Camden Rocks 2018 – Camden, London

Bands seen: British Sea Power, Maximo Park, Man The Lifeboats, Fierce Ideas, Blood Red Shoes, Rews, Echobelly, Pop Will Eat Itself

I love Camden. It’s touristy and a bit “unauthentic” but I used to go up here as a teenager and marvel at how different it was to the Romford Shopping Centre.

I’ve put this down as one gig, even though it was really multiple gig in multiple venues. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to change that in the future. I still want to do 1,000 gigs in my lifetime so maybe if I get close I might revisit this!

There are way too many bands I could see here, so the ones I saw were bands I specifically wanted to catch live – Pop Will Eat Itself, Echobelly, Rews, Maximo Park and British Sea Power, even though I’ve seen all except Rews before – plus a few bands I might wander in in by accident. And that’s what I did.

It was weird wandering into the Underworld to catch Pop Will Eat Itself at 3.20pm, and even weirder to wander out again an hour later in bright sunshine.

I can’t quite remember who were in what venue. Echobelly and Rews were in the same venue, somewhere called FEST I haven’t been to before. Maximo Park were in Koko, and we were 100 feet up in the sky again as usual. Blood Red Shoes were in the Electric Ballroom I think – I was stuck at the back, it was rammed to the rafters and the sound wasn’t great at the back. British Sea Power were in Dingwalls and I was exhausted by this point, I remember going round looking for a chair to sit on!

A thoroughly great idea and hope to make it there another year.

Pop Will Eat Itself

Camden

Camden

Echobelly

Echobelly

Rews

Rews

Camden

Camden

Camden

Camden

Camden

Blood Red Shoes

Curry

Camden

Fierce Ideas

Fierce Ideas

Camden

Camden

Camden

Man The Lifeboats

Camden

Maximo Park

Maximo Park

Maximo Park

Camden

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power

British Sea Power