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some advice I was given about Hamburg

S-Bahn is short for Schnell-Bahn which are the suburban trains.In German cities you have the following:U-Bahn (big blue U signs) - Untererdisches Bahn so Underground, normally a small network in the city centreS-Bahn (green S signs) - Schnellbahn so ...

My nan's maiden name is clarke

Hi - im starting to look into my family tree and my nan's maiden name is clarke. she grew up in middlesex but her parents were from ireland, tipperary. Has the name Maureen clarke popped up in your research??

All the names I know of are on the "All Names" link over on the right there...

http://www.clarkeology.com/names/

Staying In vs Going Out

Just contemplating whether to go out and drink beer some sort of BEAR themed evening with chum MJ Hibbett at the Bull and Gate or stay in with Clare and watch some films she's got in, Ocean's Eleven and Meet The Parents. Also currently consuming the ...

REM tickets going for a hundred pounds a go or so...

Blur

Saw Blur at the Astoria, reviewed it here, apparently the song they did with Phil Daniels is called "My White Noise" and is featured as the hidden track on Think Tank... nice that it's done as a REAL hidden track, not just tacked on the end after a b...

Birdcage was too loud

The music's good, but maybe we were just sat at a shitty table, sound was a bit crap. So where tonight? Not back there, maybe to The Fox Reformed or whatever, the wine bar down the bottom of Stoke Newington Church Street, it's about the only bar we'v...

arcade games

Walked the long way round Listria Park on the way to Church Street today, and saw two magpies and a squirrel raiding someone's bin. They weren't at all bothered by me walking so close to them.Also saw a discarded arcade machine on the road, all it's ...

bit of a mess

How ironic that Cooper Temple Clause had cancelled right next door, when Plans and Apologies were EXACTLY like all their worst bits at the Bull and Gate tonight... six piece band with a spare member, who was mostly hiding off stage and singing the bi...

WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR HARD DRIVE

Just put the Foo Fighters album One By One in my computer for the first and it's TAKEN OVER my computer... everything hung until I pressed the eject button, then things were fine, tried again, and it did the same... then I decided to leave it a bit l...

surname

is there a clarkson i am trying to research the name

RE: surname

Sorry Wendy there are no Clarkson's in our family tree

Thieving bastards

Look out if you're coming to Majorca, the place is crawling with thieves. Actually no it's not, but we've encountered a couple of criminal signs... saw a couple of kids trying it on by the pool of our hotel, ripping off tourist handbags, and noticed ...

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...

not using popex message boards

Barfly / Channelfly not so keen on having a chat board thing.

Working from home

popex admin, including reviewing, deleting accounts, answering queriesExpanding popex as part of Jason's projectStreamlining page generating pages as part of the expansion, make more content in less timeImproving ticket mail thing, very excitingLots ...

James Clarke

Hi Jean,Our James was born c 1777 in Widley (he was a cordwainer,a posh name for shoemaker, then he became a brewer Victualler) Hampshire, he married Elizabeth COLE (b 1794 Chichester West Sussex) they married in 1813 in Chichester. In the 1851 censu...

names look familiar

we have a Mary Dash too - click here, she was daughter of James and Elizabeth, but she had siblings called James and Caroline and she died when she was a baby. Maybe it's just a coincidence, I can't figure it out, maybe you can tell more.I tried to r...

RE: names look familiar

It would appear that my James Clarke (Gardener) is not the same one who married Elizabeth Cole.Obviously now it appears that Mary Dash does not belong. I found her as a daughter of a James and Elizabeth and jumped to the wrong conclusion.My Adam was ...

Working from home

Mostly just popex admin todayIntegrating more Fly content into popex, Barfly listings this time, writing a script to output it in the same format that Wayahead and Ticketmaster do that I already process... won't earn any money, but it's a bit of cros...

Some links to add to popex when it's back

popex.com is being moved while I'm taking a few days off, got these out of my mail that I want to put in the links section...johntitor.comalice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htmmatazone.co.uk/Kitten-ace-of-spades.htmlWhy is it always kittens? Those g...

Turd of a journey home

All the power went off on the tube, got stuck in a tunnel between Chalk Farm and Camden for forty-five minutes... all the tubes were still out until just now, apart from the Victoria Line luckily, so got back from The Phoenix OK.I hate everything abo...

