tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99389382012-01-30T13:05:32.307+01:00<br><br><b>click <a href="http://dubsteps.blogspot.com">here</a> for home page<br></b><center><img src="http://p6.hostingprod.com/@vanityprojectfanzine.com/dubsteps650x275px2.jpg" height="275" width="650"><b><br><br><a href="http://dubsteps.blogspot.com/2008/01/h-in-cup-20072008.html">HAVANT &amp; WATERLOOVILLE FA CUP DIARY 2007/08 - CLICK FOR LINKS</a><br><br><br></b></center>skifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03611935963292986777noreply@blogger.comBlogger4931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9938938.post-42638842745419718432012-01-30T10:47:00.007+01:002012-01-30T13:05:32.316+01:00

HatchedCongratulations to my fellow Hawk and sometime dubSteps contributor Adam Cole and his wife for their production of a new member for the London Branch. Now we number three, albeit with one of us as yet unaware of the fact. In years to come young Sam Cole may well look back on these early years envying the blissful ignorance enjoyed by his younger self. I am sure Adam held up his handsome

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21jan12Conference SouthThurrock Hotel, Thurrockatt. 194Thurrock have come into the New Year cast adrift at the bottom of the division, holding up the Conference South like a sunken ship supports the sea. This is in the sense that the ship lies there at the bottom motionless, only burping out the occasional air bubble, as the sea goes about its business as if the ship wasn’t there. To cut a long

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An appraisal of the highlights of a year's gigging by your correspondent can now be found at the Vanity Project site.

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26dec11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 938Take 1: Boxing Day football is great. It allows those of our persuasion to get out from beneath the hillocks of wrapping paper, tear the party popper streamers off the arms of our spectacles and be amongst our brethren full of festive cheer. Take 2: Boxing Day football is awful. Hanging over the gifting and joy of the previous day like the

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17dec11Conference SouthLongmead Stadium, Tonbridgeatt. 599Any readers whose only source of H&Dub information is this site might have a skewed view of how the last few weeks have been. It has been six weeks since this site has managed to observe a fixture, and that was a barrelling 5-0 win. You join us again after a month and a half, and a workmanlike away win is here to greet you. You might be of

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Been getting a little obsessive about seeing members of the late Captain Beefheart's band play his music live just recently. A review encompassing four dates on The Magic Band's UK tour now appears on Vanity Project.

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Various other commitments (plus Weymouth away in the Trophy not appealing to my Christmas-shopping focused wallet) mean the next thing to be written up here will be H&W's away fixture against Tonbridge Angels on December 17th. Assuming it's not snowed off or something.

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A review of rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson, still gigging at the age of 74, is now up at the Vanity Project site.

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A new review of the wonderful Blurt now appears at the Vanity Project site

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29oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 799Now, of course, it’s too soon to start saying “where did it all go right?”. After all Christmas is coming, a period when, typically, the H&W goose does not get fat. If anything it shrivels like a willy in an ice bath. Indeed, traditionally, our players treat the winter like hedgehogs, in that they slow their breathing down to a bare minimum and

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22oct11Conference SouthThe Beveree, Hamptonatt. 475When it comes to taking a decent lead but squandering it and ending up disappointed, this season we rank up there with Kevin Keegan’s first stint with Newcastle and Adolf Hitler’s ill-fated Europa League campaign. Havant & ‘Ville gaffer Shaun Gale currently remains more popular than Hitler but that’s mainly due to the lack of any crossover with

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08oct11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 766After Wes Fogden had been with us about a year, the disreputable organ before you wrote the following about him: “Despite apparently being named after a minor character in Last of the Summer Wine and having such an enthusiastic proboscis you could spear a bison with it; he has fast become a terrace favourite. He has a Willo-the-Wisp-ish gait

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01oct11FA Cup 2nd Qualifying RoundWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 370Upon the announcement of the 2nd qualifying round draw, the news that Havant & ‘Ville had been drawn at home to Sholing was met with eyes darting side-to-side, fingernails being torn at by agitated teeth, knees knocking like honeymoon suite bedposts against a partition wall.To give an indication of our confidence of late, this was us

