Offline St David’s Day Special
Blimey. What a fantastic night this was. We had free freshly baked Welsh cakes, daffodils, Welsh music, Welsh video, two great bands and vast amounts of DJing till 4am. I …
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Time Out Top 50 Site!
Woot! It was great to see urban75 being listed in Time Out’s “Top 50 London Websites,” especially as were number one in the ‘communities’ section. Nice! Elsewhere on the site, …
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Hanway Street, London W1
I’ve just finished a photo feature on this quiet little street in the centre of London. Rumoured to be named after Jonas Hanway – the man who introduced the umbrella …
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Crystal Palace photos
Two (overdue) updates to the photo gallery, with pictures from a summer and an autumn walk around Crystal Palace park and nearby Sydenham. I went along on the Sydenham walk …
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Offline club and a visit to the Marquis
Despite falling foul of what seemed like a bona fide case of the lurgy on Thursday, I felt well enough on Friday to check out the Marquis Of Lorne pub …
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Brixton Vigil
A big, mixed crowd turned out to pay their respects to Khalil Nasseri, exactly a week after his brutal murder. Family members, customers, officials and friends gave short talks emphasising …
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Canal Street NYC: photos
Visitors keen to find a piece of untamed New York should check out Canal Street, in lower Manhattan. It’s stuffed full of counterfeit handbags, suspect jewellery, fake Rolex watches, knocked …
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New York subway scenes
Some more photos from last month’s New York trip…
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Times Square at night, NYC
Here’s some pics taken when we walked through the tourist-tastic neon eyestorm of Times Square. It’s bonkers but fun – like Piccadilly Circus on steroids – but it’s not a …
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Murdered: over a 20p orange
This is hopelessly, desperately tragic. Last Saturday a 24 year old man helping out in his cousin’s shop in Brixton Market was stabbed to death by a gang of men …
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Winter walk in NY
I’ve posted up a few more photos from trip to New York last month – but I’ve still got loads more to work though. Sat on top of a residential …
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Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NYC
When we were in New York last month, we took the free ferry out of Manhattan to Staten Island and braved an icy walk to visit the Sailors’ Snug Harbor …
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Piccadilly to Vauxhall walk
The weather wasn’t great, but we shook off some of the festive lard and lingering hangover with a short (4.3m) walk around town yesterday. Here’s some of the pics: Christmas …
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Cardiff at Christmas
Just a few snaps from my brief stay in my home town over Christmas. It’s getting hard to reconcile the city with my memories as it’s being redeveloped so fast. …
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City Island, Bronx, New York
Amazingly, this island – with its New England architecture, wooden houses and fishing boats- is in the Bronx, New York! Loads more photos: City Island, Bronx, New York
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Monster party for the New Year!
Blimey. The Offline party at the Albert last night was such a big one I’ve spent all day recovering. Here’s some pics – more to follow when my head gets …
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Christmas in Wales
We had a fabulous time in Cardiff. Here’s some pics: St Fagans National History Museum is an astonishingly good place to visit, with the open air site containing over 40 …
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Christmas Lights, NY/London
Putting Oxford Street’s desperate offering to shame is the gloriously over-the-top display at the Rockefeller Centre, New York: And here’s the feeble lights on London’s Oxford Street.
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Brixton: rubbish Xmas decorations
This year’s effort -both by the council and local shops – looks even worse than last years paltry offering. Only Brixton Station Road looks in the least bit festive, while …
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Goodbye New Piccadilly cafe
A much loved London cafe lost forever. April 2006 December 2007 Read my photo feature: The New Piccadilly Café, 8 Denman Street, Piccadilly, London
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Actionettes at the Tate
This was fun last week – a party with The Actionettes inside one of the Tate Britain’s art galleries!
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Offline Club – New York and London!
There’s been no less than four Offline Club nights since I last updated this blog. Here’s a couple of snaps from the nights: Nov 29th: JAMM, Brixton. Thirty samba drummers, …
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New York: Central Park in the snow
We’ve been away in New York for the past couple of weeks, and as soon as we got back to London, I had to run two Offline nights, so things …
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Brixton Living Bar shut down
Formerly the Coach and Horses, Brixton’s Living Bar was suddenly closed down yesterday. It hasn’t enjoyed the greatest of reputations with some locals, but it’s a striking building and I …
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Sex Pistols, Fireworks, Ramones….
Been a bit slow updating my blog recently, so here’s a bumper pack: Sex Pistols at Brixton It was fun but a bit odd. Johnny was brilliant – part pantomime …
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Hammersmith Palais RIP
It’s taken me ages to get around to posting these pics up but here’s some shots of the very last days of this much loved music venue. My own band …
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A lighthouse in London
I love this old building right by Kings Cross station. The story is that the building originally served as an oyster house – oysters being the fast food of the …
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Autumn in Regent’s Park
I spent a lovely hour walking around Regent’s Park on Saturday afternoon, grabbing a couple of autumnal scenes on my trusty Ricoh GX100 camera (long term test review coming soon!) …
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A walk around Fitzrovia, London
Had a nice walk around W1 and Fitzrovia on Saturday – interesting to see so many buildings closed and the huge development taking place by Great Portland Street. Photos of …
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A walk around Brick Lane, East End
Blimey, the place is gentrifying so fast you can almost feel your accent changing while you stand there. Here’s a few pics: More photos here: Brick lane, East London
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