World of Mud (Best Glastonbury Ever)

As you may have noticed from the previous picture, I’ve just returned from a deeply muddy, but fantastic, Glastonbury weekend (well, Mr Eavis said it was the best ever, and it’s not like he says that every year or anything). This year, for the first time, I arrived on site on the Wednesday morning, barely a few hours after it had opened to the soon to be unwashed masses. Once I had located our regular…

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See You On The Way Down

One of the attractions of moving to Islington at the start of the year, (apart from its proximity to transport connections for my soon to be ex-work, and its at the time unknown potential for pub-related Google glory–doh! broken my own rule already), was the fact that there’d be a live music venue just down the road, in the shape of the Islington Academy. Despite being inside a shopping centre (Rock n’ Roll!), and having…

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Googlebombing: the last post (or this joke isn’t funny any more)

I still haven’t been doing anything even remotely interesting recently (it rained a bit, we stayed in, we went to the pub, watched some football, you know the sort of predictably boring stuff), so in the absence of anything more interesting to talk about, just one last post on that whole googlebombing nonsense. I was just wondering if anybody can explain this: www.google.com/search?q=related:www.thebarnsbury.co.uk (Google’s results for a search on websites related to our favourite pub…

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Non Blog

Something of a mid-festival lull at the moment, so I don’t have anything exciting to write about (well, there is that one thing that’s going to affect my everyday life in quite a significant way–and, perhaps, my ability to blog with impunity between the hours of 9 and 5–but I’m not sure I should announce it to the world before certain other people know about it, and if you know me, you’ll know what I’m…

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Festival Training Session

A mere dress rehearsal for the bigger and better festival happenings to come the weekend after next it may have been, but this weekend’s Isle of Wight festival was still great. I wasn’t overly impressed with the two old blokes pretending to be The Who, and found everything post-Word Gets Around that the Stereophonics played to be, well, a touch on the dull side, but aside from that it was a really good weekend. The…

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