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24sep11Conference SouthCrabble Athletic Ground, Doveratt. 735The big action at the Crabble Ground in sunny, coastal, Frenchandtheyknowtheyis Dover was less concerned with the performances on the field as that on the terraces. With respective gaffers Martin Hayes and Shaun Gale both under scrutiny for poor performances in recent weeks, today was a Hawks v Whites grump-off. However, right from the

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10sep11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 789It is footballing law that former players, on returning with their new club, will more often than not haunt you something merciless. Like a series of ghosts to whom you owed money. Thus the fact that Sutton United turn out ex-Hawks like an excitable taxidermist weighed heavy upon us coming into this fixture. That and the five defeats in seven

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29aug11 Conference South Raymond McEnhill Stadium, Salisbury att. 845 When writing the words “already I get the impression we will prove to be tougher to beat this year than last” in your first reportage of the season, you know there is the danger that your chosen phrasing may well come back to bite you in the arse. Given we have now lost four of the subsequent five games I must tell you it’s

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19aug11FA Cup Extra Preliminary RoundColes Park, Haringeyatt. 73The 2011/12 FA Cup will end in North London next May. The team that plays twelve miles to the east of Wembley, at White Hart Lane stadium, might consider themselves a fair bet to win it. The two clubs that play on White Hart Lane itself, at Coles Park, might not have such lofty ambitions yet both began their potentially mountainous

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Review of former This Heat hero and drummer extraordinaire Charles Hayward now onsite at Vanity Project

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06aug11Scottish League Division OneSomerset Park, Ayratt. 1,750In Ayr manager Brian Reid’s programme notes for this first league game of the season, the prior fixtures in the League and Challenge Cups are discussed and he takes time to remark on the “depth of the support on the terraces at East Stirling” which suggests to me that it must have been really wet there. I can well believe that

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Review of Norwich based scamps Bearsuit now at the Vanity Project site.

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13aug11 Conference South Meadow Park, Boreham Wood att. 201 As I left work on Friday my line manager said to me, “hope your team wins”. My reply was simply, “cheers, but that’s not really the way we operate” and it really hasn’t been over the years. Opening day wins are as rare as stamp collecting Satanists in this world of Hawk, only two coming in our thirteen seasons post merger and neither of

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dubSteps will return next month with more on the handsome Havant & 'Ville, as well as the usual annual dispatch from the world of Scottish footballAn army of ducks stare at the skyMeadowbank Stadium, EdinburghPreviously, on dubSteps08aug09: Edinburgh City 1 Edinburgh University 0

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ICC Twenty20 World Cup warm-upThe Oval, LondonPreviously, on dubSteps02jun09: ICC Twenty20 World Cup warm-up

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Two recent reviews added to the Vanity Project site.Meaghan Burke @ Vienna RhizDonaufestival 2011 @ Krems (various venues)

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15th May 2011 (12:00)Tercera Division, Grupo 7AntiguoCanodromo de Carabanchel, Madridatt. 200 (est.)My fellow London-dwelling Havant & 'Ville fan, Adam Cole, is currently working on secondment in Madrid. This meant he missed a large chunk of the H&'Dub end of season run in (for some reason Fuzzbox's 'International Rescue' just started playing in my head). Owing to this absence, our man went in

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30apr11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 602We have reached the point where the curtain sweeps across the stage once more. There was no thrilling final act this year, unlike the last, more a confusing set of non-sequiters drawled out as though by actors riddled with demons and drink. Rather than the season ending with a standing ovation celebrating the late-doors, show-stopping thrills,

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22apr11Isthmian League Division One SouthChurch Road, Whyteleafeatt. 189The old joke runs that if you play a country and western song backwards, you get your house back, your wife back, your dog back etc. etc. Today the soundtrack of Whyteleafe left-back Sam Akokhia’s life was that of a country song played in the standard manner, only in funeral march slow-mo, and when I say ‘a song’, I mean ‘an

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Review of No Babies and Meddicine playing at a house in Dalston Lane now on the Vanity Project site.

