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RE: We got Wii!

Cool, I got a Wii a few weeks ago and now I don't know how I survived without it. The little thing is grate for after-pub parties and social drinking. Not to mention thrashing out the day's accumulated frustration.

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall...

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
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Ooh yeah I got google chat today

Used the chat client before, and had it integrated into Trillian for a while, but now the powers at google corp have deigned to embed it in my gmail page, as announced here. They're rolling it out slowly so a few more people blog about it each day, c...

That's the one. Not bang opp. the station, a little bit west. Will check out Edward Rutherfords london... I liked Ackroyd's one but he romanticised the city a bit much (street lammps dancing in the night-time etc.)Re. my bike, it's actually a brompto...

Pub golf

As part of my round up of the weekend, as I am reminded different bits of it at different times, here is the order of drinking of the pub golf in Exeter on Saturday... we played some real golf first, some pitch and putt anyway, and I thought I did av...

Sonny MAHON

Dear Paul, Sonny mahon is not Clare's great grandfather. He is the oldest brother of her grandfather "Christie"; or if you like her father's uncle. He lived in Galway all his life, as did his sisters Mamie and Kathleen. His brother "Christie...

Flattery will get you...

... on the front page! How could I not run this?Seeing as you are now officially the most influential person in the British Music Scene, what with the Darkness being at No1 in the album charts still and CTC entering the charts near to the top too (al...

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......

Steve Bedlow (Ex Frontman for The Libertines)

Steve Bedlow (Ex Libertine) Played a debut gig with new band The I.V's at the Scarborough Beach Festival. The funny thing was that The Libertines where headlining, minus a lead singer! Apparently Steve was considered for the post but gratefully decli...

This one's for Loz

Buy "The Wedding Singer", it's GRATE, and Adam Sandler is like RIGHT FUNNY and everything.If you pay me as much commission as Amazon do I can link to your site like this.Oh, also, Lord of the Rings is out today too. If you get it from Amazon you get...

Jazz - What is the point of it?

I'm listening to some stuff that the smashing guys at "Air" sent me, starting off with Slightly Askew, by Chris Bowden. I just don't get it at all. Is there a bit missing from my brain, or is jazz just rubbish?I am grateful to them for sending me stu...

GRATE Andrew WK game:

GRATE Andrew WK Fighting Game!I quite like it! It's a scam for the record label to gather info, but what isn't these days?Very Old Skool......

Lord of the Rings Review

Do you remember the last time you heard applause at the cinema? Seemed to happen all the time when I was a kid, whooping and cheering as the opening titles rolled up the screen. This was Hampshire, so possibly it was the wonder of electricity that pe...

Sheffield, Sex City

Channelfly plc, the REALLY BLUDDY GRATE multimedia music company, today announces that it will be opening its third Barfly Club in central Sheffield in the autumn. The new club, Barfly Sheffield, will be housed in the former Mojo's Bar at the Nation...

More than a feeling...

When you have a bad day, isn't it just GRATE to get a bit of a pick up by someone being nice to you?OK, I didn't actually lose any money by the popEx database messing up last night, but I have to work on a Saturday to fix it! And it's all fixed now.....

Pop A Go Go

Pop-A-Go-Go is on Saturday, in Sheffield, and it promises to be GRATE!It's at the Boardwalk, Saturday the 17th of February, and is a tenner for 10 bands all day. Bands playing include MJ Hibbett, Saloon, Big Eyes, Velodrome 2000, The Action Time, Air...

GRATE gig...

Well, Devant were FANTASTIC last night, they played everything that anyone could expect, and they played it with a passion and enthusiasm not witnessed for a while...On the downside, they didn't come on stage until gone half midnight - glad I wasn't ...

Hero of the Year #1

You, the punter - some of you voted for yourself, ooh, bit villainous, but it's you that have made the site what it is today. Well, and me, but if it was just me here on my own it wouldn't be quite as much fun, and I'd probably go blind. You're BLUDD...

Villain of the Year #3

Punters - Most of you are FLIPPIN GRATE, but there have been more than a few this year who've done their best (naming no names) to ruin popEx. Cheers...These results will hopefully be posted on the site every 3 hours, starting on Boxing Day, and taki...

A Cool Free Gig

Shivaree are playing a special one off at Camden Dingwalls on 11 December, and if you want two free tickets, read on...After their "Later with Jools Holland" performance and fantastic reviews ofthe LP, "I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Makin...

Free Camdemonium Tickets

Right, you know all about Camdemonium innit? Four Events, loads of "bands", but only one round your wrist, giving you access to BLOODY EVERYTHING!Want free tickets?You got 'em, we've got two pairs to give away if you can answer this question:Who Head...

Having the time of your life

As predicted here a week or two ago, Kylie Minogue performed Abba's Dancing Queen at the close of the 2000 Sydney Olympics... Way to go KYLIE!What can replace the Olympics in our lives? Only MUSIC - when will there be a Music Olympics? The guestlist ...

Win tickets to Scalarama II

Scalarama II is happening at the, uh, "Scala", Kings Cross, North London, on the 7th of October and FACK MY OLD BOOTS if we don't have 3 pairs of tickets to give away!To win them, click this question: Which popEx artist isn't playing Scalarama II?It...

GRATE day

Uh, GRATE DAY unless you're one of Paula Yates' daughters, obviously, hearts and flowers to Moonbasket Pokemon and all the rest. The GRATEness to which I refer is that The Fighting Cocks are no longer split up..."Yes, the music industry is fucking ev...

Coldplay at Barfly yesterday

Coldplay yesterday were GRATE, and also the singer is just like Gaz Top, off TV. They did half a dozen songs at the Barfly (Camden Monarch), in a special, that's going out on Channel Four next month, as already mentioned lots of times... I made a not...

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Where did all my money go?

While I was enjoying myself at Graham Coxon's GRATE (but very metal) gig on Friday night, the computer that controls all things was doing a bit of house keeping, and deleting money that had been credited to accounts accidentally over the past wee... ...

Kathryn Williams @ Spitz

I went to see Kathryn Williams last night, she has a GRATE voice, if you like that Beth Orton sorta thing...The drummer from Hefner was one support, doing his solo acoustic guitar songy stuff. It would have been REAL funny if he'd just done a big dru...