Lies

Golf day

Run stats 30/5/26 - 5'26/K

Found more info on that Black Flag gig in 1984

DJ Pauly

This long weekend is costing us money

Coding / linking thing

Chinese disappointment

Does the Kentish Town forum have a nazi connection? @ Kentish Town Forum 2026

I think I'm just sat waiting for pay day now

A week of on-call done

Interesting new source of gig history

Not an unproductive day

Don and Jeff: Time Paedophiles

Motley Crue thirty-six years ago today

No more calls yet while on call

Watching TOTP archives

Goodbye English Heritage

The boy smashed his GCSEs

I didn't know The Senseless Things played Folkestone @ Bottoms 2025

I had my own train fun today

Not a bad day in London

Some old time gigiversaries

Fantastic day out in Sandwich

"Wait until vidcasting gets going though - that could be hilarious"

Pleasingly round gigiversary @ Portsmouth Pyramids 2025

Got through our busy day

Our first work logic puzzle

Pleasingly round gigiversary today @ Southampton Joiners 2025

I did not like Leather Lane

T1 had one of his GCSE mocks remarked

Glastonbury rumours website has upgraded Olivia Rodrigo

Biggish roundish gigiversary today @ Kentish Town Forum 2024

I saw Oasis twenty-nine years ago today

York: day two

Great birthday day out

Did I just solve the Oasis pre-sale ticket ballot?

Singapore day three - Universal Studios

Singapore day two

Interesting piece about a stash of Titanic treasures

Never forget what a disaster Liz Truss was

New Relic and GraphQL

Slightly dull football

Back to Parkrun

What the hell is this?

Totally got away with being on call

Creedence Clearwater Revival @ Dreamland 2024

Ozric Tentacles @ Dreamland 2024

Nice relaxing day today

Interesting thing on ancient maps

Look at this bargain from thirty years ago today @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2024

Parkrun 146

Febrewery 10/3

Pleasingly round gig history

Our day at the Young Voices concert @ O2 Arena 2024

Runuary day 30 @ O2 Arena 2024

Runuary day 25

Flash rob

They have only gone and named one of the storms again @ London Astoria 2023

Potential tax problem

Good day in gig history @ Southampton Mayflower Theatre 2023

It's dark @ Portsmouth Pyramids 2023

Weather has gone even further off the boil

Friday day off 4. The Olde Mitre @ The Olde Mitre 2023

Friday day off 2. The Holy Tavern @ The Holy Tavern 2023

T1 did a Titanic project and did not tell me

I will leave my write up there for a bit

The best day of all

Pizza three days in a row

London weekender: Saturday morning boat trip

A Liverpool medley without a Beatles song..? @ Reading Alleycat 2023

A lovely 5pm incident

Pump class HARD today

Two day Sunday

I removed all the covid graph generation

Leaked source code!

Great long weekend in London

I am not dead

Long day with football

Febrewery 28/28 @ The Providence Inn 2023

Last night's food at Cocomee was very good too

Another brick in the wall

Joy Division Oven Gloves

The Puttshack scores are in

Every day is a school day

In other home furnishing news

Eco-hour earned me £1.33

Think I have been to Tesco every day this week

Midlife Eurotour part two - Brussels

Got my Tesco unlimited everything sim for my phone

Confusing call from the window cleaner

Only one person spotted I am not in London today

Going swimming. Or are we? @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2022

Psyched up ready for London tomorrow

Conservative news of the day

Thirty years ago today

We did an escape room and now we are addicted

My fitness stats are now all loaded - but wrong

No you spilled wine on the new sofa

Day off

Ashford fun day

Olympic spreadsheet update

And we are back @ The Good Mixer 2021

Pub and then not pub

Inn Doors opens today, but back to the office soon

Active day in the end yesterday

I'm not sure this clapping for the NHS is working

Nothing to say

Runuary day twenty-seven

Swimming seems to be the new running

1990s ISN'T RETRO

Glorious day today

Our holiday to London and Warwick (part four)

I just removed my first LightwaveRF device

This definitely calls for a referendum

Today's excitement - holiday club

Quizmaster @ The Seagull 2020

Our turn to do a quiz next week

Am I the strictest home schooling dad?