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16apr11Isthmian League Division One NorthCricklefield Stadium, Ilfordatt. 128Here in the east London/Essex borders there has been much talk recently about the use of an Olympic facility for football. I’m not entirely sure why this should be big news, apart from the FA ignoring its own rules and a proud club being strangled for not being as big as the club that will soon be under its skin and

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09apr11Conference SouthMeadow Park, Boreham Woodatt. 168As you leave Elstree & Borehamwood station and head in the direction of the town centre, the football club and, most notably, Elstree film studios, you find yourself stepping on the names of some of the leading actors that, I guess, would have worked at said studios over the years. Each name encased in a star, it’s pretty much a low-rent

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Review of Matt & Kim at the Highbury Garage here

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19mar11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 752It’s been a topsy-turvy world of late. Performance wise we came into this weekend off the back of three dreadful wins and two encouraging defeats. Now though, finally, all the bits have come together; a win and, would you credit it, a good ‘un.After bossing large parts of our match against high-flying Braintree at home last Monday, we were

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12mar11Conference SouthStonebridge Road, Northfleetatt. 879There’s been a lot of talk of belief lately. Three wins on the bounce will do that. However, the performances in those games, combined with a number of players being injured or ‘out of form’ and a stone cold bastard of a schedule means my rosey-lensed promotion spectacles remain in the cupboard for now, although happily my sturdy ‘it’

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07mar11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 458For 45 minutes it was all rather familiar. As with our past two performances we put in a rather lacklustre shift for the first period. The only illumination during it was an absolute peach of an up-n’-under welt by Dorchester’s Steve Devlin after 9 minutes that beat Nathan Ashmore’s desperate salute skywards and clipped the underside of the bar

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05mar11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 508Rejoice for it is that very rarest of things: a H&W home game actually going ahead as planned. Of late opposition supporters have taken to calling us Havant & Waterlogville, such has been the regularity of our home games being called off. In fairness, I’m quite sad I didn’t think of it first, and it’s much preferable to the long-term

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Review of Veronica Falls playing in a record shop now on Vanity Project.

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The great blog Sweeping The Nation are currently running a series, 'Reeling In The Years'. Forty contributors. Forty years (1970-2009). Ten songs from each contributor as a guide to their chosen year as lived through music.I chose 1996. Words and links to the tracks available here.

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12feb11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 857Enoch Powell once said that all political lives end in failure, but with the caveat “unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture” which, to me, is a bit like saying “all politicians fail…unless, of course, they don’t”. Following this formula I contend that all one’s football club’s former players and managers, by definition of them

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Review of Dutchman Arnold De Boer's Zea outfit now up at the Vanity Project site

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22jan11Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 577For a variety of reasons, at half time, this didn’t really feel like the kind of fixture with which to kick-start dubSteps once more after its de facto winter break. It’s been a long hiatus as in the last couple of months I’ve built up such a record of absenteeism you’d assume the WLP big kids had, prior to, been stealing my tea-bar money and

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Here's my guide to 2010, in gigs.Oh, and the first gig of 2011.

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Apologies for the lack of activity on here, weather and festivals have prevented me from getting to a game since November 15th. No good at all.Here's a review of said festival to tide us over though.

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06nov10 FA Cup 1st Round Westleigh Park, Havant att. 1102 For the first twenty minutes, it was like the Alamo. For the first twenty minutes, it was like watching a hybrid offspring of the woodpecker and the hammerhead shark going at the dusty bark of a decaying tree. For the first twenty minutes, we hurtled down insistently like level 11 Space Invaders. However, following this opening salvo,

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23oct10 FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round Westleigh Park, Havant att. 905 This bit is why we non-league types love the FA Cup. This bit. Right now. Admittedly this paragraph only really works if you happen to be reading over my shoulder as I type, but let’s pretend you are and that it’s quarter to midnight on Saturday 23rd October. Ready? Good. So, like I say, it’s this bit. The bit between 4th

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Two new reviews over at Vanity ProjectCrystal Castles @ RoundhouseQuintron & Miss Pussycat, The Nuns and Private Trousers @ Tufnell Park Dome

