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Here’s a few snaps from Friday’s Offline Club at the Brixton Albert with Sanjuro and Sergeant Buzfuz. Both bands were *fab!*
The dulcimer sounded amazing!
More pics: Offline Club, Brixton
It’s been slowly falling apart for years but the landmark building adjacent to Kings Cross railway station is set for a £13 million internal reconstruction.
Some more photos from our pedalling around this pleasant small city in the southern Netherlands.
The crazy cube houses (Kubuswoningen) in Helmond, designed by the Dutch structuralist architect Piet Blom in the mid-1970s.
Bridge over the the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal which runs through the city.
In the heart of Helmond can be seen this impressive castle, built by Jan III van Berlaer around 1350.
On the road!
The Netherlands is fantastic for cycling – not only is it flat, but there’s loads of safe cycle lanes.
More photos: Helmond, Netherlands
Phew! This was a nail-biting game alright!
Even though Charlton were already relegated from the Championship and had nothing much to play for, Cardiff failed to match their high-flying league position and had to battle through a very tense 90 minutes, only managing a much needed point at the death.
Here’s a few photos:
I really like Charlton’s ground. It may be new(ish) but it’s not another hideous metal box like the rest of them.
One minute to go and.. GOALLLLLL! Cardiff get the crucial equaliser, right at the end!
More photos: Charlton 2 Cardiff City 2
I can’t remember the last time I was blown away by a club, but Shunt was one of the best clubs I’ve been to for a very long time.
We went down to watch the Actionettes play and I thought I was in for another run-of-the-mill tarted up under-the-arches kind of club, but how wrong I was.
The night started ominously with the security staff insisting on scanning in my ID – but inside the security was very, very light.
First off, the space is absolutely MASSIVE. And I mean huge! There’s tons of space and it takes ages just to work out where everything was.
Here’s some more photos from the mob-handed urban75 walk on Saturday:
More photos here: Hampstead Heath photos
Just got back from an urban75 walk around Hampstead Heath. The weather was fantastic, the company delightful, the stroll relaxing, the pubs welcoming, the ale tasty and just about everything was perfect….apart from the Cardiff City scoreline. 6-0? Eeek! WTF!
The eggs are released!
More pics coming soon.
With photographers getting more hassle at demos and some even being forced to delete their images, I’ve put together a basic guide on how to ensure that your photos stay safe at demos.
Here’s an excerpt:
FORCED TO DELETE IMAGES?
The police, security guards or anyone else have no right to demand that you delete images off your memory card. After all, if you’ve committed an offence the images would act as evidence, and if you haven’t broken the law, the images are innocent.
However, in some circumstances, the police may be authorised to confiscate your film or memory cards as evidence but they are still not authorised to delete any images.
If an officer demands you hand over your photos, make sure you get a written receipt. Under no circumstances should you just hand them over without that.
RECOVERING DELETED IMAGES
If you are forced to delete your photo, take the card out of the camera immediately. Whatever you do, do not take any new pictures – if you want to keep on snapping, use a fresh card. When you get home, you can use a file recovery program to get your images back. These often have a high success rate.
We recommend the open source, multi-platform application 
PhotoRec, which is described as a, “file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory.
PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.”
UPLOADING PHOTOS
If you have an account with social networking sites like Blogger, Twitter, Facebook etc, it’s easy to instantly upload images to your account by setting up your phone to use MMS or email. It’s also worth separately emailing important images to yourself as a back up. If you have a regular camera with you and your phone has a suitable SD card slot, consider emailing images straight off your camera.
Read the full article here.
COMMENT: G20 FOOTAGE and PHOTOGRAPHERS’ RIGHTS
All the video and photographic evidence leaking through into the mainstream from the G20 protests is going to make it really hard for the police to try and stretch anti-terrorism legislation to cover banning photography at future demos.
Surely even the most right wing media must now appreciate the importance of recording protests from all sides now.
Even if the police do try and implement terrorism laws to force photographers to hand over their cameras and video footage, new mobile streaming technologies will soon make it a redundant gesture.
