The final line up for 2011’s Gaymers Camden Crawl has been announced, including some exciting late additions such as appearances by top grime MC Tinchy Stryder and former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

The festival, which is now in its sixteenth year, takes place over the May Bank Holiday weekend (30th April-1st May) in 39 bars and venues in the Camden area of North London, including The Forum, Koko, Barfly and ‘Camden Bars’ venues The Camden Head, Enterprise, Monarch and Abbey Tavern.

Highlights include performances by established acts such as The Lemonheads, British Sea Power, Killing Joke, Razorlight, Guillemots, Saint Etienne, The View, and Simian Mobile Disco.

In addition to this year’s extraordinary live music line up, the festival continues to develop the breadth of its daytime fringe arts festival. Featuring a vast array of comedic talent, visual art and crafts exhibitions, spoken word and performance theatre, interactive events & games and, of course, live music, the daytime carnival of entertainment sprawls across an additional thirty Camden Town venues for the weekend from 12 – 6pm both dates.

Immediately following the festival’s fringe programme of cutting edge arts during the daylight hours, the streets of Camden will literally come alive with music. Straddling more than twenty venues, the Crawl evening schedule features over 200 of the best up & coming artists from the UK and abroad alongside seminal greats and very special guests. The evening line up kicks off from 5:30 pm and runs until the wee hours on both days of the weekend.

Upon arrival at the festival each ticket holder is presented with an all-access wristband, programme guide, timetable and free download album to help plot his/her day’s adventure. ‘Crawlers’ are then granted unlimited access to all official daytime and evening venues and parties capacity permitting. As is tradition, the full venue schedules will remain secret until the event and surprise guests may appear at any time and at any venue.

Taking place at THE MONARCH this year is live music all day. Our hosts are Kangol, PRS, and Canadian Blast and will include sets from Gallops, Bear Driver, The Good Natured, Russian Futurists, Bright Light Bright Light, The Lines, Jonquil, Bleech, Turbogeist, The Mountains And The Trees, Eagulls, Random Impulse, Young Empires and We Are Animal. Seeing us through to the early hours are The Monarch’s own club nights Soundtracks and Kings And Queens.

VISIT WWW.THECAMDENCRAWL.COM FOR FULL GAYMERS CAMDEN CRAWL LINE UP & FOLLOW THEM AT WWW.TWITTER.COM/THECAMDENCRAWL FOR UP TO DATE INFO

www.thecamdencrawl.com / www.twitter.com/thecamdencrawl

Your presenters – Lord Ant B (Bestival), James Rocks (Smash & Grab)
and hostess Drew Ballou bring you a monthly Friday night extravaganza
where just about anything goes, as long as it brings the party!

Remember the original TOTP? Part of its joy was the fact that you
didn’t know who would be on, you’d have the unlikeliest acts next to
each other, local one hit wonders next to international superstars.
T.O.T.P. is about having FUN with a capital F. Strut your stuff with
Mime-a-oke (mime just like the stars used to do on TOTP with costume
box provided), dance like you’re on TV and importantly, we think,
drink at pub prices.

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FREE ENTRY TO THE STUDIO ALL NIGHT. BAR TIL 2.30

THE MONARCH – CAMDEN, 40-42 CHALK FARM ROAD

What more could you ask for? It’s Friday, it’s Top Of The Pops!

**** DJs****
SALLY SEXFACE (SMASH & GRAB)
& your residents
LORD ANT B (BESTIVAL)
JAMES ROCKS (SMASH & GRAB)

Christmas At The Monarch

Choose from a 2 course meal for  £ 13.95 or a 3 course meal for £ 16.20. Bookings must be confirmed 24 hours before and we seat a minimum of 6 people. We spoil you…

Starters

Chestnut soup with crisp root vegetables and bread

Smoked duck and plum salad with mulled wine dressing

Prawn cocktail with avocado paste and fried corn tortilla

Mains

Butterfly leg of lamb with carrot & garlic mash and Sherry & honey jus

Nut loaf with vegetable timbale and porcini mushroom sauce

Roast Turkey breast with roast potato, pigs & blanket, cranberry stuffing and gravy

All mains served with seasonal vegetables and minted new potato

Desserts

Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy butter

Chocolate and rum marinated cherry cake with whipped cream

English cheese selection with biscuit and Christmas chutney

Coffee, tea and mince pies

Christmas Canapes

If you’ve got a big party (you popular thing) why not order some of our canapes?

Vegan/ vegetarian option

Homemade chips

Root vegetables crisps

Lentil patties

Sweet potato wedges

Carrot and orange soup sip

Vegetable skewers

Mature cheddar and pickle sandwich

Meat option

Pigs and blanket rolls

Cold meat platter

Bacon and cheese baked baby potato

Turkey sausage rolls

Mini lamb korma kebab

Home cooked ham and cheese sandwich

Fish option

Fish goujons with aioli

Salt and pepper squid

Homemade fish cake

Prawn cocktail bruschetta

Prices per person:

Choose any 5 of those above for £ 6.50

Choose any 8 of those above for £ 7.95

Choose any 10 of those above for £ 9.65

This Halloween we’ve got 2 nights of spooky shenanigans at the Monarch.

