2003-11-21UTC06:11:30Magnet DownloadAcclaimed lap-steeley man Even Johansen aka Magnet releases Last Day of Summer on very ltd gatefold 12 inch and an exclusive download here. Live shows with Doves, Gemma Hayes, Frank Black and Kathryn Williams have won this Nord outstanding press accl... 2002-04-11UTC09:30:39Cover of the day...This album "Wanna Buy A Monkey" isn't out until April 29th, but it features Doves, Gorillaz, Air, X-Ecutionors and more, all messed with in some way by Dan The Automator...If you like Gorillaz, or D12, then you'll probably like this.From the further ... 2002-04-10UTC11:03:43Iceland RockLeaves are doing a lot of stuff right now, just got a new single from them - "Race" - it's out on the 6th of May... they're going touring crazy too, playing the Essential Festival in Bristol and supporting The Coral, Doves and Electric Soft Parade o... 2002-04-08UTC01:16:06Magnet, monsterSays here that that's their debut EP, but Amazon has an album - Quiet and Still - up for grabs, which features a cover of one of my best songs - Dancing in the Moonlight.No, not the Toploader one, you deviant, but the Thin Lizzy track of the same nam... 2002-01-22UTC11:13:34Phwooar, 126,918 clicks...PopEx continues to rise, over 120,000 page impressions yesterday, and only about 10% of those page impressions are down to the new "refreshing" frames of the control panel - http://www.popex.com/control/ - as it's not really been promoted yet...There... 2001-02-23UTC04:35:51Some REVIEWSSouth - Paint The Silence (single)Starting off a bit like Doves, yeah yeah, then a bit of Beta Band creeps in, then before you realise it, we have the Stone Roses! They're not copyists or anything, but this title track has a massive loopy, dopey, dru... 2001-02-06UTC12:28:08The one with shaggy blonde hairOK, bit of a cheat as they were actually playing (last minute addition to the Doves / Ed Harcourt / Elbow bill), but the one with the shaggy hair must have been trying to get his girlfriend into the VIP area, and the security were having NONE OF IT..... 2001-02-05UTC12:04:07Cancellations... and a silver lining.Outkast and Kings of Convenience have both pulled out of their upcoming Astoria shows.Kings of Convenience were due to play tonight, with Doves, Ed Harcourt, Elbow and but have been replaced at the last minute by first reserves, THE COOPER TEMPLE CLA... 2000-08-23UTC04:39:54Coldplay and JJ72 on TV tonightThe Barfly Sessions are on Channel 4, at quarter to one in the morning, well, it's tomorrow really innit...Tonight's bands are Coldplay and JJ72, in gigs specially recorded at Barfly's own venue earlier this month.The coming week's sees sets from Bab... 2000-07-26UTC11:01:51Tolken Folkie MY ARSE!I KNOW there are lists of Mercury Nominees going around saying "Coldplay, Richard Ashcroft, blah blah, token folkie no-one's heard of"... That "token folkie" is Kathryn Williams, who has been a PopEx commodity for a while, and who I'm going to see at... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/7349/Tolken+Folkie+MY+ARSE%21">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2000-07-24UTC10:04:05Free Coldplay GigChannelfly are EXPANDING into TV with a series of live sessions, to go out on Channel Four, starting August 23rd.The first show to be recorded is Coldplay, in their first small gig since their major chart success - see http://www.channelfly.com for h... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/7346/Free+Coldplay+Gig"><img alt="Free Coldplay Gig" src="http://www.clarkeology.com/blog/upload/barflylondon.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/7346/Free+Coldplay+Gig">Rated 4.71/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2000-06-13UTC03:39:13PopEx Coo!Right, I am off on holiday, (semi) trained pigeons will be running the site from now on, so please behave.<br /><br /><br /><br />No that's not a picture of me, it's one of the blokes from DOVES - Doves / Pigeons, do you see? Do you?2000-05-05UTC10:56:02Sisqo InfernoHere are all the divis that bands paid out this week... global sales dictated most of this week's returns, and Sisqo proved to be still hugely undervalued...17.6% - £3.14 Santana24.5% - £1.99 Sisqo10.5% - £1.78 'N Sync18.8% - £1.69 Destiny's Child15.... 2000-03-28UTC03:14:09Telegram SpamJust a reminder that there are PRIZES this week, both for best trader, and for best signer-upper, so if you konw anyone who's not playing, hassle them to start playing now! The person who signs up the most new punters wins some STUFF, including CDs f... 2000-03-23UTC11:04:27Coo, more free stuffThe latest band to join the "bribe ourselves a better dividend" bandwagon are DOVES, and they've done it in the most style so far... There are regular copies of the single "The Cedar Room", and promo only copies of the single, which are different, an...