Using fast 3G connections, protesters will be able to take movies/photos on their mobile phones and upload them directly onto YouTube from within the ‘kettle,’ so there’s no way the cops can stop the footage getting out (unless they delve even deeper into their dodgy powers and force a mobile signal blackout – a move which would surely prompt questions from the general public).
Quite a few phones are already capable of uploading videos directly on to websites and as the technology becomes more commonplace it’s going to become increasingly difficult for the police to try and suppress legitimate press and personal coverage of demonstrations.
More info: Photographers Rights And The Law In The UK
I finally found a bit of time to post up some more photos from our trip to the beautiful town of Utrecht last month:
More here: Utrecht, Netherlands photos
Helmond pics coming soon!
I’ve just posted up a load of photos from the fantastic Offline party at the Brixton Dogstar on the 9th April. It was one of the biggest nights I’ve put on for a long time!
More photos here
Don’t forget – the next party is on Friday 24th April at the Brixton Albert!
We went down to Selhurst Park yesterday to see the mighty Cardiff City take on Crystal Palace.
The game wasn’t short on thrills or incident and turned out to be a very physical encounter and a great spectacle to watch. Best of all, the win put the Bluebirds into fourth place so we’re still looking good for the play offs (at the very least!).
What is this banner about?
Roger Johnson has just been elbowed in the neck by Davis. How could the ref have not seen it?
Love the old school wooden seats!
Ruddy hell, that was a busy one! The Brixton Dogstar was rammed to capacity for the return of the Offline club night on Thursday.
We were running three rooms on two floors, with live acts in all three and at times it was so busy getting from room to room was quite a challenge.
The bill was one of the best I’ve ever put on, with some great live acts, poets, bands, drummers and dancers. Here’s the Actionettes doing their hip shaking stuff.
The fabulous Barking Bateria put in another thunderous set in the packed upstairs Ballroom.
The night’s success had been helped by quite a bit of press in the week before. Time Out ran an interview with yours truly (they’d asked for an ‘action’ DJ shot, but I explained that seeing as DJing usually involved me messing about and having a beer, they may as well use this one):
The South London Press also ran a good feature on the night:
I’m off to the football now (come on Cardiff!), but I’ll post up more photos from the club night tomorrow.
Last week we went to the Soho Theatre to see Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness – and loved every minute of it.
A bit like Ripping Yarns meets the Mighty Boosh meets The League of Gentlemen, the show is set as a Victorian travelling sideshow, with Mr Gant recalling fantastic tales from his travels.
Here’s how the press blurb describes the show:
In 1881, one of the Victorian theatres most enigmatic impresarios, Mr Edward Gant, presented his famed travelling show for the very last time. In 2009, Anthony Neilson and Headlong Theatre are proud to present a reconstruction of this historic and extraordinary evening of mystery and magic, spectacle and strangeness. Behold . . . The Amazing Feats Of Loneliness!
Anthony Neilson is one of Britain’s most acclaimed playwrights, creating pioneering, taboo-breaking new work in a bold and compassionate way. Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness is a beautiful and very funny exploration of performance and performers, of sadness, mortality and wonder.
It’s a wonderful, funny and entertaining show with quite a dark twist at the end – if Victorian melodrama is your thing, get down to the Soho Theatre before the run ends!
Jonathan Richman at the Borderline
Last Tuesday, I was lucky enough to be offered a ticket for Jonathan Richman at the small west end venue of the Borderline (thanks ianw!).
Once again he put in a superb show, stuffed full of wit, humour and youthful enthusiasm – it really is hard to believe that he was born just six years after the end of World War 2!
I’ve been holed up in bed with the stinkiest of colds ever since, but Friday night’s double celebration of my own birthday and the club’s 5th birthday was a heap of fun.
Here’s some pics. Don’t forget the HUGE party we’ve got going on at the Dogstar this Thursday!
More photos here: Offline Apr 3rd 2009