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16oct10Conference SouthWoodside Park, Bishop’s Stortfordatt. 571Clearly, in karmic terms, I’ve been a good lad of late, as my foot-stamping huff over the fact other commitments had meant I’d missed our two biggest wins this season (4-1’s against Thurrock in the league and against Dorchester last week in the Cup) was soothed by this, an even bigger win.There I was on Monday hearing about our

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25sep10 FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Westleigh Park, Havant att. 448 Some Cup moments are glorious, enrapturing, lip-smacking, belly-fizzing things. We know, cos we’ve had one or two. Others are like today – where the atmosphere is so flat as to hint at a frank exchange of views with a cartoon steamroller; so low-key you could use it to pad-lock a cat flap. Still, this is often the way at the

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11sep10Conference SouthThe Beveree, Hamptonatt. 512 So, yeah, six games without a win, I miss the next one and them Hawks slam in four following an early Thurrock goal that initially suggested the day was going to be a long one. Adam, my London Branch colleague, suggested in his update texts that the first half was poor, but in the second we came alive and could have had ten. Our chum Mr Ketchup

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One-liner reviews from the two-day Offset festival (35 acts including Blurt, above), appear via these links.Offset day oneOffset day twoMeanwhile a review of Les Savy Fav at Shoreditch Cargo appears here.

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30aug10Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 1020I would have said after our first game that there’s no better way to record a first win of the campaign than to engulf the optimism of the new ambitious pups on the Conference South circuit (in this case, Dartford). I would have said that, had we been able to hold onto the lead we took into injury time. Similarly, I would have said after this

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24aug10Conference SouthHayes Lane, Bromleyatt. 525Well. Err… Oooookaaaayyyy. Probably just as well I was keeping the expectations on the down-low then. Four games in. Two draws. Two defeats. Two points. Two penalty kicks being two-thirds of the goals we’ve thus far scored. Twentieth place in the table. Even keeping my excitement hemmed in, and with us being only 9.5% of the way through the season

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14aug10Conference SouthPrinces Park, Dartfordatt. 1,302A new season brings with it the need to rummage around in the cupboard and dust off a few items ready for the coming campaign. In my case that would be my Saturday afternoon must haves i.e. replica shirt, scarf and the use of the phrase “I’d rip your arm off for a point right now.”This phrase made its appearance most weeks last season, to the

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07aug10Scottish League Division ThreeCliftonhill, Coatbridgeatt. 369Over the years, many have pondered as to the exact point in a career at which footballers must shrug their shoulders and concede their dreams of glory and stardom have slipped them by. For me, it would be if I was to find myself jogging around the lower rungs of the Scottish Football League whilst dressed, in the main, as a

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13jul10Pre-season friendlyWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 300 (approx.)Does the season begin with the first game? No, it begins when we are told what that game will be. There are many of us all over the world who shape our diaries around our football club’s commitments, blocking out all the Saturdays from August ‘til May by-and-large. For us, the publication of the fixtures, like the birth of Christ

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Review of The Pre New, the phoenix rising from the ashes of Earl Brutus, appears now at Vanity Project.

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30may10Primera Territorial de Catalunya (Group 2)Camp Municipal Júpiter, Barcelonaatt. 200 (approx.)Being very proud of their massive fan-base, their huge stadium and their trophy laden history, Barcelona fans are keen to boast that theirs is “more than just a football club”, meaning the club has been a political symbol for the Catalan people since Franco’s early dabblings with ruthless

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One line reviews of acts playing the Primavera Sound festival proper and some of the showcases around the city are now available to read at the Vanity Project fanzine site.

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A new review of Syrian folk-pop hero Omar Souleyman is now available to view at the Vanity Project site.You'll probably have spotted that there is little activity on this site at the moment. Apart from, possibly, a Spanish game when I pop over to the Primavera Sound festival next week (ash cloud permitting - gulp!) the next definite material will deal with a Havant & Waterlooville pre-season

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Two of my favourite artists played this week in London, each in different forms of collaboration. First Micachu & The Shapes hooked up with the London Sinfonietta at King's Place on Saturday night as part of the latter's 'Experiment' festival, then on Monday Carla Bozulich turned up at Cafe Oto in Dalston with her cellist friend Francesco Guerri.

