Google - you plummed it!

Remember the date folks: Saturday 31st January 2009. The day Google plummed it! Yep, after years and years of impeccable service, today at lunchtime, Google blocked every site on its books for being "malware".

We're not exactly sure what "malware" is, but old Googs doesn't like, no sir. What happens now eh? Where shall we go? Does anyone remember "Ask Jeeves"?

It doesn't really matter to be honest, it'll be forgotten tomorrow, and Google is going to release a statement later on, explaining what happened. Shall we have a guess? A young genius hacker? Terrorism? Someone split their coffee at Google HQ? It's VERY exciting.

The Orphans in Brighton - Tonight!

For any of you lucky enough to live in the Brighton area, get yourselves down to the Hobgoblin tonight for a real treat. The Orphans feature Hooligan and Boag from the most under rated of all '90s bands, These Animal Men. This time the roles are reversed, Hooligan sings and Boag plays bass. We've been playing the album Muff here at Balcony Towers for a while now and can confirm it's bleedin great! We'd love to be there tonight....unfortunately we're hitting the streets of Uxbridge instead. Exciting eh.

Check out the Orphans here: www.myspace.com/theorphansonline

The Hobgoblin is at 31 York Place, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4GU

It's the weekend - Bacon Time!

Yes folks, it's Friday afternoon - which means tomorrow is Saturday and Saturday mornings = bacon sandwiches. Maybe it's not worth a blog posting on....but come on, it's bacon! Excuse me for getting a little excited. You people who don't eat bacon sandwiches are fools. I've got twice as much to look forward to this weekend. And through the week, i like to build up the excitement with a little look at this site:

http://worshipbacon.com/wiki/Main_Page

It's a beauty. Thank you bacon.

Iain Lee on Radio 6

As you may or may not know, we're big fans of Iain Lee here at Balcony Towers. We get the podcasts and everything. Unfortunately we only get to hear him once a week nowadays, on his Sunday night show on Absolute Radio. So imagine our joy when we heard he was filling in for George Lambs on Radio 6 every day this week! That's the weird one that you can only get on the internet and DAB. He's on at 10am, make sure you don't tune in early and catch Shaun Keaveny. He took the piss out of me once for liking These Animal Men, and that makes him a very bad person.

You can find out more about Iain at http://www.iainlee.co.uk/

Praadeeeeeeeeep!

You Tube Watch - Libertines Spoof

Any old skool Balcony Shirts afficionadoes (or just anyone who has read our "About Us" section) will know we're rather partial to indie legends The Libertines and especially Pete Doherty but we couldn't help but be amused by these two cheeky young scamps having a few pot-shots at them...

It's a faux Libs classic named "Dickensian Beauties". Notable moments are pulling an Oscar Wilde paperback out of a drain and fishing around bins for Pomme Bear crisps whilst chain-smoking tabs. Classy.

WOAH THERE.....what happened to the Blog??

Excellent question folks - it seems we got a little carried away with making a mighty fine website and forgot all about this little side project. Not that it's much of a project, more an occasional rambling about whatever is filling our heads at the time, and it's not usually t shirt related. This new entry - our first in...ahem...16 months, is no exception. It is Balcony Shirts related though because we've got some new trapper hats in stock and we're so excited, a little bit of wee came out. Not on the hats you'll be pleased to know. That would be wrong.

Nice though eh. And a bargain at £18. I've been searching the world wide web for some info on trapper hats, where they originated, that kind of thing. No such luck though. It seems they just appeared one day from absolutely nowhere, yet perfectly formed and capable of keeping our heads warm while also making us look damned cool at the same time. What more could you ask for. Go take a look, they're over here...

http://www.balconyshirts.co.uk/Mens-Retro-Clothes/Retro-Hats/sc1307.aspx

That's it for now - if anybody is reading this - we thank you for sticking with us. It'll be worth waiting for, don't you worry.

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