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Music maestros and data dabblers go head to head in A Question of Scrobbles. A crowd sourced music quiz from Last.fm. Taking the music taste of more than forty million listeners, we'll devise a fiendish selection of questions to test your music knowledge.

Last.FM Presents A Question of Scrobbles will be appearing at The Old Eagle on Sunday afternoon

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Virtual Festivals is a leading online music destination, focused on festivals. VF visits the greatest events from around the world and takes you along in their rucksack with informative reviews, stunning photography, exclusive videos and more festival fun than you can shake a tent peg at!

Virtual Festivals will be hosting at The Purple Turtle on Saturday

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The Flowerpot collective have been working and promoting in and around London for years. The collective is made up from an ever changing bunch of musicians / DJs / artists / free thinkers and wreckheads. Known for providing wonderful hospitality and treating bands on all levels with maximum respect, they thrive on good music, good art and good times.
In May 2009 they opened The Flowerpot in Kentish Town, where for a year and a half they put on free entry live shows with some of the world’s best talent playing - all in a 200 capacity venue where they all also lived. Due to some complicated problems in October 2010 (that we won't go into here) they were forced to leave their Kentish Town home. They have now opened a new pub / venue - The Wheelbarrow - in Camden and have vowed to open a new Flowerpot in 2012.

Flowerpot Collective will be hosting at their venue The Wheelbarrow on Saturday (daytime) and on Sunday (evening)

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The Roundhouse Music Collective is made up of 11 talented musicians aged 16-21 years and led by members of the acclaimed United Vibrations. With contrasting musical influences they have come together and created original music boasting a truly unique sound. Now they are taking their passion for music to the next level by curating their own festival at the Roundhouse in Camden. Expect groundbreaking and revolutionary music, new and old, in their own words “iridescence, serendipity, nostalgic, sensational, amazing, progressive stuff".

Rounhouse Music Collective will appear at The Studio Theatre on Saturday and Sunday

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Join Ross Lee star of BBC Three’s 'The Pranker' in his debut musical. A horror musical set to the backdrop of the comedy industry - a world inhabited by miscreants, scoundrels, villains, wretches and rogues where the true cost of success is eternal damnation in the depths of hell. Love, laughs, songs and murderous monstrosity this show will leave your spine tingling and your funny bone aching.

Ross Lee's Horace Fingernips will be appearing at Jazz Cafe on Sunday

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Thad Baron, is the man behind Big Promo promotions and 2Rype artist management.
He will be hosting an urban music extravaganza via his 'LIFT OFF' stage at The Camden Crawl.
T.H.A.D is a former pirate radio DJ, Kiss FM stalwart, urban A&R man for Universal, Def Jam Mobile and Edel Records UK, head of music at Zons PR/MOBO.
And now Arts Council ‘Rhyme And Poetry’ project co-ordinator.
Thad will bring to the Camden Crawl an impressive line-up of some of the most talented and exciting artists making music today.

2Rype & Big Promo presents Lift Off will be hosting at Camden Rock on Sunday

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The skateboard and music-crazed guys at Crossfire are celebrating 10 years of hosting raucous parties in London this year and we're welcoming them back to the Crawl for a dose of their high energy musical mayhem. We can count on them to provide us with an all-day extravaganza of live skateboard-fuelled rock and roll, hip hop, dubstep and stoner rock.

Caught in the Crossfire will be hosting at The Electric Ballroom on Saturday

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Rough Trade Shops has been the punkest of punk since 1976. It's the perfect place for any muso to scour the record shelves for weird and wonderful vinyl. As well as records being bought there's a lot of live music being heard with bands including Blur, Edwyn Collins, Caribou and Best Coast all gracing the in-store stage to play free-entry gigs to fans. With an impeccable history of championing the very best in leftfield, specialist and alternative music you can expect an equally impeccable selection of bands on their stage at this year's Camden Crawl.

Rough Trade Shops will be hosting at The Barfly on Saturday

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Big Cheese is the U.K’s original Punk, Rock and Metal music monthly. Launched in 1996 Big Cheese was the first U.K magazine to feature world beating acts like Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Panic! at The Disco on it's cover and it prides itself in featuring the best up and coming and established bands from U.K and around the world. Big Cheese is the largest pagination new rock magazine in the U.K and hits the news stands every month with Free posters and cover CDs.

