A typical lunch hour in London:
Walking onto Blackfriars Bridge, avoiding the closed pavements due to station refurbishment, I walk past Bobby Gillespie, singer in popular blues and electronica group Primal Scream. There is no mistaking Gillespie, he always appears incredibly greasy and gaunt, a man who has had an eventful life and could be very […]
An exciting sight welcomed me on the Millennium Bridge this beautiful sunny crisp morning. Seeing another film crew I thought nothing of it, they are there everyday after all.
As I closed in on the flittering crew I realised those in front of the camera were foul-mouth idiot Jonathan Ross, smug pug-faced little fat man Ricky […]
As I was walking over the Millennium Bridge this morning I noticed work being performed on the outside of Tate Modern. At long last the gigantic pieces of childish art that have adorned the exterior of the former power station are being removed.
The Graffiti Busters were on site with their ladders, sprays, special solutions for […]
The world of t-shirt logos can be a very dangerous and disruptive place. It is so very easy to offend with some off hand printed japery. Sometimes these logos are just totally bizarre – obviously created by the mind of a crazy person and worn by similarly unstable individuals.
Walking over the Millennium Bridge this morning […]
No, I am not talking about Doctor Who’s Catherine Tate, you naughty people.
Recently, there have appeared a collection of bizarre artistic apparitions on the frontage of the Tate Modern, on London’s South Bank. These gigantic paintings stretch from the tip of the building to its very bottom. It must be a mammoth task to paint […]
I see it all walking over the Millennium Bridge, I really do. Today there was a photo shoot for angular indie guitar band Dirty Pretty Things. The band is made up of a couple of ex-Libertines, whose former singer Pete Doherty can often be found lying on my East End door step, drunk, drugged and […]
I was striding over the Millennium Bridge last eve, dodging tourists and wishing I was carrying a samurai sword, when I almost walked directly into top TV celebrity magic man Derren Brown. There was a camera placed on a tripod filming him as he pretended to be a member of the public walking within the […]
Boy, is it windy today, or what? It is fairly rare to get any proper wind in that London. I was awoken to the sounds of my windows rattling and the front door banging, even though it was locked. I was soooo happy it was a Saturday so I could lie in my nice warm […]
The BBC is on the brink of broadcasting its new series Ashes to Ashes. It stars Keeley Hawes as DI Alex Drake and Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt (total Hunt). It will be set in the 1980s and the present day. I am really looking forward to it. I loved the previous two series […]
“Alright sir?”
“Erm.. Not really I’m in a really bad mood. You?”
“I’m brilliant. Do you have a minute sir?”
“No I don’t, sorry.”
“It will only take a minute.”
“For what?”
“To tell you about how you can sponsor me to help this brilliant charity.”
“I’m not interested thank you.”
“Only a minute sir.”
“Leave me alone.”
“There’s no need to be rude sir.”
“Which […]