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RE: TRAPPED!

Today's tasks:

☠Sending out a Junior Senior E-Card

☠Developing new email sending system

☠Roasting to death in the office

News night

Channelfly was on newsnight last night, a feature about MP3's They interviewed some of my cow-orkers, very exciting. Shame they did it all on Friday when I wasn't here, otherwise I might have been on TV too. Looking forward to getting an mpeg rip of ...

Overlay banner ads

Just got an ad in for T-Mobile, an "overlay" one again, this is the skater ad that was so unpopular last time... it pays a lot more than banners, so got to go with it. Also on the subject of money, sold 1000+ tickets throught Ticketmaster last month,...

Three wheeled off road baby buggies

This is why there are so many of them; according to BBC newsIn London's Stoke Newington - the new Islington - there are said to be more children under five than anywhere else in EuropeLove how it refers to el presidente as "Labour's Tony Blair" too.....

The things you see when you don't have your camera

Hmm, actually it was only a crane on a truck picking up a car to paint double yellow lines under it, but it looked sort of cool. More double yellows are muchly needed along Manor Road, it's not really wide enough to be a bus route with cars parked ei...

Barfly

Barfly are part of the company that I work for, they run venues in Camden (AKA The Monarch), Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and York. I've made a calendar system for them that updates their website, and am currently expanding this.In a bizarre small wor...

New Darkness gig announced

Carling homecoming at the Astoria, November 11th!
tickets here

Banner Ads

Nice one, just got two and a half grand in for September's banner ads and pop ups on popex...

St Anne's Home

St who? Home from where? St Anne's Home is a huge institution of some kind right near our house, and we're not sure what it is. Rumour is it's a nunnery or something, but you never see anyone in there moving about, so possibly it's some sort of retir...

you wanna run your own email server

I just installed some spam software on our email server, which was previously unprotected.
I've now dropped the spam by about 90% thats around 700 messages per day
exim+spamassasin+clamav+linux....ahh

Folkestone Herald fake bombs the Channel Tunnel

Way to go journalists...

Rule Britannia

Britannia Hotels have just bought the Grand Burstin Hotel from Grand Leisure Hotels, and show flats in that crazy crescent down on the sea front should be available to view any time now, one bed flats from only 89,500 and the three bed duplex penthou...

Got no scanner

and only the phone on my camera to hand. Basically they're saying Justin badmouthed the Band Aid single from the stage in Manchester, because he was replaced on the single by Bono.

Secret Franz Ferdinand gig

Writing the number one Stoke Newington website, and sharing an office with their manager, obviously I knew all about this secret gig in Newington Green last night... err... According to nme.com "Franz turned up at the Mildmay Social Club in Stoke New...

Ffffffreezing

So, as mentioned before our office party was Friday night, actually in our office, and it seems to have been a resounding success. We had to leave early to try and get to Fareham, but so great a time was had by all they had to turn the heating off, a...

you wanna avoid italy then

gidayjust returned from our xmas vacation in europewhic involved a stay in italy, and a long search for any quisine other than pasta and bloddy pizza which we tired of after 2 daysgawd knows how the locals manage to consume all those carbs and stay...

I knew there was something spooky about St Anne's Home

They keep the bones of dead nuns there!

Subterranea Britannica

Smart, underground bunkers and structures and things, details of the 1880 attempt at digging a channel tunnel, with pictures...

If you have a downstairs neighbour who annoys you

Why not bid on ebay the interweb auction site, for indie legend Jim Bob to come around your house (or flat, or even maisonette) to perform 60 minutes of acetastic acoustic versions of all the Jim Bob, and Carter USM... If you win Jim Bob will perform...

RE: Lone Star Comedy

Well hello Pauly!

How very weird. Coming to the next show?

Harriet Ann COLE

Re: Harriet Ann COLEMy great grandfather was William Cole who died in 1947 he was married to Lydia Stevenson and was a linen buyer. He lived in London and would traveel to Ireland. Any linke would be helpful....

Walking from Bank to Cannon Street

Oi, GOOGLEMAPS, NO! That's not the quickest way... I didn't actually need to check a map on this in the end, just follow the thronging masses all going the same way. Made my train home yesterday nice and quickly, though we were lucky to get home as q...

