Month: June 2006

Had another top night at Offline with Jesus Licks and Boomclick Soundsystem on the stage and a bevy of top notch poets and DJs. Check out the photos: OFFLINE 29, …

I’ve finally got around to adding a piece about St Mary’s church, Silvertown, east London When I visited it in the mid 1980s it was a burnt out shell, but …

Confiscated cameras and synergetic co-branding opportunities ahoy – I take a trip to the o2 Wireless Festival, Hyde Park, London. Read my report here: o2 Wireless Festival, Hyde Park Last …

I saw this crazy blue glowing cloud over Brixton around 2.20am this morning. It looked like the Aurora Borealis had gone walkabout from the north pole, and the cloud seemed …

The station light is still on, but the station has closed forever (note the black bunting). (Feature to appear in the disused railways section soon)

Cycing through the cityUp early to pedal into town on a glorious sunny morning. Cycled to the Wobbly Bridge to see the last of the sheep being herded over the …

View from my window now.

Full report to follow soon(ish) but in the meantime, here’s the intrepid urban crew emerging from the Devil’s Punchbowl, a stiflingly hot, bone-dry deep valley strewn with dead sheep in …

I love this kind of mad Victorian stuff – check out Volk’s sea railway which ran for nearly three miles in the sea along Brighton’s coastline. Not surprisingly, it lasted …

Testing the Palm Treo/Splashblog mobile blogging tools – with this combo I can snap a picture on my Treo 650 phone, rattle off a caption and upload it to my …

It felt really odd coming back to a place I hadn’t visited for twenty odd years, but I’ve posted up a photo report of my trip to Silvertown and North …