Big Cheese Magazine will be hosting at The Black Heart on Sunday

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Backstreet International Merchandise has over twenty years experience at the forefront of merchandising and e commerce for the entertainment industry, based in Camden, Dublin and New York.
Their services include: Merchandise Supply, Webstores, Design, Touring, Retail Distribution, Print On Demand, Warehousing and Fulfilment.
They work with some cool people like The Gaslight Anthem, DJ Shadow, Lou Reed, Caribou, Bon Iver, NME, The Kinks, Buzzcocks, Spiritualized, Warchild, See Tickets, Ghostpoet, The Clash, Q Magazine, Mojo, Blabbermouth, Kerrang Radio, Bellowhead, Fearless Vampire Killers, Hawk Eyes and We7 amongst others.

Backstreet will be hosting at Earl of Camden on Sunday

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Fear & Records is an independent record label and management company who have released records by bands including most recently, Milk Music and Pale Seas (formerly known as Netherlands), and previously Fear of Men, Emmy The Great, I Was A Cub Scout and Wingman. Fear & Records manages artists including Rolo Tomassi, Sky Larkin, Young Legionnaire and Johnny Foreigner. 2012 is the second year Fear & Records are involved in the Crawl and are expected to bring a distinctly rockier edge to the proceedings…

Fear & Records will be hosting at The Underworld on Saturday

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Nialler9 Vs. On The Record sees two of the most respected Irish bloggers combine to host a venue especially for the Crawl.

Niall Byrne is a blogger at the helm of the most-read music blog in Ireland - Nialler9.com and a writer based in Dublin. Nialler9.com has been a recipient of five consecutive awards in the Irish Blog Awards for Best Music Blog (2007-2011) as well as Best Music Site at the Irish Web Awards in 2009. Most recently, Nialler9 was voted the 5th ‘Best Music Blog In The World’ in a poll of music blogging peers.

Jim Carroll writes about music and the music business for The Irish Times and compiles the On the Record blog for the newspaper. He also presents a weekly radio show called The Far Side on Dublin’s Phantom FM and hosts the Banter discussion panels. Previously, Jim worked in the music business in Ireland and the UK in the areas of label management, A&R and press, as well as working as a journalist and editor for numerous publications in Ireland and abroad

Nialler9 Vs. On The Record will be hosting at The Monarch on Sunday.

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SEXBEAT has been an inaugural figure in London’s DIY scene since 2007.
As well as releasing 7″s, cassettes, fanzines and t shirts they have promoted live shows for Andrew WK, Crocodiles, No Joy, Trash Talk, A Place To Bury Strangers, Cerebral Ballzy, Iceage, Blank Dogs, Salem, HEALTH, Lovvers, Male Bonding, Fucked Up, Moon Duo, Japanther, Ariel Pink, Ganglians, Rolo Tomassi and Monotonix to name a few.
Sexbeat are happy and privileged to be part of an organic scene of DIY promoters, labels, DJs, bands, artists and friends intent on creating their own society and culture of events, artifacts and like minded individuals.

Sexbeat will be hosting at The Enterprise on Sunday

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Last.fm is a music discovery service which uses the tracks you play to power personalised music and event recommendations. By learning about the music you listen to Last.fm can recommend you new music you'll love, all for free. You can use your Last.fm profile to track what you play across hundreds of supported players, anything from your Xbox and iPhone to the likes of Spotify, Hype Machine and Last.fm's very own radio player.
Great gigs, new releases and even your perfect festival match are all at your fingertips, along with radio customised to your tastes. Discover more music now, with Last.fm.

Last.fm Presents will be hosting at The Enterprise on Saturday and Electric Ballroom on Sunday

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Rockfeedback began in 2000 as one of the first independent online music magazines in the UK. We started holding live nights in 2002, and today run everything from legendary gigs at intimate venues to shows at some of the capital’s most prestigious venues and stages at festivals countrywide. Their TV show has run for five series on Channel 4 since 2004, reporting everywhere from SXSW to Brazil, Norway and beyond.

Rockfeedback will be hosting at Dingwalls on Saturday and at The Jazz Cafe on Sunday

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John Kennedy from X FM radio is an absolute oracle of the hotly-tipped, the visioneer of the next big thing, the guru of the soon-to-be-great. To put it simply, there is hardly anyone working in the music industry that knows more about new music than John Kennedy. He's also one of the nicest people you could ever have the pleasure to meet. He'll be curating a whole day of new live music for the Camden Crawl under the name of his radio show 'Xposure', in the prestigious Camden venue that is KOKO.

