Minor facelift and freshen up of the Tooting Bizarre netlabel site, after it was (quite correctly) described as “a little bit Windows XP”… I went for a hand-drawn background, to go with the whole “no-budget”, “do-it-yourself” mood of the site, but kept the clean white look. I just hope we can convince some more fine bands to join our motley crew and slap their music up on the site.

Tooting Bizarre have a new night at The Miller, a fine venue. I have booked the first two nights, and also made the flyers. Ecce!

I have complete the first public beta of the new Tooting Bizarre netlabel site. The idea is to provide a sharp looking site on which to collect the numerous free-to-download releases of Tooting bands, and hopefully other cool London bands too, in time.

It was written from scratch in PHP & MySQL (a first for me), and I also done the layout and graphics. I will continue to improve the site, once I get some feedback from the peoples.

Tasty new Doghouse T-shirt design, with a private-eye casing-the-joint, lighting Ms. Bacall’s cigarette with a wink, kinda box-of-matches design.

More animated GIF nonsense.

I have cut together five clips of Tooting Bizarre bands live in the studio with Anthony Chapman in High Wycombe. My favourite is 50ft Panda, which you can watch here:

The rest are available to watch on Youtube:

THE DOGHOUSE RILEY BAND: Cheapies | Refrigerator Lover
TODGER: Technological Arm
TOOTING BIZARRE: Old Kent Road

Animated GIF silliness.

Friday night Tooting Bizarre hosted a big ol’ charity gig at the Grosvenor. I played with the DHRB (we rocked) and got to visualise all night. I was helped out by some official Oxjam VJ-DVD when I got too drunk, but the new lappy (Vanessa’s) held up surprising well. Although it could do with some more RAM…

This was also Tooting Bizarre’s first birthday, and exactly a year after the first time I did live visuals (at said TB event)!