Giveitarestival

If you have never listened to BBC 6music before, I suggest you put that right. In particular the George Lamb show weekdays from 10am-1pm. It's pure genius. Loved by the country's Graphic Designers & Dancehall enthusiasts, the Sony award winning show is a fusion of mayhem and complete and utter randomness.

Anyway, I have previously had a poster up on the site for a random story from the co-host Mark. Now, due to popular demand 'Giveitarestival' is back for another year and I have had my suggested logo put up on the site. View it on the site here.

Giveitarestival is a concept festival where bands book to NOT play there, people try their best NOT to make it, Camping fields are NOT made available etc etc. It's random yes, you need to listen to the show to understand. Give it a listen, you won't regret it, certain sure. Shaba!

Twitcom

Twitter. Now it took me a little while to 'get' Twitter but I am slowly coming round to the 140 character entry limit phenomenon. I have to say there are a few things happening that are very clever indeed.

Now I don't think I'll ever be a professional Twitterer, just a casual one. It's quite fun to follow a 'celebrity' and find out what they are up to and get a small glimpse into the type of people they are and the kind of lives they lead. I of course haven't got that many people following me (@theyidthatis), but that's fine, I can live with the fact that my life in comparison is pretty boring.

First thing that I thought was really clever was in one of my updates I had mentioned I was suffering from hayfever. A couple of hours later and 'Kleenex' were following me. You go to their Twitter page and they have a link to their site with tips on surviving the summer etc. I thought that was very clever and can see that it can be used as a very interesting marketing tool.

Then I heard about the first ever Twitter comedy night. Someone thought of the idea of inviting real life comedians to do a 10 minute 'virtual gig'. This happened last night and they had a compere and everything! Very clever. You follow the tweets from one act to the next and obviously the comedians involved had to think of ways of getting their gags across in just 140 characters a time. Some acts were not very original and just split their jokes into about 20 parts.

Some however really embraced the concept (PappysFunClub) and organised intricut conversations involving posted photos and the likes. It ended up being really really funny and at times it felt like an actual real life comedy night. You can read all their posts here. Anybody following the tweets could also heckle and applaud if you so desired! Just like the real thing however, hecklers were quickly shot down with devestating effect.

Overall a genius concept and one that was very enjoyable. I think we are only just beginning to see what Twitter can be applied to and I imagine more intersting concepts to follow in the near future.

@theyidthatis (http://twitter.com/theyidthatis)

The Bridge

Firstly I'm a Spurs fan. Just wanted to make that clear before I go any further.

I played in a football 5-a-side tournament on Saturday (FA Cup Final day) at Chelsea's ground, Stamford Bridge. Now this for me, although I'm not particularly fond of the Blues, was a very very exciting prospect. The chance to grace the turf of a Premiership ground was an opportunity not to be missed.

Unfortunately we had to meet at 9am at the ground so it was a very early start traveling down from Bedford, 6.30am wake up call to be precise. Arriving home the previous night from London at 1.30am was not the best idea I've ever had. Anyway it was a glorious day so what did I care.

The first disappointment was not being able to change in the actual dressing rooms. Instead we had to make do with 'porta-cabins' just outside the ground. Chelsea were still running their stadium tours (it's all money, money, money with them) so the changing rooms were off limits. Shame as a West Ham supporting friend of mine had requested that I 'relieve' myself in the middle of the home team dressing room floor.

The tournament was reasonably enjoyable although it was spoilt by the games being only 7 minutes long (one way) and the gap between games being around 40 minutes on average. You just couldn't get into it and by the end I still felt like I could play a regular 90 minutes of football. As a team we didn't do too well, the standard was quite high, and we ended up with a record of 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses in the group stages. We didn't progress further but to be honest it worked out perfectly as we popped round the corner just after 3pm to watch the FA Cup final and sink a few cold lagers.

It wasn't so good for my Everton supporting friend however as, apart from scoring after 25 seconds, he then had to endure watching his team eventually lose 2-1 in the middle of a packed Chelsea pub, 2 minutes away from the ground. I don't think he enjoyed walking to the station through crowds of celebrating Chelsea fans on the street, waving flags and tooting horns. Oh dear.

All in all a good day... but White Hart Lane would have been a million times better.