{"id":656,"date":"2005-10-03T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-01-17T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:08:20","slug":"656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/656\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubbing, drinking and walking and Howard Marks at Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clubbing, drinking and walking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blimey, it&#8217;s been a busy week!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/offline20_10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Offline<\/a> proved to be a ton of work to organise and run, but I&#8217;m happy to say that it was the best ever, with three floors, four rooms, 18 musicians, six live acts, three poets, 15 DJs&#8230;&#8230;and Howard Marks!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Howard Marks at Offline, Dogstar, Brixton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/offline20_17.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Howard Marks at Offline, Dogstar, Brixton<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The BBC were in the house and happily there was no mishaps with the ramshackle stage that me and Johnny (from the Messengers of God) put together.<\/p>\n<p>Comprising of two stage segments supported by five tables and a lot of rope, I did have my fears when a seven piece band took to the stage, but our handiwork thankfully held out all night. Phew!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/offline20_25.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a great night and a whole load of fun. See the rest of the pics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/offline20.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I went for a lovely walk from Kew Gardens, westward along the Thames to Richmond Lock and then back over the opposite of the river via Syon park.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we met up with Tim &#8220;no blog updates for me&#8221; F for a birthday meal at the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonningtoncafe.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bonnington Cafe<\/a>,  11 Vauxhall Grove (near Vauxhall tube).<\/p>\n<p>Starting life as a kitchen for the use of local squatters, the cafe grown into a very popular vegetarian restaurant &#8211; we love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clubbing, drinking and walking Blimey, it&#8217;s been a busy week! 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