OLD FASHIONED ATMOSPHERE AND INDIE ROCK MUSIC AT KOKO

Picture: SykoFantiS Bastoyni

Old fashioned former theatre with red interiors, Victorian decorations and statues all around: it’s the spectacular venue of the Koko club in Camden, London. As the old seats have been removed, there’s a lot of space to dance and move around the hall, and also an area with sofas for more relaxed outputs. The club allows only people under 18 in and is open from 5 to 11 p.m. during weekdays, unless there is a concert, and until 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Very easy to reach, Koko is located a few footsteps from the Mornington Crescent tube station and the area is very well served by nightbuses.

I went there with a group of friends around midnight a few weeks ago on Friday and we didn’t wait much to  get in, not outside, neither at the glass counter, where we paid £7. Although, there was a long line for the wardrobe: probably the two girls at the desk were getting confused by their unfunctional and slow duty of asking everyone £2 and their initials to sign the clothes.

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ZUZI’S NEW LIFE

It’s amazing how people decide to turn up their lives as they understand what they really want. One day everything is fine and the day after something happens and they realize that all they were used to do, just don’t suit them anymore. And they change. That’s what happened to Zuzana.

Sitting on the bus, her eyes turned towards the window, Zuzi is following the path of her thoughts, ignoring the dozen people chatting around her and the speaker announcing every stop. Concentration is hard in a noisy place, but not impossible if you are used to meditate.

Picture: Sérgio Castro

Zuzana Grygarova, 26-years old shiny girl from the Czech Republic, has deeply changed her life since she “got in contact with spirituality” last summer. Being brought up in a family where reason was the highest quality, she took a degree in Psychology at the University of Westminster but instead of training as a psychoanalyst, she decided to switch into spiritual counseling.

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