We’ll be celebrating our 30th anniversary at the Dogstar in Brixton next Saturday, 31st Aug 2024 – and you’re welcome to come along! Here’s the press release, with a bit …
urban75 to host 30th anniversary party at the Dogstar, Sat 31st Aug 2024 – free entry all night! Read More
From the archives: spliffed-up tortoises on sticky buns appear in The Hansard! The Draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2005 was discussed in the House of Commons on …
The ‘disconcertingly well informed” urban75 quoted in House Of Commons debate about Ketamine, Oct 2005 Read More
Here’s a listing of the most popular posts on this blog over 2018 – and it makes for quite an eclectic collection of articles covering a diverse range of topics …
The Top 12 posts of 2018 – dangling sneakers, fake houses, festival searches, turbines, drums, pyramids and recording studios Read More
The posters on the urban75 boards have voted in their top 30 albums of the year, and there’s a cracking selection on offer. Over 200 albums were nominated, and there’s …
Top 30 albums of the year for 2013 as selected by urban75 Read More
I always feared that with the rise of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, the long running bulletin boards on urban75 would slowly fade into relative insignificance. Happily, the …
urban75 website notches up 120 million page views in just three years Read More
There was a short-lived but suitably outraged reaction from some members on the busy urban75 forums early this morning, when the site’s font switched to the monstrosity that is Comic Sans.
April Fools on urban75: an attack of the Comic Sans Read More
Just eleven months after the urban75 forums registered its 11,000,000th post, the Brixton-based, community-funded bulletin board has now notched up its 12 millionth user post.
Community website urban75 notches up 12,000,000 forum posts Read More
Thanks to Google’s real time analytics, I can see exactly what search terms people have just typed into Google’s search engine to find the urban75 bulletin boards.
A selection of strange search terms used to find the urban75 boards Read More
When this magnificent rant appeared on the urban75 forums, I felt duty bound to immediately share it with the world. So with thanks to the author ‘dylans’, here’s what I consider …
In response to the news of Will & Kate’s new baby: the greatest anti-royal rant ever Read More
A website developer has created an innovative map showing off the biggest websites from around the world, with each one being represented by a star. And urban75 is twinkling in the heavens!
Map shows off the brightest 350,000 stars of the web – and urban75 is there! Read More
Today has been a very sad day, as we travelled to Greenwich for the funeral of Sam Hiller, a kind, generous, gentle, funny and unique young man, loved by many.
Funeral for a friend in Greenwich. RIP Sam Hiller Read More
On Sunday, the urban75 forums notched up their 11 millionth post, a pretty incredible landmark for a non-profit, self-funded bulletin board that carries no advertising.
Brixton-based urban75 forums notch up an incredible 11 million posts Read More
As 2011 draws to a close, I’ve broken out the calculator and done some totting up to find out which posts have proved the most popular with readers on my …
The most popular urban75 blog posts of 2011: Shard, Slutwalk, Naked Bike Ride and BT Tower Read More
On Tuesday, we held our annual urban75 Christmas curry at Khans, on Brixton Water Lane, with a record-breaking turnout numbering over 40 folks.
A festive feast at the urban75 Annual Christmas Curry, Khans, Brixton Water Lane Read More
Our late summer/early autumn urban75 camping trip in Sussex turned out to be a heap of fun, with loads of singing around roaring fires, drinking beers and mulling over life’s …
urban75 camping trip to WoWo in Sussex, September 2011 Read More
Although I’ve had a blog of some description being updated on urban75 since the site first started (waaaay back in 1994/5), it’s only fairly recently that I transferred from Blogger …
The top ten most popular posts on the urban75 blog so far… Read More
Blimey! When I started urban75 way back in 1995, I never thought it would still be going strong in 2011, and today sees the bulletin board hitting the astonishing total of …
urban75 celebrates 10 million posts Read More
Man, this is annoying. Some blundering oaf at Google has dreamt up an algorithm designed to hoof out dodgy ‘content farm’ type websites from the rankings, but screwed it up …
Clueless Google declares urban75.org a ‘content farm’ Read More
Since moving over the urban75 blog to WordPress in March this year, site traffic increased massively, with the busiest week recording an incredible 10,000 page impressions. Hopefully the blog will …
Top ten most popular posts on the urban75 blog for 2010 Read More
When it comes to top curry houses, there’s none finer than Khans in Brixton Water Lane, SW2, so it’s a natural choice for the annual urban75 curry.
The urban75 Christmas Curry 2010 at Khans, SW2 Read More
Nice to see this on the Guardian’s website on Friday. The article links to an excellent criticism of conspiracy nutbobbins, written by Donna Ferentes. If you want to see examples …
urban75: Guardian’s ‘Best of the web’ Read MoreIf you’ve run your own website for a while, you’ll be used to occasional techie problems with your server, so when I found that urban75.com was down, I figured it …
urban75.com is down for a short while Read More
It seems a weird combination, but allow me to explain! On Wednesday, the BBC effectively paid me to have Hugh Grant look at one of my pictures, when they interviewed …
urban75, Hugh Grant, a Welsh mountain and Newsnight Read MoreNow, this is class!
‘Hitler banned from urban75’ Read More
Just got back from a walk with the feisty urban75 walk club, this time in north Norfolk. It was f-f-freezing, but a whole load of fun. Here’s how not to …
A weekend’s walk in Norfolk Read More
Offline at the Alma Last night the Offline crew ventured south into deepest Crystal Palace, London to put on a show at the Alma, in Church Road. The Actionettes were …
Offline goes south Read More
It’s taken me an eternity to post up because I’ve ended up creating a 14 page, 220 page monster feature, but it’s (more or less) finished so I hope you’ll …
Dartmoor and Devon photos Read More
Ooo-er. Last night was a bit fierce. I ventured way north to the windswept wastelands of Stoke Newington from an urban75 drink up and, lo, beer did flow. Oh yes …
North London drinkin’ Read More