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Christmas in Cardiff

Sat 31st December, 2005Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Christmas in Cardiff Had a great time up in my home town over Christmas, taking in some lovely country walks in the Brecon Beacons, wolfing down real ale, (half) climbing …

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Offline photos are up!

Fri 23rd December, 2005Thu 3rd June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Offline photos are up! The hangover finally cleared long enough for me to post up 50+ photos from the monster blow-out Offline Christmas party on Friday. The night was fantastic: …

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Carol singing in Parliament Square, 2005

Thu 22nd December, 2005Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Carol singing in Parliament Square December 21st 2005 Singing in the face of bad government In a test of the ludicrous Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (which bans …

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Fri 16th December, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

2005 warmest ever year in northern hemisphere A new report shows that 2005 has been the warmest year on record in the northern hemisphere, according to Brit scientists. It’s also …

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Thu 15th December, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Offline tomorrow! A quick reminder about tomorrow’s bash. I’m ageing rapidly as I’m trying to organise 10 bands, 16 Brazilians drummers, 15 DJs, 2 VJs and a load of cabaret …

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Buncefield oil blast and urban75 drugs

Tue 13th December, 2005Mon 3rd October, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

Oil explosion update It seems that my entry (way below you, readers!) about the Buncefield oil depot fire was featured on the Guardian’s website today, so hello Guardian readers. It’s …

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Buncefield: Are you lit up for Christmas?

Sun 11th December, 2005Wed 28th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Are you lit up for Christmas? A local paper asks: From Hemel Today

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Sun 11th December, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Panasonic Lumix LX1 on test Took delivery of a Lumix LX1 camera for review yesterday and managed to grab a few snaps around central London. Although I’m yet to be …

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Buncefield: the fuckwittedness of Fox News

Sun 11th December, 2005Wed 28th July, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

The fuckwittedness of Fox News Early this morning, there was a series of huge explosions at the Buncefield oil distribution depot near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, shooting flames hundreds of feet …

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OFFLINE All night party coming up!

Sat 10th December, 2005Thu 3rd June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

OFFLINE All night party coming up! I’m going grey trying to organise all this, but check out the bill – it’s amazing! Come on down to our bumper Christmas special …

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Stats! Stats! Stats!

Sat 10th December, 2005Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

For those of you who like rummaging amongst numbers, here’s the access stats for 2/3rds of the urban75 empire: urban75.org/net stats for November 2005 urban75.org (2nd busiest month on record!) …

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London Routemaster Farewell in Brixton

Fri 9th December, 2005Tue 19th May, 2015 - by editor - 1 Comment

London Routemaster Farewell The Powers That Be have decided that the hugely popular, much-loved Routemaster buses will no longer run on London’s roads, and today saw the last surviving service …

New York / Places

New York Panoramas

Tue 6th December, 2005Thu 27th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

New York Panoramas I’m still sifting through the zillions of pictures taken on my recent US trip, but I’ve now posted up 15 panoramas from New York City, Brooklyn and …

Brixton / Places

Alfie, Michael Caine and the Brixton connection

Mon 5th December, 2005Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Not a lot of people know this, but two short scenes from the fab 1966 hit film ‘Alfie’ were shot in Brixton. Thanks to the generosity of the urban75 board …

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Lord of the hangovers!

Fri 25th November, 2005Thu 3rd June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Lord of the hangovers! Last night was another B-I-G Offline night out in Brixton and I’m still feeling the effects! Maybe it was because it was f-f-f-freezing outside, but the …

New York / Places

New York blog – Williamsburg and Lower East Side adventures

Sun 20th November, 2005Sat 23rd March, 2013 - by editor - Leave a Comment

NEW YORK BLOG – 5th – 17th November (Photo gallery to follow!) Saturday 5th November: New York bound! With a thick head after last night’s alcohol-slopping Offline (that beer at …

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Stats for 2005

Fri 4th November, 2005Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Stat attack! For those of you who are interested in the spoddy stuff, here’s the stats for the urban75.org and .net web traffic for October 2005 – unzip your anoraks …

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Offline with Aaron Barschak

Tue 1st November, 2005Sat 11th September, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Offline this Friday! It’s another fabulous bill, at the Birkbeck College SU, 4th Floor, Malet St, London WC1 9pm – 1am FREE ENTRY! DJs DUBVERSION, EDITOR Live Performance: HAPPY BAND …

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Fopped! Again!

Tue 1st November, 2005Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Fopped! Two visits in two days to the Fopps record store in Cambridge Circus, central London, means that I’ve got a shedload of new records to listen to, including: DJ …

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Tue 1st November, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Halloween at the Albert Well, that was fun! 🙂 October 31st, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9″ width=”350″ border=”0″> More pics here

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Sun 30th October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Monster St Ives/Cornwall photo updates! It feels like it’s taken an eternity to sort out, but I’ve now added over 100 new photos to the St Ives and Cornwall Photo …

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Sun 30th October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Printer rant I want to smash my Epson printer into a million pieces. What’s the matter with the fecking thing? One minute my Epson Photo895 will be producing beautiful, rich …

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Sun 30th October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Shame that blog! Today’s nomination: SonikUntroubled by a single post since Thursday, April 21, 2005!How slack? Off the scale slack!

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Fri 28th October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Offline hangover! Ouch! My ‘ead ‘urts! Some photos from last night’s Offline at the Dogstar: More photos here

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Apple scrape the barrel

Fri 28th October, 2005Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Apple scrape the barrel Some fuckwit at Apple thought it would be a grrrreat idea to “associate” the “values” of the multi-billion company with Rosa Parks, who died recently. Parks …

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Cross wielding Christians in Brixton

Tue 25th October, 2005Wed 14th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Cross wielding Christians in Brixton The corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane (aka the KFC Crackpot Corner) has long played host to weird and wonderful religious types. We’ve had …

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Sat 22nd October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Offline photos are now online More photos here! Next Offline is this Thursday (Oct 27th) at the Dogstar with tons of live acts, DJs and cabaret performers – and it’s …

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Sat 22nd October, 2005 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Hangover Deluxe! Last night’s Offline was another top-notch beery mash-up, so I’m too hungover to post up the photos, but in the meantime, check out these fantastic clips from Prangstgrup.com …

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New Brighton photos!

Thu 20th October, 2005Sat 12th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

New Brighton photos! I’ve just added about thirty new pics to the Brighton photo gallery Sad to see the West Pier looking so moribund – here’s how it looked just …

cardiff / football / Places

Brighton 1 Cardiff City 2

Tue 18th October, 2005Wed 14th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Brighton 1 Cardiff City 2 It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Cardiff win, but I was a happy bunny on Saturday, even if the ‘field of dreams’ looked …