Been Big Chillin’….
Been Big Chillin’…. I’ve just come back from five days in deepest Herefordshire, enjoying the Big Chill festival, set in a beautiful wooden valley. View from the main stage looking …
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The tragedy of Brighton’s West Pier
I spent a few hours in Brighton today and I was saddened to see that the concert hall of the moribund West Pier has finally sunk into the sea. It …
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A trip to Spalding to Stamford, Lincolnshire
Last night’ we hit the bright lights of Spalding, starting the evening with a few pints at the Lincolnshire Poacher, a lively pub heavily oversubscribed with hen parties. We later …
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Greetings from Spalding!
Greetings from Spalding! Hanging out in the Fens… Hit the town of Spalding yesterday and was a little underwhelmed – although there’s some nice architecture, the market town has been …
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Brixton, Boo Hewerdine and Lambeth Coutry Show pics
Site updates My three page photo report from the fabulous Lambeth Country Fair is now online. Be sure to check out the racing terriers! There’s also a short piece on …
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Choooon! Currently enjoying heavy rotation in the office: Marjorie Fair: ‘self help serenade’ Morrissey: ‘you are the quarry’ Teenage Kicks: punk compilation Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours
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Blue Nile: 25 Years, Four Albums
Trust me to fall in love with one of the least prolific bands on the planet! The good news is that the Blue Nile are about to release a new …
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Urban Art Fairs and shopping for clothes
Shopping and drinking Now, when it comes to shopping for clothes, I’m not too good. In fact, I’m utterly rubbish. I get stressed within seconds of entering a clothes shop, …
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A new blog tool! Blogger have been fiddling about with their web interface and I can’t say I’m too impressed. So, I’m trying out the freeware w.Bloggar application as recommended …
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Currified at the Strand Continental Hotel
Currified! I’m still barely able to walk after last night’s uber-curry at the Strand Continental Hotel (no, it’s nowhere near as posh as it sounds!). I’d gatecrashed the bi-annual meal …
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Festival nostalgia After the fun of Glastonbury 2004, I’ve been trawling through my archives and have posted up an illustrated Glastonbury 1993 report. Digging further into my near-prehistoric past, I’ve …
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Lewisham People’s Day…
Recovering… Saturday turned out to be a hectic one. Once I’d stopped having a hissy fit about the non-appearance of my new camera (see below), I headed out to the …
Lewisham People’s Day… Read MoreWhere’s my chuffin’ camera? (rant)
Where’s my chuffin’ camera? (warning: dull rant ahead) Any of you who yawned through my extra-dull ‘what camera shall I buy’ marathon muse will recall that I finally settled on …
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Clubs, beer and art
Clubs, beer and art Thursday saw the first all women-DJ Offline club night at the Brixton Ritzy and it was a hoot! Instead of worrying about what I was going …
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Fopped! I made the mistake of popping into Fopp Records, Cambridge Circus. My trips there always follow the same pattern: “No, I won’t buy any records, I’ll just see what …
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Actionettes at HDIFTBL, Brixton
Lager weekend I still haven’t managed to quite shake off the buzz from the mad hedonism of Glastonbury, so this weekend continued in a similarly alcoholic haze. My poor liver! …
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Vauxhall barge gig
Quick Friday update Last night we trundled off to a barge by Vauxhall to see ‘Piney’ (lead singer from the Sha La Las) perform at the launch party of her …
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CyberStalked! Some disturbingly obsessive ex-urban75 poster has just started up an entire site dedicated to l’il ol’ me and urban75! Heck, even my name appears in the domain name! Featuring …
CyberStalked! Read MoreGlastonbury 2004, Day Five
Glasto Day Five (Sun) With the toilets overflowing and supplies of babywipes running perilously low, things are starting to get very messy indeed. Yesterday’s downpour ensured that most of the …
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Glasto Report Day 4 (Sat) Q Magazine’s one-word weather report accurately summed up the conditions: medieval It pissed down. All day. Footpaths that had only just dried out from the …
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Glasto: Day One report Arrived onsite around 5pm and then embarked on an elongated faff as Dubversion attempted to blag the van straight on site. Unfortunately, we had to hang …
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Nearly there! Thanks to the dynamite driving of Liberty, we’re nearly at Glastonbury. The weather down has been horrible – nothing but gnarly rain. Happily, things have cleared up, so …
Glastonbury – nearly there! Read MoreFriday night is curry night!
The urban75 south London curry crew is in full effect tonight, so I’m looking forward to a jolly good nosh-up in Khan’s (Brockwell Park), promptly followed by some intense lagerification …
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Heading to my homeland
It’s a beautiful day and I’m speeding through green fields on my way to a meeting in Abergavenny. I don’t think I’m much happier than when I’m on a half-empty …
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Alternative Euro 2004 – urban75 football team
Post weekend update: Saturday afternoon, I popped down to St Agnes Place, an old community Kennington squat now threatened with eviction. We couldn’t stay long as a trip to town …
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Stop fucking about with football It seems that the Big Money Boys who are currently bleeding football fans dry have decided that ‘Division One’ doesn’t sound too attractive to sponsors, …
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