I went out twice in one day

First full day of furlough

Business / mortgage / redundancy updates

London pay day profit share weekend part 2

London pay day profit share weekender!

The best day of all

The Walking Dead series one done

Epic excursion to Bristol @ The Seagull 2019

KISS setlist @ O2 Arena 2019

Holiday 2019 day nine - XCaret itself Mexico!

New York final day

GREAT weekend in London

BACK then from NEW YORK CITY

School trip to Escondido

Cooler today

Wow Terry Davey if you're out there please email me

First pub of the weekend? The Office @ The Office (wet Sales) 2017

Rare midweek night out @ Ship Inn 2017

London Transport museum was good @ London Transport Museum 2017

First pub of the weekend: The Good Mixer @ The Good Mixer 2017

Another cool website for people with too much stuff in their pockets

Aha Every Day Carry is a philosophy...

7 secrets of Abney Park cemetery

Folkestone Triennial 2017

Really enjoying these pictures of old Stokey

Sunday we went early to the Natural History Museum @ Natural History Museum 2016

We stayed at the Novotel, Tower Hill @ Hotel Novotel 2016

There's a free one day history conference that sounds really good @ Quarterhouse 2016

Splendid Saturday in London @ Natural History Museum 2016

Super bright and sunny here today @ Natural History Museum 2016

British Newspaper Archive

Folkestone People History Centre AGM tonight at Woodward Hall @ Woodward Hall 2015

Yorkshire Family History society were very helpful

Could be a metre of snow due in New York today

Folkestone's HEART, Folkestone's new museum @ Folkestone Library 2015

The Clarke family of Leeds and Burley-in-Wharfedale

Folkestone People's History Centre Research Group @ The Creative Foundation Glassworks Building 2015

Unrelated DEATH SENTENCE website

A picture of my great-great-grandfather Samuel Rainey

The will of John William RAINEY (1888 - 1945)

It's not that Hallamshire hotel @ Hallamshire House Hotel 2014

The Hallamshire Hotel

Aargh, annoyed, broke the bureau

What is this nonsense?

London midweek weekender part four @ Plum Tree Cafe 2014

London midweek weekender part three @ The Lost Hour 2014

For number one son @ Hallamshire House Hotel 2014

todo: add captions to photos on blog / venue pages @ Glastonbury 2014

History of the Wedgewood Rooms here @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2014

Visit Portchester (The Independent says)

Yoko Ono, Andy Goldsworthy and Pablo Bronstein among artists announced for Folkestone Triennial 2014

Two boxes of comics

The Florence Arms

Han Solo's blaster for sale

Folkestone Triennial 2014

Happy birthday Folkestone

The Fight For History

Joan Elliott RIP (slight return)

Invitation ATU "Footprints From The Past" Exhibition Talk and Reception

Was Gate 28 ever known as Bar 57? @ Gate 28 2012

Pictures of the Rolling Stones in Folkestone @ Odeon Bar 2012

Turkey 2012 - We walked to some historic sites

Things I learned about the White Hart (Hythe) @ White Hart 2012

RE: History of East Meon - 14548

History of East Meon

Archaeology news

Folkestone book festival highlights at the Quarterhouse @ Quarterhouse 2011

HERE BE DRAGONS

Not much Darkness history before 2003 on their wikipedia page @ Kings Cross Water Rats 2011

Mark is selling comics:

History of UCF

Anthony Clark and Martha Hoar

Signed Harry Clarke book for sale

Dinosaurs at the museum - the movie @ Natural History Museum 2011

Dinosaurs at the museum @ Natural History Museum 2011

Volunteers wanted to "Unlock The Bayle"... @ The Creative Foundation Glassworks Building 2011

My life in gig tickets

Old photos of the Wymering Arms @ Wymering Arms 2011

Can you help the pavement pounders?

