welcome to the boardIf you have any info that might help with our family tree, please leave it here...some advice I was given about HamburgS-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 clarkeHi - 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 OutJust 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...BlurSaw 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 loudThe 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 gamesWalked 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 messHow 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 DRIVEJust 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... surnameis there a clarkson i am trying to research the nameRE: surnameSorry Wendy there are no Clarkson's in our family treeThieving bastardsLook 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 homeFirst 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 boardsBarfly / Channelfly not so keen on having a chat board thing.Working from homepopex 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 ClarkeHi 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 familiarwe 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 familiarIt 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 homeMostly 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 backpopex.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 homeAll 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 homeFixing 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 WeekenderBooked 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<a href="http://www.popbitch.com/newboard/23/21/55/4/">this is nice</a>.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 DarknessThe 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 boardsAs 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 againWe don't have any US connections that we know about though.Derek AcorahMedium 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.KISSplus 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 JezebelNot sure if the gig was actually at the Metronome or not, were you there, do you know?Black SabbathCome on, someone must have been at this..? Maybe this was at the <strong>School of Art</strong> instead.Catherine WheelWith God Machine... Says "Meterodome" on the website.Rolling StonesThe 'Stones came to Folkestone a few times, and at least a couple of different venues.Ride+ <strong>Mercury Rev</strong>, and not <strong>Verve</strong> who I originally said...Taylor MadeMick Taylor, sometime Rolling Stone...Skid Row<strong>Gary Moore</strong> (also of <strong>Thin Lizzy</strong>'s band of this name (nothing to do with <strong>Sebastian Bach</strong> 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.SoundgardenSuperunknown warm up show at Shepherds Bush... pretty huge venue for a warm up show now I come to think of it...Blur<strong>Reading</strong> warmup, got very drunk on <strong>vodka red bull</strong>s, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the <strong>South Bank Show</strong> Special that was filmed there. Off to <strong>Reading</strong> the next day.DioCrazy hobbit loving one time front man of <strong>Black Sabbath</strong> -Folkestone, are you READY TO ROCK???JameliaJames+ Thousand Yard Stare, James were the support, Thousand Yard Stare were the headliners. I think Suede support Thousand Yard Stare in Portsmouth...... InmeGhost of the Robot<strong>James Marsters</strong>' band... ooh, a stinker!RadioheadI wouldn't imagine I was there, but I was there around that time, how strange...RadioheadI was not at this Radiohead gig, it's not meant to be showing up in <a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/misc/gigography/">my gigography</a>...Glastonbury 1994My 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 liveSomething to do with John Otway and also Steve Hogarth - the same one who took over from Fish in Marillion?Belle and SebastianSomerset HousePJ HarveySome <strong>Radio One</strong> event called <strong>Soho Live</strong> with <strong>John Parrish</strong>, <strong>Baby Bird</strong> and <strong>Geneva</strong>.Tiger<strong>Soho Live</strong>, plus <strong>Divine Comedy</strong>, and "special guests" as headliner it says here...Super Furry Animals<strong>Soho Live</strong> with <strong>Mansun</strong> and <strong>Fun Lovin' Criminals</strong>. I met <strong>Noel Gallagher</strong> at this show.Six By SevenPlus <strong>...Trail Of Dead</strong>, 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 MarksDrugs-TASTIC, you and me and the guy from <strong>Sparks</strong>, hanging out with <strong>Howard Marks</strong>!Goldie Lookin' ChainCANCELLED!!! 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...SuedeLast 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.