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Hot Leg

Hey the free MP3 of Hot Leg is pretty good! You can get it from Hot Leg's myspace page. Got tickets for the gig now, looking forward to it! Time for the country mice's biannual trip to the big city!...

Sigur Ros play Alexandra Palace

Sigur Ros are playing Ally Pally get tickets here, though they don't go on sale until the morning.Trying to get tickets for Justin Hawkins new band Hot Leg's gig at the Proud Galleries right now too, but my bank account is messing about and declining...

Glastonbury pictures

Thinking about Glastonbury, Mum asked at the weekend if we had any pictures of us there, bearing in mind we may never go again. And I thought LAWKS, no I don't! I found a few luckily, but they're rubbish, andn none that make it look like we're having...

Thanks for chipping in on the site anyway

Not been to many gigs in this area myself, only The Darkness and Dirty Pretty Things I think, few more in Tunbridge Wells back in the day and squillions in London and Hampshire....

We did the same thing

I brought in The Chicken Song. I was so uncool. Has anything really changed? There's probably a link between novelty songs like this, and the sideshow antics (though certainly not the music) of bands like David Devant, The Darkness, and Goldie Lookin...

Justin, NO!

Not only did my spy at the Eurovision launch today inform me that Justin Hawkins is competing to be the UK entry, but now I've been sent a fairly cheesy pop duet that he's done. It's with Beverley someone, that's all I know so far, more news on furth...

RE: The only record I have that's worth any money

Still got most of your vinyl?I think I'll never throw mine out - I've got CDs that have turned dull grey and won't play anymore but the vinyl still works, even if you have to blu tak a 10p to the pickup arm. Was going to comment on The Darkness but g...

Instant Darkness collection

Not that anyone cares any more, but you could have all this for 200 quid:Includes the first single that I mentioned yesterday, that someone else is trying to sell for two hundred quid on it's own, and things like invites to the launch party (where I ...

The only record I have that's worth any money

Going through mine and Clare's CD's, ripping all the one's I don't even listen to with a view to throwing them out, or at least packing them away somewhere. In searching for pictures, I accidentally hit Ebay for Terrorvision's Thrive EP. And it's got...

Christmas telly

Time for some christmas roundup type things, I really did have a great time during our extended break, so much so that I didn't post all the tedious minutiae (can you tell from my embiggened vocabulary I've been playing a lot of Scrabble?), so I'll t...

Excitement for this week:

Hmm, so far not much. I am mostly pinning my hopes on one job offer that I'm expecting to hear back from any minute now. It's a really good fit for my skills and experience, I only hope I don't get "gazumped" by someone offering to do the job for hal...

Harry Clarke on Ebay

Just searching on a whim and I found this Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry Clarke. This is Harry Clarke who is Clare's great grand uncle, no blood relation to we Clarkes, but now part of my family. The book must have just been put on...

Google trends an t'ing

Google Trends is live today, this is their live, interactive and searchable version of Google Zeitgeist - see how often people have searched for what you're searching for, over time and that. See Google trends for Folkestone, hmm that's more or less ...

Boo... RAH!

I thought with the film coming out and everything, about now would be a peak value time for my old V for Vendetta comics. I've never sold anything else when I maybe should have done (like the first Darkness single), I always hang on too long until th...

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I've got the power... oh no, I don't

Super power outage at work today, from about 7am this morning to lunchtime, has quite thrown the rhythm of my whole day.The Arctic Monkeys are getting quite a lot of press aren't they? I don't think we've seen the like since the Oasis v Blur days of ...

Got the first Darkness EP?

They have gone for decent amounts of money before, here's one just listed, good luck. Ah, here's the perfect accompaniment to the t-shirt I already have too...On to the blog, great weekend. Friday saw a visit from Emma and a rare trip to Chambers. Ve...

A day of doing my head in

Have completely failed to install a thing called HTMLDoc for work, cannot make it not core dump on this machine, so now I'm off looking for other ways to make PDFs with perl. It's making my brane hurt.Was just doing a survey on someone else's blog an...

