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The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November

The Holloways play the LCH, get tickets here. Not yet sold out, no need for ebay (yet). Support from local acts Underground Heroes and Seven Storey Down, full press release to follow.More dates nationally, at cosier venues than we get here, guess Fol...

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Own Gig - want to book your favourite band to do a private gig?

Hmm just seen http://www.owngig.com on popbitch, it's a site where you can get together with likeminded fans and pay your favourite band to do a gig. And it really can work, see this news piece from them: We are a matter of days away now from making ...

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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LONE STAR COMEDY CLUB � FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 2008 AT 7.30

Following a triumphant show on 31st May The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton. The line up for the new show will be EARL OKIN, JAMES SHERWOOD, compere MATT PRICE and a newcomer.Earl ...
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Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Hevy is extremely excited to be presenting their biggest event so far this August, featuring two of their favourite upcoming bands supporting Turin Brakes at the Leas Cliff Hall.Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneFriday 8th August 2008 (08/08/08)Doors 7:00pm...

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RE: Thanks for that, think it's the Metronome you mean

Yip was the Metronome, forgot its name as it was a very short lived venue, pity had a nice atmosphere. But though intoxicated at the time I can definatley state the gig did happen.
It was just as Generation Terrorists was climbing the charts.

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Interesting pop chart changes afoot, now downloads are eligible for the chart even if there is no corresponding CD single available. As this is a relatively new technology, changes are happening all the time I'm sure, but this is quite a meaty one. W...

Bonus travel update

Sevenoaks turned into some sort of no go area yesterday, no trains allowed to pass through it at all, this caused carnage on the network from teh afternoon onward. Some people were held up for hours, I was only half an hour late home, but still not t...

Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.Als...

Harry Clarke at the V&A

Well spotted Mum and Dad, there is a Harry Clarke at the Victoria and Albert museum:Harry Clarke was one of the great masters of 20th-century stained glass. He trained in his father's studio and at the Metropolitan Art School in Dublin, which gave hi...

Couple of Orson tickets up on Ebay

Get in quick, though there may be more Orson tickets here. Found these while browsing for tickets for sold out gigs in Folkestone...In October of 2005 Hollywood's Orson dipped into their collective pockets and flew themselves to Manchester to play at...

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FOLKESTONE POET MAKES BOOK CHART

Folkestone poet Ben Barton has made the Amazon UK's Top 5 'Hot Books' chart with his debut poetry collection...Called THE RED BOOK, it is described as his �greatest hits collection� featuring over forty previously published poems, from The Re-Birth R...

Folkestone - seventh best holiday resort in the UK

From the Guardian:Sam Hill, spokeswoman for the Camping and Caravanning Club, which has an amazing 400,000 members in the UK (most of them stuck in front of me on the motorway), recommends Folkestone and the Kent coast. "It's gorgeous," she says. "Th...

Careful with that message board Eugene

The BBC reports that an Oldham woman libelled an MP from Portchester (where I am from) on Yahoo message boards:Ms Williams, of Oldham, Lancs, used a pseudonym to post claims that he was a sexual offender and a racist bigot.Ms Williams had also claime...

X-Files???

Are you having a laugh? Some other good suggestions in there though, cheers... Also, because it might amuse you:I take by the fact I have no Million discs left you no longer want me as a player. Just say so and I will delete my account, as you have m...

Still no Cure tickets

More went on sale just now for the Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Albert Hall, but they must have sold out by the presale link yesterday. Looks like ebay is your best bet then.Today I'm mostly working on adding some social networking type stuff to p...

Fastr

Fastr - a game based on flickr... guess the common tag of the pictures that appear, the quicker you do the more points you get.Got to do more work on my ajax database selector today - when you come back to a form to edit it, the selector is just BLAN...

IPOD pants

IPOD pants, Levi's possibly making a pair of fully wired jeans. There are a few things like this around already, but a pair of jeans is more practical around the home / office / high street than a bulky snowboard coat or rucksack. Oh and there's a ne...

Shakin stevens family tree search

I'am looking for shakys family tree

Zeitgeist

Good toss del.icio.us is back up again today, this leads me to Google's zeitgeist report for 2005... this is some charts and graphs (I love charts and graphs) of on what people were searching for (and finding) this year. Interesting to see that podca...

PopEx

I am number 8 in the popex charts, not done this well for a while, even though it's my game... Is this the right time for me to be dumping my good performing shares and buying Shayne Ward (x-factor winner) instead? I'm feeling in the mood for a gambl...

I'll let it go, good spotting skills

I'll repair the stalking charts, just for you!

RE: pauly's email Folkestone

hey pauly.UNDER NEATH WHAT ARE NEARING YOUR SHORES.YOU BETTER WATCH OUT MOTHERFUCKER, CUZ IT'S BIGGER BADDER, SEXIER AND MEANER THAN IT EVER WAS BEFORE.we're working on a new CD, that will be out in a few months, and soon touring. today long beach, ...

Don't shoot!

It was raining when I left the house this morning, so I'm wearing a big coat, and it wasn't raining when I got to London, it was quite hot, so now I'm TERRIFIED I'll be shot for dressing suspiciously! What is going on there then? I hope there's more ...

pauly's email Folkestone

hello pauly.it's andrew from UNDER NEATH WHAT. i just ran across your thing, but sadly, i'm not in folkstone, i'm in california. UNW isn't STILL going, it's just going again, cuz i still had an itch to scratch. you CAN GET OUR STUFF ON EBAY...

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...

Passenger's charter

Dumper of a journey in today, something up with the train at Folkestone resulted in the driver not letting anyone on until something (I overheard) had been "rebooted"... we puffed and we pootled as far as Westenhanger (two stops) and then got stuck b...

Christopher Ecclestone quits?

So, the Sun says that Christopher Ecclestone has quit Doctor Who, maybe this means he's only going to do the series he's already filmed. WHO will be the next WHO then? I've said it before and I'll say it again, it should be Alan Davies. Gossip sugges...

Back on form!

And back to the top of the charts I assume!

Whoever the fuck Leilani is..?