Your Friday morning essential read. Five local feel-good highlights, including exclusive special offers and events. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 MUSIC: Outernet, Roundhouse, Powerhaus 

Camdenist's 'box set' on the future of music across Camden kicks off this week, including

all you need to know about Tottenham Court Rd's huge forthcoming free attraction

,

Outernet London

, (pictured) which has a 2000-capacity gig venue beneath it, and includes a reinvigorated Denmark Street complete with free rehearsal studios and the return of the famous 12 Bar Club too. We've also been speaking to CEO and Artistic Director of the

Roundhouse, Marcus Davey

, about

how important musical expression is to him and to Camden's young people

, via the transformative Young Creatives and Roundhouse Studios programmes. We also celebrate the return of performance at veune with

The Last Word festival

. Then we hear from

BPM

, an exciting collective of event promoters who have survived the total shutdown of the Covid restrictions as they prepare to bounce back by hosting with one of the debut events at the former Dingwalls, now the Powerhaus.Just mention Camdenist to get a 30% discount on BPM tickets via the interview link above, too 😃

 OFFER: 20% off your first service at Salón Marisol 

This week's special offer is in celebration of being able to get a proper hair styling after the long months of lockdown. Highgate Road's Salón Marisol is offering Camdenist readers a fantastic 20% off your first visit - for any service this summer.As always just mention Camdenist when booking. Details here, where you can read about Marisol and the warm and hospitable Latin-flavoured experience she provides, which includes some lovely personal touches.

 WIN: Last chance for 4 festi tix with free eco cab rides! 

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 EAT: Tai Pan Alley's bottomless dinner  

Inverness Street's Asian restaurant concept Tai Pan Alley brings together a group of independent chefs under one roof, each specialising in home-style Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese or Chinese Dim Sum dishes. They've rolled their successful 3-course bottomless brunches into dinnertimes too, where you and friends can each enjoy different food from across the continent, while quaffing unlimited cocktails including a Langkawi island iced tea into the night.

 VISIT: The Heath at 150, including circus 

It's well worth taking a stroll to South End Green if you are a fan of Hampstead Heath - and who isn't, right? There you'll find a free exhibition which reveals the history of protection of this special place, including the act which preserved it as green public space 150 years ago. The show also lines the route up to another mainstay of the Heath for decades, the arrival of a travelling circus. Zippo's big top is in action from Wed-Sun next week, in a socially distanced format. 

 EXPLORE: Secret subterranean Camden 

Tickets go

on sale today

for a summer season of tours into the 'hidden' Kingsway tram tunnel. If you've ever pondered the slope and track leading into the darkness at Holborn, this is a very rare chance to take a wander inside the cavernous passages where trams full of besuited commuters rattled until it closed in 1952. It's part of the London Transport Museum's wider Hidden London

series, which also includes virtual tours of decommissioned parts of Euston and the beautiful-but-abandoned York Way station.

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL Is football coming home?! 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

Camden New Journal has posted images of the proposed redevelopment of Murphy's Yard, the borough's last big brownfield site in Kentish Town. Does the prospect of this new neighbourhood excite you?

Just under half of voters were a little apprehensive about some aspects of the plans, but there's clearly local enthusiasm to see development of this land taking shape. As long as commitments to social housing and protected views don't get broken along the way, we certainly look forward to a new green walking route from Kentish Town to Gospel Oak.

Camdenist is collaborative and transparent by design. We invite all locals to participate, so we've built a form where you can send us ideas, propose features, and even contribute your own work.

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