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Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

Harry Clarke on Ebay

Just searching on a whim and I found this Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry Clarke. This is Harry Clarke who is Clare's great grand uncle, no blood relation to we Clarkes, but now part of my family. The book must have just been put on...

Boo... RAH!

I thought with the film coming out and everything, about now would be a peak value time for my old V for Vendetta comics. I've never sold anything else when I maybe should have done (like the first Darkness single), I always hang on too long until th...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Got the first Darkness EP?

They have gone for decent amounts of money before, here's one just listed, good luck. Ah, here's the perfect accompaniment to the t-shirt I already have too...On to the blog, great weekend. Friday saw a visit from Emma and a rare trip to Chambers. Ve...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

Google-maps hack WHACKED!

read more on Slashdot... I think most of the interesting map sites ought to be safe, the site in question was ripping the satellite images (which we poor brits aren't even allowed) and stitching them together to make big deskto background images.Keep...

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...

But let's not remember

From a review on ohio.com:"But let's not remember it was The Wildhearts who took The Darkness on their first tour and from whence The Darkness came."WHAT? Is Britain cool again in the Americas, and is this an American journalist trying to sound cool ...

Q Magazine's best gigs ever

Here's something that's wound me up hugely, Q Magazine's "Top 100 gigs of all time", the top ten of which were in today's Evening Standard:Radiohead Glastonbury 1997Nirvana Reading 1992Oasis Knebworth 1996Coldplay V2003Brian Wilson Royal Festival Hal...

Half Man, Half Machine

Goldie Lookin' Chain (do keep up, they're my new favourite band) release the double-safe double-a side "Half Man, Half Machine" / "Self Suicide" on Monday 19th April. "Half Man, Half Machine" is like a riposte to MJ Hibbett's "Hey Hey 16k", but Eggsi...

GLC UK Tour

Newport hiphop heroes Goldie Lookin' Chain have confirmed details of their first full UK tour... you knows it, clarts!The "Draw-Based Confusion" tour includes dates with fellow countrymen Super Furry Animals, and follows recent appearances with The D...

Goldie Lookin' Chain tour

The pussies are too afeared to come back to Folkestone by the looks of this press release!Newport hiphop heroes Goldie Lookin' Chain have confirmed details of their first full UK tour... you knows it, clarts!The "Draw-Based Confusion" tour includes d...

Folkestone, you have embarrassed yourself

Putting on a varied bill, is it a good thing or not? I was quite entertained by pop acts being thrown onto the Reading Bill, seeing Kevin Rowland in a neglige, was a particular treat. I've even seen the Manic Street Preachers, so I've seen some bad c...

You Knows It

I just got the best thing ever through the post...As you'll all know my new favourite band are Goldie Looking Chain so I'm thrilled to have arrive today not just their debut album "The Manifesto", and not only Adam Hussain's solo album "Truth and Sla...

Good Christmas

BACK in London now after a smashing (but short) family Christmas... with having xmas eve off we got down to Fareham in plenty of time to relax and receive the first of our xmas bonusses - a ride in the Beetle... this was my first car that I bought in...

Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Mark Owen

Saw little Mark Owen first of all in the queue for the queue outside the Astoria for the Darkness homecoming gig. Yes, queueing outside, like everyone else, there's a man who's not lost the common touch. He had long hair, and a sparkly top on. Saw hi...

Darkness Competition

The Carling Homecoming presents the mighty Darkness who are set to play a spectacular show at The Astoria, London in November, and you could be there! On 5th April, 2003 The Darkness were booked to play at LA2, but tickets were in such demand they ha...

A good day

Man it's cold today,not the best day to be queued up outside Hammersmith Apollo for a couple of hours, but at least we have our wristbands for the show now... Saw Fruitbat from Carter USM in front of us in the queue and also Marie and Emmy-Kate from ...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Science Museum Again

Went to the Lord of the Rings exhibition at the Science Museum at last, and it's over-priced-merchandise-TASTIC! Good to see the costumes and the props up close, to see the quality of them and the detail that went into them. Wasn't overly impressed b...

One Big Darkness

Darkness tour all sold out, tickets going for over a hundred quid a go on Ebay, what can you do..? Well you can take not of this mailout from the band:This Sunday, 14 September, sees The Darkness hit Cardiff in Wales for Radio One's onebigweekend liv...

Reading Festival

I think this is my first non Reading Festival bank holiday weekend in ten years, poor Cinderella left at work. Got only 3.5 days holiday left to last all year, might have a weekend in France next month, and might need some to pad around Christmas... ...

Kerrang Awards

The 10th Annual Kerrang! Awards will be held this year on the 21st August 2003 at a central London location, and if I keep running press releases like this, I'm sure to be invited! This year the event will be hosted by Radio 1 presenters Colin Murray...

Love on the roof

Partook of a truly historic barbecue this evening, on the roof of a record shop of all places. I started off with some vegetable kebabs, huge chunks of aubergine, courgette, onion and something suspicious. At first it looked like fish, but then Mrs P...

Working from home

First day went fine, got everything done, need to get a new chair though, this isn't that comfortable. Got to go back to work tomorrow for a meeting, am I sacked? Hope not.Found a Milo Manara website , was inspired to search by the rather saucy poste...

Darkness @ SXSW

The first reviews of the Darkness' show at the South By South West festival are in... this from our US of States correspondent:jesus hell, man, means what the fuck was going on? it was REAL metal, done REALLY seriously, EXCEPT YOU CAN'T DO THAT ANYM...

The first time I saw The Darkness

The official site had this to say about the day:Saturday 7 July 2001: Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception @ The Water Rats, Kings CrossA handful of Darkness enthusiasts were conspicuous by their absence, apparently preferring to attend an open-air recital ...

Devant live again!

Vessel and The Professor from David Devant and his Spirit Wife will be doing a low key acoustic show to unveil new Devant tracks at Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception on August 4th. Fingers crossed for some old faves too.Uncle Bob's is at the Water Rats T...