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Zoo Thousand and Hate on the BBC

Here. Main things to be said are:* The organisers miscalculated cash flow* They had to cancel acts* Port Lympne stepped in, writing out a check for Ash there and then to ensure they'd go on stageGood on Port Lympne! I can't believe the same organiser...

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Here's what I want for my birthday

Hans Anderson Fairy Tales First Edition, only �800! The same seller also has The years at the spring at a cheaper price. Nice to see some Harry Clarke activity on ebay anwyay....

Free food at Pizza Express

There's a voucher on http://www.handbag.com this week for a free meal in Pizza Express. We might well have gone there anyway, nice!Oh also I sold my Stereophonics tickets at last (at cost price)! A night in! ...
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Oh and EAT is gone from Stop 24

That's EAT the chain gone from Stop 24, the motorway services near here.

Zoo thousand and HATE!

The Zoo Thousand Port Lymne festival sounds like the festival was awful, no-one really has a good word to say about it at work. At least two of the headliners did not play (but as the headliners were Athlete and Dizzee Rascal) that's not necessarily...

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First review of Zoo Thousand and Eight in

Here at www.safeconcerts.com, sounds a bit chaotic, more rumours of cancellations than actual cancellations possibly though.More here, seems Lethal Bizzle was promoted to replace Dizzee Rascal, not a bad call I wouldn't have said, though one was a Me...
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This is about how good I am on the guitar now

I can't decide if this is brilliant, or if he's doing all the complex stuff with his vocals. Entertaining anyway, if a bit long. Enough about the song, this performance is good too:(Hmm not sure I can embed, here it is).I first saw him doing Teardrop...

New Cross Murder Map!

Just in case you're wondering how close the double murder and firebombing was from my old flat (even though I left there years ago), I just knocked this up for Mum and Dad, to give them a bit of a point of reference.View Larger MapIsn't google maps j...

Lost!

Not Lost the TV show, I haven't actually thought about that since watching the fairly rubbish end of series four and writing that subject line. No, actually lost, some people I met yesterday who did not know where they were.My walk from work to the s...

Zoo9 tickets!

Just saving a space on the site for next year! Was the festival a success? I hope so, and I hope it returns.Ticketmaster have tickets for this year's festival, hope this link is still valid for '09.Look here: zoo thousand tickets / zoo9 tickets / z00...
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Who will buy my Stereophonics tickets

Slight repost from Folkestone Gerald and my blog / forum there:I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a bit in arranging a lie in the following morning so it's not really convenient now. Do you want my s...

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Very cheap VIP tickets for Zoo Thousand!

Look here cheap vip tickets for zoo thousand / zoo8 / z008 / whatever, less than cost price, a lot less in fact! You could get a bargain here...Speaking of which, I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a ...
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RE: This BBC page has some

Hi, I am coming down on a coach trip on 4th July and would love to have a night amongst gay people, or person.Can you advise me of where to go please xxx

Google are you taking the piss?

Been getting this captcha thing from google all day, it's because we work in a big office and all share an IP address, so to the outside world it looks like lots of traffic from one computer. Honest though, there are hundreds of us here.This time I t...

Only light rain at Glastonbury

Some rain overnight and a little more on the way at the festival, it says here in the Times, it's hardly news at all really is it. Watched Glastonbury the movie on TV last night, partly it made me really wish I was there, but when I analysed it I fou...

RE: GBP49.95 for eight days parking at Gatwick airport!

Not quite, see location of all the airports here... I made that map! Well, google made it and I fed it with things.Thanks for chipping in anyway, whoever you are. Do you work for a rival parking firm, or have you just had a bad experience?...

Where can I find listings for Club NME Canterbury?

If you know anyone involved, get them to get in touch with me. I only just found out it had moved from Studio 41 to the UCCA bar.myspace is no help myspace is awful... is there a facebook group or something I can get listings from? Facebook is awful ...

Please send me your listings

Thanks to Folkestone Fringe for contributing, please submit your listings here or add your event diret to the calendar here... or email fg@folkestonegerald.com and I'll do the hard work for you.Cheers!...

I have only been looking at the quality of the jeans, not the bottoms

That side panel is only showing listings for the style and size of jeans that Clare is looking for, but if you let me know your measurements I'm sure I can make a page just for you.I thought of looking for some jeans for me, but I buy them so infrequ...

Sigur Ros play Alexandra Palace

Sigur Ros are playing Ally Pally get tickets here, though they don't go on sale until the morning.Trying to get tickets for Justin Hawkins new band Hot Leg's gig at the Proud Galleries right now too, but my bank account is messing about and declining...

