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 …
Currified at the Strand Continental Hotel Read MoreFestival 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 …
Festival nostalgia Read More
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? (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 …
Where’s my chuffin’ camera? (rant) Read More
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 …
Clubs, beer and art Read MoreFopped! 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 …
Fopped! Read More
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! …
Actionettes at HDIFTBL, Brixton Read More
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 …
Vauxhall barge gig Read MoreCyberStalked! 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 MoreGlasto 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 …
Glastonbury 2004, Day Five Read MoreGlasto 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 …
Glastonbury 2004, Day 4 – medieval Read MoreGlasto: 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 …
Glastonbury 2004: Day One report Read MoreNearly 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 MoreThe 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 …
Friday night is curry night! Read More
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 …
Heading to my homeland Read More
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 …
Alternative Euro 2004 – urban75 football team Read MoreStop 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, …
Stop fucking about with football Read MoreLong term readers of this blog will wince as they recall the industrial strength faffing that accompanied the purchase of my last digital camera purchase – every stat and specification …
Minolta A2 – yet more camera shenanigans Read More
Venus in Transit Venus is currently shuffling across the face of the sun and it looks well k3wl! The last time it was possible to see the entire passage across …
Venus in Transit Read MoreTent update Incredibly, some people were interested enough to ask about about the tent I bought on Friday – so here’s my update. The tent I was going to buy …
Tent update Read More
A long weekend – and it was a good ‘un! Friday night, I went along to the Dirty water Club at the Boston Arms, in Tufnell Park to check out …
A long weekend – and it was a good ‘un! Read MoreTentification Today I’m off to pick up a tent ready for this year’s Glastonbury. After spending several festivals huddled in our light-but-cramped micro tent, I’ve decided to go upmarket and …
Tentification for Glasto Read More
Modstock Despite my bloodied hooter, I ventured up to the Rocket in Holloway Road for Modstock. Billed as a “3 Day Event Celebrating 40 Years of Modernist Culture”, it was …
Modstock at the Rocket in Holloway Road Read MoreSmacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road This fucking sucked. Imagine the scene: you’re walking along a quiet road at night and some twat – for no reason at all …
Smacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road Read MoreTXTing Here’s what I’ve written on this ‘english to lingo’ converter website which converts normal English into the kind of gibberish that ‘the youth’ text to each other on their …
TXTing Read More
Weekend updates Apologies for the slackness with the updates – things have been a tad busy. We finally moved over the rest of urban75 to its shiny, super fast home …
Weekend updates – a night at the 12 Bar Read More