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This is my personal site, so if you search here for pubbing or other places it will only return nat pubbing / places I have been to or plan to go to. Fingers crossed it will return those anyway...If you are interested in a more broader search please try nat on 'Folkestone Gerald, where I list national and international places...

The National Club Kilburn, London

Bournemouth International Centre Exeter Road, Bournemouth BH2 5BH 01202 456 400

Bannatyne Fitness Shearway Road, Folkestone

The Black Griffin 40 St Peters Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2BG

stoke newington international airport 1-15 leswin place, off leswin road, stoke newington, hackney, london n16

VH1 Divas Chaka Khan, Celine Dion, Mary J Blige, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Jewel, Lisa Marie Presley, Ashanti, Shania Twain, Pat Benatar, Isley Brothers, Queen Latifah, Sharon Osbourne and STEVIE WONDER! MGM Grand MGM Mirage, Paradise, NV 89109, USA [Thursday 22 May 2003]

Caberet Desree, John Otway, Lemontrees, Sean Locke, Uncoordinated Juggler and compere Lee Hurst The Wedgewood Rooms 147b Albert Rd, Southsea, Hampshire PO4 0JW 023 9286 3911 [Friday 25 February 1994]

Iron Maiden Was on a training course in Hounslow, turned up too late for support band Wolfsbane, and anyway we had no tickets, but got given some by someone outside, I am sure it was Tommy Vance. Apparently we saw Jonathon King there too. Hammersmith Odeon Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9QH 020 8563 3800 [Thursday 18 October 1990]

Kathryn Williams A birthday night out, just after she was Mercury nominated Dingwalls Camden Lock, London NW1 8AL [Thursday 27 July 2000]

Suede Teenage Cancer Trust gig. The long awaited Suede Reunion, without Bernard Butler though unfortunately. Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP [Wednesday 24 March 2010]

Gosport Festival Wedding Present + Credit To The Nation + Senseless Things. I know I went, I seem to remember one band did not though. One more band advertised somewhere, S*M*A*S*H? Not the Walpole Park in Ealing! Walpole Park (Gosport) Gosport, Hampshire, UK [Saturday 30 July 1994]

Genealogy / family tree

Hailey from coronation street Euston Station [Thursday 12 October 2000]

Worlds best acts in "all rubbish" shocker... The Q Award nominations are out... ZZZzzz... [Tuesday 17 October 2000]

Happy National Vegan Day! Tofu munching greetings all round... [Wednesday 1 November 2000]

PopEx-mas charity campaign Dig deep for those more fortunate than you... [Monday 11 December 2000]

Feeder? What were they thinking of? 'Maker to close; a nation fails to notice. [Friday 15 December 2000]

Desperately Seeking Nominations The first annual PopEx Awards... [Monday 18 December 2000]

Those nominations I forgot to say, can you say WHY you're nominating them? [Tuesday 19 December 2000]

Tower Records BUSTED for / by FILTH! FILTH! And also CORRUPTING OUR NATIONS YOUTH! You did get my best side there didn't you? [Thursday 11 January 2001]

Manics tickets ON SALE NOW! Sold out by the time you see this, naturally... [Wednesday 17 January 2001]

J-Lo Media Domination Jennifer Lopez takes over the world... [Monday 22 January 2001]

Suede Carboot Clearout Suede are having a big clearout of STUFF, at the VIP International Record Fair... [Tuesday 23 January 2001]

NME 'On' Band of the Week The Strokes world domination plan turns up a gear... [Wednesday 24 January 2001]

Mark Cousins A bus stop outside the Edinburgh National Library. [Tuesday 6 March 2001]

Fancy a flutter? No, not on the national, on getting REM tickets.. . [Friday 6 April 2001]

Vic from Coronation street manchester piccadilly [Monday 9 April 2001]

Natalie Imbuglia Outside Brixton Academy [Monday 30 April 2001]

Mercury Nominations The lowdown on all the nominations... have a listen here! [Tuesday 24 July 2001]

Lil, Jenny & Natasha HMV (Bath) [Thursday 9 August 2001]

International Superhits [Wednesday 5 December 2001]

Jonathan Miller Camden, Parkway, Italian Restaurant [Thursday 27 December 2001]

Secret Suede Gig! Ah, unfortunately it was Saturday night. [Tuesday 7 May 2002]

