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A festive update from Hibbett

Hmm, this newsletter is called "The Last Working Day Of The Month" (from one of his songs), but he's practically a civil servant and finished work for the year a week ago at least, I'm still working...welcome to this SUPER CHRISTMASSY edition of our ...

Who sets their ebay auction to finish at 6pm on a Friday?

Just in from work too late, this Habitat Radius tallboy that I was after just went, for 360 quid, and it was in Kent, bah. As always, I should have put in a higher bid to start with, but not being around at the end of the auction I'm sure I would ha...

Motley Crue play Hammersmith

If it wasn't a Monday night, I might go to this, 11th June at Hammersmith Odeon, it's Motley Crue. In fact a Tuesday night wouldn't be good either, nor any day from Sunday back round to Friday again are out. If they move this gig to a Saturday, and i...
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The Gay Train

New video of a song by my friends MJ Hibbett and the Validatorsvideo is by Rob Manuel, of b3ta fame.All stop watching it, so it streams more smoothly for me... More Hibbett updates, courtesy of his newsletter:ITEM! After months of hard work (honest!)...

Folkestone Gerald update

Got some more Folkestone gig history stuff for 1969 and 1970, posted from Germany of all places. Also what's this rumour about Gordon Ramsay buying The Sandgate Hotel..? I heard a rumour that Ramsay was actually going to BUY the Sandgate Hotel (or at...
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I'm a morning person!!!!

Who was that clown on the train this morning - was it you? He was muttering to himself when there was no-one to talk to, and as soon as anyone sat near him hi gibbered and chattered and got them talking too... this disturbed my sleep. If you're on th...

Fallen Grounds play The Harp on Saturday

Just having a play with MySpace and I found a gig at The Harp Club for Saturday, Fallens Ground and two other bands are playing... Enjoy if you go, we are going on a bit of a crawl around town, will be in Chambers at some point. OK, so you don't know...

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Action Plan + Razorlight

A chums band Action Plan are supporting Razorlight at their secret gig at Highbury Garage on (counts on fingers) SUNDAY, the 7th of June... it's super sold out, so it's off to ebay again if you want tickets... There are so many there it seems they we...

So close!

The Foo Fighters apparently had a secret gig lined up at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms tonight. But it's been cancelled because Dave has a dicky throat... how good would that have been?...

Oh my, back at last

cron job to resize all my pictures seems to have caused havoc, so www.uksolutions.co.uk closed my account! All back now...Very productive weekend I think, sorted out a little overpayment on my mortgage, which I've been meaning to do for a while. Appa...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

I Was Made For Loving Nottingham

KISS EXPO 2004 is at Nottingham Rock City on Saturday November 27th... Bruce Kullick will be there signing autogarphs and that, but so will Iain Lee... possibly this is in his roll as bass player in his own KISS tribute band. Tickets 14 quid up to 24...

Free gig tonight

Free gig in Stokey tonight at The Eye, Stoke Newington High Street, Action Plan are on at about 9pm......

New Barfly site

this is a piece of work that's been kicking around for 18 months or so, and now it's finally gone live... it's not really that different to what's already there, but this time round everyone's been chased up to enter more useful info in the system, a...

How to fix a shower

Suddenly got problems with the shower in the flat. No not the flat, but the one we live in now in Stokey, no water pressure at all, though the rest of the taps are fine... what can this mean? I hope it's not that there's a leak somewhere. I checked t...

Goldie Lookin' Chain

Looking forward to the GLC gig tonight at the Mean Fiddler, anyone else here going? And what's this crazy rumour about them collaborating with The Darkness on Aerosmith's Walk This Way? I overheard someone talking about this, has it been published so...

Pet Shop Boys review

Was a bit squiffy, don't remember much of it, first we went to the Lock Tavern, then we went into the Barfly...The stage was very nicely set out, they surrounded that end of the Barfly in mirrors, and even had a mirrored floor. Chris had big sunglass...

The Cure review

Unbelievably, we got into The Cure last night at Barfly Camden, and here is my review... This was the Music Passport charity show, a privileged audience of about 200 competition winners and successful ebay bidders, and then a handful of people like u...

Rated 5.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

A full evening

Hibbett's gig at the 12 Bar was ace last night, though as is typical with gigging venues, the booze was sadly lacking, Eagle Smooth is not my favourite brew by a long shot. BUT, the performance itself was ace, he played more of the funny songs, which...

Tonight

Much looking forward to MJ Hibbett's gig tonight at the 12 Bar Club, Soho...

Frozen balls

Man it's so cold here today that my mouse ball is frozen, it's making it very difficult to work... the office is going to be dead quiet today, most people seem to have this whole week off, I'm still hoping for some fairy godmother type to appear from...

RE: stellastarr*

Hiya... I just discovered your site while doing a search for Stellastarr* I only discovered the band on Saturday and immediately looked to see if they were touring and have been lucky enough to get tickets for tonight's gig @ the Carling Academy, Isl...

Hells Bells

Ears are still ringing from AC/DC last night, but have still found time for popex admin (catching up from my day off yesterday. Also importing lots of content from the existing Barfly / Fly systems into the new system, and fixing up the old server, ...

Keep smoking Justin

Still no confirmation as to whether tonight's Darkness gig is still on or not (after Liverpool, Folkestone and Portsmouth were all postponed), but I could do with it being put off for a bit... Saw AC/DC last night, also at Hammersmith Odeon Apollo, a...
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Gig tonight. CANCELLED

Was planning to see Captain Soul tonight at a venue called 22 Inverness Street, which I'd never heard of before. So, night out in Stokey again, probably The Defoe, then Il Bacio, then a big fight on the way home!Am waiting for the bummers on popbitch...

Hangover

Liking the game here, it's a simple platform thing, just my bag. Hibbett's gig at the Garage last night was good, bumped into some other popexers too, had a few drinks, feel crap today. Just the mood for putting this exercise bike together, I'm sure ...

More tasks

popex admin, deleting accounts, reading mail, adding bandsFurther testing of new "gig mail" thing that will send you a mail when tickets for your fave band go on sale, is it working or not?Barfly tweak - automated magazine listings were including inf...

Another task list

Up early to sort of fix broken noisy toilet - go Pauly the Plumber!Making a way of having "bands" in the popex database, without people being able to trade in them, or them being listed anywhere... starting with this guy as a test...popex admin, dele...

PopEx and gig tickets and that

I might get a WHUPPING from Big Brother for promoting a rival venue, but just got a emergency release to say Miss Black America are playing tonight at the water rats with Blofield and The Perishers... It's a fiver and MBA are onstage at 10pm.Check ou...

Giiiigs, is there no end

Blur were ace last night at the Astoria, much more of a mix of old and new than I expected, which was a treat as I don't know the new album. New guitarist stood like a sessionist, not drawing attention to himself either with presence or ability reall...