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More tree info and photos coming later today

ah, it's the anniversary of the Titanic going down today innit...

Viva Las Vegas

I have been in that Las Vegas, nice place, shame about the food, for me anyway. Had a nice grilled vege sub from Quizno's on the way home, but apart from that it's not the best place for a vegan. Breakfast was fried potato and spicy tomato sauce, mor...

Alcudia

Off to Majorca in the morning, for a week, staying at Bahia Alcudia... playing pool, by the pool, and drinking cheap booze here we come...

Bahia De Alcudia

"Guten Tag" as they say in Majorca... weather is fine, though we had one day of rain, food is shockingly bad, Clare got food poisoning one day. Not from the hotel though, we've not eaten much here. The guests seem to be about half English and half Ge...

Thieving bastards

Look out if you're coming to Majorca, the place is crawling with thieves. Actually no it's not, but we've encountered a couple of criminal signs... saw a couple of kids trying it on by the pool of our hotel, ripping off tourist handbags, and noticed ...

Holiday reading

While I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m...

Friday 13th

Today I'm pissed off, got some sort of court order going on for a bill that's already been paid, didn't get to the front door in time to sign for a "special delivery" that I wasn't expecting, hot bus and tube journey in and hay fever galore... ARSES....

Darkness Album arrived today

so back in the office to pick it up... tasks:Admin and reviewing and news story preparing for popexExtracting content from The Fly magazine for use in linking to them from popex, generating page impressions and thatFurther chasing of ringtones deal, ...

I don't like Mondays

Along with the fall out of Friday's divi mail, Monday is the busiest day... charts to process , new bands to add, and a lot of emailing

At least I'm working from home today, temperature is over 30 in the office

Yesterday

Popbitch party was last night, a little trial of a new venue, Centro on Grays Inn Road, worked well though I didn't stay long... went instead for pints at the Rose and Crown and then The Defoe and then a Chinese from some place on Church Street we'd ...

Friday

Today, tinkered with Barfly module, processed lots of mails and punter deletions and made enhancements to popex, specifically adding new bands and furthering the recruitment drive, nice.Blee, death in the family this morning, and also a surprise secr...

Two task lists today

One for lunchtime:Buy an exercise bike - Lillywhite's number is 0870 3339600, seems to be an old number listed all over the web, including their own website, bit slack... ALSO, 118 118, got their number, they offer to "connect you", then all the time...

6.5k on the exercise bike today

I'm pleased with that, it's up from 5k every day since we had the bike...Someone seems to be playing a saxaphone outside, it's so bohemian round here. I could be hallucinating that because of the heat though. 37 degrees today, should be about 10 degr...

Updates of the day

Got the David Devant single today, there's a review up here, get tickets for their Dingwalls show... Also some more links to Goldie Lookin' Chain pictures... They're playing live tonight, supporting the Super Furry Animals, and also at some "new band...

Sunday Times takes the Orient Express

Did you know it still travels through Folkestone? Read all about it, they didn't enjoy the change in our town though...Then we reached Folkestone, got off the train and onto a coach, yes, a coach, for the Eurotunnel transfer: going round Folkestone r...

Todays tasks

Had a big meeting. Worked on popex stats. Integrated Google ads into popex. Worked on the Barfly admin system, including making a "public" version of the "show artist" page. Ready to go any day now, as I've been saying for weeks......

Tasks for the day

Barfly development

Barfly venue staff admin

Popex google ad admin

PopEx admin, account deleting

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

ARRR!On a spoddy note I am posting this image without using an IMG tag, I've done it as an object instead... this means I can include HTML in the equivalent of the ALT tag, and no-one should see a broken image thing... just learned it, as the proper ...

Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

I was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about t...

Jobs for today

Half popex admin, including reworking stuff for the redesign, and half the artist profile pages and daily email for Barfly...

Saturday night drinking

Heading out to the Shakespeare for a bit of a change, haven't been there before.

