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Metallica tickets

Metallica tour the UK! Get tickets here, on sale Friday morning.Wed 25th Feb - Nottingham Trent FM ArenaThurs 26th Feb - Manchester Evening News ArenaSat 28th Feb - Sheffield ArenaMon 2nd Feb - London O2 ArenaTues 3rd Feb - New...
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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...
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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 ...

A festive update from Hibbett

Hmm, this newsletter is called "The Last Working Day Of The Month" (from one of his songs), but he's practically a civil servant and finished work for the year a week ago at least, I'm still working...welcome to this SUPER CHRISTMASSY edition of our ...

York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

Frenchman opening next week?

Not that I've spoken to anyone or anything, but I see these gigs coming through on the listings:Thu 5th Oct 2006 HeroesFri 6th The Sharpee's (should that apostrophe really be there..?)Sat 7th Clacket Lane TBCFri 13th TurmoilSat 14th Mary's Dog (that ...
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My gigography

Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag o...

Google-maps hack WHACKED!

read more on Slashdot... I think most of the interesting map sites ought to be safe, the site in question was ripping the satellite images (which we poor brits aren't even allowed) and stitching them together to make big deskto background images.Keep...

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...

Haha, cheers Jacob

You realise that message was originally posted last year, and not this year?Glad that you check out this site (whether that's www.clarkeology.com/blog or www.folkestonegerald.com), I hope you realise that I don't have an inside track on what's going ...

Darkness review

Not worth reposting it here, it's up on popex, you can read it there... a good night, as I've said before the best thing about Brixton gigs is I'm allowed to go in the Wetherspoons beforehand. Clare's not keen on that pub (The Beehive), and it's easy...

Best place to be a parent

The Observer says Stokey is the best place to be a parent, aside from the smack, crack and stabbings I guess. Cheerier news from Folkestone, WiMAX trials in January, from someone called www.telabria.com, yeah Folkestone's where it's at baby! Can't wa...

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 ...

RE: Q Magazine's best gigs ever

The Darkness at Hammersmith would def make it into mine, but as you say, that was as much about being there in a big group. Others I'd say would be: Beta Band at the Astoria; Primal Scream at Brix Academy (with Death in Vegas supporting); Radiohead's...

Q Magazine's best gigs ever

Here's something that's wound me up hugely, Q Magazine's "Top 100 gigs of all time", the top ten of which were in today's Evening Standard:Radiohead Glastonbury 1997Nirvana Reading 1992Oasis Knebworth 1996Coldplay V2003Brian Wilson Royal Festival Hal...

Darkness Music Passport review

If you are Clare's brother and you're still smarting that we went to The Cure on Friday, then please turn away now... gone? Right, we also went to see The Darkness last night, doing another Music Passport show, and probably it was the highlight of th...

Suede were amazing

So glad we went to the Astoria to see Suede on Saturday, they were fantastic. They played two sets, the first being all the non singles that they say they wanted to play - coincidentally it was all their best songs, all the songs they've been ignorin...

Pop Factory Awards

The Pop Factory are pleased to announce the nominations for this year�s Awards ceremony. Taking place on October 24th at the Pop Factory studios in Porth, South Wales, the Awards highlight the best up and coming talent from Wales, as well as establis...

The Blurs

Hi i am new i got here from the link on http://www.popex.com/profiles/BLUR/No not really... a mate just mailed to say he'd heard from another mate that Blur were doing 4 nights at the Astoria in May... anyone heard anything yet? Nothing on the ticket...
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What a polite letter...

Hi guys,I'm writing in regards to a night we're promoting in Manchester on 26th November. It's called Manchester's One Night Stand & the bands playing are Belle Vue, Poet's Corner, Overtone, The Unexpected & The Provisionals. The price is �3 & the ve...

I knew if I kept this game up long enough, I'd get something worth having...

I knew if I kept at this interweb lark long enough, then I'd start getting sent free stuff that was worth having... it's not a product that needs introducing, let alone reviewing, but The Very Best Of The Stone Roses is much appreciated, ta...It open...

Who's the Daddy in November?

After the success of the previous two musical bouts comes "Who�s The Daddy Now? 3". The one where ex Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine pals Jim Bob and Fruitbat slug it out on stage with their new bands (Jim's Super Stereoworld and Abdoujaparov) to ...

Setlist of ROCK

The Darkness ROCKED Oxford Street Metro on Friday night... possibly their best gig ever, possibly the same as all their other gigs, we were boozing heavily. Here's the set list:BarebackBlack ShuckBest of meLove is only a feelingGet your hands offGivi...

I should start making use of the facilities

There's a huge NOBO board near my desk with album and single release dates on it, so here are this week's releases! All these were out yesterday:Pixies - The Complete B Sides. 19 tracks of B-sides from officially the best and most influential band ev...

all of 'em!

they were supporting Offspring, first on, sunday night, and they were perfect. Amaaaaaazing. One of the best 'A' gigs - and I've been to 80+ (lost count) over like 4 years, but 3 really cos I didn't see them much last year... I love 'A'! ps ...