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Look at the rubbish I went to in 1993

I was clearly going to anything that was going in 1993, but Pulp played Portsmouth TWICE in 1993 and I didn't go. What was going on? Radiohead also played Portsmouth and Southampton this year, supposedly my peak years when I was doing the fanzine, I ...

Just too late for the weekly mailout (again) Folkestone Fringe

From Folkestone Fringe:at georges house gallery:the king and I, private view friday1st august, 7pm30 years after his death, elvis presley still has a firm hold on the collective imagination and this still continues to grow as younger people discover ...

DESPERATE TO FIND FAMILY MEMBERS WITH SURNAME WEBBER

Please help !!!! I live in the states, but I amdesperately trying to locate Carole, Penny, or Jim Webber who used to reside on eastern road in Portsmouth. It's been a few years, and the phone numbers I have are no longer valid. It is rathr urgent t...

Did you see Folkestone on TV last night?

Slight repost from the blog, but didn't we look nice on The Culture Show last night?An aside, Vic Reeves said on the show last night that he lived in Folkestone for two years, in a flat overlooking the sea. Some misspeaking there I think, I believe h...

Did you see Folkestone on TV last night?

The town looked nice on The Culture Show, I'm glad. That's why I was looking up The Culture Show yesterday when I mentioned the Ricky Gervais stuff, to find out when this feature was on, must have got distracted before I found it or I'd have plugge...

Today I invented a brilliant new thing, called "podcasts"

Was surfing for news of Kid Rock yesterday, as a friend has been working with him and I was wondering if she'd show up in any paparazzi shots of him stumbling out of nightclubs or anything. No joy there, but he was interviewed by the Guardian yesterd...

Too old to rock

have my new starter at work, our industrial placement from Canterbury University for the year. He seems a nice guy, but in making conversation I asked him what he was listening to... Simply Red! Phil Collins! Robbie Williams! This guy is not even twe...

Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008

This years Folkestone Harbour Festival 2008 will take place on July 19 2008. We have a full day program lined up starting at 10am in the morning right through till 9pm when we close with a spectacular firework display in the Harbour. Events include...
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PHP 4 to 5 migration

Bit of an all encompassing thing this, I use PHP for work and for home, I've pretty much abandoned perl since I joined Holiday Extras a year and a half ago. PHP4, widely used everywhere, (including on this blog) is about to die. It's been on it's way...

Do not recycle from last night's Dio show

Foo Fighters tour rider, quite amusing. I didn't even know there were nine vegans.

So was that the summer then?

In the interest of being able to read back on this in years to come and reminisce about what was going on, I should have said something about the weather recently I think. But, I blinked, and it's gone now. Got a barbecue lined up for this Saturday, ...

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 ...
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RE: Sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta

I have been eating there for the last years and I can say, hand on heart that I have never had a bad meal in there,in fact I would go so far to say the food is superb.They have new owners now and it has got even better.Give it another try, I was real...

Wedding video and new jeans

Had a slightly rum Saturday night out but then a lovely Sunday afternoon to follow. Felt a bit queasy on Saturday so although we went out to Folkestone in the day, and had lunch at The Whole World Cafe (felty queasy before we went there, certainly no...
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Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

popbitch redesign and contest!

See the contest on the homepage, don't enter it though, I want to win! If you really want a Gibson Les Paul, make a video and win a Slash limited edition.Everyone hates the new design. It's not my design, it's not really anyone's any more, bits have ...

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Still Cure tickets left

Less than a week to go until our gig of the year The Cure at Wembley on Thursday. Got an automated call from Ticketmaster telling me the stage times; 65daysofstatic are on at 7pm, and the Cure at 8pm, so that gives them plenty of time to play the thr...

Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3s

Do you have any? Been listening to lots of Ricky Gervais recently, old radio shows from XFM, and they're great (if repetitive). Now we want more, and we want earlier. The oldest show we have is from November 10th 2001, which I think was an officially...
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What a day to close it!

Was it open New Years Eve then? Sorry about your job. There seem to be a load of pubs and bars closing in this area at the moment.

Local Recording/Rehearsal Studio!

Hey guys.Refurbishment at The Manor Studio is 99% finished! I have uploaded some photos here:www.myspace.com/themanorstudioI offer 24-track digital recording facilities, and have recorded a LOT of bands over the last few years, some of whom can be he...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
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the text entry box is just something I was trying out at work

and I thought "I'll have a bit of that"... We've lived here for about three years, but owned this flat for nearly four. We don't need anywhere bigger, thanks cheeky, but we do want a house and a new town, we're set on Canterbury.Redesign schmedesign....

RE: Whole lot of interesting detail there, though you do sound a bit bitter

The "Euphoria" just sounded like a gay bar, when in fact it was just another rough Folkestone dive.I'm not bitter about anything, just don't want people wasting their hopes and cash on this money pit.Five changes of name in six years is never good. P...

happy new year!

Originally posted at just after midnight, what service I offer eh? We were in at this time, we decided to take a year off from all the NYE shenanigans this year, and have a quiet one in watching the TV. How odd that BBC seem to have done exactly the ...

RE: Congrats to Kevin and Guiselle

Yeah but in 20 years time NO ONE will travel. Just go and tell your grand-children what it was like to travel. Foreign weddings are superb, all different and everything. You never regret doing something.

Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!

Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y...
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Newcomer? I've been here nearly four years now, where's my equity?

(and the wife says "I've been here nearly twenty years")I thought Sandwich was nice from brief visits, but when I saw it on that wild food programme, I'd never seen somewhere I've wanted to visit less. And I've been to Blackpool. Are you from there?...

Speaking of cool

Very cold and frosty today, nice to look at but slippy underfoot.Aware I've been neglecting this a bit recently, a shame because I've been doing more reading of my own older posts, and enjoying some of the details I'd forgotten. This is obviously all...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...