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Useful tips for guitar beginners!

This is what I was after, thank you Neil and Mark:cheat - don't use every finger on every string like the books suggest in strange cramped positions.if you want open chords 90% of songs are D C and G2 bar chord shapes and don't worry about extending ...

Lone Star Comedy moves to the Tower Theatre

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns at a new venue � The Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe in Cheriton, near Folkestone � on Saturday May 31st with MITCH BENN, MICHAEL FABBRI, compere MAFF BROWN and a newcomer�s act.Now the home of FHODS, the ...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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Delia Smith makes a kebab:Part of a series of faked up vids, from Don't Watch That, Watch This. Not seen them before, though I do remember this sweary DIY video from somewhere....

"Caught By The Fuzz" for the "Who were Supergrass, Grandad?" generation

Lethal Bizzle's "Police On My Back" is a bit flippin' good isn't it? Who says I don't like new music, because I've listened to new music before and it's all rubbish? Oh, that'd be me.Also this week, I am listening to Suede rarities and bootlegs and t...

Separated at birth

Can't remember if I always thought this, or if it just occurred to me, but have a listen to the only good song by My Life Story, and then go back back far back to Fun Boy Three's Tunnel Of Love. Is one of them a cover of the other or what? I wish I h...

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

John Peel in Folkestone

There's a new John Peel bootleg of a forty year old pirate radio show, I didn't realise the Folkestone connection before: As he signed off his final late-night Perfumed Garden show, pirate DJ John Peel was convinced it was the end of his brief, subve...

Best Gigs Ever

Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...1. Bl...

The Tears on DVD

Ooh, Cheeky Tears bootleg on Ebay... I was at that gig, wonder if it's any good... Asking on www.thetears.org forum...

Beatle clash!

The Backbeat Beatles, the Bootleg Beatles and the Acoustic Beatles are all lined up for Folkestone, which one is the best? Who will win?...

Cure Barfly bootleg

Not sure of the quality yet, but check out these MP3's of The Cure's recent Barfly gig, part one and part two. I'm downloading them quick before they get pulled... Check out my Cure Barfly pictures, and relive the delightful abuse, to get you properl...

Nickelback

Not listened to this yet, but it sounds like it might be an amusing bootleg - cunningly mixing Nickelback with Nickelback.

Off ring shopping this afternoon, gulp.

Links for the day

A brief history of Folkestone, a new picture for my Friendster profile, a The Cure vs Usher bootleg mashup MP3, and some cool chairs.And I dropped by headphones in the toilet, time to get some new ones. Oh and Billy Bragg's beed added to the Fleadh l...

Ghost of the Robot

Just found out that annoyingly Ghost of the Robot play The Forum while we're on holiday... this is James Marsters band, he is Spike from Buffy...Other fun links of the day, tonnes of Darkness mp3 bootlegs at http://n00b.org.uk/thedarkness and there's...

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

The Darkness re-release "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" today, on 3 lovely formats:CD - featuring the b-sides "Makin' Out" and "Physical Sex"DVD - featuring the video, an exclusive track entitled "Out Of My Hands" and a collection of video out-tak...

Star Spangles

I like The Star Spangles, they sound reassuringly like S*M*A*S*H, who're much missed. One concern is that the sound has been made deliberately lo-fi, sounds to me like it's been put through a processor to make it sound like it was recorded in a toile...

Last Sputnik... EVA!

Tonight (Friday 20th) is the last Sputnik at the Barfly / Monarch, after 6 years, it's very sad...To stop them having to hire a skip to get rid of all their old stuff celebrate they're giving away a CD, 12", album, video or something similar to EVERY...

Got a winner...

Here's the winner of the worst sound of the day competition... maybe it's not the worst sound, but just picked that one out of sympathy really... A CD on it's way to you...Speaking of bad sounds, heard this?...

GYBE vs Bob Dylan

No, unfortunately not a monster bootleg mash up, but both artists are doing some gigs... Bob Dylan is doing a "full" UK tour, tickets will be on sale first thing in the morning (though some might be available now...)www.wayahead.com/livegigpopex/even...

Send Me Bootlegs

Got some vinyl remix action to give away, you lucky lucky people... If you fancy a remix of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" ("Superchumbo's Supergreakon Remix", nine minutes and twelve inches of heavy plastic), a pack of Ladytron "Playgirl" mixes ...

Pearl Jam save the CD pressing industry

Never mind Guns n Roses releasing two albums ont he same day, forget Kiss releasing four solo albums all at once, Pearl Jam are going to FILL record stores by releasing TWENTY FIVE ALBUMS AT ONCE!For some bizarre reason they're releasing their entire...

Radiohead Press Release

Thom Yorke has responded to the fake press release on the official message board... Unless that also is fake? Who knows / cares... The press release seems to have been the work of this feller, who maintains a radiohead bootleg site, which this was in...

Em Pee Free

Pearl Jam debut a new song on the internet for the first time this week (officially that is, not counting the million bootleg MP3s probably out there...The new album "Binaural" is out on May 16th, but the first track "Nothing As It Seems" is availabl...

Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird

Time for another bit of back-blogging... this day in 1991 I was at Birmingham Hummingbird to see Nirvana... I was just inspired to add this by stumbling across NirvanaGuide.com, which has the following details for the gig:Setlist:Drain YouAneurysmFlo...

Camden Falcon

I bootlegged this gig, the audio's complete with a trip to the toilet part way through...

Rated 5.05/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Astoria 2

Some Radio One event called Soho Live with John Parrish, Baby Bird and Geneva....

Earls Court

Did they have the Bootleg Beatles again? Or am I misremembering the Southampton gig?
Rated 1.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Southampton Guildhall

and the Bootleg Beatles

Poole Arts Centre

First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)...