Wow , what a great week of music this week (Blur on Friday, and Roots Manuva on Sunday).

After reading about The Alma St Fair in 'The Camden New Journal' , I was excited to read my main man Roots Manuva was to play!

I took the Mrs and Kids and they enjoyed sampling some Indian cuisine and making T Shirts, whilst I enjoyed hooking up with my old Kentish Town homeboy Paul and beautiful Georgian wife Tika).



There was a great local band who sounded a bit like Hot Chip, Jimmy Screech and The Main act Roots Manuva.



Jimmy Screech was great and mixed roots reggae with garage and dance hall beats, after a mellow toke I even did a bit of boggling, and will check the man out on CD (or torrentz , as is my want).



The crowd was well up for Roots Manuva, he didn't disappoint and ran through the Classics 'Witness' (One Hope), 'Dub Styles' and 'Dreamy Days' (I think!).

A great day was had by all, although it might become a victim of it's own success next year, 2500 came this year, any more and local residents may not be able to cope.



P.S. big up for Roots Manuva, and the dads running the craft fair - a Diss for Mr Hudson who was late and only played one song (shouldn't have bothered mate).

Hello fellow Bloggers!



I had a great time at Blur last night!, I had my doubts because the wife and I took the two kids . I was worried that they would get bored (they didn't), that they would get tired (yes they did, but enjoyed it) and would get cold (the weather was blinding , so no worries!).

I have never been to Hyde park before, but it was ace, the whole site was massive, and you could enjoy yourself just ambling around the site. The kids enjoyed the Pick and Mix stall and ice cream vans, whilst I appreciated the Mojita and beer tents! the wife waited patiently for her idols 'Blur' while I got very merry in the sunshine!

I really enjoyed the support bands 'although not so much 'Florence and the machine' who were a tad depressing, and a bit of a downer! I really enjoyed 'Amadou and Mariam' an Afro Beat band form Mali, they fused Afro Beat rythmns with electro melodies (apparently they are a discovery by Damon Albarns 'honest john records').

Next up was my Ipod favourite 'Vampire Weekend', They are a posh preppy band from New York, who obviously dig Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon (but wouldn't want a real black person living next door to them, obviously!). I really dig their album and enjoyed booging to their hits like 'oxford comma' (and other choons I know but have forgotten the names of!).

After a quick slash and a shuffle to the beer tent, it was time to assume our positions at the front for those Mockney Blur Boys. My wife and I put the kids on our shoulders and got as close as we could to the front line as possible. The atmosphere was great and the kids loved it, (although my real bugbear was the amount of 'chavs' who were recklessly throwing bottles about , they might have been only plastic but they could still hurt someone!! fucking chav braindead cunts!).



I am a big fan of Blur and appreciated the 24 or so songs they pulled off, starting from Bang right up to modern material such a 'Battery in your Leg'. It was a great day and the weather made sure it will be an unforgettable one for my family!

Hi Blog fans! and fellow thirty something indie kids (who should know better).

I am a regular at 90s Britpop haunt The Good Mixer! and Thursday night was their 25th anniversary party. I'm an occasional midweek drinker anyway so needed no second invitation to get rat arsed!

Thursday night started with the bar staff playing some acoustic mod numbers, substitute, by 'The Who' and a few dodgy Weller numbers (Garry the barman had a great voice actually, which I didn't expect from a tattooed 'ammers fan!) .

This infamous London boozer got steadily more packed as the night wore on, and the arrival of Suggs at around 8pm, covered the celebrity angle perfectly, he even rambled some beered up larriness in between the bands!.



The highlight of the evening was a set by some young whippersnappers called 'The Camera Club' . They were a very tight band in the mold of the Arctic monkeys, they had talent and blew all the other meat and potato cod mod outfits out of the water (I will be checking out these scousers again on myspace).

In the noughties where we are swamped by crap all bar one type chain bars, pubs such as The Good Mixer and The Dublin Castle are an Oasis in the desert of gastropubs and shite like slug in covent garden.

Rant is now over and Ive attached a couple of photos.

Hope you like!