PopEx is FINNISHED! European consortium dominates popex, and we're back to the 80's on the radio... does life get better than this? [Thursday 16 January 2003]

Sounds like a tour The Darkness could dominate Whitesnake and Gary Moore play the Monsters of Rock... [Wednesday 5 February 2003]

One of Jonathon Aitken's daughters Camden [Monday 24 February 2003]

Liam Gallager & Nicole Appleton National Theatre [Monday 28 April 2003]

The girls and boys of "Coronation Street" Walkabout, Manchester City Centre [Sunday 8 June 2003]

Hello the Welsh It's all go on the international front today. [Wednesday 16 July 2003]

Alternative 3 Not that good. [Thursday 17 July 2003]

Spam [Friday 1 August 2003]

Kerrang Awards Full nominations to appear in this thread, hope it works out! [Thursday 7 August 2003]

Kerrang Awards - Best International Band [Thursday 7 August 2003]

Win Leeds Festival Tickets! Not from me unfortunately, but from http://www.soundnation.net [Tuesday 12 August 2003]

Natural History Museum [Thursday 14 August 2003]

Some links to add to popex when it's back [Thursday 14 August 2003]

Divis will be BIGGER! And also SMALLER! A confusing explanation. [Tuesday 19 August 2003]

Jonathan Frakes (off that Star Trek: Next Gen) shoe store, Oxford Street [Friday 12 September 2003]

International Talk Like A Pirate Day [Friday 19 September 2003]

Redesign [Friday 19 September 2003]

Sean Connery and Alan Rickman [and Robert Lindsay] Cottersloe Theatre at the National [Sunday 21 September 2003]

Pop Factory Awards Darkness dominate the welsh Grammys... Goldie Lookin' Chain just miss the nominations... [Monday 6 October 2003]

James Dean Bradfield Jo Whiley's evening for Amnesty International ICA [Saturday 18 October 2003]

Fizz out of Coronation Street Marks and Spencer Manchester City Centre [Tuesday 21 October 2003]

Pool Alternative [Monday 5 January 2004]

It's been a week [Monday 16 February 2004]

RE: It's been a week [Monday 16 February 2004]

Can you save it? [Tuesday 17 February 2004]

give a loved one a treat this summer! [Friday 23 April 2004]

Alternatively [Friday 23 April 2004]

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge [Saturday 1 May 2004]

RE: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge [Sunday 2 May 2004]

Hip hop nation question yourself [Tuesday 18 May 2004]

The Darkness play Brixton, slight return [Thursday 4 November 2004]

SuprNova.org - .com and .net are scammers! - The REAL Universal BitTorrent source [Thursday 4 November 2004]

Hmm [Thursday 4 November 2004]

Azureus - WhatIsNat [Wednesday 10 November 2004]

Dilemma [Monday 7 February 2005]

Tear vs Bloc Party [Monday 7 February 2005]

I can't pass the invites on unfortunately [Monday 7 February 2005]

M.A.S.S @ Metro Club Feb1 9th [Saturday 12 February 2005]

Nathan Barley [Monday 14 February 2005]

so [Monday 14 February 2005]

It's about some rubbish website [Tuesday 15 February 2005]

Francis Crick's First DNA Sketch [Wednesday 16 February 2005]

"Maxwell has more in common with Barley's nemesis, Dan" [Friday 18 February 2005]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way [Sunday 20 February 2005]

Do-do-do do-do-do-do do-do-do-do do-do-do-do [Wednesday 9 March 2005]

Terry Nation [Wednesday 9 March 2005]

Natasha bedingfield [Wednesday 23 March 2005]

Banksy takes New York [Thursday 24 March 2005]

International Women's Rugby [Friday 21 October 2005]

More furniture [Tuesday 15 November 2005]

RE: More furniture [Tuesday 15 November 2005]

Unfortunately not, the nearest one's probably Canterbury [Wednesday 16 November 2005]

Natalie Casey Devonshire - Ken Church Street [Friday 16 December 2005]

Azureus : Plugin Details for SafePeer [Saturday 21 January 2006]

Next Lone Star Comedy (and an explanation of the last one) [Monday 6 February 2006]

Fareham makes the national news again [Friday 24 February 2006]

RE: Fareham makes the national news again [Sunday 26 February 2006]

RE: Fareham makes the national news again [Monday 27 February 2006]

Excellent, cheers! [Monday 27 February 2006]

