Archive for April, 2006

Not Enough Owls

28Apr06

Special interest groups run the world. It’s a fact. The latest in a long line of fundamentalist boat-rocking quasi-terrorist organisations is run by a seedy cabal of gaming hacks based in a small flat in Pimlico whose project may change the way games are designed and produced. For all their extreme views, the powerful lobbies [...]

“But I don’t even like Jazz”: Soil and “Pimp” Sessions in Camden

24Apr06

On a bit of a gig-a-thon at the moment. Having spent most of Sunday dashing round a desperately soggy London dodging marathon runners trying to find good photos to take amidst the awful weather, I met up with a nice bunch of people to go and see Soil & Pimp Sessions at the Jazz Cafe [...]

Afrirampo live in London

21Apr06

A few of us went to see Afrirampo at Cargo last week. I talked about them before on LJ; they’re a rocking noisy thrashy punky pair from Japan: Oni and Pika. The gig was fantastic and the two of them have a really childish fun vibe. I had a hunt through YouTube for some video [...]

St. Pancras Gardens and Hardy’s Tree

01Apr06

A while back I was told of a fantastic sounding tree in a church yard next to the railway lines coming out of St. Pancras station. When the railway was being built it was necessary to move a large number of graves that were in the way of the new line. The Bishop of London [...]