MEANWHILE GARDENS: 50 YEARS AND STILL FUCKING HERE
Kangaroo Moon. Blyth Power. Justin Adams. Danny & The Dressmakers. Blue Midnight. Bing Selfish.
Saturday 19 September 2026 | 11am till 7pm | FREE
Some gigs are just gigs.
You turn up. Have a few beers. Go home. A week later you've forgotten most of it.
This isn't one of those.
This Saturday, West London celebrates fifty years of Meanwhile Gardens, a piece of land that started life as derelict wasteland and became one of those rare places...
How I got into the music industry through ,Stage Miracles, and how you can get your foot in the door You don't always get into the music business through the front door.
Sometimes you come in through the back.
No record deal.
No industry
No fancy music degree.
No bloke in a leather jacket telling you that you've got "the look".
Sometimes you start with a job that sounds about as glamorous as cleaning out a skip.
ANTHONY: OUR KID, MY DISSERTATION AND MY FINAL YEAR AT BIRKBECK People come and go.
That's just how it works.
Family's not like that.
Nobody stood beside me the way my younger brother Anthony did — through every daft scheme, every glorious cock-up, every phone call at three in the morning that started with, "You'll never guess."
A huge thank you to everyone who came along to The Stewart Arms on Saturday night and made our Loud for Liberty evening such a special one.
To Steve Dior and the Steve Dior Band, Gary Bundy, Neil Anderson, Groover, and Wiggsy, thank you for giving your time, your music and your voices to the night. And not to forget Graham for running them about.
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who turned up, supported the event and helped make the night about something bigger than...
Notting Hill Carnival: From Resistance to Revelry The History of London's Greatest Street Party
Sadly, I won't be at Carnival this year because of other arrangements, and I will miss it, but there are certain things you associate with August in London.
Rain.
Rail engineering works.
People complaining about the Tube.
And then there is Notting Hill Carnival.
For two days every August, west London gets turned into something completely different.
The roads fill with steelpan, soca, calypso, reggae,...
The Prince, The Pub and Portobello Road The Night I Put a Future Earl Behind the Decks London has a funny way of putting people together.
You can spend years walking the same streets, passing the same pubs, knowing the same faces, then one night somebody walks into your life and leaves you with a story you'll still be telling twenty-three years later.
Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger The New Oasis Documentary, Liam and Noel Gallagher and the Reunion That Brought a Generation Back Together There are bands you grow out of.
There are bands you forget.
Then there are bands that get stitched into your life.
Oasis are one of those bands.
You can go years without listening to them.
Then somebody puts on the opening chords of a song in a pub and, suddenly, you're back there.
n2kb2jc1ks7cxnbvv0aq7zxk5g8r4.12 MBTHE ACCIDENTAL GRANOLA KING OF HỘI AN FROM KENTISH TOWN TO VIETNAM — FROM A TOASTER OVEN AND A PUSHBIKE TO A FACTORY FULL OF PEOPLE
Yesterday I met Peter Gluckstein over a beer.
Today I was walking around his factory.
That's Vietnam for you.
You can sit down in a bar with a bloke you've never met, have a couple of beers, start talking bollocks about life, business, London and Vietnam, and before you know it you're standing in a cap and protective clothing being...
Some come because they’ve had enough of the life they were living and fancy rolling the dice one more time.
Nathan belongs firmly in the third category.
He was running The Magpie in Toronto, a proper little independent music bar where he managed the place and booked the bands. Then he came to Vietnam on holiday.
Bar Horse Slut, Hội An If you're wandering through Hội An's famous Nguyễn Hoàng Night Market, don't just look for the colourful lanterns.
Look for Mun.
His tiny mobile bar, proudly carrying the unforgettable name Bar Horse Slut, sits beside the Hoài River on An Hội Islet, right in the middle of one of the busiest evening spots in Vietnam. Every night the market fills with visitors browsing silk lanterns, street food, local crafts and souvenirs while traditional wooden boats glide along the...
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