Rock and Pop: Latest news - Festivals: Camden's LOCKSTOCK and more iTUNES
Published: 29 July 2010
by ROISIN GADELRAB
FOR some time, long-haired, bandana-wearing, air-guitar-playing crowds have gathered at The Monarch for some collective classic rock worship with covers band Metalworks.
So imagine the shock when Europe guitarist John Norum and bassist John Leven were spotted walking past the Chalk Farm Road pub after their Roundhouse iTunes festival gig on Sunday. After some convincing they joined the band onstage and Norum grabbed Monarch bar supervisor Gabor Dudas’s guitar to play their big hit The Final Countdown. A moment of rock bonding ensued as the pair saluted each other in a Wayne’s World bull-horns fashion. In the past, members of Iron Maiden, Sisters of Mercy and Judas Priest have dropped by – defo the place to be for ageing rocker-spotters.
• Read more of our iTunes reviews online – this week: Goldfrapp, Marina and the Diamonds and Pixie Lott.
• Here’s an amusing vision from the past – Chaka Demus and Pliers play the Jazz Cafe tonight – I still have their album on cassette tape. Brings back memories of some fave road trips!
• Camden’s Lockstock Festival is on for one day only today – art, music and comedy over five stages and late-night shopping. But why is it on a Thursday?
• Spotted a guy asking N-Dubz on twitter how much it would cost for them to play at his wedding. Any guesses? And which twitter-active band would you ask?
• Former Record of the Week contenders Trench City play a charity gig at Charlotte Street Blues Bar on August 14 – could be fun.
• Our reviewers had a blast at Latitude Festival last week – catching Belle and Sebastian, Mumford and Sons and James among others.