Pre Match Tension builds… Well, I’ve got my tickets for the game on Sunday and I’m already feeling nervous – 72,000 packed into the mighty Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and …

Bloooobirds! Just got back from a long coach trip to Bristol and back to watch the mighty Cardiff City secure their place in the Division Two play off final (in …

Oh, me poor ‘ead! Last night’s ‘quiet’ drink turned out to be a bit of a quaff-a-thon, ending up at the excellent Juice Bar on Coldharbour Lane – a small, …

Lovely, lovely Wales! I’ve been browsing the Famous Welsh website, which lists famous people with Welsh connections (although some of the connections are a tad tenuous!) Did you know that …

ZULU: respect! I’ve just watched the seminal 1964 film ‘Zulu’ (with Michael Caine and Stanley Baker) and was pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it. Far from being …

I hate football Or rather I didn’t until Cardiff City’s form took a complete nosedive and we’ve turned into a bunch of loosers, lossers and lamerz. COME ON CITY!!! (please)

A sad site Witness the sad remains of a bombed dot com Bless them – their homepage shows their logo falling apart, ripped background wallpaper and a broken TV…

King Hangover! After a stupendous birthday quaff on Thursday, it took me two days to feel like a beer again – and last night I certainly made up for my …

It’s my birthday – woohooo! I have just one objective in mind: beer. Lots of it.

Back from Cornwall After a delightful 5 days in beautiful St Ives, I’m now back in grimy old Brixton preparing myself for a Magnum Birthday Quaff tomorrow. And allow me …

Pubs They rock, don’t they? A few beers with some friends, a few new faces, some interesting conversations and that feeling that you’re enjoying the very same kind of social …

I need a drink Check out the Stop the War photos from Saturday’s march and then laugh at the drunken oafs in the urban75 post-march party And if you really …

Stuck I’ve been buckling under a beastly writing deadline which meant I didn’t leave the house for 2 whole days. And I think it’s making me go a little odd….

BBC radio here I come! At 22:00 to midnight tonight I’m going to be on a live BBC London radio “pub quiz”, where I intend to quaff, quaff and quaff …

Woe is me! The unstoppable, soaraway success of urban75 is causing real problems with the server. With up to a quarter of a million page impressions per day, it looks …

Gig of the year! (so far) It’s taken a few days for me to get around to telling you about it, but the Be Good Tanyas at the Festival hall …

New on urban75! Punch Iain Duncan Smith Punch Saddam Punch Jim Davidson and a swanky new Punch homepage!

Favourite links of the day! Tens of Bush Supporters Take To the Streets In Support of the President – fab pisstake See New York in the snow – if you’ve …

An all-protestin’, all-partyin’ weekend! On Saturday I joined the biggest demo Britain has ever seen – the Stop The War march in London, and then checked out the Brixton Telegraph …

Today’s top link! Make your own George Bush speech! Use this fun Flash game to ‘speechify’ Bush as he continues his ‘bombification’ of Iraq and tries to ‘eliminatise’ Saddam. And …

Phew – what a weekend! This weekend saw yours truly talking the usual bollocks at the prestigious Fabian Society’s annual conference, sat on discussion panels with a Lord and the …

Number One! After a truly immense redesign of the urban75 panorama section and the photo sections, I’ve now getting number one rankings at Google for phrases like, “London photos”, “Chicago …

Spent a lovely day in Brighton today but couldn’t shake of the sadness at seeing the sad trashed ruins of Brighton’s half-collapsed West Pier. Why the fuck was such a …

The office is currently reverberating to… Tom Waits, ‘Closing Time’ Ms Dynamite, ‘a little deeper’ Monochrome Set, ‘Dante’s Casino’ Psychedelic Furs, ‘Forever Now’ Hem, ‘Rabbit Songs’

The bulletin boards are back! After much techie fiddling about, I’m delighted to say that the urban75 bulletin boards are now back in full swing. Yipee! I was worried that …

Lovely, lovely Wales! Here’s some remotely interesting facts about my home country: Mount Everest was named after a Welshman (Sir George Everest from Crickhowell – surveyor-general of India 1865). The …

Battling with bulletin boards After the original boards finally melted down due to sheer weight of traffic, die-hard urbanites have been huddled together in this makeshift freebie forum. Meanwhile our …