A few nice Tulisa images I found:
Camden Town, London (1999)
Image by luisramirez.cl
Esta foto es de mis primeros días en Londres, a fines de Septiembre de 1999. De ahí que llevo esta cara de pollo asustado…
Camden Town es uno de los lugares más memorables e iconográficos de la capital inglesa. Sólo para darnos una idea, en la Wikipedia se han coleccionado todas las veces que este lugar ha sido incluido en la música. Y no es poco:
* The Housemartins song "Five Get Over Excited" has the line, "I am guy from Camden Town, My hair is curly but I get it down, My clothes are black but my hair is brown, I’m really into early motown."
* The 1996 Lush single "Ladykiller" contains the lyric "I’m hanging out in Camden / Drinking with my girlfriends on a Saturday night".
* "Come Back To Camden" from Morrissey’s 2004 album You Are the Quarry.
* "Camden Town", from Uffington Horse’s debut album Enchantment.
* "Camden Town", from the album The Lone Ranger by Suggs, Madness’s vocalist. There is a signed poster of the song in Madness’ spiritual home, The Dublin Castle pub.
* Madness make many references to Camden Town in their music. Arlington House (a hostel for the homeless) in Arlington Road, near Parkway, inspired vocalist Suggs to write "One Better Day" about the sadness of living in London. The joke and fancy dress shop Escapade on Camden High Street features in the video to "House of Fun".
* The record company 2 Tone Records was located on Camden High Street.
* The Pulp song "Sorted for E’s & Wizz".
* Puertorican singer and songwriter Robi Dräco Rosa refers to Camden Town in his song "La Flor Del Frio" from album Vagabundo.
* Camden is mentioned in the song "Ain’t No Lie", by famous Camden resident guitar player Graham Coxon. Coxon also refers to Britannia Junction, near Camden Town tube station, in his song ‘What’s he got’.
* Punk band The Clash recorded their seminal album London Calling at an address in Camden Town. Also, their song The Prisoner makes reference to Camden Town.
* Ben Mitchell (singer/songwriter) lived and performed in Camden while writing and recording The Stars Can See. It was in Camden where Mitchell also started and hosted Acoustic Trip (at The Lock Tavern)
* Coldplay made their debut appearances in Camden at the Dublin Castle pub whilst Chris Martin was studying at University College London, which is in the Borough of Camden.
* Subterraneans are identified with Camden Town, living and recording in the area, rehearsing at Scar Studios, and running their record company The Electric Label from offices in Chalk Farm Road and Camden High Street. All
of the band’s record launches since 1992 have taken place at the Dublin Castle pub.
* Camden Town is mentioned in the song A Girl in Port by Okkervil River.
* Bon Scott, former lead vocalist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 33 after a night’s heavy drinking in Camden Town.
* Hip-Hop and Rap artist Akala, was born and grew up in Camden Town, and did most of his early work there. He won a MOBO award for Best Hip-Hop artist in September 2006, beating, amongst others, Sway, another London born Rapper, and Plan B.
* DJ The Camden Slags formed in Camden during its Britpop era in 1994-7.
* Two songs on The New York Fund’s debut EP, Guns, reference Camden, namely "The Guns Of Camden Town" and "Parkway Nights".
* Belle & Sebastian refer to many of the sights of Camden Town in their song Mornington Crescent.
* Plan B’s "Suzanne", from his mixtape Paint It Blacker tells the story of the Camden Ripper.
* "Camden Town" is the name of the track produced by the famous Italian Disk Jockey Emanuele Inglese in 2006
* Camdem is mentioned in Ryan Adams’s song "English girls Approximately" in his album "Love is Hell, Volume 2". The line says "Falling down in Camden like a couple drunken criminals".
* Up-and-coming Camden rapper Charlie Sloth recorded the song ‘Guided Tour Of Camden’ which has references to many notable places and attractions in Camden, although not all are of pleseant interest.
* Singer song writer, Frank Turner often refers to the Camden area. In the song Ladies of London Town there is reference to "trawling Camden at 4:00 a.m.".
* Hip-Hop/ RnB & Grime artists N-Dubz were born and grew up in Camden Town. They consist of Dino ‘Dappy’ Contostavlos, Richard ‘Fazer’ Rawson & Tula ‘Tulisa’ Contostavlos. The crew won a MOBO award in September 2007 for Best UK Newcomer.
* Amy Winehouse dedicated her Grammy Award for Record of the Year to London, adding "Camden Town ain’t burnin’ down!" Though apparently paradoxical, the statement is true as the fire had been extinguished by that time.[1]
Camden hospital on Hampstead road is home to various ghost sitings. The stories that you are about to read have all been thoroughly investigated and documented. Camden council does advise passers to take caution and never to attempt entry. Over the past 3 years, there have been 10 deaths in the house and 5 disappearances in the surrounding regions.
