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Exhibition of artefacts

There's a Titanic exhibition opening at the Science museum next week...

The pain, the angst

Trouser shop was closed, but I need something "smart casual" for later in the week, what's a guy to do? Felt like punishing myself so am listening to the new Stereophonics album "You gotta go there to come back"... some nice guitar sounds on it, but ...

Holiday reading

While I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m...

The Quarter

I picked up a magazine called The Quarter, which is a kind of fanzine for the creative community of the area. No, me either, but then I clearly don't know the place at all.. Anyway, it's articles and listings and that promoting a sense of artistic we...

Street party

There's a street party on our street on the 13th of July, will we go? What do you think... I really like the idea of it, but am in a mood of hating all things about London and everyone in it right now, not sure why, think it's something to do with th...

PEACE!

The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi...

Meme me me me

fatherfucker.net beats weebl.fluent.ltd.uk/toons/21/Lovely lunch in the Princess of Wales, nut roast is back on the menu, and London Pride is never off. Saw some WEIRD posh graffiti on the way back, it was a picture cut out of a newspaper, of Prince ...

alice and arthur westbrook

hi there i would be greatful if you contact me at the following judyteresaadams@hotmail.comi already know about alice ,and have an extensive tree.arthur also named a child after alice just a year before the birth of her son arthur would love to hear ...

So The Quarter is gone then

Not the actual creative quarter, just the free magazine, according to a story in this week's Folkestone Herald. The July issue will be the last one. No idea if they will keep the website going, or just let it gently expire.So, if you have a gig or ev...

Fuzzy Artist Matching

Nice, got my Barfly public facing artist page working now, so that a URL like foo.bar/who/is/the+darkness will work, no matter who the band is who, and a certain amount of fuzzy pattern matching will work too, like foo.bar/who/is/darkness, foo.bar/wh...

PopEx Chart Commentary

Put my popex chart commentary back in, like this for the Triple J chart in Australia... it looks better when not everyone is a new entry! Meeting today to talk about mobile phone things on the web, more popex admin and then The Darkness tonight, hope...

Oui j'ach�te un appartement

C'est le dernier chapitre dans un long conte, recherche "the flat" pour plus d'information. Pas tr�s int�ressant cependant...

Arthur Baker

Queens of Noize say they have Arthur Baker at the Barfly tonight, but he's in the states I think, tsk...

Chart update

DotMusic haven't updated their charts for two weeks now, wonder if anything's up there... back in work again today, and back to popex maintenance and things. Not sure how to sort this stuff out for next week when I have a week off.Had a bad thing con...

Magic Darts

Inspired by last night's darts I was just browsing for Andy Fordham merchandise, and found that they have some really clever javascript in place - if you try and copy a link to a particular product, like this t-shirt, it closes your browser window. D...

A quarter of commuters have found love in the tube

according to a poll by London Underground. And who's printing this shite? Yes, Metro. What should the sharpest response be? The other 75% can never find love becuase they've gnawed off their genitals in sheer frustration at the poor service? Stuck at...

No Quarter

Just remembered that the latest issue of The Quarter details a split int he team that set the magazine up. I say "details", but there's no salacious gossip about huge fights or anything, just that Nick Spurrier (one of three co-founders) has decided ...

RE: Oui j'ach�te un appartement

Oui, tu as achete' un appartement, c'est bien. OKmais.... Ma c'e' una cosa che non capisco. Perche' parli SEMPRE di questo appartamento. PERCHE' ???C'est enquiquinant, REALLY.....Au Revoir mon cherMadame M ...

Life imitates art imitates life imitates...

Campbells is now selling soup like this:

Latte Art

Bloody hell, this is better than the wanky swirls you get in Costa or wherever...

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9301012%255E2862,00.html

Summer has barely started...

... but I'm fed up with Brazil already. That's probably the worst thing that can happen to a country: getting all this hype from all the wrong places. By September people will associate Brazil with cheap (or overpriced), but definitely green-and-yell...

Does Your Heart Go Boom?

Not sure if it's possible to have a more sad indie-boy day than I'm having today... Clare's at work, so I'm taking some time out to reorganise all my Helen Love MP3's, when I should probably be shopping, tidying up and cleaning all the drunken scrawl...

Other people's blogs

It's time for a roundup of things I've lazily ripped off casino-avenue.co.uk before heading home, first this piece about metblogs, interesting. I am trying REALLY HARD to read something rude into "soliciting... advertising" but I can't quite make it....

