30 Camden Square, NW1.
Rather a late post for Women’s Day almost a week ago, but hopefully not too late as a tribute to the late owner of above property address. One of my all-time favourite beautiful female singer.
The semi-detached house is located in a leafy and quiet (rather upscale too) neighbourhood of Camden, London. The street name picks up the name of fairly nice park right opposite this property. Lined with mature trees, yes obviously with the squirrels running on the lawn, and wooden benches.. the park seems to be pretty idyllic place for the late owner the house when she returned home early in the dawn.. from pubbing and clubbing around Camden or Shoreditch, inhaling her morning ciggy and possibly contemplating her next single.. well, who knows.
Apparently, this place is merely 15 minutes away walking from my Camden Town flat (except my area is blessed with late-night noise from drunk hipsters.. plus guaranteed vibration from Overground tracks just right behind the flat). No problemo - this is part of the amenities living in Camden Town!, within a half mile away from world-class legendary musical venues such as Koko, Roundhouse.. and oh yeah The Exhange studio, whose the mastering engineer and founder is the father of Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, is just 100 metre away from my place. (The band recorded one of their vinyl tracks here.. so did Kasabian for their latest album).
OK.. back to Camden Square now.
Anyway, there’s one particular tree, right in front of this house, wrapped in bamboo with lots of wishes from international pilgrims (note those from Brasil and Espana.., and of course Indonesia - should have written something if I had my marker there). There were indeed some international-looking folks around the area too when I was there, not sure if they were looking for this place - or just some lost tourists. This place does attract some die-hard fans of hers.. just want to visit and “feel” the aura near the house - which has by now changed ownership.
Oh yeah.. you guys guessed right!
30 Camden Square is the house where the young talented singer drank her last bottle of Vodka, slept her last night sometime in the summer of 2011.. and never wake up in the next morning.
Her spirit lingers on, not only around this place.. but all over Camden, where she would hang around, chill out pub-hopping, make a brilliant music and now rest in peace.
Yes, she was Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011).
Doddy