John Kennedy will be hosting at KOKO on Saturday

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“East London’s most notorious venue” – NME 2011
“The cradle of British music’s future” – The Guardian 2010
The Old Blue Last is a pub / live venue in Shoreditch, East London brought to you by the people at Vice. Since 2004 They’ve been bringing you the best forward-thinking bands and DJs, as well as secret shows by some of the biggest names around - in 2011 alone They had Kreayshawn, The La's, Lil B, Iceage, The Vaccines, Death Grips, Gallows and many more.

The OId Blue Last Presents will be hosting at The Monarch on Saturday

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DiS is a music website. It has messageboards where irreverent music fans argue whether Pinkerton is better than The Blue Album, and they regularly attempt to put Radiohead albums in order of preference. Elsewhere, there are reviews, interviews and playlists. The site's editorial team caters for fans of everything from drone to dubstep via the devil's music, and has somehow built up a reputation over the past eleven years as being a reliable source for opinions. Half a million people visit the site each month, although many of them do so against the recommendations of their psychiatrist.

Drowned In Sound will be hosting at The Black Cap on Sunday.

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Forget trying to nail MistaJam to a genre for he’s a DJ who’s from the school of thought where only those who’ve perfected the art of mixing need apply. If it has a big beat, bassline and melody, chances are Jam’s in it.

Mistajam will be hosting at The Jazz Cafe on Saturday

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Since 2001 the thoroughly independent Club Fandango company has been at the forefront of unsigned music in London, promoting up-and-coming new bands across virtually every notable small venue in London ranging from 80 to 800 capacity. Set up by Andy Macleod (Pointy Records) and Simon Williams (Fierce Panda Records), Club Fandango began with a now infamous Tuesday night residency at the Dublin Castle in Camden which ran through the naughties from the spring of 2001 to the autumn of 2009. Now, after nigh-on a decade of dossing on other people's (dance)floors, Club Fandango has finally found a home it can call its own. That home is The Bull & Gate in Kentish Town. They moved in on June 1st 2010 and promote shows there most nights – regularly helped-out by some of their esteemed friends.

Club Fandango will be hosting at the Earl of Camden on Saturday and The Underworld on Sunday.

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The Nest Collective, BBC Folk Club of 2010, is an acoustic folk club pushing the musical boundaries within the promotion of folk and traditional music. Formed in 2006, they host a multitude of platforms for emerging and established artists alike and they'll be bringing some of their favourite traditionally inspired folk acts to the festival.

The Nest Collective will be hosting at Roundhouse Terrace on Saturday

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Artrocker is exactly what the tin says “Cutting Edge Music & Style”. Artrocker is all things exciting in the world of music and fashion. It is all about taste and tastemakers. They focus on the new and old as they believe being cutting edge today derives from both. It is the fusion of greatness from past to present and filling the gaps in between. Quite simple if you want to be not only ahead of the game but also knowledgeable about how you got there, key into Artrocker Magazine and Artrocker Live Events which includes the new annual Artrocker Awards.

Artrocker will be hosting at The Black Heart on Saturday and The Purple Turtle on Sunday.

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The UK's biggest and best Youth Lifestyle title, RWD flies off the shelves in a matter of days. Their forward-thinking editorial directly reflects the interests of their readers. With an emphasis on the cutting-edge, they combine star names like Jay-Z, Adele, Messi and Seth Rogan with up-and-coming talent from the worlds of film, TV, fashion, sport and music; Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Lewis Hamilton and Idris Elba are just some of the names RWD have previously tipped for the top. RWD also provide their tech-savvy readers with the latest in gadgets, games and phone advancements, while their fast-paced, funny editorial blends news, style and sport with columns, reviews and current affairs. Led by a youthful team, RWD reflect the affordable, the aspirational and the original by talking to their traditionally-hard-to-reach readers, not at them.

RWD will be hosting at The Jazz Cafe on Saturday

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With a track record of utter excellence, The Local's Sunday night session at Camden Crawl is guaranteed to be a winner. The Local is a music promotion and management agency in London, promoting artists from all over the world at events all over the world. The Local works with all kinds of stuff (if it’s good). They are a trusted promoter of high quality music events, on a national and international level. They manage, promote, curate, book, and project manage the heck out of all kinds of good stuff.

