Iain Morris, creator of ‘The Inbetweens’ and general comedy writer awesome dude whose credits also include two episodes of ‘Flight Of The Conchords’, is special guest at this Friday’s ‘Clip Joint’ (Sep 9th). Doors 7.30pm, £5 on the door.

Clip Joint is a new live show hosted by Dougie Anderson and Iain Lee.
Watch as they show clips of things.
Marvel as they say funny things about those clips.
Wow as they go halvers.
Gasp as they bring on a special guest each month to show their own favoruite clips.
Marvel, again, as the audience is invited to show their own clips.
Vote for which clip is shown.
Listen as they play a record. On a record player.
It’s going to a be lot of fun and different from any other evening. Intimate and romantic, Clip Joint should be a right laugh.

The Camden Fringe has been running since 2006, and this year’s Fringe is all set to be the biggest and best yet. Events will be taking place during August across the entire borough of Camden, from Bloomsbury to Highgate and everywhere in between. There will be lots of different types of performances on show, including stand-up comedy, opera, theatre, and dance, with ticket prices starting at a mere fiver.

The Camden Head has been hosting stand-up comedy at the Fringe since 2007, back when the pub was known as Liberties Bar. This year, we will be hosting up to four events per evening from the first of August until the 28th. For full listings, ticket sales, and further info, go to www.camdenfringe.com.

“A dizzying alternative to the Edinburgh Festival extravaganza – frequently weird, sometimes wonderful and always unpredictable”
Metro

“A heady mix of experimental theatre, comedy and improv”
Time Out

www.thecamdencrawl.com/ www.twitter.com/thecamdencrawl

The final line up for 2011’s Gaymers Camden Crawl has been announced, including some exciting late additions such as appearances by top grime MC Tinchy Stryder and former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

The festival, which is now in its sixteenth year, takes place over the May Bank Holiday weekend (30th April-1st May) in 39 bars and venues in the Camden area of North London, including The Forum, Koko, Barfly and ‘Camden Bars’ venues The Camden Head, Enterprise, Monarch and Abbey Tavern.

Highlights include performances by established acts such as The Lemonheads, British Sea Power, Killing Joke, Razorlight, Guillemots, Saint Etienne, The View, and Simian Mobile Disco.

In addition to this year’s extraordinary live music line up, the festival continues to develop the breadth of its daytime fringe arts festival. Featuring a vast array of comedic talent, visual art and crafts exhibitions, spoken word and performance theatre, interactive events & games and, of course, live music, the daytime carnival of entertainment sprawls across an additional thirty Camden Town venues for the weekend from 12 – 6pm both dates.

Immediately following the festival’s fringe programme of cutting edge arts during the daylight hours, the streets of Camden will literally come alive with music. Straddling more than twenty venues, the Crawl evening schedule features over 200 of the best up & coming artists from the UK and abroad alongside seminal greats and very special guests. The evening line up kicks off from 5:30 pm and runs until the wee hours on both days of the weekend.

Upon arrival at the festival each ticket holder is presented with an all-access wristband, programme guide, timetable and free download album to help plot his/her day’s adventure. ‘Crawlers’ are then granted unlimited access to all official daytime and evening venues and parties capacity permitting. As is tradition, the full venue schedules will remain secret until the event and surprise guests may appear at any time and at any venue.

Taking place at THE CAMDEN HEAD for the Crawl this year is stand-up and sketch comedy all day. Our hosts all day and night upstairs are hosts REALLY LOVELY COMEDY and will include the likes of Pappy’s, Beta Males, Patrick Monahan, Frisky And Mannish, James Acaster, Abandoman, Late Night Gimp Fight, Pippa Evans, and Delete The Banjax .

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Come and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of human spaceflight with (possibly) the first ever fancy-dress variety show themed around outer space. Throttle up for astro-comedy, space science, a show-and-tell of space memorabilia and a cosmic quiz. Maybe biscuits.

50 years ago to the day, Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. 30 years ago to the day, the first Space Shuttle was launched by the USA… Two perfect excuses to dress up as Skylab and join in with a friendly enthusiasm-fest about the Cosmos.

Your hosts are comedian Helen Keen (BBC Radio 4’s *It Is Rocket Science!*) and Matt Brown (editor of Londonist, former editor at Nature and all-round space nerd). They will introduce special guests from the world of comedy and space science. Expect quizzes, talks, music, costumes AND prizes, all with a cosmic theme…

Dress code: whatever you like, including normal civilian clothes, but outfits involving tin foil are particularly encouraged.

Got a brilliant costume/story/space related object and want to get involved?
Email us at – spacetacular.night@gmail.com
or contact us through Facebook

Entry: £3 (humans), 18 Galactic Credit Tokens (aliens)

Cheeze and Whine present

Cheeze and Whine at New Year

You’ve enjoyed it all year so why not come down for the last Cheeze and Whine of 2010. As ever, free cheese for early arrivals.

Date: NEW YEARS EVE!
Venue: 100 Camden High Street London NW1 0LU

Doors: 8pm till – one of us drops
Ticket Price: FREE
Venue Phone Number: 020 748 54019
Website: www.camdenhead.com

Any Other Questions? : info@camdenhead.com

A special New Year’s Eve edition of your favourite Camden Head club. Expect even more cheese and even more whine.

What we play: Cheeze and Whine aka

Girls Aloud, The Cure, Madonna, Joy Division, Shampoo, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bon Jovi, MCR, Cyndi Lauper, Niravana, Kylie, Johnny Cash, Right Said Fred, Pet Shop Boys, Bonnie Tyler, Human League, The Flying Lizards, Interpol, Bananarama, Leonard Cohen, Alphabeat, The Buzzcocks, Barry Manilow, Placebo, Take That, Culture Club, Chesney Hawkes, Tears For Fears, Flock of Seagulls, The Killers, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, REM, Nena, The Smiths etc etc. Make a request on either the cheeze board or the whine list!