The Higher State

Thanks if you just tried to add the band The Higher State to the database, but you didn't enter venue info, or you did and I didn't recognise it. Done a bit of a search, www.dirtywaterclub.com says the band are there on the 9th of December. This is a...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

Leas Cliff Hall

BBC says Goldie Lookin' Chain are supporting The Darkness on their Portsmouth and Folkestone dates, got to get in!In other news, the flat I've put an offer in on in Earl's Avenue...

Rated 4.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Joshua Joseph CLARK

Re: Joshua Joseph CLARKWe have made a documentary on the life of Harry Clarke, it fatures his father Joshua. It should be of interest. Title 'HARRY CLARKE - Darkness in Light'camel@ireland.com...

Google-maps hack WHACKED!

read more on Slashdot... I think most of the interesting map sites ought to be safe, the site in question was ripping the satellite images (which we poor brits aren't even allowed) and stitching them together to make big deskto background images.Keep...

We grew some of those home mushrooms once and left them to grow in the darkness of the garage - after the first crop we went back there a few weeks later and the whole thing was just full of mould and flies. Smelt nice too. Wonder if the cats found...

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...

Has Frankie quite The Darkness?

The Sun say so, maybe it's just a publicity thing though... not heard anything from the band for a while.

CANCELLED

Looks like Goldie Lookin' Chain have cancelled tonight at the Leas Cliff Hall, when did this happen? Is it apathy on the part of the punters, or is it (as I heard) that the band refused to play because of the reaction they got when they supported The...

Rated 4.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Bassist from the Darkness

At the Barfly last night with some pals. Sitting downstairs by the DJ bit. Looks a lot older in the flesh.

They've fixed the Darkness picture

That item's been pulled but it's been put on again, with a new picture. Actually of The Darkness this time... bit pricey for me still....

Ebay Tsunami appeal

This tsunami appeal charity auction is possibly organised by www.the-sun.co.uk, but don't let that put you off bidding on Andy Fordham's unwashed world championship shirt or Justin Hawkins catsuit plus two guitars from he and Dan Hawkins... why are t...

Writing an Extension for Firefox

Liking this guide to writing a Firefox extension, good work duffblog.Done writ two reviews today String Quartet tribute to The Darkness (rubbish) and Worlds Apart (good) the new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Heating went off...

Brixton Academy

Warmup for the arena tour.

Barfly

The Darkness play a music passport show at Barfly London... Not sure whether to use up one of my competition entries on them, as I've seen them so many times......

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Leas Cliff Hall

plus Goldie Lookin' Chain

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Hammersmith Odeon

The Darkness on the turn I would say, possibly the last good gig...
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The Cross

With free bar and rock karaoke! Just found invites and a promotional sick bag, was I that bad?

HMV

Ace in-store gig, then a free barbecue on the roof too.

Glastonbury

Suede, REM, Radiohead, and The Darkness opening the main stage on the Friday morning......

Astoria

Was this the Carling "Homecoming" type event?
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93 Feet East

BANG Magazine launch party, free booze!

Brixton Academy

support from The Darkness and Ricky Warwick.

Islington Academy

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

The Garage

Big proper gig, with label mate support from Sweatmaster and Sludgefeast.

Water Rats Theatre

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

Metro

Setlist: "Bareback", "Black Shuck", "Best of me", "Love is only a feeling", "Get your hands off", "Givin' up", "Stuck in a rut", "I believe in a thing called love", "Love on the rocks with no ice"

Notting Hill Arts Club

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

Camden Underworld

The Darkness

Ocean

The Darkness

Water Rats Theatre

Have I misdated this one? I was at David Bowie this day...

Metro

The Darkness

Bull and Gate

I dragged Neil and Camilla, of The Face and Popbitch along. IT WAS ME THAT MADE THE DARKNESS POPLIAR!

Camden Underworld

From the brief time when I preferred them over The Darkness...

Ocean

The Darkness

Barfly

supported by The Libertines. Two gigs in one night, think I saw either The Darkness or Neds Atomic Dustbin this day too......

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Barfly

NME On night, with Kennedy Soundtrack

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Barfly

The Darkness

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Water Rats Theatre

Back to Uncle Bobs, and an attempt at some Christmas carols...

Notting Hill Arts Club

The Darkness

Ocean

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

Camden Underworld

The Darkness

The Verge

The Darkness