Embracing the London Music Scene

We checked out the much lauded London music scene on Saturday night. Our destination was Camden, a "gritty" neighborhood in the north part of the city. (By gritty, I mean that the hipster to Starbucks ratio is a modest 10:1 - vs. the more robust 50:1 ratio in gentrified areas). Camden's venues have played host to a lot of now famous bands (think Blur, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Smashing Pumpkins).

I would have much more to say about the night, but unfortunately I'm still catching on to how early people go out here. By the time we got to our destination, Barfly, we had missed the openers and caught only about 3/4 of the headlining band. Regardless (you say irregardless, I say regardless. Or maybe you say disirregardless?), we had a good time.

The band we saw was called Tahiti 80, and a bit more pop than rock. They put on an entertaining, but admittedly pretty standard show for most of the night. At least until the bass guitar player came out in a Panda costume for their encore (see photo above). I don't know. But it was funny.