Tyne Bridge & Tuxedo Princess - Newcastle
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Some hotel rooms have great views, and some have views like this - room 529 at the Hilton Gateshead - across the Tyne River from the center of Newcastle… in the foreground is the legendary ‘Tuxedo Princess’ which becomes a party boat all weekend…it’s berthed in [...]

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Business travel is mostly very easy for me - I think ahead to make sure I prepare as much as possible (flights, hotels, taxis and even my packing are all thought about to make sure I have the right things in place).
This week however, has not started well.
Firstly - the colleague I was meeting at [...]

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Tortoise & Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy - The Brave and the Bold : I picked this album up after reading a few mixed reviews of it - I don’t know much by either artist, although I have heard some Will Oldham (Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy) tracks and whilst I wasn’t a fan, I liked his voice enough [...]

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She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge : I’m late to the party with this one, but I’m really glad I decided to buy this one after an impulse listen inspired by the cover image. Inevitably, this will be lumped in with the Editors & Interpol as one of the latest crop of ’sounds like [...]

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Someone gave me a sneaky DVD of Series 2 of LOST, well…up to about episode 15, which I’ve started to plough through at home, and I have to say - its bloody brilliant! I’m still no wiser as to what the hell is going on, but I know whats down that hatch now.

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This could, quite possibly be the funniest thing I have evar seen on teh internets : Google Idol…unearthing the world’s talent

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Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs : The music media are ALL OVER this band - a three piece all-girl garage band from New York, and usually thats everything I need to not bother listening, but I read good reviews for this and decided to give it a listen. Its excellent stuff - proper jump [...]

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I got to watch some cool films on my trip to Asia -there is nothing like 11 hours on a plane that focuses you on the 8 inch screen in front of you! With time like that to kill, theres pretty much only a few things to do, I like to read and watch movies [...]

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Hetemeel.com : Dynamic images - very useful and fun site for dynamic pictures!

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No, really - I was lucky enough to travel to Russia a lot in 2003/2004 - and I loved every minute of it. I made some good friends there - who I’ll never forget, and saw some things I thought I would never see - so I was really excited when I heard that More4 were [...]

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