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Published: 8 August, 2011
by ROISIN GADELRAB

 

IN post-Amy Camden, tributes have been cleared away and a debate rages over what to do with street signs scrawled with Winehouse graffiti.

 

Camden’s music czar Jonathan Simpson tells me the borough’s venue bosses will meet next week to discuss a suitable memorial. But, he warns, this “will not be an overnight thing”.

 

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• Love Music Hate Racism took New Journal reporter Dan Carrier’s legendary Dig It Sound System to the streets on Saturday, ending in a huge Hawley Crescent party with a nod to Amy Winehouse outside the Hawley Arms. Red Jen Matthias, Matt G and Dan cranked out the beats. The proof is on YouTube. 

 

• Andy Ellison’s Barfly revival of hellraisers John’s Children was every bit as entertaining as promised. Andy performed topless, clambered over speakers and sang from the top of the bar to an audience including 60s DJ Eddie Piller, Jesus and Mary Chain’s Phil King, St Etienne’s Bob Stanley and a host of sharp-suited mods out to bear witness to the mayhem they missed first time around.

 

• Campaigner and musician Phil Knight emerges at 5pm, Monday, from a two-week stint in a shipping container in Euston Square Gardens to highlight the scale of human trafficking for the Helen Bamber Foundation. His ­fundraising single Everyday has been released to coincide.

 

• The wondrous Feeling Gloomy guys have organised a free David Bowie walk (meet 4pm, Trinity Arms, 45 Trinity Gardens, SW9 8DR), followed by a Bowie night at the 02 Academy Islington (10.30pm). Yes you have to venture to south London, but it’ll be worth it.