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The party people: Dolly Rockers
Camden Town, as you may notice from our listings, is chock-full of late-licence venues offering opportunities to drink more booze you don’t need while listening to a selection of records you won’t remember. However, there’s a big difference between a club night and a party. The latter has a purpose, a principle and usually a theme. This is what makes the Dolly Rockers different from other promoters in Camden. For them, atmosphere is everything, and a party is just a big excuse to get dressed up and act the fool. ‘Which is so different from all the club nights, especially in Camden,’ says Dolly Laura Trouble [right]. ‘Usually it’s just bands, with everyone just dressed in their indie gear with their hair and whatever and it’s just the same old thing. We got so bored of that we just thought: Fuck it, let’s just have a fancy dress extravaganza. It’s so fun and glamorous.’
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The two Rockers naturally chose that bastion of high society and sticky flooring, the Barfly. Even staff at the venue can’t understand how the two are able to transform the most famously distressed-looking indie club in NW1 into anything from Studio 54 to a Hawaiian luau. The Rockers seem to manage it purely through enthusiasm alone. Well, enthusiasm and props, having used a three-metre glowing schooner as the centrepiece for their recent Aye Aye Cap’n bash, themed around pirates and sailors. ‘People get really involved,’ says Rocker Eloise Define. ‘If you have a nautical theme, usually people just come wearing an eyepatch, but at Dolly Rockers, someone came just dripping in jewels. I asked, “What are you?” And she said, “I’m buried treasure.”’