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Housed in an ornate, Grade II-listed building, this institution has endured through numerous incarnations. First opened on Boxing Day 1890, it was renamed The Camden Hippodrome nine years later, operating as a vaudeville house in which a young Charlie Chaplin trod the boards. Between 1913-40, the venue was a thriving cinema (often with supporting live acts) and subsequently (for 20 years from around 1945) a BBC theatre, which saw recordings of the legendary 'Goon Show'. In the '70s it was turned into a live music venue and renamed The Music Machine, before being taken over by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan of Visage in 1983 and undergoing yet another name change - to The Camden Palace. As such, it enjoyed a high profile on London's New Romantic club scene and hosted the very first London gig by Madonna, no less. It relaunched in the late '80s as an indie club and then - after closing its doors for refurbishment in 2004 - was rebranded as Koko. Despite the name change and major refit, it retains its indie/alternative pop/rock remit, while also embracing everything from hip hop to trance. With its colossal mirror ball as the ceiling centrepiece, its painted gargoyles and steep tiered balconies, Koko remains one of London's most atmospheric music venues.
Austrian musician and DJ Stelar combines house, swing, jazz and pop with his electro-swing band.
Sweet, Mancunian indie-rockers launch their new single, 'Sleeper', released May 28.
Much has been made of dubstep pioneer Benga's side project, Magnetic Man, who, along with Skream and Artwork propelle...
Billed as dubstep producer Benga's very first live show, this Koko date comes hot on the heels of first single 'I Wil...
Patchwork of hip hop beats, blues and folk from Clarence Greenwood as CC, former DJ for the rap group Basehead. NB: T...
Emboldened and splendourous songcraft from the lo-fi, folkish headliner, who dips into Mod-ish freakbeat, '30s-style ...
Another gargantuan line-up from the electro kidz at The Playground who team up with Diplo's Mad Decent label tonight ...
Noo Joizee quartet riding very high indeed with their 'soulful' and 'gritty', 'gusty' etc. alt.rock take on Springste...
Stephen O'Malley's and Greg Anderson's drone/doom metal cum psych rock masters return to play their blend of devastat...
The Hidden Depths series continues with its sensational series of mid-week shows, this time exploring Kode 9's underg...
Headline set from futuristic, Berlin-based DJ/producer funk collective, who play with a full nine-piece band includin...
This high-quality, but ultimately cheesey, party of pop, disco and soft rock returns, with wacky themes each time and...
Rootsy, Canadian-Australian surf popster, whose material has been taking a darker turn of late.
Ed Hanley and Andrew Turner are the Warp-signed Plaid, whose adventurous but reliably engaging ambient post house/IDM...
A headline show for a man who's garnered an enormous following among bass-addicts worldwide after genre-defining sing...
Old-fashioned ragtime blues from St. Louis, Missouri.
Sweet-singing 21-year-old acoustician Leftwich continues to promote his debut EP 'A Million Miles Out'. He should fin...
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I don't get the idea here. It's a lovely building with an interesting layout, but they treat their customers like cattle. They charge insane prices for a can of appalling bitter emptied lovelessly into a thin plastic glass. Queues 10-deep at the bar. Events where the comperes verbally abuse people for needing the toilet while they're speaking (and I mean abuse, not joke about, Patrick Kielty). It's bad enough that you start to think, 'Well if you really don't want me here I'll leave.' You're just a commodity, being fleeced for as much as they can get away with. It's a shame, as it has so much potential. But it's top of my blacklist nowadays.
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