The Camden Falcon Made Me The Woman I Am Today

Jan 022012

A heartbreaking tale of how going to see the 14 Iced Bears one night in 1986 left one woman completely unable to use public toilets for five years.

(NB this piece hasn’t actually been written yet, but, while we’re waiting, please feel free to be inspired to send us something of your own.)

Tagged with: Camden Falcon, Camden Town, Matt Haynes, Music, NIght Bus To Camden

Looking back through the clouds…

Is This What People Do?

by Matt Haynes
The lorries are starting to move now, rumbling across the deck of the James Newman and onto the ramps that shake and ring beneath their tyres. He is supposed to leave too, supposed to climb the yellow metal steps from the passenger deck to the red metal gates that always remind him of Meccano. There is an announcement over the tannoy, every time a ferry docks, forbidding passengers to remain on board. [read more...]

Let’s All Meet Up In The Year 2000

by Rachel Stevenson
He plays Smokey Robinson and The Shirelles and Dressy Bessy and I lie on the sofa bed in the living room and have paracetamol and chocolate biscuits for my breakfast, until he starts to indicate that he wants me to leave. I walk down on my own in the rain to Notting Hill, feeling ill and sorry for myself. The sky is the colour of a dirty duvet and the trees are broken umbrellas that don’t keep the drizzle off. [read more...]