Rachel Verinder
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Now I quite like the Chalk Farm area. Marine Ices, and only a quick hop over the bridge to Primrose Hill. Lots of good restaurants and picknicking in the park involves substantially less risk of said picnic being nicked by HORRIBLE DOG as happened with Sinker and I on Hampstead Heath on Saturday bah.
But Camden Town! Full of Sven Svensson and his Swinging Goth Backpackers who still think it's 1982! The air is unbreathable/non-existent! Useless tattoo parlours! Record shops in decline (Rhythm gone, Out On The Floor not what it used to be)! If it's not tourists it's Nick Hornby types who still think it's 197-bastard-5 and BLOCK MY WAY in MVE looking for fucking Ducks Deluxe cutouts and anyway the bastard CD cabinets are always locked! And the place's unofficial anthem "Camden Town" by Suggs is officially ratified as the WORST, SMUGGEST PIECE OF PISS MUSIC EVER (ESPECIALLY THAT BIT IN THE SECOND VERSE WHERE HE GOES "MADNESS IN THE AIR")!
Only the truly insane would even consider moving here and enduring the torture on the off-chance of seeing Alan Bennett in Sainsbury's (Local) of a vacant Thursday morning.
But Camden Town! Full of Sven Svensson and his Swinging Goth Backpackers who still think it's 1982! The air is unbreathable/non-existent! Useless tattoo parlours! Record shops in decline (Rhythm gone, Out On The Floor not what it used to be)! If it's not tourists it's Nick Hornby types who still think it's 197-bastard-5 and BLOCK MY WAY in MVE looking for fucking Ducks Deluxe cutouts and anyway the bastard CD cabinets are always locked! And the place's unofficial anthem "Camden Town" by Suggs is officially ratified as the WORST, SMUGGEST PIECE OF PISS MUSIC EVER (ESPECIALLY THAT BIT IN THE SECOND VERSE WHERE HE GOES "MADNESS IN THE AIR")!
Only the truly insane would even consider moving here and enduring the torture on the off-chance of seeing Alan Bennett in Sainsbury's (Local) of a vacant Thursday morning.