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Sorry, I had a quick search

couldn't find anything for that name though, and don't think there's a link to our family - Clark and Clarke are really common names unfortunately : (1967 london bank robbery hostage thingsTry joining one of the forums or mailing lists that are speci...

Don't fear the beeper

Plan for the day, change submitEvents() to editBill() - what does this mean? You have no idea do you? How queer.Also further Blue Oyster Card fears, if the little scanning device that reads your card is on the right hand side of the ticket barrier, a...

dear diary, oh woe is me

What a day, finally got the "update all events on one day on just the one form" working without compromising the design of the whole Barfly system... well without compromising it too much. My IPOD is being shipped at last, smart... speaking of which,...

Belle and Sebastian tickets

Lets see if I can do the same trick I've done with The Darkness, by reposting all Belle and Sebastian dates up here as they go on sale...Belle And Sebastian @ USHER HALL, EDINBURGH (Sun 14 Dec)More tickets on my Belle and Sebastian tickets page...Bit...

Up early to get those AC/DC tickets

C'mon...Good weekend though, started slightly fuzzy with booze, then met the parents for a curry at the Punjab in Covent Garden, then saw David Blaine in his box, he really does seem to be there, I don't get what the trick is still. Is David Blaine c...

Oyster Card Fears

My Oyster card messed up for the first time today, I'm not sure staff really know what to do when this happens. First bus it worked fine, then on the next bus in Finsbury Park it gave me a red light. The driver didn't know what this meant, except tha...

RE: Oyster Card Fears

there ain't such a thing as a British Rail Oystercard, only tube stations are issuing them... a mate who's got one had problems on Stagecoach buses for a while, but his card was fine with everyone else's.

I noticed someone searching for Clarke and Rainey the other day

it showed up on the logs as they clicked on one of these pages, was it yoU?

Too many fields appear to be blank

In my ongoing perl / excel investigations, I'm finding that about 5 out of 6 rows appear to have blank info in them, this can't be right can it? Going to learn how to use Data::Dumper so as to investigate the spreadsheets further......

Search Terms

"parent directory" mp3 OR wma OR ogg "THE DARKNESS" -htm -html is an odd search request, just came through to here... Is it someone searching for people who have Darkness MP3's in a folder that can be browsed...Everything is still going wrong today....

New Year's Eve is officially next year

Fixed up the "next week / previous week" links for the Barfly calendar, it works nicely and even knows that because Barfly like their weeks to start on the Monday, that this year December 31st is in week 1 of 2004, see it working here......

Happy New Year

Damn forgot to listen to radio 6...Despite rumours of the new house being built on BRW being marketed for three quarters of a milliion, it's good to see I'm still being sent properties like this 2 bed cottage by the harbour for less than 100k... Hope...

RE: Happy New Year

I heard MJ Hibbert on 6 Music. Most amusing - can't see it being number one though!

Earls Avenue

Have seen BILLIONS of places down in Folkestone so far this week, the star of which has been a mad 3 bed flat over two levels which has it's own bar, roof terrace, separate dining room, lounge, TV room AND study, but the thing that's been stopping me...

RE: Earl's Avenue

This in Folkestone? Looks ace - though you'll probably need to sort that furniture out though!

RE: Earl's Avenue

Nice place - looks a bit fancy! I hope you redecorate that bedroom though.

RE: Oyster Card Fears

those Oyster Cards do that sometimes... who knows why. I think they just don't have their act together yet... all the machines aren't working properly. Some of the further out stations (british rail) don't even HAVE those electronic swipey things!!! ...

That's P Zane with the beard

2000AD AKA Two Hats, was the one wearing 2 hats... I was stood a long way back and the sound might have been distorted by the people, and the cider, so I could be wrong... I will get definitive answers from the band.

Sorry to hear that man

NME alerts are sent out by hand aren't they? My popex alerts only got sent out to people who'd requested info on The Breeders because of a slackness on my part...I hear they're definitely playing Glastonbury, if that's any help... they're sure to be ...

Oh dear Alan

I made this today for a cheap laugh, based on what Stephen Fry does on the quiz show QI for an answer that's too obvious, it's coming in handy on the message boards... Any argument works after the ?, like popex.com/cgi-bin/obvious?106, popex.com/cgi-...

92 years ago today

The Titanic sank... found this interesting "this day in history" thing here too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_15. I've just added en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Valentine_Clarke and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Maria_Clarke in there too, more links back h...

Brilliant! Environmentally friendly nuclear missiles!

Concerned for the health of people being killed by nuclear bombs, the EPA has ordered new, less-toxic, rockets to be installed on ICBMs. "In order to comply with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) regulations, and at a cost of about $5.2 million p...

Retro kitchen gear

"21st century technology disguised as 1850s class or 1950s cool"

Wearing your mobile on a cord round your neck

Have people been doing this for ages? I've only just noticed.

RE: Wearing your mobile on a cord round your neck

It's the most annoying thing - I think it started 2 years ago. I never expected people in England to still be doing it.

where can i find my nearst furry?

why, here of course!

search engines

do u mean that MSN are indexing stuff for their search engines??

in general, how would google search for pages within a domain. for example, google searches certain parts of the popbitch site and not others...any reason for this??

Does Your Heart Go Boom?

Not sure if it's possible to have a more sad indie-boy day than I'm having today... Clare's at work, so I'm taking some time out to reorganise all my Helen Love MP3's, when I should probably be shopping, tidying up and cleaning all the drunken scrawl...

They give me the fear!

The seaguls in Folkestone just seem SO BIG. But a mate started that site, and so I thought I'd take some snaps...

Amphithearte Gigs

It says here: Julia Jones + support 7th Aug, 1pm-5pm, Soneando 14th Aug, 2pmRosie's Dumplings 15th Aug, 2pmSlip Jigolos 21st Aug, 2pmShiva Nova 28th Aug 12pm-5pmAgape Choir 29th Aug, 2pmSolid Steel 4th Sept, 2pm ...

Chicago in London

?Celebrating a decade of decadence?, Chicago The Musical enters its tenth year in London?s West End and remains one of the hottest musical tickets in...

Ten Years After

The Wildhearts

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi also attends a New Years Eve party at Margaret Redding's house, Folkestone...

Eamon

Genuine spat with his ex-girlfriend? Or a couple of stage school brats put up to it by the label? You decide... Only 17.50 to you squire! He's opening for Britney Spears in the US of States you know...

The Tears

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....

Derek Acorah

Is it the same people going to see him every year?

New Order

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 Mon...

Selling Houses

Oh yes lover, another one! Only half an hour this time, clearly we don't have to watch it though...

Love / Hate

Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!

The Tears

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....

Travis

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.

Bruce Forsyth

Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up...

The Beta Band

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 trolle...

Gene

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...

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....

David Devant And His Spirit Wife

This actually might not have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, found a pass with a date on it so guessing it was earlier this year...

Scalarama 2

MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale and lots of other bands

Symposium

Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after show.

The Montrose Avenue

Matt Everitt of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd.

Channelfly Xmas Party

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.

Essential Festival

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....

Phoenix Festival

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...

The Wildhearts

plus Baby Chaos

Molly Half Head

I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?

Under Neath What

+ Chunk + We Are Going To Eat You. 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......

Oasis

Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?

Drawing for and from Sculpture

Group exhibition of sculptors' drawings, curated by Anthony Heywood and Peter Fillingham, in conjunction with the Public Art Research Centre, Kent Institute of Art and Design.

Roy "Chubby" Brown

SWEARING

Harvest chillis!

The chilli plants are likely to die off at this time of year, that's just what they do apparently! So, remember to harvest them all now...