Barnsbury Area Guide
A locals' guide to Barnsbury
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What locals say about Barnsbury
“I love Newington Green because of the close community and village atmosphere. The proximity to Clissold and Church Street is handy, but Newington Green has most of what you need. This part of Green Lanes is really changing for the better and it's an exciting place to go now!”
Dorotta
“I love Newington Green because of the close community and village atmosphere. The proximity to Clissold and Church Street is handy, but Newington Green has most of what you need. This part of Green Lanes is really changing for the better and it's an exciting place to go now!”
Dorotta
“Kings Cross is so well connected and, even by foot, you can get anywhere quickly. There are new things opening all the time and we're really near Shoreditch & Camden for great night life.”
Agatha
Activities near Barnsbury
Vincent Lima
Currently based out of a small town in California called Los Angeles, Vincent Lima is a zero-time Grammy winning musician whose music explores themes of loss, love and growing up. Vincent began singing and releasing music in late 2018 and found his stride in 2023 with the release of singles "Orpheus" and "Eurydice.”Read more
Alt BLK Era
ALT BLK ERA blends alternative rock and rap, creating a bold, genre-defying sound.
Pearl Scam + Angry Hair (Alice In Chains Trib)
Pearl Scam is the UK's finest Pearl Jam experience. The band's musicians have come together with one common goal - recreating Pearl Jam's high energy live shows. Angry Hair take pride in sounding like the real thing and putting on a great show. Two amazing tributes, one fantastic night.Read more
Otala
Forging a new space between the boundaries of sprawling post-rock and methodic pocketed rhythm, Otala are defining their own blend of genres, one which is catching the eye of So Young, Rough Trade, and Under the Radar Magazine. Following sold out support slots for Opus Kink, Fat Dog, Cowboyy, and Personal Trainer, the Nottingham sprung 5 piece are traipsing the UK in service of their revelatory new single, Everything but the Hate. Coming only a few short months after 7" singles Commedia / Guatavita. This single takes the expected turns into the unexpected, fusing folk guitar licks with post-rock crescendos in something unique, yet identifiably Otala. "With the ability to lull the listener into a false sense of security with soothing instrumental nurdles before launching a stunning musical and vocal assault, these guys really know how to keep a crowd on their toes.” Presented by Love Thy Neighbour. This is an 18+ eventRead more
Charlie Parr
Roots, blues and Americana from Minnesota's Charlie Parr.
Faraquet
FORM Presents Faraquet \+ Special Guests Presented by FORM. This is an 18+ event.
Rhizomes
To mark Earth Day, our second-year BA Photography students present photography and moving image exhibition, exploring their relationships with the planet, politics, communities of belonging, and cultural values in our post-humanist world. Following the course's move to Holloway Rd, the exhibition is also a practice in homemaking, as we start to establish our roots at the Holloway campus, the neighbourhood, as well as opening new ways of continuing our collaborative relationships with the library and friendships with other the courses across the School of Art, Architecture and Design community. The show is curated across London Met Holloway Road Library ground floor, study, and relaxation areas. RHIZOMES becomes an ecotone, an environment where art, knowledge, and imagination co-inhabit, where, as visitors we become something more than an audience.Read more
About Barnsbury
Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington, in the N1 postal districts. The name is a corruption of villa de Iseldon Berners (1274), being so called after the Berners family, who gained ownership of the lands after the Norman Conquest and were powerful medieval manorial lords, owning a large part of Islington. The area of Barnsbury was predominantly rural until the early nineteenth century. By the end of the 18th century, however, Barnsbury, like other parts of Islington, was being regarded as attractive part-rural suburbs by the comparatively wealthy wanting to move out of the cramped City of London and industrial Clerkenwell. The area is close to the City, and had strong local trade in its position as the first staging post for travellers making the journey from London to the north, and with considerable agricultural traffic and cattle driving to the nearby Smithfield cattle market in the City.
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