Had another top Offline night at the Albert in Brixton on Satirday. Here's a few pics:





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COMING UP!

This Thursday, we've got another great bill at our Brixton JAMM event with the Blazing Zoos (featuring former Jesus Jones frontman Mike Edwards) plus cabaret, great bands and DJs till 2am. And all for free!

More details: Offline Club

This was a lovely afternoon. Harvest Festivals sarf London-style rock!



Harvest It Festival photos

Labels: festivals, photos

By chance we stumbled across the Rose Theatre 'open weekend' last week and took a look inside.



There's not really a great deal to see, but it is kind of 'umbling to know that you're stood where people once saw some of Shakespeare's plays for the first time.

Rose Theatre

Labels: london, theatres

After attending the launch party last week, I've been using (and rather liking) Palm's new 500v phone.

It may run Windows Mobile (I'm a Palm OS kinda fella), but it's a really nice phone with clever-clogs location based services and onboard Mobile TV.



Check out my comprehensive review here: Palm Treo 500v Pocket PC Review. It's the best Windows phone I've ever used!

Labels: palm, phone, review, treo

I passed this tonight, and grabbed a couple of shots with my Ricoh GR camera.

Once one four famous gasometers serving the area around Kings Cross, this one - officially known as "Single Gasholder No 8" is the lone survivor and faces an uncertain future.



Originally erected by the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company in 1880 and decommissioned in the 1980s, there is an unexpected twist to the story: far from being scrapped, all the Grade II-listed gasometers have been carefully stored with planes to restore them once work on the St Pancras Eurostar rail link (and the regeneration of the area) is completed.

Let's hope it happens because gasometers rock!
See more pics here: Gasometer No 8, Kings Cross

The whole area around Kings Cross is definitely worth another look too. It's changing rapidly and there's some really interesting stuff to snap that won't be around for long.



Here's a picture taken from the Constitution boozer on the canal by St Pancras Way

This is a great area of London to wander about in. The park is London's biggest public square and there's some fascinating architecture all around.

See more pics here: Lincoln's Inn Fields




The surrounding area is fascinating too, with lots of quirky buildings and interesting sights. Well worth a visit!

Holborn, the Strand and Fleet Street

Labels: london, photos

Welcome to Tottenham Hale. All cars, roads, railings, roundabouts and concrete. Easily one of the ugliest places in London.

This was taken on my route from the tube, a walk that involved trudging over a large concrete bus station concourse (busily transporting people to the Ikea in Edmonton), passing a hideous block of corporate food chains and then walking along a busy one-way road.

Just before this scene, the ever decreasing pavement was eventually pushed completely off the road, making me walk through a run down council estate before I rejoined the road at this charming spot.

Nice, huh?

Labels: london, photos

Well, that was a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon. And Mark Thomas was there too!



Urban Green Fair 2007, Brockwell Park, South London.

Labels: brixton, brockwell park, fair

That was a whole heap of fun: on Saturday I braved the bleak wastelands of Tottenham Hale (surely the ugliest, most road-tastic area of London?) to check out the London Rollergirls.



More photos: The Great Rock'n'Rollerderby Swindle

Labels: photos, Rollergirls

Some snapshots around Salisbury in Wiltshire and its fab cathedral, taken with my trusty Ricoh GX100 and with minimal post-processing.




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Salisbury City
Salisbury cathedral



The photos were taken while we waited for the bus to take us to the madness of the fabulous Endorse-It Festival

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Just 20 mins train ride out of Brixton is Petts Wood, a 1930s 'new town' surrounded by ancient forest.



Walking through Park Wood. See more photos here: Petts Wood Walk



By a happy coincidence, we walked past the site of the moated Tudor Scadbury Manor on the one day a year it was open.



Scadbury Manor feature

Labels: photos, walk