Archive for April 26th, 2006
Coo! We’re sure looking forward to witnessing crackpipe-punkas Babyshambles at the Plymouth Pavilions tonight.
According to the Pavilions website, doors open at 7.30pm with the ‘action’ starting at 9pm.
However, frontman Pete Doherty is famous for turning up late (if he turns up at all) to his shows so we were interested to find out what time the band arrived onstage for their turn in Wolverhampton yesterday? Well, it was 10.20pm apparently. Punctual by Pete’s standards but not much good for those of us who have to get back to man the lighthouse of an evening.
Um, praps we’ll give it a miss then.
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April 26th, 2006
If you’re an aspiring Pablo Picasso these days, you don’t spend hours and hours painting ladies with wonky eyes – you simply film your bum with a mobile phone and send the pictures to one of your many whores.
Is this progress? No.
So why not expand your artistic horizons at a free workshop about making and distributing content for mobile devices at the University of Plymouth this week?
Arranged by the Plymouth Media-Partnership, in conjunction with the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, the workshop is taking place at 4pm on Thursday,
April 27 (ie. tomorrow).
The event will demonstrate social network (Web 2.0) projects that incorporate streaming media, Bluetooth and mobile gaming technologies.
And, er, some other stuff.
Yeah, well, it’s all Greek to us too but if you’re a bit handy with a mobie and wanna reserve your free place, call 01752 346530 or email karen@pm-p.com
Posted by Thin White Duke
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April 26th, 2006
Poverty kills. Poverty causes abuse. There is nothing noble about being poor. And here we are thinking we’re so smug in such a rich country that poverty is a thing of the past. But some might disagree. And this isn’t about that respectable poverty that’s almost braggable at dinner parties.
Shelter was in Torquay recently and pointed out that the South West ‘is the second most unaffordable region in the country, house prices now average around 10 times the average income, while the region is host to 22 per cent of all second homes in England - the most in the UK. Furthermore, around 35 per cent of council housing stock has been lost through the Right to Buy since the scheme was introduced.’
If you’re in doubt about the way poverty and poor housing affects people’s lives get a copy of Waiting for the future, poems by children on poverty and bad housing, from Shelter. It’s £5.
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April 26th, 2006
