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99p pints at Wetherspoons?

According to this story from Fareham, does it apply across the whole Wetherspoons chain?Community pubs say there is no way they can match Wetherspoon's, which has slashed the prices of drinks at its pubs.The pub is selling pints of Greene King IPA al...
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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.

RE: House hunt

I like the "not slanderous at all" $10 note comment. That coupled with a picture of the premises in question would never get you into trouble ;) Lovely looking building though - much nicer from the outside than the second one.You like that there Waga...

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 ...

Top weekend

Great weekend visiting, eating, and drinking, very nice indeed, cheers. Not such a bad journey down to Fareham as it might have been, considering it was the bank holiday and traffic was supposed to be monstrous. Normal holdups around Hindhead and the...

We did the same thing

I brought in The Chicken Song. I was so uncool. Has anything really changed? There's probably a link between novelty songs like this, and the sideshow antics (though certainly not the music) of bands like David Devant, The Darkness, and Goldie Lookin...

Separated at birth

Can't remember if I always thought this, or if it just occurred to me, but have a listen to the only good song by My Life Story, and then go back back far back to Fun Boy Three's Tunnel Of Love. Is one of them a cover of the other or what? I wish I h...

RE: Jesus and Mary Chain playing festivals this year

subject to getting tickets me and em are definitely going to glaxonberry this year. you have to register in feb so if you're thinking about going make sure you sign up!

Jesus and Mary Chain playing festivals this year

Well, they're playing Coachella, that's in California, think it was the first one the reformed Pixies played at and also the festival that offered the Rage Against the Machine,Smiths five million dollars. Does that lineup bode well for UK festivals? ...

Another Harry Clarke auction

Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales, with colour plates intact. Low price, but high postage. Still getting plenty of bids though, will we ever get lucky with a copy of this?Published by G. Harrap & Company Ltd, Portsmouth, 1931 HB Cloth. Harry Clarke (illust...

Hot weekend

Nice weekend, hot weekend, I even got sunburnt, lawks! We went to The Kent Show, and it was very nice. Lots of cool stuff there, like llamas and otters and birds and trucks and robots and Kaddy Lee-Preston and things, and I brought back some wine and...

Welcome to Miami!

Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M...

More chain fun

I've just remembered, the takeover of Ottakers by Waterstones has been approved by whoever it is that approves these sort of things (not the staff of Ottakers is my guess). What's this going to do for the town? Maybe Starbucks will move into the clos...
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Yeah as I say it was before I lived there

Oh no, I sounded like one of those "Folkestone Arts" types... I loved Fresh and Wild, most people do, but I'm just saying that some people (the early adopter bohemian meeja types who lived in Stokey in the early '90s) see all chains as bad, but then ...

RE: It's another chain though

The villagyness of Stokey! - blimey pauly, delusions of grandeur! Folkestone is unfortunately not Highgate on sea and loosing M&S is a blow (it's been here for 80 years I heard) and so even a chain such a Starbucks can only be a good thing. The more ...

It's another chain though

Apparently in Stoke Newington (where I lived before Folkestone) there were protests when Fresh and Wild were planning to move into Church Street, as it was a chain and would upset the unique villageyness of the place.

Where starbucks lead, yo below will follow

Hmm, that's another chain, and lots of people don't like them, but I'd rather have a few quality chains like Nandos, Fresh and Wild, Pizza Express and so on, than street after street of independent pound shops.Is there such a thing as English Sushi? ...

As one store closes...

So, we're getting a Starbucks in Folkestone within the next two weeks, according to a small news piece in the Herald. You may think these chain coffee stores are the enemy, but they're surely a sign of regeneration, which is a good thing. AND, they d...
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RE: Goldie Lookin' Chain

In other news, the flat I've put an offer in on in Earls Avenue is still being marketed, hope no-one puts a better offer in......

RE: The Wayne McConnell Quartet

Yeah, I've seen the Wayne McConnell Quartet too, and they're alright I ssuppose, if you like that sort of thing. What they need though is a bit of show biz razz-a-ma-tazz, some sparkley suits and frilly cuffed shirts, some backing singers and a 6 pi...

Maggot 2 Win!!!

What a brilliant idea the new celeb big brother is - they put 11 people in the house, only one of them is a real celebrity, and we have to guess who it is! My money is on The Maggot. Other contenders are George Galloway, Jodie Marsh, Michael Barrymo...

Ooh, gmail web clips

New feature added to gmail today, little web clips popping up at the top of my email, like this:It didn't know automatically that I was in Folkestone (though maybe it could by analysing my mails, hmm) but it throws in interesting stuff and you can cu...

Leas Cliff Hall

BBC says Goldie Lookin' Chain are supporting The Darkness on their Portsmouth and Folkestone dates, got to get in!In other news, the flat I've put an offer in on in Earl's Avenue...

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Another night in

Didn't have serious problems getting home yesterday in the end, Central Line was running OK and just made my train with seconds to spare. Sat in A DIFFERENT PART OF THE TRAIN, as a commuter this is an unusual experience. I must have had someone's sea...

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...

CANCELLED

Looks like Goldie Lookin' Chain have cancelled tonight at the Leas Cliff Hall, when did this happen? Is it apathy on the part of the punters, or is it (as I heard) that the band refused to play because of the reaction they got when they supported The...

Rated 6.02/10 on Folkestone Gerald

you wanna avoid italy then

gidayjust returned from our xmas vacation in europewhic involved a stay in italy, and a long search for any quisine other than pasta and bloddy pizza which we tired of after 2 daysgawd knows how the locals manage to consume all those carbs and stay...

stoner baby

who ever said that goldie lookin chain is shite there fuckin wrong there great so fuk u u daft cunt ha ha lol!!!

Goldie lookin chain's 'Your mother's got a penis' uses the sample from 'Behind the Mask' by Yellow Magic Orchestra! Eric Clapton covered the track. The track was originally a Yellow Magic Orchestra song written by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and it's from the ...

Goldie Lookin' Chain come back to Folkestone

22nd February, more details here... Tickets are here...Did I really see Chas N Dave tickets are coming to the Leas Cliff Hall too?...

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Astoria

Goldie Lookin' Chain
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Islington Academy

Free show!
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Mean Fiddler

plus Lockdown Project.

Leas Cliff Hall

plus Goldie Lookin' Chain

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Metro

I've got a tiny bit of video footage of this one.

Water Rats Theatre

plus support from Jesus and Marychain's sister.

Poole Arts Centre

First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)...