monarch venue with a new live set up and new songs to boot from their forthcoming ‘Widows EP’ to be released on November 23rd through the fabulous Friends Vs Records label (Dinoasaur Pile Up / The Joy Formidable etc). They’ll be previewing new tracks from the EP and showcasing our new live set up which is going to be BIG! Rogues hail from Wales and Harrow and consist of three brothers and two drifters. They formed in Aug 2008 influenced by Bowie, U2, Klaxons and Prince. Strange pop songs soon emerged; combining new wave atmospherics with upbeat dance grooves to create original, ethereal pop music Rogues’ pivotal debut single and live shows have generated a storm of interest gaining support from the likes of Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy, Huw Stevens, NME and The Fly and have established an ever-growing legion of followers. Rogues have toured supporting Iglu and Hartly, have done the NME Awards Tour, their own headline tour and have also played Radio 1 Introducing (Glastonbury), V Festival, Isle of Wight Festival and The Great Escape.

After 3 excellent freebie shows the NME Radio shows @ The Monarch are coming to an end. Tickets are going fast so NME Radio advise getting down to the Dr Martens shop as quickly as possible.

The show is on Thursday 17th September and doors open at 7.30pm

TWISTED WHEEL:
‘It is my understanding that the music they play is of the pop persuasion, influenced by such acts as Weezer, The Beatles, The Libertines and Blur. But darker and with a greater knowledge of British military victories and defeats. They also find inspiration in other arts such as Renaissance Literature, British Post War Theatre and the works of Bruce Springsteen and Woody Guthrie.’

- TONY BENN, Plumbstead Radical Review (Issue 46, 1979)

Ultimate Power have unveiled their next night at The Monarch. It’s due for September 25th and, if the last one is anything to go by,  it’s going to get messy.

Good day rockers!

well, we haven’t seen scenes like what confronted us at UP on the 4th since “Bat out of Helloween” last year, roadblock outside from before doors opened until we closed them! well done to everyone that made it inside, to everyone else, sincere apologies, we did what we could. big shout outs especially due to the return of stamp girl, michael jackson earthsong crew, silver shiny jeans brigade and the ever-increasing number of shirtless people out front. always welcome…

Anyhow, the next Ultimate Power is fast on the heels of the previous one and is on Friday September the 25th. make sure that you snap up your advance tickets as soon as you can to avoid the queues and the piece of mind that you know that you’ll get in. as always, £5 is the cost of getting more Bonnie Tyler, Meatloaf, Aerosmith and John Farnham than you can shake a big sweaty stick at. doors open at 8pm at the monarch, 42 chalk farm road, camden.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE NOW

see you down the front!

ultimate power x

The Monarch is pleased to announce BAT ATTACK! as one of its brand new club nights for autumn 2009. With Tape The Top 40 and the Club Fandango already on board it’s looking like a very good ‘un. First night is October 9th and a mere £3 on the door. Bargain.
Camden’s most decadent clubnight returns for more of the same this October in our brand new home – The Monarch! Those who’ve been before will know all about the fancy dress, party games and general bad-behaviour that makes up a Bat Attack! night, and our new monthly shindigs will be no different.

This time we’ll be combining the best bits of all of our past parties – General Perversion’s Officers’ Mess; The Snuff & Kipper Gentleman’s Club; The Sanitarium and Fear & Self Loathing in Camden Town – to create the mother and father of all opening parties.

ODDYSSEY (live!)
www.myspace.com/oddysseymusic
Formerly known as Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad, Oddyssey bring their delicious female-fronted electro-pop to Bat Attack! for the first time. We were massively
looking forward to their September set until the Gods conspired against us – so expect this one to be busy, busy, busy at our brand new venue!

Plus DJ sets from Spindle & Wit; Dan Syndrome and Bat Attack DJs

PLUS:
The London Leisure Pirates bring their own brand of weird and wonderful interactive theatre to The Monarch for the first time. Come and visit Dr Liability Eden’s ramshackle surgery to get that all-important doctor’s note; help Professor Cutlass complete the impossible Lego conundrum; evade the evil peg pest and see if you survive the Sneaky Bum Bum Train!
And that’s just the stuff they’ve warned us about. Expect the Shangri-La and Secret Garden Party troupe to pitch up on the night with even more bizarre depravity!