The Local will be hosting at Heroes on Sunday

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Starting life as the label that defined East London's rock and roll scene in the early part of this century, Sean Mclusky's 1-2-3-4 has evolved into a annual festival in Shoreditch Park. A pioneering promoter and manager who's been at the forefront of independent music for decades, Mclusky is one of the foremost champions of London's alternative music scene. From the people at 1-2-3-4 has also come BAD LIFE, one of the UK's most exciting electronic labels to have emerged in recent times.

1234 will be hosting at The Purple Turtle on Saturday and at The Cuban on Sunday.

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Few UK artists can boast of being a genuine game changer, with a musical supremacy that comes from never resorting to anything less than brilliance. But that's Derek Safo aka Sway - the UK's number one lyricist, MOBO and BET Award winner, Mercury Prize nominee, respected producer and the pioneer of DIY who paved the way for household MCs Tinie Tempah, Chipmunk and Tinchy Stryder to make their name their own way.
Having appeared at Camden Crawl 2006 as a performer, Sway returns in 2012 to curate his own venue.

Sway will be hosting at The Barfly on Sunday

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The Lantern Society, now in its fifth year, continues to thrive.
Founded in 2007 by Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, The Lantern is now hosted by London-based musicians Benjamin Folke Thomas and Jack Day.
Consistently drawing the finest new and established folk influenced talent to its spiritual home at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell, The Lantern Society fits its billing as London’s finest folk club.
The Lantern Society meets on the first and third Thursday of every month.

The Lantern Society will be hosting at The Wheelbarrow on Saturday

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Summer Sundae Weekender is a festival of 6,500 people set in Leicester’s De Montfort Hall and Gardens from 17th to 19th August 2012. Now in its twelfth year, the event has grown from a modest one - day affair headlined by Morcheeba and Lambchop into an award- winning weekend long festival with camping. Summer Sundae has an eclectic line-up, having played host to Patti Smith, David Byrne, Mumford and Sons, Amy Winehouse, Elbow, Seasick Steve, Toots and The Maytals and Belle and Sebastian among countless others over the years. 2012 will no doubt present another stellar line-up and their stage at the Crawl will give us all a taste of what to expect.

Summer Sundae Weekender will be hosting at Heroes on Saturday

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For Folk's Sake is a London-based music website filled with news, reviews and recommendations of the best folk-, country- and roots-tinged artists from around the world. From the Mountain Goats to This is the Kit, and Peggy Sue to Caitlin Rose; the song is the thing.

For Folk's Sake will be hosting at Bar Solo on Sunday

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Since launching in 2008 Jaymo & Andy George have taken their insatiable appetite for electronic music and turned it into their entire world - and that world is Moda. After exploding onto the scene the boys soon caught the attention of BBC Radio 1, who asked them to perform an Essential Mix live from a Moda warehouse party - making them two of the youngest people to enter hallowed Hall of Fame and leading to ongoing partnership with the BBC. Moda Music was launched providing a home for a growing stable of artists, including Fenech-Soler, Polarsets, Shake Aletti, Tom Staar and the boys themselves. The Camden Crawl is just the start of what will be the biggest year in Moda history, with massive parties at Space Ibiza and Fabric London as well as pop-up parties in places that can't even be describde, a host of amazing new signings and a explosion of original Jaymo & Andy George material.

MODA will be hosting at Camden Rock on Saturday

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In five years Urban Nerds have risen in the ranks of underground clubland to become one of London’s biggest bass brands. Nerds was one of the first nights in the big smoke to pioneer a multi-genre concept and the amalgamation of bass culture that’s since been adopted across the country and infiltrated the full spectrum of electronic music. Past acts have spanned the likes of Rusko, Zinc, David Rodigan, Plastician, Foreign Beggars, Jack Beats, Tinchy Stryder, Skepta, Ms Dynamite, Redlight, Loefah, Raffertie, MJ Cole, Oneman and hundreds more!

Urban Nerds will be hosting at The Cuban on Saturday

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Celebrating it's tenth year in 2012, DIY has morphed from a simple website to both a digital and printed magazine and an online radio station. Rolling in to the Camden Crawl as part of it's birthday celebrations, DIY will be using its' decade at the cutting edge of alternative music to deliver the best new sounds around.

