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Turks sing The Smiths and a Punky Reggae Party

Sun 26th March, 2006Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Turks sing The Smiths and a Punky Reggae Party Checked an interesting video piece at the Photographers’ Gallery, London which featured people from Istanbul singing – and sometimes (ahem) ‘interpreting’ …

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Actionettes Action!

Tue 14th March, 2006Wed 14th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Actionettes Action! A bit late posting ’em up, but here’s the Actionettes doing their hip-swivelling thing at Goldsmith’s College, London last Wednesday: And some inter-galactic silver dress shaking from their …

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London / Places

Richmond – Kingston, urban75 walk

Thu 9th March, 2006Sat 12th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Richmond – Kingston, urban75 walk This was a cracking walk – the weather was fantastic, there was a big turn out of urban folks and the beer was delightful! Check …

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Clubs & Nightlife / New York

Good news from the Raven, NYC!

Tue 7th March, 2006Wed 22nd December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Good news from the Raven, NYC! Happily, the building has passed the city’s inspector’s tests and – with luck – may be reopening in a month or so! urban75 bulletin …

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Brixton / Clubs & Nightlife / London / Places

Another lost Brixton pub

Mon 6th March, 2006Thu 17th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Another lost Brixton pub Was out and about on my bike this afternoon, snapping a few pics around my ‘hood and came across this glorious old pub in Flaxman Road. …

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New York

Bad news from the Big Apple – the Raven Bar burns down

Fri 3rd March, 2006Wed 28th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Bad news from the Big Apple Last night, my very favourite New York bar, The Raven, suffered a serious fire and there’s a chance that the place may have to …

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Wed 1st March, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

urban75 photo competition I’m absolutely blown away by the quality of the entries in this month’s urban75 Photo Competition – some of the work is breathtaking! Check it out here: …

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Pancake flippin’-tastic!

Tue 28th February, 2006Wed 12th September, 2012 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Pancake flippin’-tastic! Much whiskin’, flippin’ and scoffin’ went on today at Chez Urban as we indulged ourselves in Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday (the day before Lent) has been celebrated for …

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Mon 27th February, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Walking Regent’s Park, London Went for a stroll around a near deserted Regent’s Park on Saturday. There was a biting wind, but I had my Ricoh GR camera in my …

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London / photos

Cabman’s shelters and a London walk, Feb 2006

Sun 26th February, 2006Wed 23rd November, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Site updates.. London photos Added a page about a Saturday stroll around a wintery London here. Also new, a section about Cabman’s shelters which are Victorian ‘mini-cafes’ for London cab-drivers.

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Brixton / Clubs & Nightlife / Places

Double whammy of Offlines

Sat 25th February, 2006Sun 30th October, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Double whammy of Offlines It’s only Saturday morning and the strain is showing after two Offline nights! On Thursday, I put on the first ‘regular’ Offline at Brixton JAMM – …

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Fri 24th February, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

urban75 in the New Scientist! Nice to see one of the threads on our bulletin board being reported in this esteemed science journal! However, while engaged in some essential stochastic …

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Thu 23rd February, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A walk through Bermondsey and Rotherhithe We went for a lovely walk from central London to Rotherhithe on the weekend. The amount of ‘exec’ developments is a bit depressing, but …

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stuff
Wed 22nd February, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A Saturday in London A few snaps taken with a Ricoh GR Digital camera (currently on loan for review) on a winter’s afternoon walk around central London. At Trafalgar Sq …

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photos / Places

Williamsburg/Brooklyn photos posted!

Tue 14th February, 2006Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Williamsburg/Brooklyn photos posted! I’m slowly working through the hundreds of photos from my November NY trip and have just posted up 80+ pics taken in Brooklyn. Manhattan shots to follow! …

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New York / photos / Places

Williamsburg photos are up!

Fri 10th February, 2006Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Williamsburg photos are up! Well, actually, only a tiny handful are there so far (23), but I’ve made a start! It’s going to be a massive task – I took …

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Weekend round-up: football and marmalade makers

Tue 7th February, 2006Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Weekend round-up: football and marmalade makers Saturday started early with a mad dash into town to grab a quick coffee and a cake at the Photographer’s Gallery before hurtling around …

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urban75.net – nearly a million pages looked at every week!

Mon 6th February, 2006Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Blimey, it’s getting very busy around here! In January 2006, the urban75.net domain – the bulletin boards – registered an amazing 3,737,275 page impressions (i.e. whole pages looked at) – …

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My New York Photos Are Pants!

Sun 5th February, 2006Sat 5th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

My New York Photos Are Pants! Some time ago a Swedish company asked if they could licence some of my photos for an underwear range. I forgot all about them …

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photos / Places

Country walk, drinking and a new camera – Ricoh GRD

Mon 30th January, 2006Mon 14th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Country walk, drinking and a new camera On Saturday I was charged with organising the January urban75 country walk, and am pleased to say that there was a healthy turn …

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Sven-Goran Eriksson goes!

Tue 24th January, 2006Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Sven-Goran Eriksson goes! What an own goal! The best manager England’s had for years has been hounded out by the English press in the name of pointless tabloid-shifting ‘stings’ while …

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FOPPED AGAIN!

Tue 24th January, 2006Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

FOPPED AGAIN! Once again, a “quick look” in Fopp record store in Cambridge Circus ended up being a shopping spree. I left with another huge pile of CDs including: Bowie: …

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Lost pubs, theatres, shops and squats of Brixton

Sat 21st January, 2006Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Lost pubs, theatres, shops and squats of Brixton There’s another massive project underway – but it looks like being a good ‘un! Lost Pubs According to real ale advocacy group …

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Top freebie software for photographers – virtualPhotographer

Sat 14th January, 2006Thu 24th February, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Top freebie software for photographers! Just playing with these filters now and the quality is excellent for nowt! optikvervelabs.com/ virtualPhotographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to …

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Site update: New nav bar ahoy!

Fri 13th January, 2006Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I’m half way through the awesome task of implementing a newly redesigned nav bar across the entire site. With pages created over ten years over three domains, it’s proving to …

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Bush makes anonymous flaming illegal!

Tue 10th January, 2006Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Bush makes anonymous flaming illegal! Look out flamers trollers and wind-up merchants – President Bush has made it a crime to post annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages …

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cardiff / football

FA Cup. Arsenal 2 Cardiff City 1

Sun 8th January, 2006Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

FA Cup. Arsenal 2 Cardiff City 1 Well, we didn’t manage to pull off a cup upset, but it was a great day out – and the Cardiff fans brought …

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The Evils of Day/Night Nurse

Thu 5th January, 2006Sun 11th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The Evils of Day/Night Nurse I’ve had a right stinky cold, going through boxes of tissues at an alarming rate, so hit the Day/Night Nurse cold remedy. The first day …

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Wed 4th January, 2006 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Country walks and colds On Jan 2nd, a hardy selection of the urban75 Walk Club managed to haul their hungover arses out of bed early enough to meet up at …

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Brixton / Clubs & Nightlife / Places

Happy New Year! (Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda )

Mon 2nd January, 2006Tue 13th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Eeek! I’m still recovering from last night’s monster mash-up at Unsound in Camberwell – what a session that was – I didn’t get in till 8am and I’ve barely slept …

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