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AC/DC tickets

AC/DC are touring, first time in eight years apparently, though it's certainly not that long since we saw them at Hammersmith Odeon, guess that really was a special one off tour.Tue 14-Apr-09 AC/DC London The O2 On Sale From 10:00 17-Oct-08Tue 21-Ap...

David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
Rated 4.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Look at the rubbish I went to in 1993

I was clearly going to anything that was going in 1993, but Pulp played Portsmouth TWICE in 1993 and I didn't go. What was going on? Radiohead also played Portsmouth and Southampton this year, supposedly my peak years when I was doing the fanzine, I ...

Too old to rock

have my new starter at work, our industrial placement from Canterbury University for the year. He seems a nice guy, but in making conversation I asked him what he was listening to... Simply Red! Phil Collins! Robbie Williams! This guy is not even twe...

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Still Cure tickets left

Less than a week to go until our gig of the year The Cure at Wembley on Thursday. Got an automated call from Ticketmaster telling me the stage times; 65daysofstatic are on at 7pm, and the Cure at 8pm, so that gives them plenty of time to play the thr...

Gigs I was at this week

Not "this week" this week, but this week in gigging history. Just on a whim, and because I haven't done anything on this site for ages, I added gigs I was at this week in history to the bottom of my gigography page. This week I saw Suicidal Tendenci...

Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone

Hmm, bit more gig history confusion... This Ride gigography says Ride played Folkestone on the 21st March, 1992. Now I look into that properly, it says support came from Mercury Rev (and not Verve, which I got from somewhere). This full Ride gigograp...

Rated 0.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

BBC fights Blue Peter badge sales

Badgetastic, there are still tonnes of Blue Peter Badges on sale though, going for crazy prices - is this the ebay guerillas spoiling the auctions? Nice work!Sadly finished Nathan Barley last night, it's a brilliant series, and should be compulsory v...

The Ramones in Canterbury

Some gig history stuff from www.mrgig.com; DrGavin saysI've heard that The Ramones wrote I Wanna Be Sedated backstage at a venue in Canterbury (can't remember which one) and that Judge Dread literally died on stage at the Penny Theatreand Bro concurs...

Habitat Radius Oak Dining Table

More Habitat Radius Oak Furniture, this dining table. Far too big for us, and optimistically priced I'd say at �490. Got some new bargain offers from Amazon too, PSP Giga Pack with 4 games at �310, it'd be great if you could pick your own games, but ...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

Up to my elbows in computer bits

Fitted the new hard drive to the computer, though not got windows recognising it yet... got that final piece of missing info today, so by tonight I should have 120gig of space, rapidly being filled up with downloaded content! FINALLY I can backup my ...

Under Neath What

Good grief Under Neath What are still going! There was me bemoaning the lack of other gigographies that I could lift things from, to complete my personal gigography, saying "there's nothing out there for some of the bands I've seen a lot", like Atom ...

Interactive map of Folkestone

Check out this interactive map of Folkestone - just choose options from the pulldown menus to redraw the Folkestone map according to your requirements, ie find pubs with real ale and a pool table etc.Also, now add it to your map www.folkestonegerald....

Best Gigs Ever

Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...1. Bl...

Action Plan + Razorlight

A chums band Action Plan are supporting Razorlight at their secret gig at Highbury Garage on (counts on fingers) SUNDAY, the 7th of June... it's super sold out, so it's off to ebay again if you want tickets... There are so many there it seems they we...

You've been framed

BBC reports about a burgliar caught on a webcam, and the 11 month sentence he got... have a look at the homeowner Duncan Grisby's site with the original pictures on, in that third one down is the burglar doing that "pretending I'm just rubbing my eye...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Pogues - alright

Went to see The Pogues last night at Brixton Academy, and they were alright... was a nice christmassy vibe, but I didn't really get into it... pubs in Brixton were RAMMED with pre gig drinkers, and the venue itself seemed equally overfull. My theory ...

Tears before bedtime

(I think nme.com already used "Tears in Heaven")So, I went to see The Tears last night, at Heaven nightclub at Charing Cross... you know what? It wasn't all that. I love Suede, but never saw them live with Bernard Butler, so the opportunity to see hi...

Secret gig!

Is it Eminem? Everyone knows about that, but I heard of a secret gig by someone even bigger. But I can't tell you who, sorry. No definitely I can't tell you. Well, maybe...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

I Was Made For Loving Nottingham

KISS EXPO 2004 is at Nottingham Rock City on Saturday November 27th... Bruce Kullick will be there signing autogarphs and that, but so will Iain Lee... possibly this is in his roll as bass player in his own KISS tribute band. Tickets 14 quid up to 24...

How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved | The Register

Reading this, "Why will the current Apple/Napster model fail?". I don't know why it'll fail, I've not got to the end yet. Thankyou www.theregister.co.uk... Hmm, that reminds haven't checked out www.memepool.com or www.popdex.com since I moved to a ne...

Email, weemail more like

Monster email problems today, seemingly nothing can cope with the amount of spam I'm getting. I'm possibly going to get my own mail server soon, as I attract and generate so much. I've moved temporarily from my Linux machine to a windows PC so I can ...

Pixies review

Pixies were amazing last night at Brixton, could be one of the best gigs ever. We warmed up for the show with a few pints of Old Rosie in The Beehive (Brixton Academy gigs are about the only time I can persuade anyone go in a Wetherspoons) so missed ...

A full evening

Hibbett's gig at the 12 Bar was ace last night, though as is typical with gigging venues, the booze was sadly lacking, Eagle Smooth is not my favourite brew by a long shot. BUT, the performance itself was ace, he played more of the funny songs, which...

Progress on the flat

Got a bundle back from my solicitor yesterday, there's loads of restrictions in the lease, I hope it's all standard stuff... awaiting an official report though, this info was just to give me an idea, the solicitor is going to sum it up and tell me wh...

No more 106

In an attempt to make this less boring, I'll not be mentioning the 106 bus for at least a week. I was going to post up a picture of how someone had hacksawed away a part of the luggage rack on a train, but I think that would only have reinforced the ...

Rated 6.02/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Morning

Want to see any of these bands at BarflyMARCH 1Starsailor Barfly LiverpoolDavid Gray Barfly LondonMARCH 2Big Brovaz Birmingham (Glee Club)Amy Winehouse CardiffSugababes LiverpoolAsh LondonBlazin' Squad YorkMARCH 3Elbow LiverpoolCraig David LondonSpir...

The Marquee

Found the ticket now! I went to the gig on my own, then got the last train up to Rugby, where I was staying for college. Can't find details anywhere online. Much stage diving, one of my favourite gig.s