What are the best places to hang-out in Central London,Finsbury Park and Tottenham?

i'm back down in london for a few days next weekend and i'm looking for some tragically hip places to hang out on a friday nite, saturday day, and saturday evening. painfully cool places like camden for example. i had a great time in camden in june i'm just wondering if i should just go back to camden, or if there are other cool places like that with loads of cool bars etc. i'll be going with other friends from london, but i want to take the lead and find somewhere interesting and a little bit different. my friends are all into hip music, and not particularly into getting drunk as a skunk, so a cool eating place with live music for example could be good. i wanted to avoid the typical touristy places any londonners know of any good places? are there other places like camden, or is that the runaway cool place for now? oh, i know the notting hill carnival is on sunday and monday and i'll be at that, and i have plans for sunday & monday nite. none of us are loaded either, so chinawhytes and the embassy club aren't particularly suitable, unless my lottery numbers come up!