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Folkestone Literary Festival lineup out at last

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 official site has the lineup at last, in a hard to digest pdf format, get it here. All the show times, runners, riders, etc, though I wish they'd put out a text version a bit quicker instead of waiting for that to co...

Art prank, or something else?

Someone's put "official looking" signs up around Portchester informing local residents that 600 new homes are to be built on a green field site, the Southern Daily Echo reports. Local councillors claim they are hoaxes, what's going on..?Councillors h...

Terry Pratchett's Colour Of Magic coming to Sky One

Only just seen a trailer for it, guessing it has not been on yet. Their Hogfather was OK despite not liking the story so I'm sure this will be goood. Interesting to see the same actors playing different characters (though in the same universe), David...

Folkestone Triennial website

A website here, just a holding page really for the Folkestone Triennial:[em]coming soon[/em]Folkestone TriennialTales of Time and SpaceA major exhibition in the public realm opening in Folkestone in June 2008http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk...

Programming is a poetry for our time

A fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ...

Yesterday's news

BAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa...

Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.Als...

Spoiler alert!

Got something I want to say about Lost, so trying out a new "spoiler" bbcode type tag, so I can post things and you only read them if you really really want to:Haha was just expounding this same theory about Lost at work, my colleague googled for the...

Happy St Patricks Day

Obviously I'm taking this getup to the rugby tomorrow - if by some mad chance France get convincingly beaten, then England only need to win by something like 50 points, so I'll strip down to my union jack pants and cheer them home. Otherwise we are f...

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 ...

Helen Love

New Helen Love single "Debbie Loves Joey" available for download as a completely free MP3 from the revamped official site.Sorry this site was down yesterday, "significant damage" to BT's network in Birmingham apparently, near to where this is hosted....

Goldie Lookin' Chain

New games and videos and things on the GLC official site, and don't forget there are still Goldie Lookin' Chain tickets left... see you at the Astoria on the Friday....
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Turbonegro

Ace, but also a bit frightening. Not sure if scandinavian leather is their official site or turbonegro.com. Anyway, plenty of stuff about them here, or see what I've had to say about Turbonegro...ERECTION!...

Suede Split

Suede have just announced via their official site that they are to (more or less) split after their December Tour.They say on sude.net:suede would like to announce that from next year they will be working on their own individual projects. there will ...

The Darkness

The band seem to have recently updated their official site, they have a new forum system in place, and it's being constantly updated with news of cancellations etc...A mate spoke to Dan Hawkins last night, he says the gig is definitely on, there are ...

Flattery will get you...

... on the front page! How could I not run this?Seeing as you are now officially the most influential person in the British Music Scene, what with the Darkness being at No1 in the album charts still and CTC entering the charts near to the top too (al...

Oh look, a website

From: MeggDoggyDoggSent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:29 PMTo: comments@popex.comSubject: something you have to doThe official Gomez website has just relaunched,and it's damn amazing! Go to it now, and then post a link on popex for all those good peo...

Hundred Reasons playing Nottingham tonight?

Is it a secret? Or is it a lie? A punter informs me they're playing Nottingham Rock City tonight... it's not part of their tour schedule, is it one of them secret gigs? Or is it a missteak? the official site and the Rock City site have no mention of ...

Belle and Sebastian tour

Belle and Sebastian's official site reports a TOUR! This is QUITE EXCITING!They play:April 1st Edinburgh Usher Hall April 2nd Manchester ApolloApril 3rd London Brixton AcademyClick here to get your tickets!If it sells out in the next five minutes I'l...

Rah, Strokes tour

New Yorkers The Strokes are doing a proper (well proper-ish) tour of the UK at last... The official site (www.thestrokes.com) was no use, but www.nme.com has provided us with tour dates... After four dates in Philadelphia, they play:Brighton, June 10...

PopEx Sells Out!

Hello all... probably no-one's noticed any difference, but officially popEx is under new ownership... it's still me (Pauly, nice to meet you) running the site, but someone else is paying the bills.Yesterday, http://www.fortunecity.com sold, and Chann...

Official Site Opens

The Cooper Temple Clause official site is now open. But it's all in Flash, aargh.Still, the band promise there will be some interesting features on there, including a "log" that will be more than just a standard tour diary...http://www.thecoopertempl...

Devant, live again

David Devant and his Spirit Wife are playing live again... my neck of the woods this time, Goldsmith's College, in New Cross, South East London...Got this missive from Vessel:we are playing at goldsmiths college for sure on feb 2 (friday) union build...

Free Reading / Leeds Tickets

Ooberman are litterally GIVING AWAY a pair of tickets for each weekend...Check out their official site for details...PS big respect to Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, pop strumpet hangout and danceteria for inviting PopEx along - Uncle Bob's provide t...

RHCP Fans: Not A Clue

I was just looking at the official RHCP site and noticed a "what's your fave album" poll... No wait, that's not the end of it...There have been something like 130,000 votes so far, and NEARLY HALF of them say that the new album is the best! Mothers M...

Ooberman get HEAVY

Ooberman release an MP3 only single "Heavy Duty" today, only available from their official site, ooberman.com...Following what they believe is poor treatment by the media, leading utlimately to them losing their label, the band have decided NOT to re...

New Dum Dum's Trading Madness

The new Dum Dums single 'Can't Get You Out Of My Thoughts' is out on June 12th... For more info, check out the official site - www.dumdums.com...While you're there, why not check out the rest of what Sammy's part of the site has to offer - sammy.pope...