Pete Doherty at Brixton JAMM
Still hungover after our Friday night bash, Offline DJ regular nipsla and were asked to DJ the solo Pete Doherty show at Brixton JAMM on Saturday night. DJing? And free …
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THE LUCKY FACE, DR VAMPIRE and THE NO FRILLS BAND, Brixton
We had another ace Offline club night at the Brixton Albert. It was Em and Han’s birthday and we had an ace line up of The Lucky Face, The No …
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PC World sell used goods as new, customer service says “whatever” (repost)
We’d had bad experiences with PC World in the past, but finding ourselves in an emergency after our router packed in two weeks ago, we thought we’d give them another …
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The Great British Summer’s on its way
I’ll have to admit it: I’m not really a big fan of sweltering hot summers, and I prefer the British seaside when it’s wet, cold and windswept during the winter …
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Brixton Market: five signs
Five shots of signs in Brixton Market (formerly Granville Arcade)…
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Take heed! Britain’s first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899
En route to the boozer before Saturday’s Championship play off final at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill. The roadside plaque …
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Offline red hot rockabilly special!
It was a big night of rockabilly and rock and roll at the Albert on Friday. Double bass’s slapped, guitars twanged, whammy bars were wanged and a feast of mean …
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Blackpool 3 Cardiff City 2 – some photos
Blackpool 3 Cardiff City 2 – Championship Play Off Final, Wembley So we missed out on the Premiership. It was a great game, Blackpool just deserved it and we never …
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Come on Cardiff! The Play Offs final is here!
Coca Cola Championship play-off final Wembley Stadium Date: Saturday, 22 May Kick-off: 1500 BST The bigger game have played in living memory is here and I’m a bag of nerves! …
Come on Cardiff! The Play Offs final is here! Read MoreCardiff City’s fabulous season in video
Turn off the sub-U2 backing drone of Futuretown’s ‘What Are We Waiting For’, stick on some slamming drum’n’bass, Pistols or The Clash, and soak up this glorious video showing Cardiff …
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Cardiff City awaydays: Colchester United, 1993 – with pitch invasion!
With Cardiff preparing for their third trip to Wembley in as many years, away trips like these seem a distant memory, but die hard City fans will have memories of …
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Piccadilly, South Bank and Green Park, May 2010
I love wandering around London wth my trusty Lumix X3 camera – here’s a few pics from a Friday ramble, starting with a photo of the cranes around Piccadilly.
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Selectors Music Emporium, Brixton
Brixton has lost some fine record stores, but it’s great to see Selectors Music Emporium still serving the community, some 25 years on.
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London’s new double-decker bus announced
I loved the old Routemaster bus, with its handy rear platform for jumping on and off quickly, and Boris Johnson’s decision to reintroduce an updated version was one of the …
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Beaminster & Crewkerne photos from finest Dorset
We spent a night in the delightful Dorset town of Beaminster (pop: 3,000), situated some five miles from Crewkerne in an area that seems to have barely changed in centuries.
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Orbital Comics, Great Newport Street, London
It was a real shame when the Photographers’ Gallery moved from its site on Great Newport Street in central London, but I’m happy to say that the building has been …
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A trip to the Dead House underneath Somerset House
On Saturday, we popped down to see ‘A Flow of Words,’ a spoken word event in the Dead House, underneath Somerset House.
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What kind of fan are you? And how do you cope with failure?
I’d forgotten about these comic strips I’d drawn for the Cardiff City Bluebird Jones football comic a years ago, but I’ve certainly been some of the characters portrayed. For the …
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Cardiff City beat Leicester – we’re in the Championship play-off final!
Man, this was an incredible game. I watched in the Brixton Hootenanny and it was a mighty strange place to watch such a vital match. The Fulham game was on …
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Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London
This is a lovely tea shop/cafe in the heart of Soho. You can smell the leaves of the many blends on offer before ordering, and they do some pretty fine …
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Brixton Water Lane, old chip shop – and the Windrush ‘water feature’
Snapped on my mobile, here’s a selection of photos from the streets of Brixton. Above is the old Free Off Licence on Railton Road (aka The Frontline). It’s been closed …
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Leicester v Cardiff: Whittingham whaps in a winner!
Oh yes! Watch Peter Whittingham’s stunning free-kick slam into the Leicester net as Cardiff City take the advantage in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final. Return match is …
Leicester v Cardiff: Whittingham whaps in a winner! Read MoreSome quality anti-Murdoch/Sky heckling
Some truly top notch heckling here. The man deserves a pint. Sky’s news anchor was heckled while presenting live on Sky News this afternoon, with a enraged protester repeating chants …
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Clegg, Cameron and the election: the official urban75 verdict
If you’re offended by naughty words, don’t click on, but but this is the only way I can sum up my feelings about Cameron and Clegg right now:
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urban75’s internet memes thread for endless LOLz
First started in October 2006 and now containing over 18,000 posts, the “I’m on ur boardz, wasting ur bandwidthz” threads on urban75 have proved a hilarious place to catch up …
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The Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody movie clip lives on
We’ve enjoyed the hundreds of parodies of this clip from the superb “Downfall” film about Hitler, but a while back the studio involved, Constantin Films, started asserting its rights and …
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Voting Day. Here’s our choice!
Today is voting day, and it’s a rum choice on offer alright. There’s not a lot to get us excited, but here’s the kind of poster that might make us …
Voting Day. Here’s our choice! Read MoreEntire Star Wars saga retold in 2mins 13s – in Lego! [video]
This is ace. I can’t imagine how much effort it took, but it’s well worth 2 minutes and 13 seconds of your time.
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Elephant in Windrush Square, Brixton
From May until July 2010, no less than 257 brightly painted elephants have been placed around the streets and squares of London to help raise money and awareness for endangered …
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BBC One Show: it’s really, really shit, isn’t it?
Last night, the truly dreadful One Show on BBC contrived to do a piece on the forthcoming ‘Four Lions’ comedy film by Chris Morris. Despite the film not being seen …
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