Batten Sportswear

By way of ACL

Sabotage Times interesting links

Where to eat in the West EndAlways useful

Northerners: portrait of a no nonsense people

How to look good in the countryside

Casual Connoisseur

From the Nuji Blog I'm a huge fan of Casual Connoisseur and Oneupmanship. The designs from CC, attention to detail in their clothing releases and sources of inspiration and icons are first class; the Oneup approach to style in my opinion is essential reading and a look which is post-casual, smart and sussed, a look not a label and a million miles away from a aquascutum baseball cap as you can get.

Above is a link to an interview with CC.

Brew Dog

For some reason its taken me a while to get round to trying some of these, not sure why I waited so long. The 5am saint, Punk IPA & Hardcore IPA are all amazing.

Converted. Looks like they only have a couple of bars in Scotland at the moment, hopefully they'll get one in London.

Studio 8

Regents Park Road

Catch the beat

Clarks Originals for Concepts Boston

Must remember this shop when I go to Boston later in the year. Sadly, these will all be gone. I am sure.

DJ Harvey

Black cock records, ultra rare mixtapes, open all hours on a Friday, one of my all time favourites

Foster the People

I rather like them.

Mack Shoes, Aldeburgh

In Aldeburgh, a super sleepy Suffolk town on the coast there is are 2 amazing fish and chip shops, a brilliant book shop and quite unexpectedly the best shoe shop I have ever been to - Mack Shoes. They have Trickers, Grensons, Alfred Sargants, probably Loakes, anyway more brogues and oxfords than you could shake a stick at. And all discounted when I was there............

How do your like your eggs?

I don't really follow him too closely these days, but I enjoyed Exit through the gift shop immensely; and actually I have always found him pretty witty. This picture reminded me of that.