Life is Usually Really Quite Fascinating [Tuesday 30 May 2006]

Happy National Day Of Slayer [Tuesday 6 June 2006]

RE: Happy National Day Of Slayer [Tuesday 6 June 2006]

666 is my extension number [Wednesday 7 June 2006]

Clarkes in the National Portrait Gallery [Friday 18 August 2006]

Folkestone in the national media [Thursday 28 September 2006]

Did you know Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson were staying in Sandgate? [Tuesday 12 December 2006]

Tales of mystery and imagination [Tuesday 16 January 2007]

Harry Clarke colour plates [Sunday 21 January 2007]

Happy Friday 13th [Friday 13 April 2007]

How much do I win for the first faller..? [Saturday 14 April 2007]

I ain't afraid of no ghosts [Thursday 17 May 2007]

Didn't go to Canterbury all weekend! [Monday 1 October 2007]

What rugby? [Sunday 21 October 2007]

Bah ! [Monday 22 October 2007]

his foot did come up off the ground [Monday 22 October 2007]

Possibly the best Lost episode so far [Saturday 1 March 2008]

RE: Possibly the best Lost episode so far [Saturday 1 March 2008]

Hokey science explanation? [Saturday 1 March 2008]

Happy April Fool's [Tuesday 1 April 2008]

RE: Happy April Fool's [Tuesday 1 April 2008]

I met him, so he's my friend [Tuesday 1 April 2008]

"Fundamentalist" for the Grand National [Friday 4 April 2008]

RE: "Fundamentalist" for the Grand National [Monday 7 April 2008]

Tsk [Monday 7 April 2008]

the most glorious holiday destination in all England [Monday 16 June 2008]

Signature Brides, Hythe [Monday 11 August 2008]

Terry Pratchett's Nation limited edition. [Saturday 13 September 2008]

Eggheads? [Wednesday 24 September 2008]

Who is Russell Brand? [Thursday 30 October 2008]

b-dum b-dum b-dum take two, with sound this time Hear our baby's heartbeat here [Friday 20 February 2009]

You can watch complete episodes of Jonathan Creek on google video Is this legit? Seems I can download it for my #ipod too [Wednesday 4 March 2009]

Who are we meant to assume MYSTERY GUEST HEADLINER is then? No, I can't think who would be a natural partner for Stephen Merchant... [Sunday 5 April 2009]

Gurkha campaign is picking up pace nationally [Monday 13 April 2009]

Sponsored skate No of course not me, but some friends for the National Autistic Society [Thursday 30 April 2009]

WEIRD non news story about ASDA http://www.my-kent.com/index.php/Kent-National-News/asda-folkestone-escalator-danger.html [Thursday 30 April 2009]

RE: WEIRD non news story about ASDA [Saturday 2 May 2009]

*checks own spelling and grammar* [Saturday 2 May 2009]

Father and son Another picture! Got me in this one unfortunately though. [Monday 8 June 2009]

Nice one ERNIE! £25 premium bond win! [Friday 14 August 2009]

Leas Cliff Hall sold to Ambassador Theatre Group Will this make the standard of shows there better or worse? [Thursday 5 November 2009]

Habitat Radius table and chairs, starting cheap! Maybe I'll spend my premium bond win on this! [Saturday 5 December 2009]

150 remastered Sinatra tracks for £8.99 Cheers for the tip [Tuesday 5 January 2010]

AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE AND HISTORY COMPANY ON SCHOOL TOUR Fancy some Native American artistes doing a demo for your school? [Wednesday 20 January 2010]

Snow joke getting in today Still got a lot of snow here, did I mention it? [Friday 12 February 2010]

How mental was Ray Gosling on BBC Breakfast yesterday? I didn't realise it would be on national TV (TV presenter confessing to a murder on regional TV show) [Wednesday 17 February 2010]

KISS tickets on sale midday for this strange warm up gig... [Wednesday 24 February 2010]

KISS tickets sold out in seconds Up on ebay already, bit of a tricky one though... [Wednesday 24 February 2010]

It's national cask ale week Update from CAMRA [Tuesday 30 March 2010]

Won a prize at the Chambers Beer Festival Quiz [Monday 5 April 2010]

Nice hot weekend Smashing weather a nice break [Sunday 25 April 2010]

Typical Harry celebrated Clare's first day at work with a mighty spew [Thursday 29 April 2010]

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