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Published: 7 June 2007

CAMDEN is officially the best place to go out in London. That’s not based on any official figures, you understand, it’s just better than anywhere else. And one man is on a mission to make sure that doesn’t change.
Andrea Livi, 32, the manager of Bar Solo in Inverness Street, says Shoreditch has had its day and Camden is in the ascendancy.
“People have got sick of Shoreditch. Camden is much cooler. It can be the new Soho if nothing goes wrong,” he said, but warned “there’s a lack of good spots and nightclubs.”
Italian Mr Livi, who has DJ-ed across Europe, is staging a six-week long music
competition called Camden Calling: The battle of the bands, held at
Bar Solo. The
winner will walk away with £600 of recording time in a studio.
Whittled down from entrants who responded to adverts, four bands kicked off the heats on Sunday with another four this weekend.
“It will take a little bit of time to build it up – but I’m working on it” he told me confidently.
One band I will be particularly rooting for on Sunday is the rockily-soulful Fleet Street.
A local success story, they formed while studying at the Roundhouse Studios, and have since been gigging around London.

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