I fucking hate Easter. It’s like four dull Sundays all shunted together into a 1950s-style weekend of cruelly curtailed drinking hours. A great mass of London buggers off leaving the …

Writing and alcohol I’ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk …

A Brixton drunk night It was one of those nights that make you feel good to be alive: meeting loads of chums in your local, chewing the fat, talking shit …

New party photos online! Apologies for the delay, but the photos from the Offline 3 party at the Ritzy, Brixton last night are now up on the site.

Apologies to urban75 bulletin board folk The boards have been going up and down faster than an over-excited pneumatic drill on amyl nitrate today, but the word is that someone …

It’s my birthday!And so far it’s been a good ‘un. The day started with a hearty breakfast in bed (hot croissants, fresh fruit and Earl Grey – thanks Em!), followed …

Fame! I want to live forever! Publicity ahoy! The urban75 ‘lad detector’ has sprung into action after archetypal blokes mag, FHM Magazine, declared urban75 to be one of their “greatest …

Web-tastic It doesn’t seem that long ago that the web was seen as the exclusive domain of tightly zipped anoraked spodheads – I can remember when receiving an email was …

People! Bugger off! Well, I don’t mean you, dear blog reader, but it has to be said that this site is becoming a victim of its own success. Right now, …

Café 1 Work 0 It seemed like a good idea: go out for a walk in the spring sunshine and then go to The Lounge café to start work on …

Is there life on Mars? David Bowie sang a good song about it back in the Seventies, but NASA scientists are reporting that the presence of methane on Mars could …

Great time-waster! Bored at work? Check out the Yeti Sports Penguin-throwing game – version THREE!

Today’s techie-spod site of the day! Check out this anorakfull site, stuffed full of screen grabs of old computer operating systems. I’ve already gazed longingly at the old Amiga screengrabs …

I would go out tonight… Shopping for clothes? God I hate it! As anyone who knows me will testify, I’m not exactly Mr Fashion, but I try and dress vaguely …

The horrors of ‘on hold’ Unhappily, as a result of the urban75 server becoming flakier than Cadbury’s finest, I’ve found myself becoming heavily acquainted with telephone ‘on hold’ music and …

Spanking new ‘urban75 updates & blog’ page launched! For too long, the blog was hidden away, only accessible by clicking on a tiny link lurking at the top of the …

Odd stat attack! Some oddball facts for your delectation… Germs – where they lurk Microbes per square inch: Phone earpiece 25,127 Desk surface 20,961 Keyboards 3,295 Mouse 1,676 Fax machine …

Ban cars? Terrible accident on Brixton Hill tonight. (my rant posted on the bulletin boards last night) There’s too many emotions spinning through my head right now to construct a …

More bloody records Once again, I was unable to resist the lure of the fabulous FOPP records store in Covent Garden. I’ve never managed to leave this excellently-curated, cut-price record …

A late night test!Checking out my new Sony Clie TH55 with its funky new wi-fi feature!