Drunken Balordi and Jarmean at Offline: photos
This turned out to be a very drunken night – and a heap of fun!
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Lost London 1870 – 1945: stunning unpublished archive images
Stuffed full of over 500 incredible photographs of London taken between 1875 and 1945, this coffee table book from English Heritage is an absolute treat. The previously unpublished images show …
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DJing the Alabama3 night at JAMM, Brixton
Me and Nicola DJd the Alabama3 night at Brixton JAMM last night and had a heap of fun.
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Whoosh! Red Arrows flypast over London
Troubling my hangover with an unexpected burst of noise and colour was this flypast of the Red Arrows in London a few moments ago.
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Brixton snapshots: World Cup, Windrush Square and Brixton Village
World Cup flags, Pope’s Road market.
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No Frills Band at the Ritzy, experimental film music at the Albert, Brixton
This is why Brixton is the best place to live in London! At the Ritzy were the excellent local spoon-troubling folkies, the No Frills Band, playing live with a wild …
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Cracking Brixton sunset…
It’s a beaut, no?
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Brixton photos: Camberwell coal hole, market stall and ‘Man Corner’
‘Man Corner’ in the Circus pop up shop, Brixton Village (Granville Arcade).
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Offline – samba, surf, electro, punk and anti-folk!
On Saturday we did our first ever night at the Stockwell Grosvenor, a lovely old school Sarf Landahn boozer with a large backroom stage.
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Dan Sartain at the Garage, north London
It’s always a risky business taking to the stage in dark glasses, but Dan Sartain just about pulled it off last night.
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Beggar on Mods Mayday 79 – another blast from my past [video]
Blimey. I was a bit surprised to see that someone had gone to the trouble of putting up YouTube videos of mod images accompanying two of our live recordings from …
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Pete Doherty at Brixton JAMM
Still hungover after our Friday night bash, Offline DJ regular nipsla and were asked to DJ the solo Pete Doherty show at Brixton JAMM on Saturday night. DJing? And free …
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THE LUCKY FACE, DR VAMPIRE and THE NO FRILLS BAND, Brixton
We had another ace Offline club night at the Brixton Albert. It was Em and Han’s birthday and we had an ace line up of The Lucky Face, The No …
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The Great British Summer’s on its way
I’ll have to admit it: I’m not really a big fan of sweltering hot summers, and I prefer the British seaside when it’s wet, cold and windswept during the winter …
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Brixton Market: five signs
Five shots of signs in Brixton Market (formerly Granville Arcade)…
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Take heed! Britain’s first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899
En route to the boozer before Saturday’s Championship play off final at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill. The roadside plaque …
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Offline red hot rockabilly special!
It was a big night of rockabilly and rock and roll at the Albert on Friday. Double bass’s slapped, guitars twanged, whammy bars were wanged and a feast of mean …
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Piccadilly, South Bank and Green Park, May 2010
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.
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Selectors Music Emporium, Brixton
Brixton has lost some fine record stores, but it’s great to see Selectors Music Emporium still serving the community, some 25 years on.
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Beaminster & Crewkerne photos from finest Dorset
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.
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Orbital Comics, Great Newport Street, London
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 …
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A trip to the Dead House underneath Somerset House
On Saturday, we popped down to see ‘A Flow of Words,’ a spoken word event in the Dead House, underneath Somerset House.
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Yumchaa tea rooms, Soho: possibly the finest tea in London
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 …
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Brixton Water Lane, old chip shop – and the Windrush ‘water feature’
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 …
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Some 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 …
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Elephant in Windrush Square, Brixton
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 …
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Brixton snaps: Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village
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.
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Filthy Pedro at Offline Club: photos
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 …
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Brixton street snaps, late April
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.
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Crap London jobs: the sandwich board man
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 …
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