Simultaneously inspired and depressed! I took a look through the art books at Shipley’s on Charing Cross Road (formerly known as Zwemmers) and got both inspired and depressed by Chris …

Knackered! Phew! The last 24 hours have been a bit hectic. First off, I had to write a late night review of the free Mozilla Firefox browser and I was …

CDs currently enjoying ‘heavy rotation’ in Chez Urban75: The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart Tom Waits: Closing Time Boo Hewerdine: Baptist Hospital Roddy Frame: Surf Snow Patrol: Final Straw …

Happy St David’s Day! (Or, as we say in Wales, Dydd Dewi Sant) There’s lovely for you, isn’t it?! Check out our Interactive Map of Wales!

Brighton rocks! I’m writing this on the train back from Brighton after a delightful afternoon in ‘London by the Sea’. The weather was perfect – sunny, crisp and cold – …

A selection of links After last night’s all-girl punk rock shakeout, I’ve been having a shufti around these websites: Women of 1970’s Punk – a huge compilation covering Siouxsie to …

Fopp’d! Once again I succumbed to the feast of CD bargains served up at Fopp, a discount record store in Covent Garden. What sets Fopp apart from most cheapo record …

Cardiff report (part three) Headlining the night was the highly tipped rockers, The Loves. With a brace of high profile support gigs under their belts (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), I was …

On the road with the Actionettes!I’m currently scoffing a delightful selection of home baked cakes as my train trundles up to my hometown of Cardiff. We’re due to arrive at …

Walking the streets of London Just spent a delightful few hours thumping the byways and alleyways of London town. I had a meeting near the Barbican and decided to take …

Testing, 1,2,3! Here’s my first attempt to upload a blog entry using vagablog, a neat app that runs on my Sony Clie. If this works, I’ll be able to update …

Stand off in Brixton The eastern part of Coldharbour Lane has been sealed off all day as police have tried to talk a woman out of her flat. Apparently, the …

New urban75 Brixton night coming up soon! Here’s the press release: come along! Offline is a new, chilled out night in downtown Brixton, run by the folks behind urban75. The …

Fuckwits of the Week: Apple Computers Apple’s homepage is currently festooned with Pepsi logos as part of their disgraceful new iTunes advertising campaign which publicly parades children ‘convicted’ of illegally …

My Shite Friday I can confidently state that this has to be one of my shittiest Fridays ever. Here’s what should have happened: Up at 9, breakfast, pack my bags, …

The Tax Return Has Left The Building! Words can’t describe what a miserable experience it was, but I finally managed to work through the hundreds of truck questions contained in …

Aaargh! The Dreary Dullness of Databases! I’ve just spent the entire day – just about every last feckin’ minute of it – trying to install the upgraded vBulletin boards on …

Aaargh Tax return hell! For freelancers there is very little worse that the annual deadly dull trawl through boxes of screwed up receipts, grubby invoices and indecipherable bank statements. I …

Text-tastic Fingers and thumbs must have been clicking like mad over the New Year when 111 million SMS messages were sent on all four main UK mobile networks between midnight …

Fans of cheap digital cameras, low res webcams, poor quality lenses with terrible lens flare will be delighted to see a huge collection of examples on this site. The only …

Hideously hungover Last night was as fabulously beer-tastic as planned, but I’m paying the full price today. Me ‘ead ‘urts! Our ambitious four point plan crumbled, as expected, quite early …

Let the NYE celebrations commence! My Stella awaits me….