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Prince of BOY Wales Road’s HOLLOWAY ROAD hotspots Top 10 Markets, GEORGE by artist boozers & Exclusive Sian MUST DO hipster co ee Interview Pattenden November issue eight november 2013 North London’s award-winning cultural guide kentishtowner.co.uk FREE Where is this? Dog Barking At Car Refl ections, by Nick O er AUTO REALITY streets of Kentish Town often snapped on his camera fi rst along the railway near Junction are. You only see refl ections - a prolonged period in Barcelona THE have long provided the and assembled as a collage before Road, while the iron fence is from rarely the interior - and this lends once he’d got his MA in Fine inspiration for pop songs, graffi ti, work on the main piece gets the canal path north of Regent’s a sinister aspect to them. I wanted Art. And now his fi rst solo show, the odd novel and the poetry of underway. Park. And the dog? A photograph to contrast this cold technology which takes place in Shoreditch laureates. Tufnell Park-based Take a look at our cover Nick took on Hampstead Heath. with something sentient; so chose this month, features 20 pictures artist Nick Offer infuses his large image, entitled Dog Barking At “I’m interested in combining an animal in a banal setting. A containing elements of K-Town, oil paintings with heavy doses of Car Refl ections. The foreground, unusual - but convincing - dog works well as a metaphor for other parts of London and the NW5’s urban topography too. including the cars, is the elements in a banal context, instinct - in this case fear of the Scottish Highlands. Strangely familiar, yet courtyard of a council block off hopefully to unsettling effect,” unknown.” “I’m a huge fan of Kentish diffi cult to place, his work draws Grafton Road, near the City Farm. he says. “I’d been thinking about Nick settled here with his wife Town,” he says of the area that on an amalgam of local views, The houses in the background run how inscrutable dark shiny cars and daughter fi ve years ago after shapes much cont. p3 92 Fleet Road NW3 2QX Tel: 020 7424 8544 the kentishtowner 3 Editor Stephen Emms Co-Editor Tom Kihl Sta Writer Sarah Fox Contributors Sian Pattenden Clare Nash Designer Olly Skinner Logo Russell Loughlan Published by London Belongs To Me Ltd 2013 www.londonbelongstome.com Send us nice things: The Old House, 39-41 North Road A vision of what’s to come? London N7 9DP For subscriptions and O WHAT do you think of Slightly further afi eld – well, section. Head to kentishtowner. any other feedback our cover star Nick Offer’s over the hill and down a bit – we co.uk/travel. And online is where please email us at paintings? What appealed give you the low-down on that the liveliest debates take place too. [email protected] S most to us is that they mirror the most underrated of thoroughfares, dynamic juxtaposition of our area. Holloway Road. Want to support us? We have a To advertise please call If you like them too, make sure you shop at shop.kentishtowner.co.uk Tom Boulter check out his show later this month Still on a food and drink tip, we where you can buy everything from 0207 607 5765 at 5th Base Gallery in Shoreditch. gorge on pulled pork at the Abbey back issues to cover art, T-shirts or email Tavern, sample gins at the Colonel and tote bags. We also have just [email protected] Elsewhere in this issue? Fawcett, and check out new hipster launched an exclusive new kids’ We publish an exclusive full coffee shop Ruby Doc (from the range of hoodies and sweats. length interview with former people behind the acclaimed top: A Leverton’s local squatter Boy George, and Antipodean-owned Lantana in hearse in another of commission artist Sian Pattenden Fitzrovia). Till next month, the paintings in Nick to create another of her hugely O er’s show popular maps of the area. This time If you’re thinking of taking a above: Stephen Emms it’s Prince of Wales Road, probably weekend break this autumn, don’t the hottest street in the postcode. forget we have a thriving travel cont. from p1 of his art. of a Leverton’s hearse (see pic above). pack of parked cars up Grafton Road. “Living here, you fi nd it doesn’t have “If I believed in the afterlife, this is Tom Kihl the self-conscious attitude found in what I have a hunch it might look like,” east and west London. It’s