Glasto Day Five (Sun) With the toilets overflowing and supplies of babywipes running perilously low, things are starting to get very messy indeed. Yesterday’s downpour ensured that most of the …
Glastonbury 2004, Day Five Read MoreGlasto Report Day 4 (Sat) Q Magazine’s one-word weather report accurately summed up the conditions: medieval It pissed down. All day. Footpaths that had only just dried out from the …
Glastonbury 2004, Day 4 – medieval Read MoreGlasto: Day One report Arrived onsite around 5pm and then embarked on an elongated faff as Dubversion attempted to blag the van straight on site. Unfortunately, we had to hang …
Glastonbury 2004: Day One report Read MoreNearly there! Thanks to the dynamite driving of Liberty, we’re nearly at Glastonbury. The weather down has been horrible – nothing but gnarly rain. Happily, things have cleared up, so …
Glastonbury – nearly there! Read MoreThe urban75 south London curry crew is in full effect tonight, so I’m looking forward to a jolly good nosh-up in Khan’s (Brockwell Park), promptly followed by some intense lagerification …
Friday night is curry night! Read More
It’s a beautiful day and I’m speeding through green fields on my way to a meeting in Abergavenny. I don’t think I’m much happier than when I’m on a half-empty …
Heading to my homeland Read More
Post weekend update: Saturday afternoon, I popped down to St Agnes Place, an old community Kennington squat now threatened with eviction. We couldn’t stay long as a trip to town …
Alternative Euro 2004 – urban75 football team Read MoreStop fucking about with football It seems that the Big Money Boys who are currently bleeding football fans dry have decided that ‘Division One’ doesn’t sound too attractive to sponsors, …
Stop fucking about with football Read MoreLong term readers of this blog will wince as they recall the industrial strength faffing that accompanied the purchase of my last digital camera purchase – every stat and specification …
Minolta A2 – yet more camera shenanigans Read More
Venus in Transit Venus is currently shuffling across the face of the sun and it looks well k3wl! The last time it was possible to see the entire passage across …
Venus in Transit Read MoreTent update Incredibly, some people were interested enough to ask about about the tent I bought on Friday – so here’s my update. The tent I was going to buy …
Tent update Read More
A long weekend – and it was a good ‘un! Friday night, I went along to the Dirty water Club at the Boston Arms, in Tufnell Park to check out …
A long weekend – and it was a good ‘un! Read MoreTentification Today I’m off to pick up a tent ready for this year’s Glastonbury. After spending several festivals huddled in our light-but-cramped micro tent, I’ve decided to go upmarket and …
Tentification for Glasto Read More
Modstock Despite my bloodied hooter, I ventured up to the Rocket in Holloway Road for Modstock. Billed as a “3 Day Event Celebrating 40 Years of Modernist Culture”, it was …
Modstock at the Rocket in Holloway Road Read MoreSmacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road This fucking sucked. Imagine the scene: you’re walking along a quiet road at night and some twat – for no reason at all …
Smacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road Read MoreTXTing Here’s what I’ve written on this ‘english to lingo’ converter website which converts normal English into the kind of gibberish that ‘the youth’ text to each other on their …
TXTing Read More
Weekend updates Apologies for the slackness with the updates – things have been a tad busy. We finally moved over the rest of urban75 to its shiny, super fast home …
Weekend updates – a night at the 12 Bar Read MoreGuardian article I forgot to mention this, but I was well chuffed with this piece in the Guardian last week. “For some time, campaigning groups have used Flash movies to …
The Guardian bigs up urban75 Read MoreSome surfing… While I’m waiting for the server to be updated, I’ve been surfing around a few websites. Seeing as I can’t speak to them on the boards, here’s some …
Some websites for your perusal Read MorePart one of the big move Today, we’re moving the hyper-busy bulletin boards to their shiny new home at exonetric, with the .net part of urban75 following next week. It’s …
Part one of the big move as the urban75 bulletin boards get shifted Read MoreOver-lagered It’s been one of those weeks when there always seems to be an excellent reason for going down the pub. Wednesday was my friend Gea’s birthday drink at the …
Over-lagered in south London Read MoreLast night’s Offline club night at the Ritzy, Brixton was a corker – but Lordy – the hangover payback is fierce! Check out pictures from the night here
Post-Offline Monster Hangover Read MoreGoldie Lookin’ Chain You’ve got to check out the band’s website – it’s an absolute hoot! The Welsh hip hop band have a ‘flexible’ line-up and mainly sing about getting …
Goldie Lookin’ Chain website is a hit Read More
After a dull day fiddling about with tedious computer/site admin stuff, it was a relief to get out for a few beers in the evening. I went to the Spitz …
Heist at the Spitz Club in Liverpool Street Read MoreI took a walk along the South Bank today and it turned into a bit of an onslaught of emotions – from being uplifting by art, saddened by an exhibition …
Senses working overtime: a Sunday afternoon by the River Thames Read More
Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle Well, I liked the album and was well excited at the prospect of a freebie ticket for their gig at the Coronet, Elephant …
Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle Read More