Ear, including ear in my blog, any mentions of ear in my family tree and ear in Folkestone.

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Richard Branson '04

Dennis Hopper '04

Donny Osmond '04

David Walliams (from Little Brittain) '04

Shane macGowan '04

Andy Thomas '04

George Best '04

Heather Graham '00

Jason Donovan '06

Terry Waite '05

Simon Pegg '05

Bernard Butler '05

Mackenzie Crook '05

A1 '05

elizabeth jagger '04

Gary Mountfield '04

Derren Brown '04

johnny borrell '05

Travis '04

Rik Mayall '04

Neil Tennant '04

Mani '04

Dennis Waterman '05

Ralph Brown '05

Pacey (Joshua Jackson) from Dawson's creek '05

Grant Feeder '05

Dave Gorman '05

Nigel Harman aka Little Den '04

Bernard Butler '04

Paul Whitehouse '04

Events:

Bruce Forsyth 10 Theatre Royal Haymarket 26 Oct 2003 Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up...

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The Darkness 9 Leas Cliff Hall 08 Feb 2004 plus Goldie Lookin' Chain

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The Tears 9 Heaven 16 Dec 2004 plus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really.

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The Cure / NME Big Gig 9 O2 Arena 26 Feb ££30 (tickets) Interesting slating of last year's event here, but we will still go... SOLD OUT now, of course.

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Love / Hate 8.5 The Marquee 31 Oct 1990 Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!

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The Beta Band 8 Astoria 25 Jan 2000 NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed o

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Menswear 8 Camden Underworld 01 Nov 1995 A radio one show, was billed as Longpigs and Fluffy and Menswear were surprise headliners. The glory days of britpop! They got in big trouble for swearing live on the radio. Think I have the day right, let me know if you know better...

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Under Neath What 7 Astoria 11 May 1990 I was in the queue for this gig and bought a fanzine off someone. Did I know Metallica were doing a secret gig just a few doors down at the Marquee club? Why on earth did I stay at the Astoria? Bah...

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Scalarama 2 6 The Scala 07 Oct 2000 MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale and lots of other bands

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The Tears 5 Astoria 16 Feb 2005 Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, weren't they in a band together before? One of the NME gigs, support included The Magic Numbers I think but we stayed in the pub and missed them all.

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MJ Hibbett 12 Bar Club 26 Feb 2004

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Radiohead The Joiners 18 Feb 1993

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New Order Finsbury Park 01 Jun 2001 Pissed down with rain. Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Atmosphere, Brutal, Close Range, She's Lost Control, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart, (Encore) Digital (with John Simm), Blue Mond

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Travis Alexandra Palace 20 Dec 2003 plus Kings Of Leon who were OK, Travis a bit boring. VERY annoyed by the Carling-ness of it all and so we left early to get a proper drink.

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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Astoria 03 Feb 2001 NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them...

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Gene Forum 25 Mar 1999 A work freebie, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). A charity contribution sorted it out...

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Reading Festival Reading Festival 28 Aug 1994 Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echbelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.

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Symposium Electric Ballroom 04 Jun 1997 Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after show.

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The Montrose Avenue Kings College 26 Mar 1998 One of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd

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Channelfly Xmas Party Barfly 12 Dec 2000 Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.

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Essential Festival Stanmer Park 26 May 1996 Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus.

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Phoenix Festival Santa Pod Raceway 18 Jul 1996 I clearly remember David Devant and Holy Barbarians, David Bowie, Sex Pistols and Foo Fighters too I think, must have seen a lot more though...

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The Wildhearts Portsmouth Pyramids 22 Mar 1994 plus Baby Chaos

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Molly Half Head The Wedgewood Rooms 03 Mar 1993 I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?

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Oasis Earls Court 04 Nov 1995 Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?

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Bearsuit Bull and Gate 10 May 2003 Some sort of twee indie bear themed evening. Last minute addition to the bill were The Futureheads for some reason.

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David Devant and his Spirit Wife HQ Club 18 Nov 2006 Think the year is wrong on this one...

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The Cuban Boys The Garage 08 Aug 2000 Don't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possiblybe mixing it up with an earlier Helen Love gig... Plus The Fighting Cocks.

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Glastonbury Glastonbury 24 Jun 1995 The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather.

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Megadeth Poole Arts Centre 24 Mar 1991 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)

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