Now that was a fun night. We were DJing the Bowl Festival after-party at the Alma, Crystal Palace and it was a lively one alright.

At one point, it was like a scene from a madhouse with some woman belting out weird squawking noises over the songs onstage, people shinning up and down the columns and a drunk bloke thumping the drums with his hands. I couldn't stop grinning.



I loved it! Oh, and the band Ashok were fantastic. I can't get enough of their "happyslap" song!

Unfortunately, I was too busy drinking, DJing and laughing at what was going on around me to capture some of the mad antics going on - but there's a few pics here.

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Fantastic night at Offline last night with some great bands and the fabulous Josie Long.

Check out the photos here: Offline

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Here's how you don't want to be woken up on early a Sunday morning after a very, very late night:

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Once again, we enjoyed the bonkers mix of entertainment available at the Lambeth Country Show 2007, including prize lettuces, sheep shearing, full size plastic milking cows, reggae bands, steam engines llamas, owls and, of course, Chucklehead Cider.




Unofficial vegetable sculpture competition

We also checked out the Urban Art Fair in Josephine Avenue, Brixton, which is always worth a look.

It's just a short bus ride from downtown Brixton, but it feels like a universe away with its quiet village atmosphere, posh houses, well tended verges and lack of shouting street nutters.



Dulwich Green Fair
Dukwich Village

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There was a really odd crash today where a car ended up on its roof but it seemed hard to work out how it managed it. There were no skidmarks or screeching beforehand and no other car seemed directly involved.



See the full story here: Coldharbour Lane car crash

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Some more pics from my London ambles...


A visit to the Tate Britain


Hyde Park, the Strand and Borough Market photos


Steam train at Victoria station


Covent Garden, Bloomsbury, the Strand and Liverpool Street

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I forgot to mention that I finally got around to posting up the full set of pictures from this year's mud-fest at Glastonbury. Here's a few to whet your appetite.





View them all here: Glastonbury 2007

Wednesday sun
Thursday scenes
Into Friday
Around the Green Fields
Craft workshops and bands
Saturday wanderings

A very muddy Saturday
Friday night to Saturday morning
Iggy and Trash City
Saturday night, Sunday morning
Sunday, the final day

Yes, Brixton does have a proper Grade 2 listed windmill!



I popped up today for the annual Windmill Gardens Festival - more pics here: Windmill Festival 2007

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More pics here: Photos of Tour de France 2007

If anyone thought that Glastonbury was bad this year, check out the living hell that was Yorkshire Folk and Blues festival at Krumlin, 1970.



"The Krumlin Festival has the unfortunate reputation of being on the receiving end of the worst weather to ever hit a British rock festival, which more or less devastated the festival site, leaving only the stage standing by Sunday morning."

"The final assessment of the festival on Monday morning showed it to be an unmitigated disaster . The whole weekend awash with water , one death from exposure and one freaked out organiser last seen by the other promoters wandering away from the site on Sunday. He wasn’t found until Thursday , when the police picked him up, suffering from hunger and exposure , wandering around somewhere on the moors."

"By Sunday evening there were sixty cases of exposure and some people had been injured when a marquee blew down on them after they’d been huddled inside for warmth. The death occurred when a man tried to get under a plastic bag for protection"

"It was the worst organized festival ever. It was a piece of moorland. About 25,000 kids turned up, but the weather turned almost immediately from a mild grey to rain., hail, sleet and rain , blue rain and thunderstorms. This went on for the entirety of the festival so there was this incredibly damp and miserable audience in the downpour in this rather cold and bleak up-land where trees don't grow."

Read more at the excellent ukrockfestivals.com website



There's also some incredible photos from Glastonbury 1971 at this site.



And while I'm reminiscing about old festivals full of mud and rain, check out this woeful tale from my first ever festival, Reading, 1975

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