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Farewell then HDDVD

Toshiba has announced it's stopping production of the HDDVD format. So Sony's Blu-Ray is the winner so far. Anyone bought an HDDVD player yet?Watch the price of HDDVD machines tumble a bit fast....

RE: MARC BOLAN & T.REX LIVE IN FOLKESTONE

Does anyone have any blurb/pics of the Rolling Stones gig at the Odeon?

SOS Folkestone

On a technical level, I don't like www.sosfolkestone.info but that could be just me being a nerd. They do have a little forum there with a lot more activity than this one, and some more info on Roger Dehaan's masterplan for Folkestone, including some...

I've got the power... oh no, I don't

Super power outage at work today, from about 7am this morning to lunchtime, has quite thrown the rhythm of my whole day.The Arctic Monkeys are getting quite a lot of press aren't they? I don't think we've seen the like since the Oasis v Blur days of ...

We're BACK!

Back in work today, the wedding was amazing. I have several days to catch up on here, but if you want to cut right to the chase, here's a picture of us:More wedding pictures here... The long weekend started on Wednesday, which I already kind of cover...

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...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Sugarmilk

I saw Sugarmilk on Saturday night at The Happy Frenchman, and wasn't really impressed. The singer's got quite a strong voice in the karaoke fake emotional style, and the band can play OK, but there was something annoying about them. The soundcheck go...
Rated 7.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Relocation, Relocation

Good to see Folkestone not only feature on Channel 4's Relocation, Relocation last night, but also being the outright winner! What a great house. Shame they didn't have time to give as much blurb about Folkestone as they did about Deal and Ramsgate. ...

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Down in Fareham for the weekend, cheers to the chums who came out drinking in the Red Lion, was I a bit squiffy? I told you that Abbot Ale was strong. I don't remember leaving the pub or how I got home...Nice days shopping in Chichester on Saturday, ...

Lessons for the day

Got to figure out why onBlur() isn't working on pulldown menus on the popEx control panel in some browsers, should I be using onUnSelect() or something instead? Also, the amazing disappearing table borders on the calendar. Everything validates now, b...

Paul Whitehouse

Cheering on all us Sport Relief milers, bless him. Took a couple of blurred photies as I limped past.

Guns don't kill people, rappers do

Feeling a bit slow today as a result of last night's Goldie Lookin' Chain gig at Islington Academy, and the quantity of booze consumed thereat. Started off with a few pints in The Angelic with Creatif, Big Jimmy and Mr and Mrs Kosso, and another frie...

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...

IPOD Crash

Seem to have bummed my IPOD, by loading too much into the "notes" folder, possibly too many subdirectories, all a result of trying to archive this site on it... it worked before I tried to split it up into sub folders, and made great (but obviously v...

Extra holiday

Nice, just found I have 3 more days holiday than I thought, so having Christmas eve and New Years Eve off, and carrying a little over for next year... I'm robbing myself a bit, as if I worked those days they'd only be halves, ah well...This holiday f...

Frozen balls

Man it's so cold here today that my mouse ball is frozen, it's making it very difficult to work... the office is going to be dead quiet today, most people seem to have this whole week off, I'm still hoping for some fairy godmother type to appear from...

PEACE!

The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi...

Alternative 3

Listening to Alternative 3's "It Feels Like" single now. It sounds a bit like Mansun and a bit like Gary Numan, but with all the "FX" buttons on the keyboards being pressed at once. Not actually much cop.Track 2 "Cold Rush" sounds like a cross betwee...

Darkness playing Reading

And you all scoffed when I started going on about this band... Right, the mighty Darkness follow hot on the heals of signing a hundred billion pound record deal with satan himself (or something, details are still sketchy) with a slot at Reading and L...

Blur

Saw Blur at the Astoria, reviewed it here, apparently the song they did with Phil Daniels is called "My White Noise" and is featured as the hidden track on Think Tank... nice that it's done as a REAL hidden track, not just tacked on the end after a b...

Phil Daniels

Blur brough Phil Daniels on at their gig last night... oh no thought the crowd... but NO Parklife! They possibly did a song called My White Noise instead, it's track zero on the new album Think Tank......

Steve Lamacq

He introduced Blur, last night, 12th May.

A Libertine

The singer probably, he barged past us in the bar. Last night at Blur. Zzzzz...

Apparently Zoe and Norm were there too, my mate saw them. But I didn't.

Athlete

What were they doing supporting Blur? It's only two weeks since they headlined and sold out the same venue.... anyway, spotting them on the stage doesn't count at all, but I noticed them being bigged up by their possee in the "VIP" bit of the Astoria...

Giiiigs, is there no end

Blur were ace last night at the Astoria, much more of a mix of old and new than I expected, which was a treat as I don't know the new album. New guitarist stood like a sessionist, not drawing attention to himself either with presence or ability reall...

Reading Festival SOLD OUT!

The Carling Weekend : Reading Festival has now SOLD OUT of weekend tickets in RECORD TIME. With an headline bill that features EXCLUSIVE HEADLINE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES from BLUR. METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, THE WHITE STRIPES, BLINK 182 and SYSTEM OF A DO...

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...

Divis are on their way...

Sorry about the delay, it's all part of recent "improvements" (*cough*)... While you're waiting, why not read, absorb, and click through this commercial message... please?The most complicated member of British music's most complicated band, the cool...

Astoria

Last of a five night residency. Would you adam and eve it PHIL DANIELS showed up!
Rated 6.71/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Garage

Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun

The Brighton Centre

Blur

Reading Festival

Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.

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.

The Wedgewood Rooms

Glastonbury

My first Glastonbury festival, went in my van, hard to fault the lineup on the NME stage... Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Manics, etc....