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A brief review of Havant & Waterlooville's 2009/10 Conference South seasonMy posting prior to the final game dealt largely with the coming week’s ifs. This missive must in part deal with the what-ifs. We finished the season in 6th place, one place and just one point outside of the play-offs. We have no recourse to a recount; a 42-game season allows you to finish exactly where you deserve to be.

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24apr10Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 1,333 ...and so the scoring began in the 20th minute courtesy of a woefully underhit backpass that trickled to a halt like a train faced with a forthcoming six foot snow-drift. Warren McBean ran off with this gift of a free ball, like a kid whose just found a Tesco bag full of well thumbed copies of Razzle in the woods behind their house, and

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As a result of signing up to attend a conference for NHS librarians in Manchester, I took the opportunity to pop up the night before and make the most of my return to the fabulous North. Part of that included a Caribou show at the delightful Deaf Institute venue. A review and a piccy can be seen at Vanity Project.

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17apr10Conference SouthYork Road, Maidenheadatt. 336After the flash-bang-wallop-what-a-picture nature of our previous two fixtures, this game was much more attritional; like trench warfare, only without much in the way of the warfare. Personally, despite Maidenhead having a couple of good chances in the first half, one saved magnificently by our reserve keeper Nathan Ashmore, I was never

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13apr10Conference SouthWestleigh Park, Havantatt. 796“and you may find yourself in another part of the world” - Talking Heads, Once In A LifetimeYou may ask yourself, how did we get here? Right amongst an exciting end-of-season play-off-chasing run-in, despite the fact we managed only one league win in the four month period between mid-September and mid-January. We’re taking the New Labour route

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Flagged up the new Therapy? live review last week of course but rummaging around some old gear at my parents gaff at the weekend, I found the article I had written about them for the Portsmouth Uni SU mag where I was once music editor. The piece was in the March 1998 edition. As such, I've re-published it as a companion piece. It can be found in full-text and PDF format at the Vanity Project site.

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05apr10Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 820If you were asked to name the vital ingredients for success in a team making up for lost time in a late dash for the play-offs, you might throw in phrases like ‘unity’, ‘team-spirit’ and ‘collective will’. All good, chest-out, ‘there’ll-always-be-an-England’ kinda stuff. A concept you might leave aside is one involving yer goalkeeper sticking

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A new review of an old favourite. The second of three intimate nights for Northern Ireland's finest alt.rock veterans Therapy? at the King's Cross Water Rats Theatre is discussed over at the Vanity Project site.

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27mar10Conference SouthWoodspring Stadium, Weston-super-MareAtt. 215Of course, some years ago it seemed like every other week, we were preparing to saddle up the horses for another gallop out to beano country. Those were, if you will, the good ol’ days. All the cast iron, concrete, top rung ‘legends’ of our young club (James Taylor, Paul Wood, Tim Hambley) were playing together and the football

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Craven Cottage, FulhamTo commemorate Fulham's astonishing comeback against Juventus, here's a photo showing that their seating appears to come from the same era as manager Roy Hodgson's demeanour. Congratulations, Gentleman Woy! Hobo in my pocket #32Previously, on dubSteps29mar09: Oxford University 1 Cambridge University 0From the Vanity Project archive (issue #8, January 2004)Melt

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A review of the incredible Manganiyar Seduction at the Barbican Theatre now appears at the Vanity Project site.

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06mar10Conference SouthPark View Road, Wellingatt. 443Today’s game was one of perspective coloured by bias. Our view would be that that the referee’s outlook was as clouded as our own, which is not want you want in a neutral official, particularly when he is prepared to strike an draconian tone with your club, but not the opposition in similar circumstances. Welling will no doubt feel that we

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20feb10Middlesex County League Division One (Central & East)Haggerston Park, Haggerstonatt. 82Given that we are thousands of murky fathoms beneath what might be considered ‘senior football’ with this game what, you might well be wondering, drew me to it? Quite simply, ease. First of all, the game was kicking off on a bright (but nippy) Saturday morning at 11am allowing for that ideal weekend

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Three reviews for the price of one and all detailing the recent whistle-stop tour of London venues undertaken by Montreal's Think About Life, now up on the Vanity Project site.

