It’s been a hectic few days – and it’s my birthday today. Woohoo! Thursday 30th March On Thursday, I put on another Offline club night at JAMM, Brixton. Compared to …
Two Offlines, The Actionettes, my birthday and a trip to north London Read More
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’ …
Turks sing The Smiths and a Punky Reggae Party Read More
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 …
Actionettes Action! Read More
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 …
Richmond – Kingston, urban75 walk Read MoreGood 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 …
Good news from the Raven, NYC! Read More
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. …
Another lost Brixton pub Read MoreBad 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 …
Bad news from the Big Apple – the Raven Bar burns down Read More
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 …
Pancake flippin’-tastic! Read More
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.
Cabman’s shelters and a London walk, Feb 2006 Read More
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 – …
Double whammy of Offlines Read More
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! …
Williamsburg/Brooklyn photos posted! Read More
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 …
Williamsburg photos are up! Read MoreWeekend 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 …
Weekend round-up: football and marmalade makers Read MoreBlimey, 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) – …
urban75.net – nearly a million pages looked at every week! Read More
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 …
My New York Photos Are Pants! Read More
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 …
Country walk, drinking and a new camera – Ricoh GRD Read MoreSven-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 …
Sven-Goran Eriksson goes! Read MoreFOPPED 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: …
FOPPED AGAIN! Read More
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 …
Lost pubs, theatres, shops and squats of Brixton Read MoreTop 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 …
Top freebie software for photographers – virtualPhotographer Read MoreI’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 …
Site update: New nav bar ahoy! Read MoreBush 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 …
Bush makes anonymous flaming illegal! Read More
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 …
FA Cup. Arsenal 2 Cardiff City 1 Read MoreThe 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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