Camden Town in London: is it a production line for big hooped girls and baseball cap-wearing boys, or an alternative location for grunge, goth and punk enthusiasts to congregate? Or is it merely swept along in its day to day popularity due to the number of tourists who visit it? As the third most popular area in the capital for tourists to visit, it's unsurprising that the town is constantly packed, wrecked with criminal activity, and a drug dealing hotspot. Which is an absolute ball-ache if you're someone who happens to live there. While a visit to the alternative centre can prove fun and culturally beneficial, Camden Town has supposedly fallen in recent years, as it's hubbub of 'authentic' music and style has decreased since the sixties and seventies. Now everyday is a competition for uprising, between the mohawks and punk rockers, the mods and the goths, the pierced, the tattooed, the fur coat wearing hussies, the heroin addicts who hide in alleyways, the drug dealers traipsing the high street, and the people visiting Camden just for the hell of it. But what about you, the normal Camden local? Where is your place in all this? Being a local in Camden is tough: you want to go to Tesco, you gotta battle through streets full of these jostling people. When did your home town become such an arena, and why can't you just let go of your affections for the place and move out? Because it's bloody brilliant, that's why. You're never moving out, and you're committed for life. Camden's where your life is. You just have to make time each day to get around a few obstacles in order to live like a normal person.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