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06feb10Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 784My last words to you regarding my beloved club followed a New Year’s Day fixture at Woking where the final whistle saw the start of monsoon season in terms of boos raining down. Gradually more and more fans were coming to the sad conclusion that our gaffer, lovely chap though he is, wasn’t up to it. However following that Woking game, the snow

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A new review of a recent gig featuring ten-strong group Sons of Noel and Adrian and solo artist Alessi's Ark can be via the Vanity Project site.As I also use this site to flag up my other writings I suppose I should also mention that a three page article on NHS librarianship in London entitled 'Life after the purchaser/provider split' appears this month in Library and Information Update,

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28dec09League OneGriffin Park, Brentfordatt. 8,387It turns out from my telly that Mark Clemmit from The Football League Show was also covering this game. As a result, I’m not sure I should bother now because, y’know, my shtick is to squeeze myself into one-size-too-tight jumpers and be cloyingly matey with managers as well. This town ain’t big enough for the both of us and, in fairness, those

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New live review of Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medways Fanciers Association now appears on the Vanity Project site.

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01jan10Conference SouthKingfield, Wokingatt. 1,703Meet the new year, then. Same as the old year, it appears. A 2-0 defeat and discontent continuing to rumble. There were boo’s and “what a load of rubbish”-es, but there is still the sense of mass resignation that this is just the way things are now and nothing is likely to change. Not mass resignation in the sense of the fallout of the MPs

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A lot of end-of-year lists are chucked out by mags, websites and so forth before December has barely begun. January 1st of the following year seems the more appropriate to me, and thus my list and accompanying essay on my best 'gig moments/shows/live tracks' from a year of heavy gigging now appears on Vanity Project.Just as well I held off really, as two of my top five occured in the final

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26dec09Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 1,007When, just after the hour, Woking’s Jamie Hand was tunnelled for clattering into Steve Walker like a pigeon flying into a French window, my immediate thought was “I’ve got a bad feeling about this”. Let’s put this into context. We were leading 1-0 at the time, courtesy of Ian Simpemba's first half strike, and were in the midst of gaining a

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Stuff about Havant & 'Ville plus occasional random neutralling will continue to appear here, albeit perhaps slightly less regularly, in 2010. Thanks for reading. Hobo in my pocket #31Previously, on dubSteps10apr09: Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 Southampton 0

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12dec09London Senior Cup 3rd RoundVale Farm Sports Centre, Wembleyatt. 65Since being required to leave the wonderful Claremont Road, their home since 1926, Hendon have been getting to know Wembley FC’s Vale Farm ground for just over a year now, making themselves as comfortable as anyone ever is when borrowing someone else’s slippers. It’ll take a while yet before it genuinely feels like home, if

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A new review, of Welsh language contemporary folk act 9Bach, now appears on the Vanity Project site.

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05dec09Conference SouthThurrock Hotel, Thurrockatt. 246 (ahem)A month or two ago my colleague in Hawkdom, Ade Oakley, was searching around for ideas to what he might call his new blog on the Conference South Guide site. His first suggestion was ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, which was nice and snappy, even if the prosaic truth might be more “A Tale Of Quite a Big Town And A Slightly Smaller Town Based

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28nov09Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 681In a famine, any scraps will feel like a feast. As such, after three weeks of no football for me (partly my fault for missing the 4-1 win at Thurrock in the FA Trophy last week, but mostly the weather’s fault), a scrappy affair in the pouring rain tasted like Christmas dinner. Well, to cut the hyperbole down to a more appropriate size, a bit

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The Vanity Project fanzine archive is now complete, with all 21 issues available in PDF as well as text format. The Elastic Fiction Records discography and gigography from my involvement in the Portsmouth music scene prior to the launch of VP in 2002 are also available to view.New reviews, of Allo Darlin’, This Many Boyfriends, Of Mice And Mental Arithmetic and King And The Olive Fields at

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Kentish Town 1 Wellingborough Town 117aug08FA Cup Extra Preliminary RoundCopthall Stadium, Holders Hillatt. 179Previously, on Dub Steps17aug08: Kentish Town 1 Wellingborough Town 1Hobo in my pocket 30from the Vanity Project archive (issue #17 - February 2006)The Research.Liverpool Barfly Loft. 17jan06“I love you, but I’m afraid I’ll fuck it up”. This lyric speak volumes when trying to sum up The

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A new music review, of 16th century retro-types Circulus can be found at the Art of Noise as can some words on Foot Village and Blue Sabbath Black Fiji at, essentially, a Dalston scout hut. Both are also published on the new Vanity Project site. Gradually bits and pieces are filtering onto these pages and I will advertise here when all those aforementioned bits are in place.

