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The year and "the year" related stuff, including venues, pubbing, gigs and posts about the year. If you have anything to offer concerning the year that is not mentioned here, please contribute. Particularly if you have anything to contribute concerning local pubbing or other places, 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 year pubs / 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 year on 'Folkestone Gerald, where I list national and even international places...
The Grand
the parrot
Love / Hate Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year! The Marquee
David Devant And His Spirit Wife This actually might not have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, found a pass with a date on it so guessing it was earlier this year... Dingwalls
Oasis Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig? Earls Court
David Devant and his Spirit Wife Think the year is wrong on this one... HQ Club
Glastonbury 1995 The year Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as headliners, along with Oasis and The Cure. Great weather. Peak of the britpop years. Glastonbury
Megadeth First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)
Poole Arts Centre
Sean Hughes No idea of the date of this but possibly this year. Mark Lamarr supported, maybe the fiirst thing I went to at this venue. The Wedgewood Rooms
Band of the Year #10 Another result... [Wednesday 27 December 2000]
Band of the Year #9 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #8 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #7 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #6 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #5 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #4 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #3 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #2 Another result... [Thursday 28 December 2000]
Band of the Year #1 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #10 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #9 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #8 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #7 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #6 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #5 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #4 Another result... [Friday 29 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #3 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #2 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Villain of the Year #1 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #10 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #9 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #8 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #7 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #6 Another result... [Saturday 30 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #5 Another result... [Sunday 31 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #4 Another result... [Sunday 31 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #3 Another result... [Sunday 31 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #2 Another result... [Sunday 31 December 2000]
Hero of the Year #1 Another result... [Sunday 31 December 2000]
New STUFF A couple of new features for the new year... [Wednesday 3 January 2001]
Captain Soul @ Notting Hill Arts Centre First live gig of the year? Not for me, I'm having an early night... [Wednesday 3 January 2001]
Depeche Mode är tillbaka!!! Depeche Mode are back with their first new album for four years... [Tuesday 6 February 2001]
SBN Chart of the YEAR [Tuesday 10 July 2001]
Recommendation of the the week: "The Dirt" Book of the month, NO, the YEAR! [Monday 30 July 2001]
Vote for popEx as site of the year HERE VOTE VOTE VOTE at nme.com... [Friday 16 November 2001]
Kerrang Awards - Event Of The Year [Thursday 7 August 2003]
Morrissey Meltdown For me, this is a privilege and I will rise to it. Curating Meltdown is a great opportunity for me to acknowledge some of the music and words that have excited me over the years. Some of you have Ipods, I have Meltdown. [Wednesday 3 March 2004]
The first rule about job club [Monday 14 February 2005]
Sandgate [Monday 14 February 2005]
but [Monday 14 February 2005]
The sea defences have been much improved in the last year [Tuesday 15 February 2005]
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Bill Gates and other communists - Richard Stallman [Thursday 17 February 2005]
Compulsory water meters for Folkestone in the new year! [Wednesday 21 December 2005]
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]
Excellent Folkestone gig history history from Patricia Duke (nee Brown) Picture of the Pretty Things when they came to Folkestone 40 years ago... [Tuesday 30 October 2007]
The Pretty Things in Folkestone More pictures of the Pretty Things when they came to Folkestone 40 years ago... [Tuesday 30 October 2007]
Been quiet for a few days [Monday 31 December 2007]
The Year's At The Spring Cool 1920 poetry anthology, illustrated by Clare's famous relative [Wednesday 18 February 2009]
I did not know the Hevy festival was at the zoo this year... [Monday 21 June 2010]
Guessing the Chichester Hall farmers market is not actually on new years day [Tuesday 28 December 2010]
Happy end of 2010 Went to Tenterden today. [Friday 31 December 2010]
Where did that eleven day holiday go? Spending the last day of my christmas and new year break painting the kitchen... [Monday 3 January 2011]
Back better Took a day off with it, possilbe the second time it's been bad this year :-( [Tuesday 29 March 2011]
Also I made a new game [Sunday 23 October 2011]
Stewart Lee was very good [Sunday 29 January 2012]
Maybe I'll get a watch for the first time in twenty years or so [Friday 16 March 2012]
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