What’s in a name? In Ellie Goulding’s case, a time capsule. Her very mention conjures rose-tinted memories of the early 2010s, when we recorded each house party with a Facebook album, everything Calvin Harris touched turned to gold, and Camden was just beginning to lose its cool.
Ten years down the line, and NW1 is experiencing something of a renaissance, in no small part thanks to KOKO. A former dive bar in a dilapidated amphitheatre, a £70 million renovation following a fire in 2020 has seen it reborn, a veritable phoenix from the ashes.