Ah, everyone (including me) linked to the wrong article

Here's the one about the new IPOD, not much info in there though.

Amphithearte Gigs

It says here: Julia Jones + support 7th Aug, 1pm-5pm, Soneando 14th Aug, 2pmRosie's Dumplings 15th Aug, 2pmSlip Jigolos 21st Aug, 2pmShiva Nova 28th Aug 12pm-5pmAgape Choir 29th Aug, 2pmSolid Steel 4th Sept, 2pm ...

Download Chart

I can't believe "Mouldy Lookin' Stain" are number one in the official download chart... I've not actually heard it, but why should I let that stop me making a comment. It's Steve Wright's posse all over again....

Got an update from The Quarter

The bar's called La Vue (kinda what you said) and it's a new venture by Paul O'Connor, local builder-turned-property developer and patron of the arts. I haven't actually been inside since it was finished.

Tony Hadley vs Martin Fry

23rd Feb sees Tony Hadly vs Martin Fry at the Leas Cliff Hall. In some sort of fight I hope, wrestlemania, and not singing. What do you reckon?...

Old Street Art Pranks

Saw a wacky situationist prank at Old Street this morning, a breakfast table set up on top of a bus shelter, with bowls, cups, plates, milk jugs, the lot. Snapped a pic but can't get it off my phone until I get home. It's got a mention in London By L...

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...

Black Sabbath

Come on, someone must have been at this..? Maybe this was at the School of Art instead.

Cream

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, in Folkestone, wow......

Rory Gallagher

Part of the Jazz and Blues festival

The Wildhearts

Jeff Beck Group

Featuring Jeff Beck (duh) Ron Wood, Rod Stewart, and Aynsley Dunbar.... guessing it's the Leas Cliff Hall.

James

+ Thousand Yard Stare, James were the support, Thousand Yard Stare were the headliners. I think Suede support Thousand Yard Stare in Portsmouth......

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi also attends a New Years Eve party at Margaret Redding's house, Folkestone...

Europeans and how we live

Something to do with John Otway and also Steve Hogarth - the same one who took over from Fish in Marillion?

Radiohead

Conflicting reports, may have been the 6th of Jan... Part of the "Anyone Can Play Guitar" tour

Tony Hadley vs Martin Fry

The voices and the songs of Spandau Ballet and ABC

New Order

Pissed down with rain. Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Atmosphere, Brutal, Close Range, She's Lost Control, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart, (Encore) Digital (with John Simm), Blue Mon...

The Fureys and Dave Arthur

�12

Dave Arthur Trio

The Darkness

Best of In The City, with the Raveonettes (who we saw) and Saint Rose and more...

The Libertines

XFM Xmas party, watched support act The Darkness then went mad on free cocktails, don't remember the headliners.

The Darkness

BANG Magazine launch party, free booze! Plus another band, was it The Libertines again?

Belle & Sebastian

Karaoke as a warm up act? Or was it Franz Ferdinand? We went in late and missed all that, but a friend of a friend did get up and sing Lazy Line Painter Jane with the band....

Paul McCartney

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 before...

Duran Duran

Celeb-tastic, we were sat just a couple of rows behind Stephen Fry.
Not sure if this was the 14th or the 13 though...

Nirvana

plus Captain America and Shonen Knife. I got the t-shirt and everything, wish I still had it. Birmingham Hummingbird is now part of the Academy.

Bowlie Weekender

Belle and Sebastian etc, the forerunner to All Tomorrow's Parties. Got very drunk.

Morrissey

Played a couple of Smiths songs, average apart from that.

Bloodhound Gang

They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage and Daphne and Celeste were there. And so was I!

Love

Arthur Lee, magic. Hmm, did we go in 2002 or 2003?

Bitch Aid

The party to raise some money for popbitch - putting it here as a gig as I met John Deacon that day, I just found an autographed receipt in with my tickets...

The Beta Band

Tonight's venue is crammed with indie's brightest and best, all happily expectant

according to the review in the Independent, that's me in particular to which they were referring...

Baby Bird

plus Idlewild, Scott 4, and Unbelievable Truth - unbelievably SHIT more like. Thom Yorke's brother's band. Part of NME Brats week.

Reading Festival

Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echobelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm....

Steve Coogan

Fairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, but warm up came from newcomer Simon Pegg. Whatever happened to him?

Graham Coxon

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