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 MoreTurn 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 …
Cardiff City’s fabulous season in video Read More
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 …
Cardiff City awaydays: Colchester United, 1993 – with pitch invasion! Read More
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.
Piccadilly, South Bank and Green Park, May 2010 Read More
Brixton has lost some fine record stores, but it’s great to see Selectors Music Emporium still serving the community, some 25 years on.
Selectors Music Emporium, Brixton Read More
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 …
London’s new double-decker bus announced Read More
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.
Beaminster & Crewkerne photos from finest Dorset Read More
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 …
Orbital Comics, Great Newport Street, London Read More
On Saturday, we popped down to see ‘A Flow of Words,’ a spoken word event in the Dead House, underneath Somerset House.
A trip to the Dead House underneath Somerset House Read More
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 …
What kind of fan are you? And how do you cope with failure? Read More
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 …
Cardiff City beat Leicester – we’re in the Championship play-off final! Read More
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 …
Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London Read More
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 …
Brixton Water Lane, old chip shop – and the Windrush ‘water feature’ Read More
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 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 …
Some quality anti-Murdoch/Sky heckling Read More
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:
Clegg, Cameron and the election: the official urban75 verdict Read More
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 …
urban75’s internet memes thread for endless LOLz Read More
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 …
The Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody movie clip lives on Read More
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 MoreThis is ace. I can’t imagine how much effort it took, but it’s well worth 2 minutes and 13 seconds of your time.
Entire Star Wars saga retold in 2mins 13s – in Lego! [video] Read More
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 …
Elephant in Windrush Square, Brixton Read More
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 …
BBC One Show: it’s really, really shit, isn’t it? Read MoreThis superb clip from Armando Iannucci’s ‘Time Trumpet’ may be four years old but it wonderfully shows Cameron’s opportunistic copying of Blair. Hilarious!
David Cameron exposed – genius video parody with added Bowie! Read More
Valentia Place is like a bit of time-warped 1950s Brixton, with its cobbled road surface breaking through the tarmac, knackered corrugated iron walls and railway arch.
Brixton snaps: Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village Read More
The photos don’t even come close to capturing the mayhem that accompanies a Filthy Pedro gig, so you’ll have to take it from me that the night was a whole …
Filthy Pedro at Offline Club: photos Read More
It’s another lovely sunny day in Brixton, so here’s a few snaps from my walk around town. Above: Mime lesson – or is that ‘lessen’? – advertised in Brixton Market.
Brixton street snaps, late April Read More
Mrs Mills was discovered while working as the superintendent of the typing pool in the Paymaster General’s office in London in the early 60s. Her catchy piano style and jolly, …
Mrs Mills, pub party pianist extraordinaire – we salute you! Read More
Sandwich board men have been on the streets of London for centuries, providing cheap and effective advertising for local businesses. Go back two hundred years and you would have seen …
Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man Read More
I spent a delightful weekend up in Oxfordshire, camping near the Vale of the White Horse with a lovely mob of urban folks. The weather was sensationally good – clear …
urban spring camping holiday – Vale of the White Horse Read MoreAs part of the campaign to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014, a four minute video montage of movie invasions has been put together. Dr Who …
London invaded! A compendium of alien invasion movie clips Read More