This Is Fake DIY will be hosting at The Wheelbarrow on Sunday

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Over its 10 years Moshi Moshi Records has established a reputation as one of the UK's best sources for new and exciting musical talent, having helped launched the careers of the likes of Hot Chip, Kate Nash, Bloc Party, Florence And The Machine, Friendly Fires, Late Of The Pier, Lykke Li, Slow Club and The Drums. We're really excited to have them back to host a stage at the Crawl.

Moshi Moshi Records will be hosting at Black Cap On Saturday

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Sean Bidder is the editor of FACT magazine, the UK's most cutting edge new music website. With a monthly readership of 1.5 million, FACT is justly renowned for its bi-weekly mix series and being the first portal for breaking news across the musical spectrum. 2012 sees FACT's debut appearance at Camden Crawl.

FACT will be hosting at Dingwalls on Sunday

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Bombay Bronx will be bringing to the Crawl a Sunday afternoon of Tabla beats, grime MCs, Bollywood dubstep, Bhangra beats and vocals laced over garage snares and kick drums.The Bombay Bronx night is the baby of Radio One DJ Nihal who first put on the night back in 2004 at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Since then it has hosted live MC clashes and some of the biggest names in British Asian music, as showcased on Nihal's weekly BBC Radio 1 show, which is celebrating its' 10th Anniversary this year! If you want to be exposed to a whole different canon of sounds and musical experiences, with a heap of live artists and DJs, then make sure you get down to Bombay Bronx.

The Bombay Bronx will be appearing at The Black Cap on Sunday.

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Fence Records is a collective of musicians, artists, chancers and slackers based in and around the sleepy fishing village of Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Founded by King Creosote in 1996, the label now boasts a roster of the most talented and good looking musicians from the UK and beyond. Join label manager The Pictish Trail for a Sunday afternoon pint in the Earl of Camden, where he will be bringing the Fence love with a host of acts from the Collective. Recommended for those who like their music bearded, but not earnest.

Fence Records Presents will be hosting at The Earl of Camden on Sunday

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Just when you thought the dying UK Music Industry had over-saturated the market with conventional urban, pop and R&B music for the past decade, DJ Abrantee, Choice FM’s golden boy and visionary, decided to turn up the heat by introducing Afrobeats to the airwaves. He has taken this passion for all things Afrobeat to clubs up and down the UK & Ireland with his sellout Afrobeats tour and the first ever 'Afrobeats Festival' at the HMV Apollo. Bring on the Afrobeats at the 2012 Crawl!

Afrobeats Music Festival hosted by DJ Abrantee will be at The Roundhouse Terrace on Sunday

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Gag Reflex returns to the 2012 Camden Crawl with another eclectic mix of comedians. No hair comics, agency pretty boys or whimsy here - just quality acts.


Gag Reflex will be appearing at The Camden Head on Sunday

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Alternative Press is a London-based, independent group of artists dedicated to encouraging people to create their own art and to freely express themselves via self-publishing. Since forming in 2008 they have organised self-publishing fairs, open mic evenings and poetry nights as well as organising their very own 'International Alternative Press Festival' which brought artists to the UK from across the globe. Once again they'll be bringing a slice of their alternative magic to the Camden Crawl in the shape of comics, zine-making, self-published books and print-making.

Alternative Press Fair will be appearing at St Michael's Church, Camden Road on Saturday and Sunday

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Art History isn’t all Da Vinci, Turner and Picasso! The Association of Art Historians is proud to present ‘Art History in the Pub’, a lecture series that’s been running in Camden throughout 2011. They aim to bring you cutting edge talks on surprising, fascinating, extraordinary visual culture topics in a relaxed and informal setting. Recent talks have dealt with topics including murder and 18th century sword-making; tattooing; taxidermy; and the graphic design of 1950s housing estate signs. Their slot at the Camden Crawl will include a lecture on representations of meat in art, as well as several other topics from the fringes of their discipline.

Art History In The Pub will be appearing at Enterprise on Sunday

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Created by comedian Tiernan Douieb, Fat Tuesday earned its place among London's best comedy clubs, and is now in the capable, and very funny, hands of MC Nish Kumar. Described by Time Out as a 'consistently brilliant, bijou club', and rated as one of their top comedy clubs of 2007, it's well known as a friendly intimate environment to see some of the best comedians on the worldwide circuit and sometimes even ones from the tellybox!

Fat Tuesday will be appearing at Purple Turtle on Sunday