The Hoonmobile validated

It took him back to Sunday nights in Nottingham, when the local retards would gather from across the Midlands to parade their modified Vauxhall Novas, Ford Fiestas and Citroen 2CVs around the “circuit” in one of the most pitiful and misconceived attempts at manliness (far less glamorous than its assumed title, the “circuit” was actually a small ring road around an ugly 70s concrete stack car park).

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Only in Melbourne: Scottish tapas, graffiti, B-boys, boatyard blues and High Vibes

Moments later, the young girl by now carried to the relative safety of nearby shrubbery by her friends, a skinhead in a red hoodie approached the same bench at speed, leapt over it performing a somersault, mistimed his landing and careered into a row of parked bicycles. Half an hour later he was back pretending to be a dog and giving someone’s black labrador the time of his life. Welcome to Northcote’s High Vibes festival.

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It’s just not cricket: playing sport in Australia

Team Mountain Goat faltered after a bright start as Marilyn Manson’s snail paced, looping mortar bomb leg breaks proved to be an unlikely weapon

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