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Too old to rock

have my new starter at work, our industrial placement from Canterbury University for the year. He seems a nice guy, but in making conversation I asked him what he was listening to... Simply Red! Phil Collins! Robbie Williams! This guy is not even twe...

Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

Mothers day update from The George in Rye

Mothers Day is nearly here. If you haven't sorted anything out yet, fear not: we're hosting a Mothering Sunday Lunch at The George in Rye.Your mum will feel like royalty and you can all enjoy a lovely menu from our head chef Rod, full of the promises...

Splendid weekended

Great weekend, went to visit the folks and we got down in plenty of time to go to Portsmouth Dockyard and see the Mary Rose and the Victory. The Mary Rose was more interesting than I thought, it's not just a big lump of driftwood, but the Victory was...
Rated 6.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Local Heroes and Hevy Music

Local Heroes @ The Leas Cliff HallFriday 16th NovemberTickets �10Doors at 7:00pm After a long hiatus, Folkestone�s Leas Cliff Hall will be hosting a local music night on Friday 16th November, but this time it�s different. The event, Local Heroes, wil...

Rated 4.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

Paul Clarke Meet & Greet Package

No not really, I just got an email about a Paul Stanley thing you can bid on, promoting his new solo album. He's the singer with KISS like you didn't know...To celebrate the new release, and his current club tour, we are offering a once-in-a-lifetime...

American rock band indeed...

The brothers of the band were born in Scotland, but raised in Australia, and the rest were Australian. The singer now - Brian Johnson - is a Geordie, and there might be other international types added more recently. Check out more AC/DC history.Just ...

The perfect crime

After the fabulous treat of yesterday evening (sausage, beans and fried potatoes for tea AND two episodes of Lovejoy), this morning's long wait outside the office was probably due. No keyholder turned up for over an hour, so I couldn't get into the b...

RE: best place to live in folkestone

Folkestone is seriously underpriced at present and �250k will go a long way down here. The west end is the posher bit but a 4/5 bedder with a sea view here come at a premium. East cliff has some nice places though again if you want to look out at the...

The Ordinary Boys

Get Ordinary Boystickets here or stroll down there a bit sharpish, with all this Big Brother stuff going on these will sell out fast. There will be more girls in the audience than usual for a Folkestone gig I guess! Delirious-question-mark are coming...

Rated 4.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Why's it always Rik Waller?

In Kent Children in Need - BBC appeal will be broadcast from Medway on Friday 18th November. The county will be awash with fund-raising events to collect cash for the BBC Children in Need appeal.On Friday 18 NovemberIn Medway the Black Lion Leisure C...

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 ...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Detroit Rock City

Watched Detroit Rock City yesterday, OK film, great soundtrack though. It's all about four kids trying to get to a KISS concert in 1978, though it's actually set in 1978 so there's no time travel involved. It's fun, and it's dumb and it's worth a loo...

Easter beaster

A lot to write about, had a huge great easter weekend and really managed to fit quite a lot in. Can I remember it all is the question though... Friday daytime is too long ago to be sure, but in the evening we did a little tour of Stoke Newington Chur...

Don't know not read it all yet

Oh now, now I have Kerry Ellis , she's the singer from the We Will Rock You stage show!

Lord of the Rings - The Musical

Doh, there will be no London opening for a forthcoming musical of JRR Tolkein's (that's who wrote it, did you know that?) Lord Of The Rings, reports The Guardian and many others... This will be the most expensive musical ever made, and there's not a ...

Folkestone and Stokey in the same Guardian column?

The Guardian's Backbencher column today has a mention for Stoke Newington's own 73 and the fact that the reality TV winning political candidate has announced his intention to stand against Michael Howard in Folkestone. More on www.voterodders.org. Wi...

At The Eye?

Why couldn't it be at the weekend, I am around this weekend... going out in the week this early in the year, are you mad? Will see what I can do...JanuaryThursday 6th: Stoke Newington Eye, 79-81 Stoke Newington High Street, 9pm, freeTuesday 18th: VIP...

Good to see there's some civilisation in Folkestone

Here I was thinking that everyone between the ages of 16 and 60 had left town in a hurry... I moved down here last December (in fact, today is my year's anniversary), trading a tiny 2-up-2-down in Streatham for a monster Victorian place close to Folk...

Folkestone enthusiast

Just found your blog, it's nice to see someone else who enthuses about Folkestone. We bought a place down here in September andalso spend most of the week looking forward the Friday night dash down to Folkestone. We live near the harbour and spend th...

Weekend of travels

A great weekend in Folkestone though we seem to have been travelling around Kent for most of it. Raced down to go to Chambers Friday night, had a couple of pints in there and then shockingly left before closing, a bit tired... Saturday overslept unti...

Who said I'd not use this new gadget?

I have used my new gadget for something work related, after only a few days. Can I claim it back on expenses now? Every month I get a list of ticket sales from Ticketmaster as an Excel spreadsheet, which I forward on or look at on someone else's comp...

V Festival latest

I've been quiet today, beavering busily on busted balance sheets, so HEY! Here's some news written by someone else; The Killers, Deepest Blue and Syntax have been added to the V Festival lineup... An old workmate of mine is in Syntax, friend to the s...

Some new things

I don't often get sent things these days, maybe because I don't write proper reviews, but HEY! Here are some things, so here will be some attempt at newsing them up:Phantom Planet release "Big Brat" on May 31st... it's from their new album Phantom Pl...

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...

Chambers Beer Festival

The Chambers "Easter Ales" Beer Festival was a raging success, from the first day to the last. It seems to have taken everyone concerned slightly by surprise, but according to the landlord it will be "at least" an annual event, so here's to the next ...

Rated 8.3/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Download: Stage Three

Not satisfied with simply hosting the biggest names from the worlds� of rock and extreme sports, Download, on the 5 and 6 June, will also be the place to go to see some of the hottest up-and-coming rock bands of the moment, as it announces its third ...

Estate Agent Update

The estate agent phoned about the flat, saying he's spoken to the freeholders, they'll amend the noise bit of the lease, but won't let the floor bit in. The estate agent is meeting with the freeholders today, which sounds dodgy. Remember he's working...