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Hibbett's Edinburgh festival show confirmed for The Medina

Meanwhile the PLANS for "My Exciting Life In ROCK", our Edinburgh Fringe Show, are moving along. I think I've pretty much worked out which songs and which stories will be featured, as well as how it's all going to hang together. I've not tried it out...

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 ...

Yesterday's news

BAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa...

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'...

Mobile game reviews

Might do some work for a Mobile gaming company, not a company that actually makes mobile games, but a company that has a site that writes mobile game reviews and has mobile phone game news and things. Not much of a mobile gamer myself and might not e...

Signal failure?

Signal problems? Some such excuse for our train being late in today, ah well. Charing Cross was CRAWLING with police too, I wonder if there'd been a tip off about something. Apart from that London feels a bit quieter today, maybe it's the fog.Hmm, lo...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Well, great weekend in London with all the family, though it got off to a bit of a damp start for me... Left work at 5, picked up some beers and headed to our hotel to meet Clare, and got caught in the FIERCEST downpour ever! Frantically tried to dry...

New Restaurant

Nice to see some refreshing reviews of Folkestone restaurants. Can I please point you the way of the Hermitage. It's where the Monks Kitchen used to be and I can honestly say that it's food it without par. I can recomend the duck. It was delish!

Rated 5.63/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Another restaurant we can't go back to

Quite a positive and constructive weekend, not as much pubbing as usual. Got a new washing machine delivered, (thankyou very much Dean and Dom for carrying it up the stairs) and done some washing in it. Also got the fireplace sorted, got the quote fo...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Does Your Heart Go Boom?

Not sure if it's possible to have a more sad indie-boy day than I'm having today... Clare's at work, so I'm taking some time out to reorganise all my Helen Love MP3's, when I should probably be shopping, tidying up and cleaning all the drunken scrawl...

RE: Timothy's Wine Bar

Gary - the review was not unfair. You were not at our table and didn't receive the service we did. I'm pretty sure you also didn't call into Timothy's the week before the Spanish night and pay an �80 deposit to ensure that our vegan chum would have...

Rated 4.05/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Bonus day!

Hmm, not a bonus earning type of day, but rather an extra day to the weekend... worked out that if we stay over in Folkestone on Sunday night too, I can still get up at normal time in the morning, use my return train ticket without paying any excess,...

A Kentish Wedding

Clare has found the fearsome sounding www.akentishwedding.co.uk/, which apparently is good because it's got reviews of all the available venues in Kent. She's also come home with a wedding survival guide which I am less pleased with, partly because o...

Five reasons not to believe "five reasons not to buy an IPOD"

It's good that someone is the devils advocado I suppose, but don't let this put you off owning a smashing gadget...Six-plus hours of battery life is not always enoughHmm, starts off with a good one, not that I'm in the habit of frequent journeys of m...

Rod Stewart: The Musical

I want to earn some commission thought you'd like to know about two new theatre shows in the West End, they sound GREAT!!!JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERAJerry Springer the Opera is currently the hottest ticket in London.Following unprecedented rave reviews ...

Thanks for the stuff

Thanks today to One Minute Silence for the "One Lie Fits All" album, out on the 14th, The Bluetones for "Never Going Nowhere" out on the 11th of August, Real Shocks for the CD's (please leave out the photos next time though guys), and also Stereophon...

Today's listening

Working from home today so can listen to what I like without having to get someone to put it on for me!Got a pile of discs queued up, including Motor Ace, The Star Spangles, Avril, The Fades, One Minute Silence, and Alternative 3... Just to warm up m...

New feature...

New feature, if you edit your details you will see there's a space where you can write a little personal biog thing about yourself... only 255 chars, but it should be enough for a link to your website or whatever... maybe it'll also work as a .sig ty...

Clarke Family Tree

www.Clarkeology.com is our Clarke genealogy site, set up to host the family tree info dug up by my Dad Barry Clarke, and turned into web pages by me, My page with my family links. Click on either of those names to get climbing the tree from that poin...

A disappointing thing

I'd heard of this thing called a "Kitty Cam" and had got it into my head that it is a tiny camera that you put on a cat's collar and it beams back to yoru computer so you can see what it's up to. Last night I checked out the URL though, and it's not,...

How good does this sound...

I am asking the Ten Benson press to send a proper package to you, but in the meantime, here is some info: TEN BENSON release new single ONE WAY TICKET (B-side THE LOOZIN LINE) on ART ROCKER label on 22/4/02.Album SATAN KIDNEY PIE to be released June ...

Wake up and SPEND

Hello and welcome to "I'm only getting up early on a Sunday to try and raise some cash"...REM's latest masterwork "Reveal" is out tomorrow... You can get it here, and also read a load of reviews by clicking that link... Also released tomorrow (well, ...

Some REVIEWS

South - Paint The Silence (single)Starting off a bit like Doves, yeah yeah, then a bit of Beta Band creeps in, then before you realise it, we have the Stone Roses! They're not copyists or anything, but this title track has a massive loopy, dopey, dru...