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Here, we share recollections from some of the biggest bands from over the decades about making their name in what has been dubbed the “most rock’n’roll neighbourhood on Earth”.DUAL frontmen Pete Doherty and Carl Barat formed the Libertines while living together in Camden Road, topping and tailing in a single bed with no covers.
But when they went over to try to talk to Liam, Carl says: “He kept knocking me out the way, like it was his defence mechanism.” “Her idea of a good night would be to see someone live, play some pool, have a cocktail, go back, roll a spliff, play music until 2 or 3 in the morning, and not get up until lunchtime the next day.”He explains: “The first record wasn’t full of hit songs and maybe it hadn’t fulfilled her in the way she was hoping it would.
“They asked what sort of music we played and we said country and western, thinking it’s going to go down better with an Irish crowd.They were given a trial slot for that Wednesday — and “they packed us out,” says current landlord Henry Conlon.Madness then got a residency at the pub, with queues out the door every Wednesday.“One night I put my foot through the monitor and that was 40 quid so we all went home skint.”“I loved it in Camden, in pubs drinking Guinness, f***ing talking s**t.