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Ew, I used to drink Stella!

Did make it easier to find booze satisfaction at places like Barfly though...

Internet history

I made this Barfly page in 1998, and it's still there. I don't have access to that server or anything, I wonder if anyone else does? No idea who Moorhaven were or why they were singled out among all the fake Shag Frenzy dates. That was before I went ...

Did Channelfly get taken over by Mean Fiddler (or the other way round)?

Just got a strange MAMA Live email, grouping the Barfly and Mean Fiddler venues together:I know Barfly had taken over Kentish Town Forum, but it looks like even more has gone on now, since I left. Hasn't done anything for their share price though, I ...

Motley Crue play Hammersmith

If it wasn't a Monday night, I might go to this, 11th June at Hammersmith Odeon, it's Motley Crue. In fact a Tuesday night wouldn't be good either, nor any day from Sunday back round to Friday again are out. If they move this gig to a Saturday, and i...

Alex Zane

Saw him there last saturday. Think he had gone to see Noel Fielding DJ. Thankfully Alex wasn't as drunk as the last time I saw him. There was no random shouting.

Sold out Barfly gigs

Cheeky, just been pointed at the fact there are tonnes of sold out Barfly tickets on ebay... looks like organised sellers too, not just punters who've ended up with spare tickets. It's not me though!An evening of no Angel last night, we are out of sy...

Barfly Glasgow

Chaos on the bus x od..ay and itx.s plsslng down.Mein a t shirt too...

Writing this using the "transcribe" feature of the new toy, as I can touch type, so I find the little keyboard slow... Not quite gor to grips with it yet as my writing is 5Ho(FIN9. That should say "shocking", no not snaking, I'm going to edit this I ...

Jarvis Cocker

At the Regina Spektor gig watching the support act The Earlies.

URL Encoding

Had a hiccup when trying to make content management system convert any content that's past through it to be valid HTML... my code for converting ampersands in URLs was messing about, making some bad URLs... so how do I convert & into & without co...

Cure Barfly bootleg

Not sure of the quality yet, but check out these MP3's of The Cure's recent Barfly gig, part one and part two. I'm downloading them quick before they get pulled... Check out my Cure Barfly pictures, and relive the delightful abuse, to get you properl...

New Barfly site

this is a piece of work that's been kicking around for 18 months or so, and now it's finally gone live... it's not really that different to what's already there, but this time round everyone's been chased up to enter more useful info in the system, a...

Must Destroy Barfly!

This Friday three of Must Destroy's bands are playing The Barfly, Camden, That London, here's what they have to say about them:Do Me Bad Things :: Croydon's premier 9-piece rock / pop / soul freakoutfit. Words alone fail to describe the full DMBT exp...

"they're filthy and they�re gorgeous..."

This Saturday, 3rd April Scissor Sisters DJ at Transmission at Barfly Camden. "The most rock �n� roll band on the planet" according to the NME, hmm, yes. Be there early if you want to be sure of getting in, more details at www.barflyclub.com/london/ ...

David Walliams

Yeah but no but yeah, but... oh no, he's the other one from Little Britain, and he was at the Pet Shop Boys gig at the Barfly on Saturday night. His celebrity ladyfriend Patsy Kensit was not in attendance.

Darkness review

How good can one weekend get, seeing The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys and finally The Darkness all in the hottest venue in town, all Music Passport charity shows too...Fantastic show, wish you all could have been there, it was hot but not too hot, it was...

The Cure review

Unbelievably, we got into The Cure last night at Barfly Camden, and here is my review... This was the Music Passport charity show, a privileged audience of about 200 competition winners and successful ebay bidders, and then a handful of people like u...

Pet Shop Boys / Turbonegro / Iggy Pop / Barfly

Electric Eel Shock will be DJ'ing at Club Transmission at London Barfly this Sat 6th MarchStrangely it is a sort of after show for The Pet Shops Boys back to the bars gig upstairs before hand...European Tour starts 19th March in Cork, Ireland, tour d...

Two gigs for this week...

Right, tomorrow night I am off to the 12 bar Club, Denmark Street, Soho, MJ Hibbett is doing a gig of some sort... he's second on supporting someone called Nikki Link. Was he not in Motley Crue? ONLY JOKING "latin rhythms blended with evocative folk/...

Intimate Performances

There are literally only hours left to go for you to have a chance of getting into the Music Passport "Back to the Bars" gigs...The Cure, The Darkness, David Gray, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, Craig David, Super Furry Animals, Travis, Divine Comedy, As...

Rapture / Raveonettes / Spiritualized

Club Automatic have The Rapture, The Raveonettes AND Jason Pierce from Spiritualised are all DJing at The Barfly, Chalk Farm Road, That London this Saturday night...buy tickets here, or see clubautomatic.co.uk or barflyclub.com for more details......

Barfly listings

More work for Barfly today, preparing the listings so they work as well in a multi-roomed venue like Liverpool as in a regular venue like Glasgow has been harder than expected... The listings have to be none-more-flexible, but also clear, think I've ...

Two Libertines

They were drinking and talking.

Bobby Gillespie

He was at the bar next to us, ordering some drinks. I regret to say Kate was not with him.

Craig Kelly ,actor, played Vince, in Queer as Folk

Standing outside venue before the Queens of Noise club, sporting a beard and using his mobile.

Max from Hollyoaks

Watching the Electric Soft Parade Journey Shoes compy gig.

Auto unsubscribes for Barfly

Hmm, getting there with the auto unsubscribes for Barfly, the system is picking up on bounces now, and should automatically trim them, my inbox is going to get more and more managable! Still got to wait for some MX-record changes to go through though...

Barfly changes

Just realised my method for calling in another table for big articles, though it worked, wouldn't have worked for everything we need - we'd have ended up with news stories on the front page of the site saying things like "plus special guests TBA", th...

RE: Barfly changes

It's going to end up another half day of popex, and half day of Barfly again... have tried chasing up Supervision Management to inspire them to use the calendar...

PopEx and Barfly again

Half a day's popex admin, and half a day's barfly development, will it never end...

The Cure Passport gig

Amazing, we got in to the Barfly, read my Cure review.

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Neds Atomic Dustbin

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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The Bigger The God

plus Haven and Biffy Clyro...

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I Am Kloot

and Alfie, Barfly sessions daytime thing recorded for TV. Can't remember if I stayed for Idlewild in the evening....

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Badly Drawn Boy

Another Barfly Sessions, evening or just later afternoon this one.

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King Adora

Another "Barfly Sessions" TV thing, free and in the afternoon I think. Pretty poor.

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Coldplay

Coldplay Barfly session was today, I was there... cosy....

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Tiger

plus Chicks, at Camden Falcon. Probably a Barfly thing, but when it was at the Falcon... anyone remember such days?...

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