Town Unearthed Research Group will be meeting this Thursday (9th Dec) at 6.30-8pm at the History Resource Centre at Folkestone Library @ Folkestone Library 2010

More on the Daysh family in New Zealand from an old email

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 13751

Henry Seaton's "Homes Fit for Heroes" @ Georges House Gallery 2010

RE: We have a bundle of Windebanks - 13617

Nothing to say today

Pavement pounders walks for May, June, July and August

Hot Tub Time Machine

Anyone know of a Folkestone venue in the '80s called Peter Pipers? @ Pipers Nightclub 2010

GRO certificates petition

Oh yeah finished my book too

More Tales From The Tap Room

AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE AND HISTORY COMPANY ON SCHOOL TOUR

I got the venue details from Marmalade Skies @ Tofts 2009

Placebo gig

Leas Cliff Hall gigs in the 1970s @ Leas Cliff Hall 2009

Ha I knew that about Skid Row, let me explain!

Strange ebay shop

A whole heap of wrong things here

opposite where the police station is now?

NME Brat Awards on youtube

Munich @ Dillinger Chicago Bar'n Grill 2009

RE: Sasafrass 1975 - 11994

Speaking of things gigographic @ Wembley Arena 2009

Looking for family

So long Astoria @ London Astoria 2008

Legends of Folkestone

Thanks for this Chris, love this gig history @ The Metronome 2008

RE: Toft`s / gigs in 1969 - 11686 @ Tofts 2008

David Starkey @ Folkestone Academy 2008

CLARKE

My family History @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

Is it still the Three Mackerel? @ The Captains Table 2008

Folkestone fringe

RE: Vanished businesses - 11515

How did we miss this anniversary? @ Pier Hippodrome 2008

Look at the rubbish I went to in 1993

The Pavilion Hotel

Some old photos of Folkestone @ Folkestone Harbour 2008

Simple Simon's: GONE! @ The Parrot 2008

Is this who's bought the Metronome? @ The Metronome 2008

FHS MTG 19 MAY 7PM THE GRAND, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE @ The Grand 2008

Internet history @ Barfly 2008

We have a Hazzard in our family by marriage

HAZZARD Genealogy

Summer Season show at the Leas Cliff in 1974 with Gordon & Bunny Jay @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

RE: Happy April Fool's - 11128

New not-comedy on BBC4

Great book, slight repost

More Tales From The Tap Room, 99p

Jack the Ripper exhibition tickets @ Docklands Arena 2008

THE Brian Wilson?

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

RE: Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie - 10922

Wikipedia says no @ The Grand 2008

Family tree home

The unknown child of the Titanic

This week in Folkestone's gig history

Cheers for those

The Pretty Things in Folkestone @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

Double history @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

Excellent Folkestone gig history history from Patricia Duke (nee Brown) @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

Good work Trish, here's your picture of the Pretty Things @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

RE: Flamenco Club (Tontine St) - 10628 @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

Splendid weekended @ Lloyds No 1 (Wetherspoons) 2007

Did you know there was a Windebank on the Titanic?

RE: Mayfield Suite / Stour Centre / Gene Loves Jezebel - 10618 @ Mayfield Suite 2007

Could be

1980s soft rock @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2007

Folkestone history from "manky badger"

Amy Winehouse (aged 14) in The Fast Show

Folkestone literary festival kicks off @ Folkestone Academy 2007

Tracey Emin will be scattering childrens clothes around our town @ Leas Cliff Hall 2007

I understand "make poverty history"

Gigs I was at this week

history of Elham and Folkestone @ Abbots Fireside 2007

This quiz is getting less fun @ Ship Inn 2007

Harry Clarke Good Housekeeping

More Huckles

Folkestone before 1500 @ Folkestone Library 2007

I'll have a look

Magic darts @ The Daniel Defoe 2007

Folkestone gig history @ South Parade Pier 2007

I don't have a Matilda Windebank...

