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To be fair they're not even close to hipsters, they've just lovely, talented and unbelievably hardworking people. But I can see that from the outside they might well look like the shock troops of hipsterfication. They did this:
http://caboosecafe.co.uk/about.html
And this:
http://www.ramsgatemusichall.com/pages/venue
He's an old friend, one half of the indie-pop geniuses behind one of my favourite bands: http://hexicon.bandcamp.com/ he now plays drums in Allo Darlin' and with Darren Hayman.
He ran Soup studios http://www.soupstudio.co.uk/ in Hanbury St. with Simon Trought until they got booted out of the basement of the Uke shop.
Mikey's long term plan was to open a new residential studio with a cafe attached in Ramsgate. Not sure how the studio's coming on but the Cafe and music venue seem to be getting on well.
Marc Riley's always been a fan of Hayman and the Wave Pictures (another Fortunapop family connection) for ages but has recently latched onto Allo Darlin' as well and has been down to several gigs and been on about it on the radio. I wish them the best of luck with it all.