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The site and "the site" related things, including places, pubbing, gigs and blog posts about the site. If you have anything to contribute concerning the site that is not mentioned here, please contribute. Particularly if you have anything to contribute concerning local pubs or other venues, home brew, ale, or appley goodness. Cheers.

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

School of Art Bouverie Road West, Folkestone, Kent

Camden Underworld 174 Camden High Street, Camden. London NW1 0NE

Southcliff Hotel 22-26 The Leas, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2DY 01233 622795

Folkestone Festival site Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Kent

lord of the manor circus site canterbury road, ramsgate

WASP Not sure what day, the ticket is very faded... Zed Yago supported, this site says REM played there only two days before, I did pick the gigs to go to... Portsmouth Guildhall Portsmouth [Sunday 21 May 1989]

Tad First time they visited WITHOUT Nirvana in tow, just my luck... Portsmouth Polytechnic [Wednesday 13 June 1990]

System of a down Sorry the site was down for a while... [Wednesday 5 April 2000]

AAA-HARRRRRR!!! The site is back at last... [Monday 5 June 2000]

Nightclub V Nightclub ACTION Two London clubs are battling it out for the valued "plug" on the site this week... Who will give away the most free tickets? [Friday 9 June 2000]

Oops UPS-side yer head... Sorry the site was down for two hours, there was a power failure in the Black Sabbath area... [Tuesday 29 August 2000]

The first EVER constantly updated website... An amazing breakthrough in human / website / pop group interaction... [Tuesday 29 August 2000]

Rah, NME didn't let me down NME features popEx in their "essential websites" guide, part of the AltaVista sponsored "internet guide" pull out in this week's issue... [Wednesday 6 December 2000]

Divine .COMedy First dates sold out, but HEY, the website has changed... [Monday 15 January 2001]

World Wide Webb They got a new webbsite [Tuesday 15 May 2001]

Popbitch seeks mentallists with crayons Get a job on the second coolest website ever... [Thursday 8 November 2001]

Sorry, domain name problems again! The site might be shocking, but the Darkness are ROCKING... [Friday 16 November 2001]

Let's do some good things! Please check out these charity sites [Thursday 21 February 2002]

Seen the Electric Six video? Download Danger! High Voltage from their website... [Wednesday 4 December 2002]

Family Tree [Friday 30 January 2004]

I would try one of the other links on this site [Saturday 31 January 2004]

RE: Family Tree [Sunday 1 February 2004]

Remember grouphug.us, the confessional site? [Monday 26 April 2004]

Where'd the site go? [Monday 2 August 2004]

that's bad news [Tuesday 3 August 2004]

Not sure about this... [Wednesday 1 December 2004]

Yey, let's bring the interweb to it's knees!

Muddy
[Wednesday 1 December 2004]

Maybe it's already been brought down [Wednesday 1 December 2004]

Wow [Thursday 2 December 2004]

Ooh, now the site is down again [Thursday 2 December 2004]

Christmas roundup [Monday 3 January 2005]

thursday!!!! [Monday 3 January 2005]

just wanted to say [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

At The Eye? [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

Cheers, and to you [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

On Glenn Quinn, I wonder what he died of. All the website says is "Out of respect for Glenn and his family, cause of death, once determined, will r... [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

absolutely [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

The fansites are a bit crawly [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

We go out in the week, but not late [Tuesday 4 January 2005]

Ooh, have there been some problems with the site? [Tuesday 31 May 2005]

pauly's email Folkestone [Thursday 14 July 2005]

I will check out the site again, cheers [Tuesday 19 July 2005]

Whiteley Forum [Friday 5 August 2005]

forum [Saturday 6 August 2005]

If there are any features you particularly like [Saturday 6 August 2005]

forum [Sunday 7 August 2005]

Yeah understood about the links to my other sites [Sunday 7 August 2005]

Ronnie Scott's Rejects [Monday 22 August 2005]

I am trying to track down Ronnie Scott's Rejects, if still going, for a gig next year, my sister's wedding.
Anyone have any idea of how to ge...
[Monday 5 September 2005]

Ronnie Scott's Rejects [Tuesday 13 September 2005]

RE: [Thursday 22 September 2005]

Wahey a result for the site! [Thursday 22 September 2005]

RE: pauly's email Folkestone [Tuesday 27 September 2005]

Sorry about all that chinese spam flooding the site [Wednesday 28 September 2005]

Hey Andy [Wednesday 28 September 2005]

Probably going to make all the javascript on the site go bang later [Monday 7 November 2005]

Dan Hawkins & Richie Edwards [Wednesday 16 November 2005]

he does in the pictures on the website too [Wednesday 16 November 2005]