Folkestone Triennial

Don't forget the art works are still on display, at least until September. The launch weekend events may be over, but everything's still there for you to see and enjoy. See my brief review of the day with pictures and map....

That's exactly why!

Go on, buy some second hand pants off ebay via one of my links!

I put the links up there as obviously I check out my own website all day long and it lets me see at a glance what prices things are at...

RE: Woo we won a "Seven For All Mankind" auction at last!

Is that why there is always a strip of jean auctions down the right side of your site? For some reason those pictures of people's used jeans disturb me - and I can't work out why.

RE: Sellindge Music Festival!

Hey there,I was at Sellindge Music Festival this year and had a great weekend, really nice small festival. Did anyone see our green camel at the back of the main field?I got some photo's of the festival here if anyone is interested... http://www.fest...

Is this who's bought the Metronome?

assura group has a metronome page, looks like they own other medical type facilities so this backs up the story of it being bought by a health care trust.Just found a PJ Harvey gig at the Metronome, and another where she almost played at Bottoms. But...

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Woo we won a "Seven For All Mankind" auction at last!

Clare has got some �200 quid jeans on the way for just �13 pounds. They're not as-new or anything obviously, but should still be good jeans. I am aware that is suspiciously low, there must have been some clue that the jeans were fake, that we missed....

Portchester weekender

Spent a smashing weekend in Portchester as it was Mum's birthday yesterday. Headed over Friday afternoon on the train, meeting up with Andy on the way in The Golden Lion. Not a great pub but a good evening anyway and some nice pints of HSB and a chat...

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lydd club day - 60th anniversary

Can find everything on here apart from the bands that are playing in the evening??

These guys rave about The India

Not sure I trust these guys, they do make it sound good, but we did not have a good meal there and I don't have faith in the place.It's had no positive votes from visitors to this site, anyone visited recently?...
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Free meal at Wagamama, until the 29th June

Voucher here from www.menshealth.co.uk.
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Heaven

plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really....

12 Bar Club

MJ Hibbett is doing his first gig of the year at the 12 Bar Club, that's Denmark Street isn't it? Onstage 9pm, 26th Feb at the monthly Hieronymous Bisch Bosch night... seeya there.Last night's Valentine's pub crawl was very nice, we st...

Islington Academy

plus The Ordinary Boys and The 22s. Looks like everyone was there to see the Ordinary Boys, but I thought they were a bit ordinary... stellastarr were OK, not quite as convincing as on record though....

Wembley Arena

Spandau Ballet, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Howard, Toyah and China Crisis. Don't laugh!

Astoria

Not convinced I was at this one, where did this ticket come from?
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Brixton Academy

Went to an aftershow for this at Mass, also in Brixton, there was free absinthe and things, it got a bit messy.

Astoria

Two gigs in one night, off to a club night at the Barfly after I think, where The Darkness were playing....
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Mean Fiddler

Pissed down with rain.[quote]Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Atmosphere, Brutal, Close Range, She's Lost Control, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart, (Encore) Digital (with John Simm), Bl...

Saint

The party to raise some money for popbitch - putting it here as a gig as I met John Deacon that day, I just found an autographed receipt in with my tickets...

The Scala

Another freebie of some description. Noel and Liam Gallagher were there.

The 100 Club

£6.50

Goldsmiths College

A great gig, just round the corner from where I was living. Cheap booze and accompanying art exhibition.

Barfly

Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.

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The Garage

Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading. Howard Marks and Chris Morris were there amongst others....

Barfly

David Devant

Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex...

Dingwalls

Camden Crawl type thing, can't remember where we went or who we saw right now.
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Goldsmiths College

Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.

Shepherds Bush Empire

MTV Five Night Stand. Could be the 18th or the 28th, my ticket is ripped there...

Kings College

One of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd

Union Chapel

Paid 5x over the odds for a ticket, but we had to get in. Got in the aftershow too, there was just us and Jarvis Cocker there. Ooh did I drop another name?...

Electric Ballrom

Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right...

Astoria 2

A benefit gig for a journalist, with Ash and possibly Tiger and Formula 1. Matt Lucas was there....

New Cross Venue

Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not running) and walked back to Waterloo after...
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Astoria 2

Soho Live, plus Divine Comedy, and "special guests" as headliner it says here...

Reading Festival

My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them).

The Joiners

Was this the gig where they were still called Manson, and had at least one extra band member?

Stanmer Park

Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus....

Portsmouth Pyramids

Oops, why was I here, when the Super Furrys were down the road?
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Reading Alleycat

Some ill advised comments about swastikas saw the band fall right down before the signed goodies I got this day became worth anything... here's to a revival!