Proud Camden
What a jerkfest. We went to see Helsinki play at Proud in Camden and it was the dumbest place I’ve ever been to a gig.
For a start, the ticket price was advertised as £5 but when we get there they claim it’s £10 and it’s for charity (who cares). What a con from the word go, anyway, we parted with our cash because we were already there.
I went to buy some drinks, they seemed to just do cocktails apart from bottles of beer. A Budweiser was £4. Ripoff.
Those things are annoying, but you can expect that kind of tom foolery in London, especially Camden which is an absolute joke of a place.
You’d think for £10 the venue would be really great, well, it’s not. They don’t even have seats, they have stables which you have to reserve and start at £750 and go up to £5,000 per night. Wow, and they were all booked, full of posers doing “Gak” which is meth. Right on!
At this point I thought, was is this place for? Why is it full of jocks and why are they playing old foofighters songs? Then I realised, this is a celebrity hang-out and clingers on place. I started to notice all sorts of jerk celebrities doing their bullshit prancing around and just generally being the most hateful people I could ever imagine. I wish I torched the place.
Sarah was bored out of her mind and wanted to leave, we were with some friends so I asked her to stick around a bit longer but then she had a headache and I thought I’d at least walk her to the overground.
Outside, Camden is full of idiots on drugs and homeless weirdos asking for money for drugs. I was going back to Proud after I got Sarah to the overground but shit, I’m glad I left. We got the bus home because there were some crazy Irish people trying to spit on Sarah. Josh and the other guys stayed and said it was a long drawn out procedure with even more horseshit attitudes than you can imagine.
The moral of the story? Avoid Camden, it’s one big shit hole. I can see why people get a bad impression of London, people think Camden is cool when it’s actually a cesspool.
