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Rinky Dink Bar

The Rinky Dink is the kind of place the entire Kerrang! team would hang out at after work if it were located in Soho. In Clapham, though,it makes a nice grungy rock'n'roll change to the other sterile, chrome plated bars in the area. Leather sofas and art deco wallpaper compliment fancy cocktails (try the tastebud-exploding Vanilla Sky, £6) and deliciously skinny pizzas. The place is busy on weekends, but makes for an edgier place to relax on weeknights.

38 Clapham High Street
SW4 7UR

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Catch

If only every fourteen year old entered the world of music, drinking and going out at Catch, instead of the underside of a damp bridge with three litres of £1.09 cider. London would be a much friendlier city.
Catch is perfect: on the clean side of grungy, it books beginner bands off the MySpace circuit. They're the kind of bands who still hand-draw their posters and hand out black and white photocopy fliers after the set.
Incidentally, the name is no accident: the address is at 22. Although the majority of its fedora wearing, bleach-blonde clientele are probably too young to even get the reference.

Catch
22 Kingsland Road
Hackney
E2 8DA

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