A Seaside Year launches in Folkestone

Did all my links break? @ The Grand 2006

RE: Fellenberg College, 4 Church Street, Folkestone - 9651

History in my day @ British Lion 2006

History Matters

MARC BOLAN & T.REX LIVE IN FOLKESTONE @ Leas Cliff Hall 2006

Lost

The Folkestone People's History Centre to hold 'Dig for History' event @ Folkestone People's History Centre 2006

More CAPTCHA fun

An honest day's work!

West Cliff Shades @ The Radnor Arms 2006

The Executive Club / West Cliff Shades / The Happy Frenchman @ The Radnor Arms 2006

Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

Feltonfleet School @ Southcliff Hotel 2006

Curse of the Titanic?

history

Help needed to defend the Horsham Folk Arts Centre

What I done on my weekend

Thankyou! @ Onyx 2006

American rock band indeed...

Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone @ The Metronome 2006

Fleetwood Mac & Tofts? @ Tofts 2006

Weekend of sports @ Twickenham 2006

Jimi Hendrix 1966 @ Hillside Social Club 2006

John Thomas Clarke

Folkestone Gerald update @ Sandgate Hotel 2006

Danke schon!

RE: Good to have that info - 4730 @ Tofts 2006

What was I going to say?

RE: DARKSIDED!!! - 4670

Nazareth in 1973 @ Leas Cliff Hall 2006

Lots of new things!

yeah just blogged that!

The Ramones in Canterbury @ Canterbury Odeon 2006

Still seeking more Folkestone gig history

Expose Club @ Expose Club 2005

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 4172

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 4137 @ Tofts 2005

History of The Langhorne @ Langhorne Gardens Hotel 2005

Where's that then? @ Clifton Hotel 2005

Folkestone without the views and the faded grandeur @ Lympne Castle 2005

Underground London

What a day to stop getting the tube

What I have done been reading

My gigography

Is it a nice flat? Is it new? @ The Metronome 2005

Westenhanger Castle

Commuting, day two

Banksy takes New York

Local history

Magpie

No weekend plans

Rolling Stones 1964 @ Odeon Bar 2005

Expose Club @ Expose Club 2005

Christmas roundup @ The View 2005

Lazy day @ The Daniel Defoe 2004

hello

BBC - Kent History - Titanic Lives

That's the bunny!

Where were you yesterday man?

Big knobs @ Cheriton Balti 2004

What I done on my holidays

Billy Bragg added to the Fleadh

Links for the day

92 years ago today

The Ship @ Ship Inn 2004

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 1065

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 1051

Wedding Invitation

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 937 @ Tofts 2004

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history - 925 @ New Cross Venue 2004

Updated Folkestone gig history @ The Harp Restrung 2004

A quarter of commuters have found love in the tube

Folkestone then and now

Unusual U2 gig

Essential Suede @ The Metronome 2004

All Welsh, All Safe

Encyclopedia Titanica

Very popular with Shoreditch types

Saucy!

Subterranea Brittanica

Darkness Competition

Mahon Family Tree

Who's in with Carling then? @ Hammersmith Odeon 2003

Science Museum

Some links to add to popex when it's back

Natural History Museum @ Natural History Museum 2003

Monster cleanup

No Sales: No Sellout @ The Windmill 2003

David Devant

A weekend in Portchester

Hello

hello

welcome to the board

Clarke Family Tree

Thanks and things

I knew if I kept this game up long enough, I'd get something worth having...

