Viva Las VegasI have been in that Las Vegas, nice place, shame about the food, for me anyway. Had a nice grilled vege sub from Quizno's on the way home, but apart from that it's not the best place for a vegan. Breakfast was fried potato and spicy tomato sauce, mor... LifeslideJust seen my Lifeslide, great idea, but it says nothing to me about my life... well not much. Saw The Koreans last night at the Barfly, sound a bit like the Cardigans and a bit like Supergrass. Steve Lamacq was there, not sure if this is a promising... AlcudiaOff to <strong>Majorca</strong> in the morning, for a week, staying at <strong>Bahia Alcudia</strong>... playing <strong>pool</strong>, by the pool, and drinking cheap booze here we come...Bahia De Alcudia"Guten Tag" as they say in Majorca... weather is fine, though we had one day of rain, food is shockingly bad, Clare got food poisoning one day. Not from the hotel though, we've not eaten much here. The guests seem to be about half English and half Ge... Thieving bastardsLook out if you're coming to Majorca, the place is crawling with thieves. Actually no it's not, but we've encountered a couple of criminal signs... saw a couple of kids trying it on by the pool of our hotel, ripping off tourist handbags, and noticed ... Holiday readingWhile 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... Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood RoomsI was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about t... MJ Hibbett and the Validators Christmas newsletterIt's the last working day of the month for me too! I don't think this means it's pay day though, as we should be working between christmas and new year, it's just holiday rather than shutdown. I very much enjoyed Mark's Totally Acoustic at The Lamb, ... A public holiday to celebrate us winning the world cup?come on Tessa, let's have it..."We will look at all the appropriate ways of marking this... but you can be absolutely sure that the team will be honoured in the way that everybody in England wants to see them honoured," she said. ... Extra holidayNice, just found I have 3 more days holiday than I thought, so having Christmas eve and New Years Eve off, and carrying a little over for next year... I'm robbing myself a bit, as if I worked those days they'd only be halves, ah well...This holiday f... Validation, that's what you need...Just curious if <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">this site validates</a>... Unlikely I'd have thought.Post holiday blues. And redsMan alive it is hot today. Very disappointed to get back to the UK yesterday and find it almost as hot here as it was in Hersonnisos, but pleased to find that it's not been this nice all week... Work email account has retrieved 7000 so far and still... What I done on my holidaysWell, that was the holiday then. A fantastic 168 hour long boozy lunch, we didn't do much more than get up for a big breakfast, sit snacking and drinking by the pool while waiting for our big boozy lunch, then eat and drink until it was time for a bi... Shed AnthemsThe mighty Shed Anthems by MJ Hibbett and the Validators has arrived at last and it is a thing of beauty indeed, a six track sampler type mini album, in follow up to last year's This is not a Library.I say sampler style, as it features tracks from th... Validation, that's what you needFirst couple of things I'd like to mention that I can't go into yet, HHA, doesn't it look lovely? Also asbestos, isn't it shit?More validation fun, I just rediscovered PC Bobby through that HHA link, and will be trying to pass this site...Off to Fol... Bank holiday WEEKENDER!Got my first network alert popup today, as I left the wlan bit turned on on the Pocket PC... 243 moving too fast to investigate, though the network name was the full street address so it won't be hard to find again...Popped in to Chambers beer fest F... LIDO Consulation deadline tomorrowCheck out <a href="http://www.clissoldleisure.com">clissoldleisure.com</a> if you care about whether Stokey has a pool with a roof or not.The Clarkes from Cliddesden Hampshire & BasingstokeHello <br />Any connections pleaseBank holiday WEEKENDER!Stop panicking everyone, I'm back, reporting on updates of the weekend... Quite literally THREE PEOPLE said on the phone that they thought something was up / I'd gone away somewhere because the site wasn't updated over the weekend. Sorry! How will yo... A good start to the holidayKnew there was going to be something up when the driver of the train told us he had to reboot before he could let us on, and same as before, it meant the train was going out of service and I was an hour and a half late for work. Made a nice change to... MontereyJust setting up a place holder here where I will post the next part of my holiday honeymoon writeup... on leaving San Francisco we went to Monterey, before heading to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.First we had to get out of San Francisco, which meant... Mysterious young entrepreneur secures local supportHmm got emailed this today and thought "I recognise that chap", he used to work at our place. Read the whole press release though, have you any idea what the business is? The accompanying pictures show our Dan stood next to a painted lady (literally,... Tom out of the Validatorsbeing trolleyed on Cherry Brandy choc's. He doesn't drink much. Saw NO-ONE while on holidayI thought it was THE LAW that you saw famous people at airports? I think I saw someone from wifeswap at LAX, but can't be sure, pretty feeble... We spent some time in a bar in LA that I found out on getting home is Morrissey's favourite... but no sig... PopEx Coo!Right, I am off on holiday, (semi) trained pigeons will be running the site from now on, so please behave.<br /><br />No that's not a picture of me, it's one of the blokes from DOVES - Doves / Pigeons, do you see? Do you?Running OrderI was going to put up a nice page of running times for all the stages for Reading and Leeds festivals... but it's far too hot. So I'm going to the pub.Have a GRATE time if you're going, maybe see you there, save a space down the front for me.... Songs About IncestMJ Hibbett and the Validators have a hot new release out for Christmas, the "Milk and Baubles EP", featuring 8 hot tracks. Some are new, some are old, and one mentions incest. That subject line was just to grab your attention.The official track listi... Validators CompetitionAs reported in a news story last week MJ Hibbett and the Validators have an ACE Christmas EP out, "The Milk and Baubles EP"... It's released today by Artists Against Success...To win one of five copies they've sent us, just tell us where Mark comes f... I've always liked Caitlin Moran<a href='/cgi-bin/links/frame.cgi?url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-226353,00.html' target=_new><b>Caitlin Moran writes about So Solid Crew in today's Times</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Aren't I always saying how great she is?So Solid TourSo Salad Crew do LIVE stuff:So Solid Crew @ Manchester University, Manchester, Greater Manchester (Fri 14 Dec)So Solid Crew @ Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, Hampshire (Sun 16 Dec)So Solid Crew @ The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Tue ... So Solid CrewThe tour was cancelled after a shooting at a London showCatatoniaplus Silverjets and GliderJ Ax in Lido di Sottomarina30.33African Comedy Show , Bank Holiday SpecialSmall World Solar Powered Spring FestivalAll over the bank holiday weekend, somewhere in Headcorn!The Open Air GalleryI was thinking "don't they know people have jobs to go to?" but then of course a) it's a bank holiday monday, and b) no I don't have a job to go to now anyway!World Ceilidh, 3 Day Pass, Beat, Eat Static, Treacherous Orchestra, King Creosote, Ska Cubano, Lunasa, Besh O Drom, Ukrainians, DJ Pathaan, Sheelanagig, Kissmet, Jesca Hoop, Zub Zub, Flutatious, King Arthur's Men, Babylon Arabic Band, Found, Meursault, WiHoliday Extras vs Eurostar<img src="http://fusion/fusion/images/stories/people_team/Football%20Advert%20copy.jpg" /><br />Not sure where this is, Great Chart somewhere.World Ceilidh, 4 Day Pass, Beat, Eat Static, Treacherous Orchestra, KiCeilidh Club, Singles' CeilidhSCOUTING FOR GIRLS - SOLD OUTSold out! get tickets here, good luck!... 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