Slow Club - Paradise

Posted in SHOFT on 15th September 2011

My introduction to Slow Club occurred on what promised to be another glum night in Crewe back in 2009. It's fair to say I've spent a fair few similarly dull nights there over the past decade or so, but rarely have I been quite so surprised. A remarkably glamourous, young...

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Providence Will Guide Them

Posted in Railways on 10th September 2011

Loosely continuing the theme, I was off to see some more controversial development today. Not the deletion and absence of Margate, or the sinister shift from private to public in Liverpool this time. No, today I was going to see changes which were real, were happening - but were costing...

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Hooops #1 - Ichi, SJ Esau, Rozi Plain, FOUND - The Louisiana, Bristol

Posted in SHOFT on 6th September 2011

As I wobbled my unsteady way over the cobbles among the chattering commuters of Bristol, I speculated on how long it was since I'd been to The Louisiana. Too long was my conclusion, but once inside the place was familiar enough. Tonight was the inaugural Hooops night - not so...

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