The Wandle Valley Festival, 12-13 June 2005
What is it? A celebration of South London’s own river, this festival has the distinction of happening within walking distance of my house. The rather byzantine website eventually gives up the festival[…]

Every now and then the Guardian’s real actual comments pages address a musical topic. Freed from the sensible confines of the arts section these are reliably bonkers provocative and are definitely the most entertaining musical coverage the pape[…]

1) the girl with the golden voice– has all of these connections to money and class, to fame, pop desire that completely is against the idea of hazzards–radical reinvention of american pop culture. everyone knows golden voice means golden […]

Rowland Rivron walks past in an Ealingly clean white suit. I point at him, “you’re going down Rivron.” “Not me” he pleads, “get Clarkson instead.”
But Jeremy is in a bad mood. He’s munching away on a pi[…]

The clouds are out, the thermometer is down, the air is damp: what better time for a FESTIVAL? This month’s Blog 7 will be putting on a garish shirt and decamping to the country for a few weeks of messing about in tents and standing in the driz[…]

The Fairie Festival at Spoutswood Farm in Pennsylvania, May 2006
What is it? Not just for kids! Ten thousand people gather to celebrate the coming of the nature spirits, including a host of activities such as gnome and elf tours. Plenty of Irish musi[…]

How to destroy the Earth. I knew that 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter would come in handy one day.[…]

Live 8, Sail 8… this can only end one way:[…]

That’s what a “top German chef” might have said.[…]

On Brighton Pier there is now a Doctor Who exhibition, which yr fearless reporter went to check out on Saturday. It’s down at the end of the pier, near the fairground and the (ace) Dolphin Derby, and costs £5 for an adult and £3 for a child. […]