refreshingly Nick explains. “A rather depressing vision The show is on from Nov 21st – 24th unpretentious.” of cold and anaemic compartments.” at the 5th Base Gallery, Heneage Other local elements to spot at the Seeing our immediate environment Street E1 5LJ. For more info on Nick show include a painting depicting the depicted in his often almost supernatural visit www.nicko er.com Iron Man character standing by the images adds a strange and deeply Heath on Highgate Road, looking “a little personal layer to their meaning. You may Buy a limited edition print of Dog unsure of his position,” and a striking well not look at Kentish Town in quite Barking At Car Refl ections from: image of grand terraced windows along the same way again. You’ll certainly feel a shop.kentishtowner.co.uk Kentish Town Road refl ected in the glass little uneasy walking past that menacing 4 MUSIC the kentishtowner BOY GEORGE, born George O’Dowd, became a household name as lead singer of the Grammy and Brit Award winning band Culture Club in the 1980s. They broke up in 1986, since when he has recorded as a solo artist, written and performed the musical Taboo, and become a successful club DJ. His new album This Is What I Do is out now, and this month he is touring the UK to promote it, stopping off at KOKO in Camden Town on November 10. CLARE ZERNY What is the most important lesson life has taught you? Life is essentially futile so you might as well inject as much joy as you can. I have discovered that the real joy is in the things we often take for granted. Family, friends, great food, laughter, cuddles, sex, more food. Learn to just “be”. Radiate the light Ich Bin and laugh at yourself constantly. Treasure those you love, ask them how they are and don’t forget KENTISHTOWNER to call. When were you happiest? I squatted on Leighton Road with a gaggle of misfi ts - my friends Myra, Jackie and Andy Polaris - and it was fabulous for a while, but then Marilyn moved in, and he was too much for our neighbour. BOY After trying in vain to chat Marilyn up before realising “it was a geezer” he attacked our door with a hammer. We had to jump out the window and the police were very unkind and barely let us GEORGE back in to get our belongings. Where did you go? We moved around the corner and stayed for another three months. Kentish Town was a time of liberation because we had all just left our family homes and squatting allowed so much freedom. Jesse Birdsall, the actor, was a young rockabilly then who worked in a record shop on the high street. He really had an issue with us, and Marilyn used to stop in front of the shop window and do provocative poses to piss him off. They were primitive times in some ways. Where would you like to live? I still live close to Kentish Town in Hampstead, in a gothic pile right next to the Heath. I love north London. I once came for an interview at this place called the Milk Churn when I was sixteen and lasted about twenty minutes in the job. I was only washing up, but my punk attire really bothered the other people in the kitchen - so I asked where the toilet was and left. I remember thinking, “bloody snobs, I hate Hampstead” - but ended up living there. Revenge! “Kentish Town was a time of What is your favourite sound or smell? There used to be a great coffee shop in Delancey Street near Parkway and I’d go in just to sniff the liberation because we had all just coffee beans. I didn’t drink coffee at the time but was drawn to the smell. Now I have surrendered left our family homes and squatting and can’t live without my Doppio espresso in the morning, I don’t know if that place is still there but allowed so much freedom” maybe I will go and fi nd out (It’s still there! Ed) the kentishtowner MUSIC 5 Thinking Out Loud MOYA I’m really looking forward to going back to the Roundhouse. The last time I was there I supported •Blondie, and it was the most mental evening; the crowd were seriously having it! You can’t beat a London audience. My favourite Camden haunt is defi nitely Cotton’s Rum Shack. Not only are the drinks •incredible (they have every rum known to man) but the food is also delicious. I’d eat there everyday if I could. I dislike my hips and bum; why they have to be so big I do not know, but unfortunately I don’t think •they’re going anywhere. I was born with my Dad’s genes. Not.