Well Done Soundtracks
Someone’s been saying some very nice things about The Monarch’s very own Soundtracks night…
Have a read below or have a look at Remote Goat.
For some time, the Bloody Awful Poetry boys have been bringing some of the coolest new music to Camden regulars, educating them in some of the bloodiest and awful-est poetry you’ve ever heard, but crucially in bestowing the most wonderful music upon many privileged ears. Having championed bands such as The Rapscallions and artists as phenomenal as King Charles, these guys know good music. So Soundtracks, at the Monarch every first and third Saturday of the month is not where you may expect to find them…
This gloriously exuberant night of the best (and cheesiest) music from the movies is unhindered by any cynical irony – it is an absolute montage of guilty pleasure, gooey nostalgia, and defiantly riotous fun. There is no room for being too cool for school at this night – there are giggles and squeals all the way! It’s so rare these days to find yourself at a London club-night where people don’t care about trends, fashion or what people they don’t even know are thinking, but thankfully Soundtracks has a zero tolerance policy on that, and if you’re not shadow-boxing to “Eye of the Tiger”, “Cha-cha-ing” to “Hungry Eyes” or head-banging to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, you’ll soon feel like the nerd in the crowd.
Spectacularly led by Sagar Shah and Keir Mills on the decks – who somehow manages to keep pace with Kevin Bacon’s Footloose-ing for hours on end (seriously – people were taking pictures!) the tracks cover every genre of movie, and every style of music. There’s a heavy dose of 80s, just to ensure the crowd’s inner child is dragged back out in public, on stage and jumping around, as well as tracks from movies as recent as Transformers. As for the crowd, this place attracts the delightfully friendly mixture that you’d expect from Camden – the young funky stylish lot, the silly drunken crowd, the smattering of curious tourists, the occasional oddball, and a bunch of other indefinables – all of whom sure know how to have fun, fun, fun!!
Once upon a time, long before the Playboy influenced outfits, the Palais and the compilation CDs, when School Disco was still held in an old school hall in Vauxhall, and entrance was by secret guest list only, that was the place for the most fun night out you could wish for. Today, that place is Soundtracks, except this time it’s epic, it’s genuine, and it’s downright Oscar-winning!
The next Soundtracks is at The Monarch on Saturday 5th December and tickets are available to buy now from here.
