Category Archives: uk

Can You Dig It?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2011

Not a lot of time tonight, so as I have found myself craving British indie music from the early 1990s and with a huge variety to choose from, I hereby present the Mock Turtles with their biggest hit Can You Dig It? This, along with anything by the Inspiral Carpets, The Farm, Happy Mondays, Soup [...]

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Magic Roundabout

By 6000 | 6000 | March 6, 2011

Stemming from a brief mention on twitter of it during the week, I thought it only fair to feature one of the craziest and most amazing road junctions I’ve ever had the pleasure of driving around: Swindon’s Magic Roundabout. In truth, Swindon is a bit of a hole – the only thing really worth popping down [...]

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No fly

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

Love this from American site loweringthebar.net: According to the Daily Mail Online, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas. Officials confirmed on January 30 that the [...]

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Forty… Forty-five…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2011

Those who listen to the Gareth Cliff Breakfast show on 5FM each morning will surely have heard the “forty… forty-five” meme which seems to somehow slip into the show in some form or other. What you may not know is where it came from originally, which is here: Series 2 of the Harry & Paul [...]

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Take The Long Road And Walk It

By 6000 | 6000 | January 30, 2011

Ah – The Music. This’ll wake you up on a Monday morning (which – according to my rudimentary calculations – is when most of you will be reading this post). I stumbled across the music of The Music back in 2001 when, somehow having some spare cash, I puchased a hazy escape from real life [...]

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