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Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

Where is the lineup? www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk has nothing yet. I really should have already joined up as a friend and be running their site for them shouldn't I...Names I've heard so far include Will Self, John Hegley and a return for local lad Da...

George Inn (Rye) August newsletter

This month we're delighted to announce the launch of 'the george dragons', the new privilege card from The George in Rye. Become a dragon, and you'll get exclusive monthly discounts and offers that you can take advantage of as many times as you like....

Kent Festival weekend

Why would they organise Booshstock and zoo+thousand for the same weekend? They're both fairly close (Hythe and Tonbridge) and obviously aimed at the same indie kids, this is like putting Glastonbury and Reading on the same weekend.We're not going to ...

Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Hevy is extremely excited to be presenting their biggest event so far this August, featuring two of their favourite upcoming bands supporting Turin Brakes at the Leas Cliff Hall.Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneFriday 8th August 2008 (08/08/08)Doors 7:00pm...

Rated 4.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Rabbits and finches

Walk home from work today wasn't so dark, not pitch black anyway, not sure if that's the position of the moon or something, or that it's really getting lighter. We went to the office at the weekend, so I could show Clare where it was, and we saw a ra...

How am I letting this slip now I have more time on my hands..?

Is that another week with nothing to say? Been a bit busy with all the eating and drinking and partying surrounding the wedding. Never mind the happy couple, let's have a picture of Clare and I looking all scrubbed up:Can I remember precisely what I'...

The Kooks are coming to Folkestone

You might have seen their "Ready Steady Kook" poster up in Chambers recently, or heard them in the hit parade, well The Kooks are coming to visit. It's all part of a "seaside tour", taking in coastal towns of the UK.Date and more info as it comes in,...

Ghost town

Work is going to be DESERTED today, as everyone's off at Reading festival except me, so it's nice and peaceful. I'll be using the time to try and catch up on some CD's, I don't like to play stuff in the office usually, as I don't like it when other p...

Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Got my first network alert popup today, as I left the wlan bit turned on on the Pocket PC... 243 moving too fast to investigate, though the network name was the full street address so it won't be hard to find again...Popped in to Chambers beer fest F...

Rated 8.3/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

Reading and Leeds festival tickets on sale now, GET IN!

Reading ticketsLeeds ticketsThe Darkness and the White Stripes are headlining apparently....

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... ...

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Got Clare's CV fixed up, using proper CSS and that. Had a bit of trouble with the lists overnight, wanted to include things that were lists as proper lists, ie;<ul> <li>element 1</li> <li>element 2</li> <li&g...

Reading / Leeds festival lineup change

Undoubtedly one of the rock stories of 2003, THE DARKNESS will now play The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals on FRIDAY 22nd August at Reading, SATURDAY 23rd AUGUST at Leeds The Running order for The MAIN STAGE for those days is now LINKIN...

Pirates of the Caribbean is ace

Well worth going to see, and Warner Village Islington was a great place to see it. Apart from the bloke sat next to me, who stank. Seats were big, plenty of space, very comfortable.Johnny Depp is great as Captain Jack Sparrow, he apparently based his...

WAHEY we're BACK!

PopEx is back at last, sorry it was out of action for longer than expected. Well, when I say "sorry" I mean "I heard about it, but didn't really notice, as I have been on holiday this week.The site was meant to be online again on Thursday, so I made ...

And now a press release from Reading / Leeds Festival

White Stripes have officially pulled from Reading and Leeds festivals.Whilst we cannot replace the irreplaceable we hope to add to what is already a great bill on the Saturday at the Reading site and the Sunday at the Leeds site alongside recent Top ...

Rock Roundup

Thanks very much for this week's goodies, which I nearly didn't spot included a copy of the new Jane's Addiction album "The Strays"... sounds very much like something else, and it's only after several listens that it's JANE'S ADDICTION they sound lik...

Reading additions!

Just added to the Reading and Leeds (aka Carling Weekend) festivals:GodsmackLadytronMull Historical SocietyAlien Ant FarmOK GoAll American RejectsThe RaptureHot Hot HeatMy Morning JacketFutureheadsSerafinKinesisand probably more, but the press releas...

Permission To Land

A friend has a real promo of The Darkness' debut album Permission To Land and it's SOLID GOLD. Ah no, but it's in a gold sleeve... as a mere webmonkey I am not allowed a copy yet, but hopefully won't have to wait until it's actually out on July 7 thr...

Darkness playing Reading

And you all scoffed when I started going on about this band... Right, the mighty Darkness follow hot on the heals of signing a hundred billion pound record deal with satan himself (or something, details are still sketchy) with a slot at Reading and L...

Reading Festival SOLD OUT!

The Carling Weekend : Reading Festival has now SOLD OUT of weekend tickets in RECORD TIME. With an headline bill that features EXCLUSIVE HEADLINE FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES from BLUR. METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, THE WHITE STRIPES, BLINK 182 and SYSTEM OF A DO...

Reading for me

Being a lightweight this year (and NOT AT ALL because I couldn't get a ticket for the whole show, oh no), I only caught the first day of Reading festival this year, but here are my highlights...The Datsuns doing a set for the Jo Whiley show in the ba...

The Datsuns

OK, they were playing, but this is worth a mention because they did an extra set just for Radio One... They opened up the festival by playing a set in the hospitality bar that was partly broadcast on the Jo Whiley show, NICE!Also they were loitering ...

James Dean Bradfield

Obviously lots of famous type people were about there, particularly in the backstage bar, but James is worth a mention as he wasn't performing there. This was quite late on the Friday, but I did not hallucinate him. He was stood by the toilets....

Graham Coxon

Just like Mani, he was staying there, but not playing there (Reading Festival).

He didn't appear to be drunk, mad, semi naked, wearing a skirt, or paying a tramp to dance for him. But you can't tell with these popstars...

Mani

He was staying in our hotel for Reading Festival, even though he wasn't playing. Crazy, extravagant, and rock'n'roll. And that was just us.

Running Order

I was going to put up a nice page of running times for all the stages for Reading and Leeds festivals... but it's far too hot. So I'm going to the pub.Have a GRATE time if you're going, maybe see you there, save a space down the front for me....

Happy Birthday

As well as being one hundred and thirty-seven other valued punters birthdays (as far as I know) it's also her imperial Madgesty (Madonna)'s birthday today, and the 24th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Do I have to call him The King? Am I ...

D12 Promoted

Eminem buddies D12 have been promoted within the Carling Weekend (Reading and Leeds) Festivals...The have been shifted up from the Evening Session stage to the Main Stage at Leeds on the Friday and (24th August) and Reading on the Sunday (26th).They ...

Reading Festival

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Reading Festival

Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.

Reading Festival

Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echbelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.

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Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

George Inn (Rye) August newsletter

Kent Festival weekend

Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Rabbits and finches

How am I letting this slip now I have *more* time on my hands..?

The Kooks are coming to Folkestone

Ghost town

Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Q Magazine's best gigs ever

Reading and Leeds festival tickets on sale now, GET IN!

Reading Festival

CSS

Reading / Leeds festival lineup change

Pirates of the Caribbean is ace

WAHEY we're BACK!

And now a press release from Reading / Leeds Festival

Rock Roundup

Reading additions!

Permission To Land

Darkness playing Reading

Reading Festival SOLD OUT!

Reading for me

The Datsuns

James Dean Bradfield

Graham Coxon

Mani

Running Order

Happy Birthday

D12 Promoted

Reading Festival

Reading Festival

Reading Festival

How am I letting this slip now I have more time on my hands..?