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Published: 22 November 2007

I'VE just been to a poetry night at the Cross Kings pub in York Way, to watch some “old” men reciting poetry (well they had grey hair anyway).
The last thing I was expecting to see were some young bucks rapping away to the delight of a very mixed audience, which included people from all generations – and a man with a saxophone.
As people told me, this pub is a secret gem in what is a very urban landscape next to the disused York Road Tube station and the expanse of land undergoing development for the
St Pancras Eurostar railway line.
Anyway, back to the young bucks.
The three guys, who told me they were from an estate around the corner from the Cross Kings pub, are called the Minista Poets (www.myspace.com/ ministapoets).
The pub is not the only gem around there obviously – look out for an interview with them next week.
Meanwhile, Camden band The Bad Robots, who are on their way to the finals of T4s mobileAct unsigned, were in fine form when I met them in the Stables market last week.
Brimming with excitement at the prospect of winning the televised national competition, they insisted the show was nothing like X-Factor – whose contestants are currently living in a big house in West Hampstead. As they said themselves, those with talent will get on. Good luck to them, I say.

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