STREET ART – Marbles by Colour Doomed

Housed between Cathay’s City Road and Richmond Road is a lane that hasn’t been gated off yet and houses many types of street art across the array of brick walls and garage doors along it. Most of it has been throw ups, stencils and giant tags but nothing on such a large scale as this… […]

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GRAFFITI – Trackside in Cathays

Nestling behind Richmond Road and just off Fitzroy Street are the Trackside Studios in Cathays, Cardiff. Trackside are a graffiti and aerosol art studio and gallery featuring original aerosol art canvas and screen prints. A back lane runs between Richmond Road and the railway line (hence the name) and this drab back lane has been […]

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STREET ART – Colour Doomed in Cathays

After visiting many cities and experiencing the street art each has to offer I was always a bit disappointed when returning to Cardiff with the type of street art produced here – which was never as exciting or ground-breaking in comparision to elsewhere. That was until I discovered this huge piece of street art just […]

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Cardiff Half Marathon 2012

Well it’s exactly 24 hours since I crossed the finish line of the Cardiff Half Marathon 2012 in the Civic Centre of Cardiff to crowds of thousands! What an achievement and what a day! It all began with an early night on the Saturday before having to get up at 06:45 and taking onboard all […]

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GRAFITTI-New work in Cathays and Roath

It was time to take another trawl around the ‘creative’ areas of Cathays and Roath (ok it’s where all the students live and they seem to accept and produce street art a lot more than the rest of Cardiff!) This time beginning at Cathays Community Centre and some amazing pieces from the locals including a […]

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OLYMPICS-Rusty Shackle play at the Torch Relay Party

As Bute Park was closed for the main Olympic Torch Relay concert and the Cardiff Castle moat full of unsavoury types (drinking White Storm today rather than Oranjeboom!) I decided to head to Cathays Park to chill near the Olympic Ring sculpture. To my surprise there was a Cardiff Council event going on complete with […]

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GRAFFITI-Lembo work around Cathays and Roath

Ever walked along a street around Roath, Cathays and even the City Centre and spotted a small cat lurking on a lampost or street sign? Well it’s probably by local street artist Lembo. I don’t actually know anything else about this character apart from to say that they predominently feature cats, stencils and the odd […]

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GRAFITTI-New blob grafitti characters!

I got myself a brand new Fuji FinePix HD20 EXP today and as it was so sunny it was time to take a wander and see how good this 16MP camera really was! As per usual I never read the instruction manual and prefer just to find out with trial and error….anyway another post coming […]

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Graffiti-Art or vandalism?

Growing up in Cardiff over the last 30 years I have seen many changes in the City but none have been more prevalent than the huge increase in graffiti – especially over the last couple of years. I will use the term graffiti with the official definition of that being the name for images or […]

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My Top Ten pubs in Cardiff (Pt1)

I have been venturing to the many pubs of Cardiff for twenty whole years now and decided it was time to list my current favourite pubs, mainly in Cardiff West whilst trying not to cover the City Centre scene too much. I’ll try and unearth a few relatively unknown pubs and some others that serve […]

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Graffiti on the ‘Oxo’ building in Cardiff.

I didn’t even know we had an ‘Oxo’ branded building in Cardiff but on closer inspection the paint job was well worn and weathered. Just to add to the misery there was also some graffiti on it aswell! Which was idea for me – peeling paint AND graffiti = HAPPY DAZE. Looks like some early […]

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