RE: he does in the pictures on the website too [Wednesday 16 November 2005]

maybe he tattooed eyeliner on in his manics days? [Wednesday 16 November 2005]

John COLE [Wednesday 4 January 2006]

RE: John COLE [Thursday 5 January 2006]

Just to share some more info we already have on the site [Thursday 5 January 2006]

George Sassoon obit, hmm... [Friday 17 March 2006]

RE: George Sassoon obit, hmm... [Friday 17 March 2006]

Aha, that you Mick? Are you BACK? [Friday 17 March 2006]

RE: Aha, that you Mick? Are you BACK? [Friday 17 March 2006]

Is that still you? [Friday 17 March 2006]

RE: Is that still you? [Friday 17 March 2006]

gah, there was me thinking the site was getting popular [Friday 17 March 2006]

Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone [Thursday 30 March 2006]

Squirrel stamped to death and set on fire [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

RE: Squirrel stamped to death and set on fire [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

RE: Squirrel stamped to death and set on fire [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

I don't know, have you tried searching? [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

RE: I don't know, have you tried searching? [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

That is strange, it ought to be the same results [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

RE: That is strange, it ought to be the same results [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

There must be a site somewhere, with a dedicated pocket pc community [Wednesday 26 April 2006]

Graveyard - Bradstone Road? [Sunday 17 September 2006]

I found this mention on another site: [Monday 18 September 2006]

Making your votes up [Monday 19 March 2007]

RE: Making your votes up [Monday 2 April 2007]

showbiz are the opposite of dog years [Monday 2 April 2007]

Oof, just deleted the whole site [Friday 9 November 2007]

RE: Oof, just deleted the whole site [Friday 9 November 2007]

My flat is well high [Friday 9 November 2007]

Hmm, some code copied from the Wagamama website: [Friday 16 November 2007]

RE: Graveyard - Bradstone Road? [Friday 4 January 2008]

RE: Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone [Thursday 7 February 2008]

Thanks for that, think it's the Metronome you mean [Thursday 7 February 2008]

RE: Thanks for that, think it's the Metronome you mean [Tuesday 19 February 2008]

now all we need is the date... [Tuesday 19 February 2008]

RE: now all we need is the date... [Monday 25 February 2008]

Thanks for chipping in on the site anyway [Monday 25 February 2008]

Hey Jez - it's George (geordie [Saturday 1 March 2008]

The website isn't owned by anyone called Gerald [Saturday 1 March 2008]

ABE Books also leaving Commission Junction [Tuesday 8 April 2008]

RE: ABE Books also leaving Commission Junction [Monday 14 April 2008]

abebooks.co.uk are still recommending I join commission junction on their site [Tuesday 15 April 2008]

RE: abebooks.co.uk are still recommending I join commission junction on their site [Tuesday 15 April 2008]

Good to know [Wednesday 16 April 2008]

RE: Good to know [Friday 18 April 2008]

Folkestone t-shirt [Tuesday 6 May 2008]

there are loads of sites where you can make your own t-shirt [Tuesday 6 May 2008]

RE: now all we need is the date... [Wednesday 26 November 2008]

Thanks for this Chris, love this gig history [Wednesday 26 November 2008]

RE: Thanks for chipping in on the site anyway [Friday 28 November 2008]

This page only gets responded to every few months, but I could run a poll on the home page if you're interested... Who should play Folkestone? [Friday 28 November 2008]

Is the site back? Sorry all I'm sure you've missed my web presence, THE MAN shut me down [Thursday 7 May 2009]

Got a twitter feed for your pub / cafe / hotel? Let me know and I'll update the site from it like I am for [Wednesday 3 June 2009]

Suede gig to be at the Royal Albert Hall I have seen another website say this now so I'm happy to repeat it. [Friday 15 January 2010]

£4 meal deal at the New Inn See their website for more... [Friday 15 January 2010]

Sorry the site has been a bit flakey recently [Friday 28 May 2010]

Chambers listings should be added to the site starting this week [Friday 3 September 2010]

New style premium bonds record Been looking forward to this, how said. Spending the day decorating today. [Saturday 22 January 2011]

Popex / celebdaq [Sunday 23 January 2011]

I don't think bbc would let me know if they revived celebdaq [Monday 24 January 2011]

Also if the BBC are currently closing lots of sites [Monday 24 January 2011]

Just bought me 2 tickets for Suede at Brixton There's a presale link up on the official website, GET IN! [Wednesday 26 January 2011]

Paul Clarke's blog - I live and work near Folkestone. Married to Clare and father to Harry, I am a web dev, and I like javascript, PHP, Folkestone Gerald, pubs, restaurants, history, genealogy, TV, music, popbitch, squirrels, pirates ☠, time travel, stained glass...