What The Hell Is Going On? #35: Meat Loaf & Camden Crawl 2010
By: Thomas Hannan
Hey mate.
It’s a week of two parts on Rockfeedback TV this week, starting with an interview conducted in a London hotel room recently with living leg-end Meat Loaf (by way of congratulations for his reaching number 4 in the album charts this week – go Meat!). In the first of a two parter, Mr. Loaf discusses Susan Boyle, Simon Cowell, his new LP Hang Cool Teddy Bear and whether there’s any point to anything at all, ever. Have a look.
The rest of the week, our screens are devoted to the Camden Crawl. Given as it’s the 2010 event this coming weekend, we’ve got a few pieces from previous Crawls making their way online to remind us all of the fun we’re about to have. We start on Tuesday with a typically obnoxious, riotous and virulent set from Dead Kids, following them with the comparatively tame but nonetheless mightily impressive indie funk of Golden Silvers come Wednesday morn. Corpse paint and electro pop from Drums of Death is the order of the day on Thursday, before we round things off on Friday with a feature length episode about the 2008 Camden Crawl, as previously aired on Channel 4. The likes of Florence and the Machine, The Fratellis, Sham 69, White Lies, Bombay Bicycle Club, Sam Sparro, Lykke Li, JME, Cage The Elephant and Official Secrets Act feature in that one. Not too shabby.
As for the 2010 Crawl, you won’t be surprised to hear that we’re all over that bad boy. We’ll be running two stages, one at the Underworld on Saturday and the other at the Electric Ballroom on Sunday. As is the nature of the event we can’t actually tell you who’s playing what stage just yet – you’ll have to have a gander at your programme for that – but rest assured it’s as eclectic, legendary and cutting edge as you’ve come to expect from us lot. A bit too self congratulatory? Perhaps – but come on, we’ve been on pretty good form recently!
Camden Crawl 2010 also sees the inaugural Emerging Talent Awards being handed out to some impressive new bands. Developed in conjunction with Rockfeedback, the ETAs aim to give a bit of recognition and a helping hand to brand new artists, supplying them with studio time, instruments, slots at the ‘Crawl and other treats. The winners have been announced, and we’ll be giving them their prizes and watching their sets over the weekend. Details here.
Rockfeedback Live are also having a busy one this week with Three Trapped Tigers celebrating the launch of their new record EP3 at the London Institute of Contemporary Art on Thursday, with support from Talons, Samuel Chase and DJ Becoming Real. The last few remaining tickets for that one can be snapped up here, whilst more details are here, if you want ‘em.
Enough from me – I’m off to see Grace Jones at the Royal Albert Hall. Report to follow tomorrow.
Tom.x