Eve! Eve! Eve! @ Barfly 2002

Spill Your Television

popEx gets PERFESSIONAL

Barfly @ Barfly 1998

Suede @ Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall @ Leas Cliff Hall 1997

Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 1994

The Stranglers @ Leas Cliff Hall @ Leas Cliff Hall 1993

The Kinks @ Southampton Mayflower Theatre 1993

Babes In Toyland @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 1993

Jakknife @ Marthas 1992

RIP @ Marthas 1992

Big Brother Soul @ Marthas 1992

Pridenjoys @ Marthas 1992

Heavy Duty @ Marthas 1992

Crow Jayne Blue @ Marthas 1992

RIP @ Marthas 1992

Big Brother Soul @ Marthas 1992

Radiohead at the RIP club @ Marthas 1992

Suede @ Folkestone Metronome @ The Metronome 1992

Liar @ Marthas 1992

RIP @ Marthas 1992

Big Brother Soul @ Marthas 1992

Slunk @ Marthas 1992

Power Crazy @ Marthas 1992

RIP @ Marthas 1992

Big Brother Soul @ Marthas 1992

County Line @ Marthas 1992

RIP @ Marthas 1992

Nuns on Napalm @ Marthas 1992

Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird @ Birmingham Hummingbird 1991

Intensified @ The Metronome 1990

The Perfect Disaster + Carter USM @ Southampton Joiners 1989

REM @ Portsmouth Guildhall 1989

Under Neath What @ Southampton Joiners 1989

KISS at The Marquee Club @ The Marquee 1988

Madonna @ Koko 1983

The Police @ Dreamland 1978

The Lurkers @ Dreamland 1978

Siouxsie And The Banshees @ Dreamland 1978

Generation X @ Dreamland 1978

Samson @ Leas Cliff Hall @ Leas Cliff Hall 1977

Dr Hook @ Dreamland 1975

Glitter Band @ Dreamland 1975

Geordie @ Dreamland 1975

10cc @ Dreamland 1973

Hawkwind @ Dreamland 1972

Groundhogs @ Dreamland 1972

Wizzard @ Dreamland 1972

ELO @ Dreamland 1972

ELO @ Southampton University 1972

ELO @ South Parade Pier 1972

Mungo Jerry @ Dreamland 1972

Hawkwind @ Dreamland 1972

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1972

Argent @ Dreamland 1972

Brinsley Schwarz @ Dreamland 1972

The Sweet @ Dreamland 1972

The Sweet @ Dreamland 1971

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1971

Mungo Jerry @ Dreamland 1971

Lou Christie @ Dreamland 1971

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1970

Deep Purple @ Dreamland 1970

Fleetwood Mac @ Tofts 1970

Yes @ Dreamland 1970

Grannys New Intentions @ Tofts 1970

Derek And The Dominos @ Tofts 1970

Badfinger @ Dreamland 1970

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1969

The Move @ Dreamland 1969

Fleetwood Mac @ Dreamland 1969

The Who @ Dreamland 1969

The Sweet @ Dreamland 1968

The Sweet @ Dreamland 1968

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1968

Fleetwood Mac @ Dreamland 1968

Yes @ Dreamland 1968

Amen Corner @ Dreamland 1968

The Move @ Dreamland 1968

Status Quo @ Dreamland 1968

The Herd @ Dreamland 1968

The Who @ Dreamland 1968

Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd! @ Portsmouth Guildhall 1967

The Ferris Wheel @ Dreamland 1967

Episode Six @ Dreamland 1967

The Move @ Dreamland 1967

The Yardbirds @ Dreamland 1967

The Tremeloes @ Dreamland 1967

The Kinks @ Dreamland 1966

The Who @ Dreamland 1966

The Pretty Things @ Dreamland 1966

The Kinks @ Dreamland 1966

The Wilde Flowers @ Dreamland 1966

The Small Faces @ Dreamland 1966

The Yardbirds @ Dreamland 1966

The Merseys @ Dreamland 1966

The Who @ Dreamland 1966

The Yardbirds @ Dreamland 1965

The Who @ Dreamland 1965

The Rolling Stones at Dreamland @ Dreamland 1963

Gigography of Paul Clarke

Miscellanous