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08nov09 FA Cup 1st Round Grosvenor Vale, Ruislip att. 1,638 This site has been covering the formative rounds of the FA Cup for some years now, both in a Havant & ‘Ville context, as well as a neutral ‘ain’t non-league wunnerful’ bent. There is a danger with this though, that one might start to repeat oneself, creating one’s own clichés in the attempt to avoid others. So, for a change, let’s keep

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Another H&W blog has hit the internet! My old pal Ade, following 24 years at the vocal helm of punk-rock's finest Red Letter Day, is bringing his own brand of “Oi! Come on! Get amongst it!” rabble-rousing to the Conference South Guide site’s blog repository (also home to our sister site, Bin Man 87). 'Now We'll Never Be Divided', as anyone who used to read Ade's 'Terrace Talk' notes for the H&W

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Due to a change in file hosting arrangements, the archive pictures on dubSteps will be gradually being updated over the next few weeks and so may look like empty spaces of giant empty boxes in the meantime. Apologies for it looking a bit sparse in the meantime.

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07nov09Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 931Our hopes for the season are like an orange. There I said it. I can tell you were expecting me to.At the start of the season, with them away wins and that, our orange was plump and zesty. And why not, Manny Williams was scoring goals with such regularity it was though he was working away to a speed-metal beat; the defence appeared as solid as

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24oct09 FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round Haywood Way, Aylesbury att. 683 The higher stakes than usual FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round tie will bring out many a curious local as an attendance of 683 at a ground used to an average of roughly 80 for league games indicates. However it should be noted that a significant percentage, almost certainly more than 50%, had turned up following Wealdstone. It

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17oct09Conference SouthWoodside Park, Bishop’s Stortfordatt. 449At the start of the season, I guess the base rate of our hopes was merely that we wouldn’t have to contemplate the ‘r’ word with any seriousness, particularly not in the second half of the campaign.After an unexpectedly excellent start, we now decided ourselves capable of ‘flirting with the play-offs’. Four away wins on the trot and

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The thing with the ‘magic of the FA Cup’ is that, if you subscribe to it, you can’t really complain when fate crams a dusty dog-log through your letterbox rather than streamers and glitter.To put it in abrupt terms, there will be no cup run for Havant & Waterlooville this year. For the first season in four, we will not be lining up in the rounds proper. The rounds proper were being consoled by

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03oct09Conference SouthWest Leigh Park, Havantatt. 1,451I have a scientist friend and he told me recently that laboratory testing has finally allowed his contemporaries to split Eastleigh down into its constituent parts. It turns out they are 67% evil, 33% malevolent and 5% Cherokee (with a 5% margin of error). Now, that’s the kind of science I can get on board with.I believe there was also a

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A little bit of H&'Dub catching up, considering my shameful two consecutive Saturdays in absentia, can be found at Bin Man 87.

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08aug09East of Scotland LeagueMeadowbank Stadium, Edinburghatt. 50 (approx.)Probably just as well that I’ve focused my holiday football viewing on life outside the Scottish Football Leagues, given that during my trip open revolt abounded with them. Livingstone were demoted two levels at three days notice, and therefore both Airdrie United and Cowdenbeath had 72 hours to plan out life a division

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It's not often you'll find me reviewing UK chart toppers on the Art of Noise, but such a thing occurs as of today with words on White Town performing, with Arthur & Martha, at Brixton Jamm.

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A review of Baltimore's Future Islands and Ear Pwr, as well as London-based Shield Your Eyes, playing at the Brighton Freebutt last week is now up on the Art of Noise.

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