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A day of doing my head in

Have completely failed to install a thing called HTMLDoc for work, cannot make it not core dump on this machine, so now I'm off looking for other ways to make PDFs with perl. It's making my brane hurt.Was just doing a survey on someone else's blog an...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

Writing an Extension for Firefox

Liking this guide to writing a Firefox extension, good work duffblog.Done writ two reviews today String Quartet tribute to The Darkness (rubbish) and Worlds Apart (good) the new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Heating went off...

They're funny and that, but I wouldn't sign them

The Results, probably:Best British Male Solo Artist: Daniel BedingfieldBest British Female Solo Art: DidoMastercard Brit Album: The Darkness (Permission To Land)Best British Group: The DarknessBest British Single: Dido (White Flag)Best British Rock A...

All Welsh, All Safe

Tracksuited rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain have put together an all-Welsh line-up for their upcoming hometown gig at Newport's NCLA. The GLC crew, who also play gigs with The Streets and The Darkness during February, have asked Barry rockers My Red Cel...

More Darkness tickets on sale

The Darkness - ARENAN, StockholmMed sin s�regna stil har The Darkness blivit �rets sensationsband i England och det nya albumet har s�lts i �ver 800.000 exemplar enbart i England. Permission to land har legat etta p� den engelska albumlistan i fyra v...

Darkness download!

Got the option to sell this download through the site... I'm not convinced that these paid downloads will earn much yet, but it's good to test it out on a band I like... it's audio from the Darkness Homecoming show at the Astoria... Artist: The Darkn...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Goldie Lookin' Chain

Most excitingly of all, I was introduced to Goldie Lookin' Chain at the Darkness aftershow last night! I remember Adam Hussain and Eggsy, but there others too, it was loud and beer was flowing, sorry I forgot names. Thanks to whoever it was who gave ...

Darkness Competition

The Carling Homecoming presents the mighty Darkness who are set to play a spectacular show at The Astoria, London in November, and you could be there! On 5th April, 2003 The Darkness were booked to play at LA2, but tickets were in such demand they ha...

Day two of IPOD fun

Figured out the IPOD band index duplicates, it was down to rogue spaces at the end of the artist names... on the MusicMatch software it ignores any extra spaces at the end of names, so "Bon Jovi" is the same as "Bon Jovi ", but on the IPOD itself i...

Pop Factory Awards

The Pop Factory are pleased to announce the nominations for this year�s Awards ceremony. Taking place on October 24th at the Pop Factory studios in Porth, South Wales, the Awards highlight the best up and coming talent from Wales, as well as establis...

Belle and Sebastian tickets

Lets see if I can do the same trick I've done with The Darkness, by reposting all Belle and Sebastian dates up here as they go on sale...Belle And Sebastian @ USHER HALL, EDINBURGH (Sun 14 Dec)More tickets on my ...

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

The Darkness re-release "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" today, on 3 lovely formats:CD - featuring the b-sides "Makin' Out" and "Physical Sex"DVD - featuring the video, an exclusive track entitled "Out Of My Hands" and a collection of video out-tak...

Flattery will get you...

... on the front page! How could I not run this?Seeing as you are now officially the most influential person in the British Music Scene, what with the Darkness being at No1 in the album charts still and CTC entering the charts near to the top too (al...

Kerrang Awards

The 10th Annual Kerrang! Awards will be held this year on the 21st August 2003 at a central London location, and if I keep running press releases like this, I'm sure to be invited! This year the event will be hosted by Radio 1 presenters Colin Murray...

Permission To Land

The Darkness have exceeded all expectaions with their mighty debut "Permission to Land". Favourites like from the live set are reproduced faithfully (ie with volume cranked and all swearing intact, cheers) and new fans will find all of the singles so...

Frank Poullain

Frank Darkness was watching ME do karaoke at the Darkness album launch party last night. Briefly. Actually I think he walked into the room to see who was being hurt and then walked out again.

Zoe Ball

Zoe was at the Darkness album launch party last night at The Cross, Kings Cross... the do was quite nice, nice to be out with lots of my chums at the saem time, listening to metal.

Hens Teeth

Some news from Tremendous Mike:A lucky few of you may own our (Must Destroy's)rare as hen's teeth 7"s by the (International) Noise Conspiracy and The Von Bondies.Most of you, however, will not.And you don't stand hardly any chance now either (unless ...

Darkness Album arrived today

so back in the office to pick it up... tasks:Admin and reviewing and news story preparing for popexExtracting content from The Fly magazine for use in linking to them from popex, generating page impressions and thatFurther chasing of ringtones deal, ...

Darkness Tour

NICE ONE, got my invite to the Darkness album launch party on Monday, after much prompting... also selling tickets to all their dates now through popex:The Darkness @ Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire (Sat 4 Oct) [info / details]The Da...

It's the vinyl countdown

You've obviously not forgotten that The Darkness album Permission To Land is out on Monday. Popex' very own copy is apparently winging it's way to the office RIGHT NOW, so another sort of review of it tomorrow... Anyway, the album is also out on VIN...

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...

Darkness support Rolling Stones

The mighty mighty Darkness (have I mentioned them before) are doing a full ginormous tour in October including:Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland (Thursday 2 October)Keele University (Saturday 4 October)Solus, Cardiff (Sunday 5 October)Carling Academy, Br...

Growing On Me

I got a copy of the new Darkness single Growing On Me too, will this one bust into yer actual top forty? I think it must do, the band are doing SO MUCH this summer that there won't be a music fan in the UK who's not seen them by the end of the summer...

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...

YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP

Saw The Darkness and The Def Leppard last night at Brixton Academy and it rocked me to an ear buzzing state of near deafness...Was pleasantly surprised by how the Def Leppard crowd took to the Darkness, the boys from Lowestoft had this capacity soft ...

Ready to ROCK tonight???

Tonight... THE DARKNESS (and also Span, and also The Kennedy Soundtrack) are doing their NME "On" night at the Barfly (Chalk Farm Road, sort of Camden, That London) it is going to ROCK!Currently on the decks: XFM's "The Remix" Triple album of, uh, re...

The Cross

With free bar and rock karaoke! Just found invites and a promotional sick bag, was I that bad?