Here's a bunch of sites that I find interesting, useful or hilarious. Hopefully you'll find them the same...
ONE EYED CATS: Superb Peterborough-based Rhythm+Blues band I joined as trumpeter in October '01. The site's pretty well done too. Much more lively than this place!
TAKE 6: 6-piece Peterborough-based 'young' Jazz Ensemble I joined in December '99, originally on trumpet but now mainly on keys. The first band I ever seriously gigged with and still gets work even now we're probably past it on the age front.
NIGHT TRAIN: Norwich funk/soul/oldies band with me on drums. Joined in late '02 when the Cats were low on work but managed to keep going with it to this day with hardly any gig clashes. Now I've left Norwich they're looking for a replacement drummer; see the site for details if you're interested.
NAPALM BREATH: Barnsley-based Ska band my mate Lee used to play in. They look pretty crazy from this website! He plays sax in this, but at one time he played guitar in a funk band we used to have called Guano.
JOHN CHIVALL'S SITE: A nice little corner of the web all about the life of my old friend John, a drummer who left Leeds University a few years back and is now a Physics teacher (of all things).
Latest: this site hasn't been updated in so many years but I'm sure a lot of it is still true. I think he must be playing the 'reponsible man' now (no more binges in Leeds)...
VINAY'S SITE (COTTAGE WARS): Made by a guy whom I used to be in a band with. It'd be too difficult to explain the background to the concept of this site. Check out the caricature of me, and my 'special move'. Flattering. :)
CLIFFORD'S SITE: Website of a guy I used to work with 3 years ago at Barclays. He certainly knew more about computers than I did!
ALFA ROMEO 33 DISCUSSION LIST: Get any question about this car answered here. I know only 0.00001% of people reading this will have Alfa 33s (probably less), but I'd feel like a traitor to the cause if I didn't put the link here...
ELECTRIC VEHICLES UK: Go on, what have you got to lose? Electric cars aren't all milk floats y'know.
CHAVSCUM: Everyone in Britain knows what chavs are, even if they don't realise it. Bright white trainers, white-striped tracksuit bottoms tucked into socks, 'Adidas' or some other cheap brand in bold type across puffa jacket, thick gold chains, Burberry/Nike baseball cap, and more often than not an arrogant, thuggish attitude... look around any suburban area across the UK and you'll see them. I wouldn't go so far to agree, as the creators of this site suggest, that chavs are a "peasant underclass" - I think of them more as 'fashion-challenged'. They seem to think they're ghetto gangsters, even though they mostly come from suburban housing estates. Anyone who willingly puts these kind of clothes on and acts in a suitably moronic way can expect to be mocked, and mocked is exactly what they are on the ChavScum site. Don't take it too seriously. Have a good laugh. Unless you're a chav yourself...
THE COLLEGE OF ARMS: This is basically a bunch of old Oxbridgians (with names like "David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre") sitting around in wood-panelled rooms, drawing coats of arms (probably with feather quills) for rich people. The funny thing is that these people take themselves and their logo doodling INCREDIBLY seriously; they give themselves positions such as "Garter Principal King of Arms", "Rouge Croix Pursuivant", and "Norfolk Herald Extraordinary". Only in England do we still get such fossilised pomp and circumstance.
MR PICASSOHEAD: Create a likeness of yourself in the style of Picasso (think noses where ears should be, eyes on chins, etc.).
ENGLISH TO AMERICAN DICTIONARY: Who was it who once said, "England and America are two countries divided by a common language", or something like that? See for yourselves just how right he was by looking at this site.
ICQ: Best chat program out there. It logs into MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ. It basically allows you to talk to anyone in the world on any chat network.
GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE: Best search engine available on the 'Net. Believe me.
THESPARK.COM OFFICIAL PURITY TEST: Lots of tests to show what kind of person you are.