Someone Likes Yoghurt

So, that Lone Star Comedy night is a bit good isn't it? This week's lineup of Richard Herring, Gary Delaney and Owen Niblock plus resident compere Danny James were fantastic. It was my first trip to Lanterns, but those stairs are worth climbing. It's...

Britannia Inn closed for the summer

Apparently The Brit is shut for the next three months, undergoing a monster refit and expansion, opening with a new restaurant. Looking forward to seeing it!

Gangster grannies hit Kent

Excellent story in the Telegraph, about Kent grannies wearing hooded tops. The idea is the kids won't think they're cool then....

Clear Channel Stage Experience

Clear Channel are reorganising their Summer Youth Projects initiative. It's spread over a number of regional venues, including one of ours! Does this mena FHODS or something at the Leas Cliff Hall? Either way budding acting types get mentoring from t...

Double channel crossings

Tim Fitzhigham's crossing of the Channel in a bathtub (to Folkestone, of course) is features on Paramount Comedy here, but double Olympic champion James Cracknell is aiming to be the fastest man to paddle across the Channel, on a surfboard.He's goin...

cannon street

I cycle past there on my way home... is it the works going on opposite? There's some crazy street markings going on around it, I wonder what they're going to do to it? will have a closer look down into the hole when I go past tonght.btw. have you rea...

Channel Tunnel to get a GSM-R Network

Hmm, this story's not actually that interesting.

Andy & Hazel Anniversary

Faith No More

Setlist: Chinese, Faster, R'n'R, Crab, Care, Sweet, Blood, Spirit, Bowen, War Pigs, Grade, Anne, Bother, Jungle... not sure where this gig took place.

Manfred Mann

Uriah Heep & Manfred Mann

18.00 - 20.00

Westlife in Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Formed: in Dublin, Ireland Style: Pop Check out: 'Uptown Girl' 'Mandy' Westlife in Dublin, Republic of Ireland tickets Westlife announce a series of UK dates between May and June. The Westlife...

The Pogues

Their annual christmas outing, with Shane McGowan and everything

Motorhead

30th anniversary tour! Seen them before..?

Kez and Dez

Anniversary

Blog anniversary

2003

Shannon and Lucy

Skid Row

plus LA Guns and Love / Hate. The latter announced a "secret" gig they were doing the next day in London, I should have gone they were one of my fave bands of the day.

Travis

plus Kings Of Leon who were OK, Travis a bit boring. VERY annoyed by the Carling-ness of it all and so we left early to get a proper drink.

My Vitriol

Why was I at this? Aha, Channelfly had just bought me...

The Wannadies

Green Day

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.

Channelfly Xmas Party

Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.

Annie Hates Cordial

A local band for local people

Annie Hates Cordial

Local!

Firework Party

plus Annie Hates Cordial and Savage Henry. Local!

Lighthouse Family

Oops, why was I here, when the Super Furries were down the road? I was working it, but still could have planned that better......

Frank Black

Pixies frontman solo show, plus The Wannadies. I met him and got some posters signed.

Lone Star Comedy

Featuring Canadian Ron Vaudry, Lee Bannard, Del Strain, and guest compere Rob Heeney...

Agatha Christie's - A Murder is Announced

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Lone Star Comedy

Reginald D Hunter, George Egg, Neil Mooney and Danny James last show as compere :-(

Level 42 - The 30th Anniversary Tour

Keane in Brandon

Keane in Brandon tickets Keane announce a series of UK concerts as part of the Forestry Commission Tour.See Keanelive in stunning forest settings at Bedgebury Pinetum, Westonbirt Arboretum,...

Tammy Anderson Tribute Concert, Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham, Catriona Macdonald, Annbjørg Lien, Per Anders Buen Garnås, Shetland Heritage Fiddlers, Shetland Fiddlers' Society, Shetland Hamefarin 2010

Joanne Shaw Taylor

10.00

Westlife in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Formed: in Dublin, Ireland Style: Pop Check out: 'Uptown Girl' 'Mandy' Westlife in Newcastle Upon Tyne tickets Westlife announce a series of UK dates between May and June. The Westlife...

Westlife in Cardiff

Formed: in Dublin, Ireland Style: Pop Check out: 'Uptown Girl' 'Mandy' Westlife in Cardiff tickets Westlife announce a series of UK dates between May and June. The Westlife...