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Is this who's bought the Metronome?

assura group has a metronome page, looks like they own other medical type facilities so this backs up the story of it being bought by a health care trust.Just found a PJ Harvey gig at the Metronome, and another where she almost played at Bottoms. But...

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THE Brian Wilson?

Sounds like it was a pretty exciting night, did everyone know at the time what a treat it was?

This week in Folkestone's gig history

This week in Folkestone's gig history Squeeze, The Enid, Twelfth Night, John Martyn, Travis, Remy Zero, Embrace, All About Eve, Inme, The Mavericks, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann, Rooster, and Orson all played gigs here. Any of those names mean anything t...

Double history

Checked out the family tree things from Dad, we do have records going much further back now, to Samuel Clarke of East Meon, I don't have a date of birth for him but from the date of birth of his Son William Clarke, Samuel must have been born around t...

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Excellent Folkestone gig history history from Patricia Duke (nee Brown)

Got sent a picture of The Pretty Things at the Flamenco Bar, which is now nowPipers, on Tontinee Street... Anyone else got any any old photos like this?...

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RE: Flamenco Club (Tontine St)

Who knows what would have happened if you hadn't been there with me!
Ha, ha just kidding Les
How do I send a picture of Phil May and Skip Alan taken outside the club that night?

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1980s soft rock

From the UK no less! Was talking about Little Angels with a chum at work today, he remembers them playing Folkestone (on their way up) and I saw them in Portsmouth (on their way back down), here's a video:I have this on vinyl somewhere, though obviou...
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Tracey Emin will be scattering childrens clothes around our town

Read more about the Folkestone triennial, sounds interesting... Always good to get a mention in the press, even if they do highlight how run down Folkestone has been recently. Also, who is the ex Iron Maidener who lives in the town? Aha, wikipedia sa...

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Folkestone gig history

Been doing some gig history updates, I found some Prodigy, Gary Numan, and Leatherface gigs, and then found this on a myspace page:In 1993 Bonbooshe disbanded and I joined Glasshouse with Geoff and Ian Davies and spent 3 years with them recording, gi...

MARC BOLAN & T.REX LIVE IN FOLKESTONE

Great review and pictures of a Folkestone T-Rex gig, unfortunately it's all in German. Maybe I will translate it...Got some other Folkestone 1975 gig history from a scanned in poster on that site though, including K.C and the Sunshine Band, Judas Pri...

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Fleetwood Mac & Tofts?

I found a good Fleetwood Mac site with Leas Cliff Hall listed in 1968, but nothing in 1967 for example... Are these right or wrong? When would it have been then?See my Folkestone gig history for 1967 and Folkestone gig history for 1968....

Weekend of sports

The Rugby was great, made for quite a long and tiring day, but a fabulous experience being there for an international. The Wales v France game put paid to either England or Ireland winning the 6 Nations so it wasn't quite such an important game. I'd ...

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Folkestone Gerald update

Got some more Folkestone gig history stuff for 1969 and 1970, posted from Germany of all places. Also what's this rumour about Gordon Ramsay buying The Sandgate Hotel..? I heard a rumour that Ramsay was actually going to BUY the Sandgate Hotel (or at...
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What was I going to say?

Was busy when I came in this morning so I have forgotten the things I had lined up for today's "entry". Perhaps it was a gripe about the quality of signal from our new sky freesat box - it was far worse than the signal we're getting via the inbuilt f...

Still seeking more Folkestone gig history

Please check out what I already have for the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, and the '90s and then let me know of any gigs you were at that are missing... cheers!...

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

Wasn't Tofts nearly opposite the old Gasworks on Bournemouth Rd just west of the Scew(sp?) Arches and the junction with Broadmead Rd. (the Gasworks was on the corner of Ship St and Bournemouth as I recall)You had to go up some stairs to get to the cl...

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

When I used to go to Tofts in 1968/69, it was on Grace Hill. It had a coffee bar but served no alcohol. Every Friday there was a 'disco' which cost 2s 6d and a group on Saturdays which cost 5s or 7s 6d or sometimes 10s.People who played there include...

My gigography

Getting there with my gigography now, a list of every gig I've been to, from 1987 up to last year. It's a natural progression from my Best Gigs Ever post. Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing. I have chucked in details from the big bag o...

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

IT WAS THE SUNDOWNER CLUB MY DAD WAS THE BOUNCER BACK IN THE DAY..

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

I think the name of the club on Grace Hill was the Sundowner Club.

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

My mum used to go out with Noel Redding way back in the 60's so I can confirm that Hendrix played in Folkestone, but not in Tofts as everybody guesses she says vaguely that it was a social club on Grace Hill, but I quote "Don't ask me the name it was...

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

irrelevant fact: The New Cross Venue used to be called The Harp Club.

Updated Folkestone gig history

From someone on mr gig:Toft's Jazz Club was just down the hill from the Harp Club. Stand outside the harp, turn left (looking at the roundabout). Cross the road to the library, turn left and walk down past the roundabout. Its a big building on the...

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