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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...

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...

Artists to be removed from popEx

Got this letter from Sony, and so I'm going to have to remove some artists. To pre-empt more cases like this, I'm going to have to remove ALL artists from the game.Dear Sir, We have become aware that your web site is using artist names that are copyr...

Robbie is the best selling artist EVER!

Robbie Millions sold out 700,000 tickets in six hours at the weekend (according to a paper I found on the train) this makes him officially 7 times better than Elvis, The Beatles, The Stone Roses and KISS all squished together.There appear to be ticke...

Happy Birthday (no, not you)

Just like Mrs Pauly and Me share the same birthday, hundreds of years apart, today is a day of celebration for Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean...Jimmy was born in 1944, and AJ was born in 1978 - both of these years fall into ...

Reading and Leeds festival tickets on sale now, GET IN!

Reading ticketsLeeds ticketsThe Darkness and the White Stripes are headlining apparently....

He looks like a great artist though

Or, he scans in great pictures that other people have painted. Maybe I will be the subject of a masterpiece! Or, maybe the guy I saw yesterday in the skip outside my house was him.

Art exhibition on Hythe Road

LOOK, good stuff, see these pictures at ezeetiger.com or in person at The Courtyard Gallery from the 3rd December...That's a great Dave Grohl, unfortunately it's no longer available according to ezeetiger.com - wsa it once hung in Chambers coffee sho...

ARTISTS EAT THEIR WORDS

... the opening of a most glorious exhibition, titled Shed of Leaves, by artists from Folkestone based group, White Shed, who are gaining quite a reputation for diverse and interesting exhibitions. The works on show all have a literary theme or conne...

RE: Got an email about the School of Art

Folkestone School of Art was a fine place to be. I was there from 69-71, when it finally closed down. Gerald Norden a technically very gifted painter was the Principal. Died 2002 I think and was a friend of the late John Ward. David Koster who I beli...

AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE AND HISTORY COMPANY ON SCHOOL TOUR

American West is an Internationally acclaimed team of artistes, admired for their superb demonstrations of Native American dances, games, music and talks upon Native American history. They have been working within education for the past twenty five y...

Ooh, Harry Clarke sale

Rare surviving Harry Clarke illustrations go on sale at The Fine Art Society4 June - 3 JulyTen rare original colour illustrations produced by the Irish artist Harry Clarke for a deluxe edition of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales which survived the London ...

artist talk by boredomresearch, thursday 6.30pm, george's house gallery, folkestone

Collaborating as boredomresearch, Southampton based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith have gained an international reputation for interrogating the creative role of computing. boredomresearch often think of themselves as employing computer gaming technology...

Signed Harry Clarke book for sale

Here is a signed copy of Strangest Genius, the relatively new book about Harry Clarke. Not signed by him though of course, but by the authors Lucy Costigan and Michael CullenThe book, "Strangest Genius: The stained glass of Harry Clarke", by Lucy Cos...

Cream

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

James

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

The Darkness

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

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....

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...

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!

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

Phoenix

80s style rock, they did a Cheap Trick cover. Supported by Turin Brakes apparently, I went with Neil and Camilla....

Camden Crawl II

Not just this venue, all around Camden, I saw Collapsed Lung and Moby here though......

Terrorvision

with Mutha's Day Out and Valve. Sure the last Portsmouth Venue Campaign show that I did was Terrorvision, but these dates still don't line up......

Dee-Lite

plus PM Dawn. A Nixdorf friend's birthday, the only gig we could find in town to go to. Bootsy Collins played bass for them at this show....

Beetle Bash

VW festival, think this is the one with Collapsed Lung, Reef, and The Prodigy, with Keith Flint rolling across the crowd in a big hamster ball......

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......

Supergrass

plus The Bluetones, a great gig, at a great time.

Camera Obscura

plus support from Jesus and Mary Chain's sister. Think I went to both gigs they did here, 2 days in a row....

Doves

Doves, Ed Harcourt, Elbow and Cooper Temple Clause were last minute replacements for Kings of Convenience. NME Brats show....

Steve Hacket

ex Genesis. Actually listed as "Leas Cliff Pavillion" is there such a place?

DigiFestUK Southeast

[quote]Short film night opening what we hope will eventually become a full scale film festival. Special guest veteran stage and screen actor Ken Colley (Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and [arti...

Reading

My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them)....

Them Crooked Vultures in London

Them Crooked Vultures Tickets. Yes, the rumours were true! Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), and John Paul Jones ([artist]Led Zeppelin[...

The Pogues

Or was it just Shane McGowan? And was it Brixton or the Astoria?. Support from I Am Kloot anyway I wrote about it on popex. Ah, I was not there anyway....

CREATIVE QUARTER - new properties available to rent

Open afternoon 2-5pmWe have opportunities for artists and creative businesses to join the Creative Quarter. Spaces to rent include apartments, artist studios, offices and retail units. To attend please email info@creativefoundation.org.uk or call 013...

Art Exhibition - Folkestone Art Society

The Folkestone Art Society has both amateur and professional artists as members and the exhibition is rightly considered an important event in arts calendar of the South East. The Spring Exhibition usually has upto 200 paintings and works of art on...

FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL 2008

Internationally acclaimed contemporary artists including Tracey Emin, Christian Boltanski, Mark Dion, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Mark Wallinger are being commissioned to create new works for the first Folkestone Triennial....

The Notting Hillbillies

Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits....

Ezee Tiger exhibition

Some great looking work here from local artist Kevin Horton, this exhibition is on for six weeks from the 3rd of December.

UK Indie gig

MJ Hibbett, The Bigger The God, Szeki Kurva (AKA The Fighting Cocks and more, a bit of a DIY effort from the uk-indie mailing list. At Oxford Point, now gone....

exhibition - F. magnus-Hirshfield - “ART TO BE WORN

Venue: The Neville Pundole Gallery 52 The Old High Street Folkestone CT20 1RN Infomation: T: 01303 223029 Frank is an extraordinary man with many talents; an artist, Olympian and businessman; a true polymath with immense and gre...