Cheese on sticks for the early arrivals

Resident DJs – Andy Quirk (Hot Beds, Hits of the Near Future) and Meli.

Saturday 13 November 2010

Blubworthy moments in pop: *Geri leaves the Spice Girls; *Paul Cattermole reduces S Club 7 to S Club; *Don’t Stop Moving packs it in.

So we’re calling time on DSM but we’re going to do it in the usual style – with tons of amazing pop hits and chart smashes, fuelled on booze and sugary treats, dancing all over the place like lunatics. Join us and some tbc-guest-DJs and help us say goodbye!

All the usual chart and pop joy, happy faces and sore feet. Don’t Stop Moving is a club night dedicated to the chart hits of the last 50 years: songs you know, songs you love, songs you forgot you know.

Cheeze and Whine present a spooky Halloween Special at The Camden Head on the 29th October.
Expect Halloween games, “treats” and tricks plus the best creepy tracks and of course, the usual Cheeze and Whine favourites. Howl like Morrissey, do your hair like The Cure, dance like a zombie Lady Gaga…..

Come in fancy dress! There are prizes for the best costumes! And it’s FREE ENTRY.

Make a request on either the cheeze board or the whine list! There’s creepy cheese on sticks for the early arrivals

What we play: Cheeze and Whine aka
Girls Aloud, The Cure, Madonna, Joy Division, Shampoo, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bon Jovi, MCR,
Cyndi Lauper, Niravana, Kylie, Johnny Cash, Right Said Fred, Pet Shop Boys, Bonnie Tyler,
Human League, The Flying Lizards, Interpol, Bananarama, Leonard Cohen, Alphabeat, The Buzzcocks,
Barry Manilow, Placebo, Take That, Culture Club, Chesney Hawkes, Tears For Fears,
Flock of Seagulls, The Killers, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, REM, Nena, The Smiths etc etc

Essential London blog The Londonist has reviewed some of the shows at The Camden Head. Hooray. Here’s what they said about some of the UK’s best and brightest comedians.

Robin Ince

“Just being in the same room as Robin Ince raises your IQ by about 20 points. He talks of Wittgenstein and evolution and makes passing gags about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, but in a way that includes and embraces rather than snots about your lack of knowledge. Because this year, Ince’s theme is judging and being judged, and how much better life would be if we all had the same carefree attitude as a small child.”

This Is What Chaos Smells Like

The guys are young but their material is fresh, funny and whimsical. Opening with a comedy dance is risky but they’re confident performers and quickly win us over. Take a chance on these boys.

Andrew O’Neill

What he currently lacks in coherence, pace and polish is more than made up for with audience interaction. Despite his proclamation at the head of the show, “I’m a misanthrope… which means I hate about 7 or 8 out of ten people” he is genial and comfortable in front of a threadbare audience (made up of, clearly, the other two out of the ten plus a couple more), always flirting with but never quite dying on his arse. A livewire, he throws questions out like bullets into the audience, “if you could be bitten by a radioactive anything, what would it be?” and is at his best deciding what is ‘goth’ and what is ‘metal’ from whatever the audience threw at him (for reference: he is metal, and the two are completely different). “Chips? Chips are METAL!” he tells us, like some spooky Professor; “Chips with salad – goth.”

Skin Deep

However, the main reason this show is so enjoyable – as well as the tea and jam tarts (tea and jam tarts!) the audience gets on entry – is cast member Mark Hayden. With a gift for over-the-top voices and embodying ludicrous personas, Skin Deep feels a bit flat when he’s not on stage. His ‘Prime Minister’ is a creepily accurate Cameron, we feared he was going to have an aneurysm as a Middle England Angry Man and were gasping for breath as his weird German scientist demonstrated a fetish for S&M chocolate marshmallows. Worth the entry price alone.

Unweaving Rainbows

A stand up show dissecting stand up’s norms, picking over past failures and pushing through expectations and taste to ‘unweave’ the form and still make people laugh is a brave endeavour. Especially when several people sit down and realise they’re in the wrong show and so didn’t even actively volunteer for such comedic experimentation.

For more information on the Camden Fringe and to see what shows are still running visit

The Camden Fringe

Spoonfed have interviewed Camden Fringe founder Zena Barrie about the month long festival. She explains how she and former colleague Michelle Flowers decided that London could easily host an event to rival the Edinburgh event after having a miserable time in 2006.

Now in its 5th the year, there are 207 different shows in nine venues; including the Camden Head.

“Edinburgh is still a brilliant place to be in August, Michelle and I both absolutely love it”, Barrie told the website. “But it has just become too expensive for people to perform there or to see shows. A lot of people and industries surrounding the festival have become very greedy”.

What else does she have to say? Check it out at

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/alicia-adejobi-12178/camden-fringe-5th-anniversary-zena-barrie-interview-3383/

To book tickets to events at the Camden Head, visit our events page. It all kicks off on the 2nd August with performances by Madame Everleigh’s Love Emporium, Window Lickin’ Good, Collar The Lot and Rosie’s Pop Diary. Tickets are £7.50 per show.

We’ve got a new menu at The Camden Head, bringing you even more top quality pub classics and fancy global stuff.

Pick from summer treats including Houmous, Olive & Salad Tortilla Wraps (v), Lemongrass & Pepper Prawn Skewers, Swordfish Burger & Chips and Chilli & Cheese Burritos.

Want a quick lunch? We’ve got Jacket Potatoes filled with all your favourites or chunky sandwiches on fresh farmhouse bread.

Read the whole menu at at http://www.camdenhead.com/food-drink/