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Emma's office makes a music video

Not quite sure why, they're running a competition encouraging people to make their own version of his video I think:www.moneyinmypocket.tv...

Dad, did you say you were after a new phone?

How about this one?

A chum just sent it, they're made in Folkestone apparently...

The Royal Oak

Excellent pub, good friendly atmosphere. Food was really great, tasty, good value, cheap and didn't take long to arive. Great choice in real ale and most pints were priced at about �2 cheapest I have seen in this area. Well recommend a visit.
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Something to push my desperate ticket touting from the top of the blog

Terrible day of trains yesteray, have been training it in most of the week as my friend and neighbour who gives me a lift in has been off. Yesterday, morning train in CANCELLED! Started walking to look for a bus with a fellow commuter, and luckily we...

Bar Below opening night Friday 14th November

Just seen a poster at work. Actually this was open ages ago, we went there for New Years once when Chambers cancelled. Some kind of relaunch then. There will be a DJ and live entertainment:Opening Friday 14th November @ 18:00 � 23:00 with; DJ JDP spi...

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NME Big Gig 2009 / The Cure support acts

Line up according to various sources (including last.fm) is The Cure, Justice, Foals, and Crystal Castles so far. The supports don't seem up to the standard of last year at the moment.The Cure tickets, The Cure gig tickets, The Cure concert tickets.....
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Cure tickets on sale at 9am

Get them here, good luck. An initial batch already sold out through www.nme.com, guess that's why there are no advanced tickets that we O2 customers are supposed to get.Maybe see you here later if we miss out, though I'm not sure we'll pay much if Th...
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Cure tickets

Seems it's nearly time for our annual pilgrimage, The Cure are playing the O2, it's an NME brats show, except it's called the Shockwaves big gig now. Seems they're playing Brixton the night before but it's at the awards ceremony. I've been before, la...
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I fought the law, and the post office won

Damn, tried to beat the system this week, and failed. We went to see David Starkey last night, presenting his new book Henry: Virtuous Prince, part one of his biography. Very interesting, and makes a change to sitting in front of the telly, sort of. ...
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Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

A new dawn, a new hope, a new America, etc

A shift away from Conservatism, it's Obama what won it. The number of seats makes it look like a proper drubbing, Barack Obama winning two for each one that John McCain did, and it wasn't close like George W Bush's controversial win, but it looked li...

RE: Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

I have a similar problem and I got tired of fighting with it. Most of these cameras also will send a screen shot to an ftp server so I wrote a vbscript that polls the server and then sends an email using my workplace smtp server. Obviously, you need ...

Happy Halloween

Is there a geekier pumpkin out there?

Who is Russell Brand?

Lordy, could Russell Brand have done anything better to raise his profile than that phone call to Andrew Sachs? Mostly it's probably the Hate Mail on Sunday that's to blame. When the original Russell Brand show went out, no-one was listening. It's on...

The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November

The Holloways play the LCH, get tickets here. Not yet sold out, no need for ebay (yet). Support from local acts Underground Heroes and Seven Storey Down, full press release to follow.More dates nationally, at cosier venues than we get here, guess Fol...

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MediaMonkey

When I had hard drive problems recently and had to restore all my music library from a backup, I only had backups of the actual tracks and not all the associated itunes stuff. This means I lost most of my album artwork and things! Annoyingly itunes w...

CLARKE

Re: CLARKEi am searching for a brian r clarke that served in the united states air force and he would of been based in hygh wycombe area 1965.once he finished his tour of duty he then returned to usa.he was around the age of 22-25 back then .any info...

AC/DC's new video in ASCII

Original on youtube, in case that didn't work.Via Musically, download the original Excel spreadsheet there, cheers Stu.Don't forget your AC/DC tickets...
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Obama vs McCain, battle of the t-shirts

Of those two t-shirts I posted here a while back, the Barack Obama one has been viewed twice as many times as the John McCain one. I think Obama's going to win....

RE: Google Maps API + Thickbox

There are a couple of ways, either put it within function load():function load() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { setTimeout( function() { map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(40.967715,-76.887817...

RE: Google Maps API + Thickbox

Hi,Could you show me exactly how to set the time out with this function ?function load() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(40.967715,-76.887817), 7); ...

