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Every now and again a gig comes up that makes my pulse quicken and my hands shake at the prospect of having discovered before the tickets all sell out, and Monday September 4th was just such a gig. After optimistically

One of the best things about my life these days is the number of times I'll look at my surroundings and thing “How in the bloody hell did I get myself involved in THIS ?”. And the August bank holiday

Sometime in a blog's life there comes a time when you wind up posting an email conversation you've had rather than cooking up new content. However given the highly emotional topic matter, I feel it warranted. Here follows an email

Where the hell are all the bloody forks ? Our workplace typically has loads of the damn things in the Communal Kitchen Drawer. Bizarrely though, every now and again – am I'm not sure what causes it – they all

Community Service Announcement: Don't read Rik Mayall's book “Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ“. It's a piece of puerile, boring, badly written shite. Yes, I will substantiate this. Anyone who's seen Rik perform more than once will be aware that

Anybody who happened to be looking at Wikipedia on Monday would have seen this, but otherwise I thought it was worth mentioning: guess what Adelaidean peculiarity was listed as the Front Page Article for the 14th of August ? Not

So, the other week Richie, Hilary & I head up to Kentish Town Forum to go see Bauhaus – that'd be one of my least favourite venues (a cavernous dive is probably the best description) to see an 80's goth

One of the key lessons that the Dance (Basic) group learned at the PASSPORT Scouting Arts Conference in 1993 – by way of demonstration of Mr Greg Mant – is that it doesn't really matter what you do on a

Contrary to the hundreds of enquiries and emails of encouragement I received at the time, I did NOT participate in this. Thank you all for your kind words and suggestions, however as it was I already had to be at

Not that one wishes to cast aspersions on the validity of the Houses of Parliament as an enjoyable place to go, but when the other options include a building with 500 different beers inside, the contest is over as far