My journals from 1984 until now
Saturday 21st of June 2014 – People’s Assembly against Austerity March http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/ People’s Assembly Twitter Feed (Twitter, futurally known as X) There was little press coverage about this march, nothing from the BBC, I complained as have others. An estimated 50,000 people attended. Francesca Martinez’s speech was moving and peppered with ‘F***s’ and all the … Read more
Friday 11th of April 2014 – Perfection – Perfeição, Legião Urbana Play the song while you read… Renato Russo, my teenage local hero made big (for people who need parallels, think a Brazilian Morrissey, although he was very different from that) wrote most of Legião Urbana’s lyrics. But it turns out it was the one … Read more
Monday 12th of February 2007 – Lez Zeppelin A friend from urban, Hollis is very much into rock tribute bands, and previously took us to Sack Sabath (Black Sabath tribute band) which was one of the funniest gigs I’ve been to for sometime. The singer looked and sounded so much like Ozzy Osbourne and he … Read more
Saturday 27th of May 2006 – Serious Business Jeff, Mark and Greg organised their first club night at the Funky Monky in Camberwell on the 11th of May! I was in the flyer, well, a photo of baby me: It was a good night, busier than I expected it’d be. It wasn’t busy but it … Read more
Saturday 27th of May 2006 – Song to the siren/Sultan’s Elephant Went to Offline at Jamm on Thursday, while you were with you dad and someone I know through Urban75 played one of my favourite songs ever, Song to the Siren, by This Mortal Coil (this isn’t the original but it’s the version I love), … Read more