Oasis tickets

Get tickets here for Oasis biggest ever open air tour in 2009. The Enemy and Kasabian to support. A chum just saw Oasis at Wembley Arena and says it was fantastic, but he'd not seen them since 1996 and been building it up since then. Of course I dive...

Metallica tickets

Metallica tour the UK! Get tickets here, on sale Friday morning.Wed 25th Feb - Nottingham Trent FM ArenaThurs 26th Feb - Manchester Evening News ArenaSat 28th Feb - Sheffield ArenaMon 2nd Feb - London O2 ArenaTues 3rd Feb - New...
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I might know of one ticket

I think I know someone who might not be able to go, stay tuned, or email me - fg@folkestonegerald.com - or maybe some other kind soul will read this and reply?Sandi Toksvig is also doing a date at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, have you tried ...
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sandy toksvig tickets

Dear Gerald - I am desperate to get 2 tickets for Sandi Toksvig's gig on Nov 8 - they are sold out and the office say no refunds are given so NOONE will send theirs back. Any ideas?

Clare Baker

Elizabeth and Raleigh - Late but Live

Cool, I agreed to go to this (our company are sponsoring it) before realising it was a Stewart Lee effort, this will be great! I hope we still agree tomorrow night, going out for dinner after it too, this is not normal behaviour for us on a school ni...
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I don't think there are any public webcams

None that I know of anyway. I do have one, it's pointed in the house right now so not public but if I point it outwards again I will let you know.There aren't a great number of tech-savvy businesses around here that would do that sort of thing. There...

My family History

Hi I am intereted in genealogy and have recently found out from my brother that he used to dance at Leas Cliff Hall in the 50s when he was stationed at Dover while serving in the York and Lancs reg, coincidentally my father told him he did the same t...

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Lone Star Comedy Saturday 1st November

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton � on Saturday November 1st The line up consists of Quincy, Ed Aczel, compere David Whitney, plus a newcomer�s act. Quincy Quincy is a remarkable ...
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Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)

Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev...

The Scala

think I was at this, I wrote about it on popex

Wembley Arena

Our annual trip out to a young person's pop music concert. Well, The Cure anyway.

Leas Cliff Hall

SOLD OUT

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Brixton Academy

Their annual christmas outing, with Shane McGowan and everything

Islington Academy

Free show!

Leas Cliff Hall

plus Goldie Lookin' Chain

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Bull and Gate

Some sort of twee indie bear themed evening. Last minute addition to the bill were The Futureheads for some reason.

Earls Court

Mothers day present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us...
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Islington Academy

Free thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys and also Space...

Notting Hill Arts Club

SOLD OUT in advance, we only just squeezed in, debut single out this week.

Ocean

No idea about this, but I have a ticket. Could have been a showcase with The Darkness on the bill.

Astoria

WILD furry trousers. Them, not me.
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The 100 Club

£6.50
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Camden Underworld

Reni out of the Stone Roses and his band... was looking forward to this a lot, but it was absolutely shocking.

Kings College

Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.

Dingwalls

A birthday night out, just after she was Mercury nominated
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The Garage

Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun

Goldsmiths College

Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.

Forum

A work freebie, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). A charity contribution sorted it out...
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The Garage

And Dust Junkys

Finsbury Park

plus Rage Against The Machine, Skunk Anansie, Thunder and Three Colours Red and L7. Got freebies from the NME and drank all the money I saved. Kind of lost it about five songs in and ended up in Covent Garden....

Dingwalls

The Auteurs, messing about
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The Joiners

plus Linoleum. Had to walk back from Southampton after being stopped with no lights on my bike, then head to Phoenix Festival the next day.

The Joiners

with Feeder and Stout

The Wedgewood Rooms

plus Jolt (Mark Kedsd of the Senseless Things) and Yellow Car, reviewed in $OLD OUT
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The Wedgewood Rooms

plus Placebo. Not sure I actually went to this, I remember feeling really ill at the previous day's gig, think I was out for a few days with something like flu or glandula fever......
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Earls Court

Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?
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Reading Alleycat

Some ill advised comments about swastikas saw the band fall right down before the signed goodies I got this day became worth anything... here's to a revival!

Portsmouth Pyramids

First of the Portsmouth Venue Campaign freebies helping out on the door. Plus Gunshot, Attilla the Stockbroker, nad Spot the Poet.
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Portsmouth Pyramids

with Mutha's Day Out and Valve. Think this might have been this date in 1995 actually...
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