Office Cleaning Day

Rushing through my PopEx admin this morning (charts to add, etc) then this afternoon is the great office clean, bit odd, then a big company meeting, even odder.Have noticed lots of wacky referers, that aren't actually referers at all, but are showing...

RE: Office Cleaning Day

That sounds more like the company going bust.

1. Tidy your desk
2. Go to meeting saying you no longer have a desk

Today's tasks

More tweaks to the Band Bible, including a "quick add a thing to the system", that'll be used across all projects eventually.

40GB of rubbish heavy metal

WOO! The IPOD turned up today! And after all the worry of it going astray in the post or getting stolen, I get home to find it's been left on the door step.And if I thought the day couldn't get any brighter, it turns out that one tin of spaghetti hoo...

Day two of IPOD fun

Figured out the IPOD band index duplicates, it was down to rogue spaces at the end of the artist names... on the MusicMatch software it ignores any extra spaces at the end of names, so "Bon Jovi" is the same as "Bon Jovi ", but on the IPOD itself i...

MJ Hibbett and the Validators Christmas newsletter

It's the last working day of the month for me too! I don't think this means it's pay day though, as we should be working between christmas and new year, it's just holiday rather than shutdown. I very much enjoyed Mark's Totally Acoustic at The Lamb, ...

Also Nan's Birthday

Closed on a Saturday night

When we went past on Saturday night (11th October), it seemed to be closed, what a shame.

The Rainmakers

Don't know what day in February this was yet... Very poor turnout though apparently.

Skid Row

Gary Moore (also of Thin Lizzy's band of this name (nothing to do with Sebastian Bach et al) played Folkestone some time this month, not sure what day...

Manic Street Preachers

CANCELLED, rescheduled for a week later? Quite a few people now say they were there, so looks like it was! Last day on the Generation Terrorists tour possibly.

Big Night Out in Covent Garden, 4 World Class Comedians. Great Drinks Deals, Superb Aftershow Nightclub., Every Friday & Saturday.

Charlatans

Very nice to see contemporary bands coming to town, two in two days, how will people afford it, bit steep!

Blur

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.

Coldplay

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

Six By Seven

Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of buy maybe.

Rosie's Dumplings

Irish folk, back for a post Paddy's day booze up... what do you reckon, should I try and book them for my wedding?

EUROPE

TUESDAY EVENING 19:30.

WASP

Not sure what day, the ticket is very faded... Zed Yago supported, this site says REM played there only two days before, I did pick the gigs to go to......

The Darkness

Have I misdated this one? I was at David Bowie this day...

Dogs D'Amour

plus Under Neath What... went to London to see UNW a few days later, probably the Marquee...

Skid Row

plus LA Guns and Love / Hate. The latter announced a "secret" gig they were doing the next day in London, I should have gone they were one of my fave bands of the day.

Paul McCartney

Mothers Day present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us before...

AC/DC

Special gig, we had to queue all day for tickets. Support from Hundred Reasons.

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them...

The Vines

supported by The Libertines. Two gigs in one night, think I saw either The Darkness or Neds Atomic Dustbin this day too...

Ash

Midday show, Japanese TV recording, news here.

Bitch Aid

The party to raise some money for popbitch - putting it here as a gig as I met John Deacon that day, I just found an autographed receipt in with my tickets...

Tiger

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

Reading Festival

Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echobelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm....

Art

A play, a birthday treat, long running, had Art Malik in it and it was Frank Skinner's first night.

The Sundays

Green Day

Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.

Tiger

plus Linoleum. Had to walk back from Southampton after being stopped with no lights on my bike, then head to Phoenix Festival the next day.

Performance

Local. My birthday. Plus Cloudburst.

Hythe Farmers' Market

Farmers' Market in the hall behind the Light Railway Restaurant, Scanlen's Bridge Road, Hythe. Time: 10:00am to midday (every second and fourth Saturday of the month).

Primal Scream

Think I have the date right, sure it was the day before Oasis.

Quiz and dinner

Every Wednesday, a quiz and dinner. You need to book a table.