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RE: Sounds like crapland

Yeah, saw that this morning - part of me applauds their audacity, part of me thinks there should be more powers to lock people up for taking the piss. I'm a complex person me.Anyway, enough about skilled entrepreneurs / thieving scam artists. What's ...

Sounds like crapland

My aunt went to this Lapland in the New Forest thing at the weekend and said it was bitterly disappointing, and then I saw it on BBC Breakfast this morning. Read Angry mum's lapland photo diary from www.dailyecho.co.uk and a report here from www.bitt...

Coldplay tickets

Coldplay play Wembley, Hampden Park and Lancashire County Cricket Club in September next year, some very big gigs indeed, and Ticketmaster will have some special packages here. Regular tickets also go on sale at 9.30am today.ColdplayColdplayColdplayC...

RE: now all we need is the date...

sorry to come to this really late...but the Metronome was a great venue...and indeed, i can confirm i saw the following bands there...cardiacs/levitationkingmaker (supported by Suede in the week The Drowners was released)manics (don't remember it bei...

RE: Toft`s / gigs in 1969

I used to go to Tofts regularly during the 60s (when it was at Grace Hill). Used to be one of my favourite venues. (The other being the Epress Ballroom, a bit further down the hill on the other side)Can't remember dates, but I saw Long John Baldry th...

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The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November

The Holloways play the LCH, get tickets here. Not yet sold out, no need for ebay (yet). Support from local acts Underground Heroes and Seven Storey Down, full press release to follow.More dates nationally, at cosier venues than we get here, guess Fol...

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Oasis tickets

Get tickets here for Oasis biggest ever open air tour in 2009. The Enemy and Kasabian to support. A chum just saw Oasis at Wembley Arena and says it was fantastic, but he'd not seen them since 1996 and been building it up since then. Of course I dive...

Metallica tickets

Metallica tour the UK! Get tickets here, on sale Friday morning.Wed 25th Feb - Nottingham Trent FM ArenaThurs 26th Feb - Manchester Evening News ArenaSat 28th Feb - Sheffield ArenaMon 2nd Feb - London O2 ArenaTues 3rd Feb - New...
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Lone Star Comedy Saturday 1st November

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton � on Saturday November 1st The line up consists of Quincy, Ed Aczel, compere David Whitney, plus a newcomer�s act. Quincy Quincy is a remarkable ...
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Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)

Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev...

AC/DC tickets

AC/DC are touring, first time in eight years apparently, though it's certainly not that long since we saw them at Hammersmith Odeon, guess that really was a special one off tour.Tue 14-Apr-09 AC/DC London The O2 On Sale From 10:00 17-Oct-08Tue 21-Ap...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

Terry Pratchett's Nation limited edition.

I've got one of these a Nation special edition, I think. Dad queued from early this morning to secure one of these, and got it signed, good work!Had a great day in London where we also saw Terry Pratchett, he helicoptered between Hayling Island (wher...

RE: David Devant top ten

Contact (1239 Listeners) Extrapolating up this must be the David Devant song that has been heard by the most peopleContact is from their third album (power words for better living). Actually this is a good single as it has a cool accoustic version of...

David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
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The plot of a Christopher Brookmyre book

OK so this story doesn't have a plot that we know of so far, but each bit of information that's eeked out of nowhere by the press leads the imagination in different directions, like a good book. Of course, this is not a book, these are people's lives...

A week of technological disasters

My week of technological disasters goes from bad to worse. Lost the camera (it still has not turned up yet), and as previously mentioned the only hard drive on our PC is corrupted. I got the Windows XP disks and tried recovering it, but no joy, so or...

Psst, wanna buy a Tracey Emin?

A GREAT day around Folkestone today, it was the start of the Triennial and there was tonnes to see. Number one activity was hunting down the Tracey Emin's before they got stolen. She'd cast several bronze sculptures of abandoned baby clothes that she...
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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...

I must have something more interesting to write about than php?

Um, no, perhaps not.I got a new hard drive at last, after all the problems I had with the ibook and having to send it back, I didn't rush into getting another backup job, but I saw a bargain at Maplin Seagate 500GB FreeAgent, and it seems to be worki...

Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

Plane crash latest and insider scoop, from your Kent correspondent

Nope, sorry, it's miles away, about as far from us as you can be and still be in Kent. BBC news on the crash here.We were in Canterbury yesterday when we saw this, in a pub of all places. We were due to be heading home at this time but someone got t...
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Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

RE: now all we need is the date...

Nope, Manics were the only gig I saw there. Rest where all at Canterbury Uni, the Leas and Maidstone. Saw The Chords reunion/final gig at Maidstone working mans club, total 70's retro right down to the big fight at the end, no rockers to fight so the...

Quiet few days

Had a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t...

Another house hunting trip to Canterbury

Saw three places today, first one before lunch was at Forty Acres Road, Canterbury and was a three bedroom (just about) but with plenty of room downstairs. Good sized lounge, downstairs bathroom, and a nice kitchen that was open to a big conservatory...

RE: Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone

I saw Ride in Folkestone in 1992, I believe at the Leas, used to have the ticket stub for date but cant help with that. I also attended the Manics gig in folkestone at the venue that used to be the converted cinema. They had to reschedule the gig as ...

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Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
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Second house-hunting trip around Canterbury

Saw five houses today in Canterbury, have a map with details of the things we saw. Clare's out tonight with Jenny, so it's a prime opportunity for me to do some fiddling about with maps and things, so sorry if it breaks. Not that you'll be on the com...

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
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Dingwalls

Camden Crawl type thing, can't remember where we went or who we saw right now.
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Poole Arts Centre

First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)...