Judith Hill - Jazz Café, London 21/10/2021
In the heart of London, Camden Town remains very much as it was when I first visited nearly forty years ago. On this particular late October evening, the numerous restaurants, coffee shops and pubs selling £6 pints of craft beer team with people while the many stores offering piercings, tattoos and a seemingly endless range of t-shirts are slowly pulling down their heavily graffitied shutters. Various attempts to gentrify, or at least tidy up the area, have been partially successful in recent years but to be honest, Camden has hardly changed, and whispered offers to partake of a plant-based pharmaceutical are still a feature of the crowded street experience. Luckily, unlike central London just down the road, Camden still has plenty of live music venues and this evening, I'm visiting an imposing former Barclays Bank building that has been the home of the Jazz Cafe since 1990. A staple of the Camden scene, Adele, Amy Winehouse and Bobby Womack head a long list of name artists to have played here and Judith Hill is joining that illustrious list on the sole UK date of her European tour.
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