KoKO (Formerly the Camden Palace)

Camden Palace was ever the best club I ever did go to. Feet-First used to have a wonderful Tuesday evening here for a mere £3 entry. You’d line up outside go in past the box office desk and past the cloakroom down a shaft into a huge theatre with amazing light-shows and a maze of overpasses, bars and dance areas. It has now been reduced to club NME- featuring live acts which do not follow the hardcore rock culture that was Feet first. Anyway, you pop out into this theatre, there are flights of stairs leading downward and behind you on either side and the sides of the galley trail off around the venue on the first floor taking you above and behind the stage, off into complex staircases running in the clubs walls and down to the dance-floor or up- to the seven or 8 storeys of seating and bars that flow into the main stage like a storm. The top floor is another bar completely- so far away from the main music that it is almost its own club. The drinks are well priced even now at about a pound for a bottle of beer. The queuing times are quite long but if you hunt you can find seating. Occasionally floors are shut off due to private parties and the music is awful. Those times are now. The bar is an amazing venue but the club nights are appalling.

I give it a 7/10. It is truly fantastic if you like exploring with pint in hand. Truly appalling if you wanna pull and dance the night away!

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Please see above a very accurate map of this pub location. Do not trust other sites that put pubs in the wrong place, I have actually visited this pub and unless it has grown legs it sits exaclty where shown on the map above.