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Been a while since I went out in the place as my last few gigs up there have been @ Koko and Purple Turtle down the other end of the High Street. So what's happened to the Barfly? A couple of years ago I was up at that venue every other week... now never. Is it just putting on crap all the time?

Plus heard today that the Electric Ballroom is threatened with closure. London Underground want to renovate the exit and knock down the current buildings, replacing them with the usual bland retail outlets (hello Starbucks...) and offices. This includes the market near the station (Buck Street).

How many more venues are we going to lose?

Plus anyone been in the new vinyl shop next to Dublin Castle? Any good?

This'll be my stomping ground obviously. Barfly is trading on it's name a bit but they ared also putting on lot's of unadvertised, not for sale to the general public gigs. John Kennedy's nights are still worthy of a vist, as are levi's branded ones to watch nights.

Bugbear Discs, the store next to Dublin Castle, I gave no hope to but it's actually a good little store. You won't find too much in there that you can't get elsewhere but I end up spending a few quid in there each visit and the guy who runs it used to run the rough trade store in covent graden back in the day.

Ballroom has been threatened with this for a while and the regentrification of the place has been happening quite rapidly to be honest, gilgamesh, the new property on the canal and the lock side Starbucks all such examples. It's always going to happen though if it's more lucrative to have big name stores then they will invariably arrive, the campaign to save the stables market is in full swing, though I'm not sure that having Danny McNamara in charge of booking the main music venue in it is going to get your die-hard indie fan on board.

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Theres quite a lot of well-organised opposition to whats being proposed in Camden. These guys for one:

As for the Barfly, its always been up its own arse a bit hasn't it?

That's all very well and good Matt but the Stables is still fucked... my mate has some kind of involvement with it all (actually a very strong one) and it's absolutely certain they'll have glassed it all over within 5 years.

Sadly, so long as he gets paid, he doesn't really give a shit...

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Back off Warchild, seriously.

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