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The club men: Adventures Close To Home
Although everyone pretends to be into all sorts of different sounds nowadays, the ACTH crew were some of the first to start mixing their genres to direct the notoriously wallflowerish indie contingent toward the dancefloor – and their talents will be on display at the Camden Crawl.

‘We started our parties in July 2004,’ says lead Adventurer David Mogendorff [right]. ‘The Futureheads were our first guests, the week they went Top 30, and it was massively sold out. It seemed like a good idea so we kept on it.’

Adventures Close To Home nights attract a diverse cast of party-ready characters, their only common bond being a pleasingly nerdish streak when it comes to new music. ‘We definitely want to attract people who are more musically adventurous and look outside any particular “scene”. But you get a lot of good-time people in Camden on a Friday night, which is no bad thing – open-minded people who want to hear new stuff and shake their rumpus at the same time.’
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The roll-call of bands and DJs the gang have had through the doors reads like a particularly packed issue of Time Out, including The Gossip, Spank Rock, Bonde Do Role, Epicman and Friendly Fires. But what is it that these local heroes think is particularly special about Camden that’s allowed them to make such a name for themselves? ‘The danger, man,’ says David. ‘It’s all about the danger. And the cheap batteries.’