Working from home

Fixing up the bad secondary DNS entry for popex at Network Solutions and sorting out some of the dodgy / missing access logs. Popex hasn't been reporting on refererals properly since I introduced the "unique user ID" cookie, though it's not that dire...

Folkestone Weekender

Booked into La Bamba Mexican Restaurant, Hythe which I just found via Hythe Live. I think it's not up to date, as I'm sure the fantastic Kai's has closed now. Also going to Chambers again which I'm really looking forward to - proper beer, pool table ...

someone did get some popbitch passwords, how slack

this is nice.

What's that light? Don't make me go out there!

Born, three weeks overdue, about 8lbs.Partly inspired by the Samuel Pepys weblog, I'm going to have a go at using this to record events that have happened in the past, no reason why not...(gave up on this idea pretty quickly)...

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 ...

Bad Javascript on message boards

As enough people are hitting this site on searching for "soapbox plans" I thought I'd find some, put them up here, and do a good deed. I came across this link, DO NOT CLICK ON IT with javascript turned on, it will redirect you to goatse.cx http://www...

Nice to see someone posting again

We don't have any US connections that we know about though.

Derek Acorah

Medium type from the "Most Haunted" TV show. I'm a medium, it says so on my vest.

The Pretty Things

+ Quiklik. Someone has memories of them playing at The Flamenco but I've seen a poster says it was the LCH.

KISS

plus Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Thunder and Three Colours Red and L7. Got freebies from the NME and drank all the money I saved. Kind of lost it about five songs in and ended up in Covent Garden....

Gene Loves Jezebel

Not sure if the gig was actually at the Metronome or not, were you there, do you know?

Black Sabbath

Come on, someone must have been at this..? Maybe this was at the School of Art instead.

Catherine Wheel

With God Machine... Says "Meterodome" on the website.

Rolling Stones

The 'Stones came to Folkestone a few times, and at least a couple of different venues.

Ride

+ Mercury Rev, and not Verve who I originally said...

Taylor Made

Mick Taylor, sometime Rolling Stone...

Skid Row

Gary Moore (also of Thin Lizzy's band of this name (nothing to do with Sebastian Bach et al) played Folkestone some time this month, not sure what day...

Big Night Out in Covent Garden, 4 World Class Comedians. Great Drinks Deals, Superb Aftershow Nightclub., Every Friday & Saturday.

Soundgarden

Superunknown warm up show at Shepherds Bush... pretty huge venue for a warm up show now I come to think of it...

Blur

Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.

Dio

Crazy hobbit loving one time front man of Black Sabbath -Folkestone, are you READY TO ROCK???

Jamelia

James

+ Thousand Yard Stare, James were the support, Thousand Yard Stare were the headliners. I think Suede support Thousand Yard Stare in Portsmouth......

Inme

Ghost of the Robot

James Marsters' band... ooh, a stinker!

Radiohead

I wouldn't imagine I was there, but I was there around that time, how strange...

Radiohead

I was not at this Radiohead gig, it's not meant to be showing up in my gigography...

Glastonbury 1994

My first Glastonbury festival, went in my van, hard to fault the lineup on the NME stage... Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Manics, etc. Britpop-tastic....

Europeans and how we live

Something to do with John Otway and also Steve Hogarth - the same one who took over from Fish in Marillion?

Belle and Sebastian

Somerset House

PJ Harvey

Some Radio One event called Soho Live with John Parrish, Baby Bird and Geneva.

Tiger

Soho Live, plus Divine Comedy, and "special guests" as headliner it says here...

Super Furry Animals

Soho Live with Mansun and Fun Lovin' Criminals. I met Noel Gallagher at this show.

Six By Seven

Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of buy maybe.

Howard Marks

Drugs-TASTIC, you and me and the guy from Sparks, hanging out with Howard Marks!

Goldie Lookin' Chain

CANCELLED!!! Do you remember howling them off the stage when they supported The Darkness last January? Well, they're BACK! You knows it. Update: oh no they're not, it's cancelled...

Suede

Last gig ever! Played some great sets, the gig seemingly got chopped short, we left to the ghostly strains of "We'll Meet Again"... I hope we do.