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My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.Als...

Who tickets

Tickets for The Who, at the Roundhouse, Camden, 29th October, doing some sort of rock opera it seems, part of a whole week of hot gigs there called BBC Electric Proms. Good work Nic P in getting tickets for Damon Albarn's thing the following day... T...

It's Not Easy Being Green

I quite enjoyed this programme last night, if you have not seen it here's a book of it, it's about a family who obviously have a shitload of money becoming an eco commune. Generally, posh hippies make me want to kick the telly in, but this was quite ...

RE: Second day with no coat

You've finally got some window coverage in your lounge? Does that mean I can't stalk you through your webcam now and all I'll see is the close up slats of your aluminium venetian blinds. Bah, I say.Also, you can't post a BLOG entry like that withou...

Going underground

Half day today, it's the day of the great lunch outing, going with some buddies on a tour of Down Street Underground Station this afternoon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the ...

Latest popex ticket sales

Affiliate sales have perked up a bit this month, here are the top twenty sellers through popex this month:Foo Fighters (beating second place by 5:1)Red Hot Chili PeppersThe Mighty Boosh (the first of the Folkestone connection, one I plugged a lot on ...

Lovely day today

Super bright on leaving Folkestone, just so sunny as to be unreal. Very cold though, and only going to get colder this week. Could see lots of stars clearly from bed last night (through the open blinds, no missing roof or anything) so it's possibly r...
Rated 5.35/10 on Folkestone Gerald

More Javascript

Found the source of my problem with internet explorer, it's with var c = obj.getAttribute('class'); need to replace it with var c = getAttribute(obj,'class');function getAttribute( elm, aname ) { var avalue = elm.getAttribute( aname ); if ( ! ava...

PopEx tickets

Sales perked up a little last month, here are the top ten ticket sellers through popex for April...Will YoungJools HollandMamma MiaMcFlySuper Furry AnimalsBilly CorganRammsteinAlabama 3Bloc PartyMeat LoafYesterday's journey home was a TURD, took too ...

Inspiration

Decided to sort out a work page today that was taking 15 seconds or so to load, that's not good! This is only on one project, and it's one I'm not working on any more, but it's still not good to know something I've written is so crappy... it's not hu...

Visions of sinking ships

Mmm, saw a squishing on the road yesterday, not a pigeon, hedghog, or even a squirrel though, which are fairly common, this one was a RAT. This made me think that the rat must have been desparately trying to escape from something to be travelling acr...

REM tickets

They're all over Ebay, and they don't go on sale until tomorrow... Will there be any left by the time I get to put them on sale (through Ticketmaster or Wayahead) in the morning? Will my REM tickets page have anything on it?We want to go to Hammersmi...

URL Encoding

Had a hiccup when trying to make content management system convert any content that's past through it to be valid HTML... my code for converting ampersands in URLs was messing about, making some bad URLs... so how do I convert & into & without co...

Weekend plans

For those of you in London, you could do worse than The Barfly, I'll hand over to them to explain why:Spitfire Club's opening night plays host to riotous rockers Tokyo Dragons whose live set promises to be an onslaught of true rock n roll. Having jus...

Schtop!

The Grolsch Summer Set is on its way to Bristol! Following the success of the event at London�s Somerset House last year, Grolsch has raised the stakes for 2004 by adding more dates in London and expanding to Bristol. The Grolsch Summer Set will make...

Half snowman, half machine

Monster snow and music event at Xscape Indoor Snow Arena, Milton Keynes. Lesley Mckenna and friends have built a big half pipe and will be demoing and competing in snowboardy type things. But that's not all, Zane Lowe is hosting the music side of it...

Power Words for Better Living

DAMN, forgot to take home the new David Devant and his Spirit Wife album "Power Words for Better Living" at the weekend, so I've missed out on some valuable pre-gig listening time... but this morning I've given it a good going over, and am mightily i...

Download: Stage Three

Not satisfied with simply hosting the biggest names from the worlds� of rock and extreme sports, Download, on the 5 and 6 June, will also be the place to go to see some of the hottest up-and-coming rock bands of the moment, as it announces its third ...

Bob Dylan and Counting Crows for Fleadh

Bob Dylan and the Counting Crows are confirmed for The FLeadh 2004, on Sunday 20th of June, in Finsbury Park, That London, see you there.Hmm, now this has been announced, can I still justify heading along to the launch in search of free booze? Ah yes...

Madonna tickets

Get Madonna tickets through Ticketmaster or Madonna tickets through Wayahead and fund my decadent lifestyle, please!Yes they're expensive, but she sold out Earl's Court five times over already at those prices, so it shows people are prepared to pay, ...

Hello Cleveland!

The Darkness' Cleveland show on March 30th has been moved from Peabody's to The Agora. I know nothing of Cleveland but apparently this is an upgrading, so there will be additional tickets onsale on Saturday morning... you can't get them through popex...

Morrissey tickets

Get Morrissey tickets through Ticketmaster or Morrissey tickets through Wayahead and support this site......

Morrissey Tickets

Thought they'd have sold out right away, but half an hour in there are still Tickets left to see Morrissey in Manchester...<advert>Get Morrissey tickets through Ticketmaster or Morrissey tickets through Wayahead and about 50p of their booking f...

Punter recommendation

As recommended by someone who's also a fan of stellastarr*, so that's got to count for something:The Copperpot Journals are playing the Camden Underworld tomorrow (12th). It'd be cheaper than buying their album - but you'll love them (unless you have...

Pixies tickets

Ticketweb has pixies tickets get them here... and now they're sold out again...In theory, Get Pixies tickets through Ticketmaster or Pixies tickets through Wayahead and support this site...Hopefully more dates will be announced, enough extra dates so...

Folkestone, you have embarrassed yourself

Putting on a varied bill, is it a good thing or not? I was quite entertained by pop acts being thrown onto the Reading Bill, seeing Kevin Rowland in a neglige, was a particular treat. I've even seen the Manic Street Preachers, so I've seen some bad c...

Million Dead

After releasing their 3rd single �I Am The Party� off of their critically acclaimed debut album �A Song To Ruin� (Integrity Records/Xtra MileRecordings), and a headline UK tour last year, Million Dead will be playing a few shows in February 2004.6th ...

Metallica and Linkin Park for Download

Two of the biggest rock bands in the world are confirmed to headline thisyear's Download Festival, winners of Kerrang!'s 2003 Festival Of The Yearaward. Metallica, who have sold more than 90 million albums, won numerousawards and were the secret gues...

You Knows It

I just got the best thing ever through the post...As you'll all know my new favourite band are Goldie Looking Chain so I'm thrilled to have arrive today not just their debut album "The Manifesto", and not only Adam Hussain's solo album "Truth and Sla...