Friday 29th October

It’s ROCK GODS! Free before 9pm / £3 after and FREE if you’re dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.

Playing the finest glam rock, hair rock, hard rock, cheesy rock and poodle rock ever strewn forth from amplifiers. Bringing with them the majestical works of the oft overlooked masters of music, the legends of lyric, the pioneers of power and the alchemists of anthems…

The music of…

THE ROCK GODS Metallica, AC/DC, Journey, Foreigner, Skid Row, Queen, Europe, Scorpions, Boston, Kiss, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Jefferson Airplane and… yes… The Darkness.

Or on Saturday 30th October why not come dressed as a dead Movie Star (we’ll be playing music from movies with deceased actors ie Dennis Hopper, Patrick Swayze) for SOUNDTRACKS. Again it’s Free before 9pm, 3pm after.

£2 for both nights.

We have stolen our fathers car, rounded up the brat pack and are heading towards Beaumont at a steady speed of 88mph to reap some dancing havock upon the home of John Lithgow. And we are making sure that NOBODY is in left in the corner!

Come join us and 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.

book a booth for either night email info@monarchbar.com  visit http://www.soundtracksclub.com/ for more information about Soundtracks.

Makers of tasty bourbon Buffalo Trace are putting on a new night of music at The Monarch. On Thursday 23rd September there is a very special launch party

James Walsh headlines the show with a special stripped down acoustic set and a different vibe from his usual full band set up with Starsailor.

Support acts come in the form of the amazing Jim Stapley and Lee MacDougall.

For a band often lambasted as shrinking violets, Starsailor have kept some pretty loose and unexpected company since they announced their arrival in 2001 with the majestic ‘Love Is Here.’ Then, as 19 year olds straight out of music college in Wigan, they found themselves hurled into the world of Heavenly Recordings – a label notorious for The Social, the good times and being friends with Primal Scream, Happy Mondays and The Charlatans. It was the legendary DJ Andrew Weatherall that provided their first remix. The band might have been signed by EMI, but it was Heavenly’s founder, the mercurial Jeff Barrett, that A+R’ed them through their first two wildly successful albums. Indeed, the second of those – 2004’s ‘Silence Is Easy’ – saw them become the last band to record with production genius and careless gun user Phil Spector. Not the kind of company you suspect that their supposed peers – Snow Patrol, Keane et al – would ever keep.

Doors: 19:00
Price: £7
Entry: 18+

Get your tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/90520

BBC comedy team Dai 4 Films have been filling the Monarch with laughter at the start of every month and we’ve got the proof. As part of the night they film the comedians and stream it live over the internet. Click below to see some clips of performers in action including Jackson Voorhaar, Richard Fox and Gareth Berliner. The next “Funny Business” happens at The Monarch next Wednesday at 7.30pm. Sets from Rudi Lickwood, Ryan McDonnell and Richard Fox PLUS the try out zone… do you dare to sign up?

Buy tickets

Paul Perie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdky8XsxoBc

Jackson Voorhar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ose2wpI0zQ4

Richard Fox

The animated version of Tim Minchin’s beat-poem Storm will be premiered in October 2010 and on the 30th August Producer Tracy King will be talking about how the film came about and giving exclusive insight into the team’s process at The Monarch.

Her talk will include showing you exclusive artwork and footage not otherwise available to the public. She will also give insight into the secrets of viral marketing …and how to make your online message successful.

Tracy speaks on a range of topics including viral marketing and advertising psychology, is a gaming and comics geek, and has a world record for spoonbending.

For more information visit http://www.stormmovie.net/. The event will start at 6pm.

Two members of Europe made a surprise visit to The Monarch last Sunday, joining metal covers band Metalworks to play The Final Countdown. John Norum and John Leven were cornered by member Amit Sharma as they headed over from their slot at the Roundhouse iTunes festival. He told Metal Hammer magazine how he “took a break to cool off outside and saw the two John’s walking across the road”. Despite being a bit wary at first they were won over by the band’s impressive sound.

““John Norum came up and did The Final Countdown and then both Johns got up for ‘Black Night’ by Deep Purple. After playing, they hung around outside and were true gents – taking some time to have their pictures taken and meet some fans.” he added.

Metalworks play The Monarch every Sunday from 8pm. They’ve had members of Iron Maiden, Sisters of Mercy and Judas Priest drop by in the past. Who knows who’ll be next…

Read more at Metalhammer.com

Courtney Love performed a very special show at The Monarch last night in honour of Clash Magazine’s 5th Birthday party. Here’s a video from the night. For more gossip visit the Clash Music Website