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Saint Rose

Missed Corporation:Blend last night, got to the Garage too late, but Saint Rose were the middle band on, and were quite MOR, but much better than King Adora... a poor mans Manics, when the Manics were a poor mans Guns'n'Roses......

Fireworks were nice, and quite impressive

We watched from home, which was even nicer... did you win the Wii?

Sunday Times takes the Orient Express

Did you know it still travels through Folkestone? Read all about it, they didn't enjoy the change in our town though...Then we reached Folkestone, got off the train and onto a coach, yes, a coach, for the Eurotunnel transfer: going round Folkestone r...

incomprehenisble, lovely.

hilariously easy kill bill game.

I present without comment...

Some pretty amazing erotic photography

Preview here but you have to subscribe to see the whole lot.

Preppy rappers

I saw kanye west on tv this weekend.He was wearing a pink shirt, louis vuitton handbag and a jumper tied on the waist. he finished the outfit with a massive gold chain.he looked like an italian student trying too hard.I still don't understand this pr...

she is really pretty but...

her eyebrows really annoy me!!! i think she should pluck them... i totally think she is a gr8 looking girl and if i met her id b pretty speechless! i think she's a gd actress aswell! i aint gonna say i love her though! like a lot of u other people! h...

I've been to the Pret over that side

And been to a couple of pubs round there... just had a wonder round here, lunch today from Antimony (vegan pate sandwhiches, a carrot and onion burger thing, and a fruit salad), and coffee from the tiny and slightly grimy cafe. Passable, half the pri...

To our Dave (Preece)

Got the word that you's part of the GLC, which has flipped young Isaac (aka Cornetto 'cos of his dodgy bleached hair.) Missed tickets for Bristol 'cos of missionary work (Ha!) but will catch up...

MAKE SOME NOISE + ELECTRON SOUL RECORDS @ LEGION PRESENTS:

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DJ BC presents The Beastles

dj BC presents The Beastles, more mashups... I'm guessing these won't stay up long, I heard the A Night At The Hip-Hopera is gone already, though there seems to be a bit more rebellion regarding hosting copyrighted material... DJ BC says "These mash-...

More Pretty Things gig details

Poster here, and more details here...

How-To: Make a cheap portable espresso machine - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Pizza Express

Just a quick reviewette of our experience in Pizza Express, Canterbury, this Saturday. Our meal was a bit rubbish!It was busy, it was a Saturday lunchtime and it is Canterbury, but we waited for nearly an hour to be served, and then the pizza wasn't ...

Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPasties

XMLHttpRequest Working Examples

Pid sends me this directory of XMLHTTPRequest examples, from fiftyfoureleven.com, cheers. Having rolled out my band selecter all over the place (as a way of selecting a venue, an event, a board, anything from the database) I'm after writing one for a...

I think those second hand tables must be pretty good

I'm after a new one anyway I think, but it's all still cheaper than I thought it would be. They have plenty of mickey mouse tables there a lot cheaper too...

Son of a... preacher man

The Mirror reports today that Lemar gave a bit of a sermon about staying in school during his Leas Cliff Hall gig yesterday......

Tracing Staffordshire Goodalls 1800 to present

My ancestors lived at Little Madeley and Macclesfield in UK Staffordshire. Does anyone know of them? We are connected to Wedgwoods and Charlotte M Yonge the writer.

Last minute christmas present?

How about this Star Wars cruiser, all eight foot of it, in Lego. All proceeds to charity...

I thought it was only the 1.0 or previous that could do the unauthorised stuff?

Gah, have I messed up? We are on 2.60 now. I don't imagine it's easy to change down to an earlier version of the firmware... Cheers for the links...

RE: I thought it was only the 1.0 or previous that could do the unauthorised stuff?

Anything upto version 2.0 is downgradeable (is that a word?) anyway it wont be long until 2.6 is cracked...although 2.5 is taking a while.My friend has hacked his and now has pretty much every game for it! Although at the present he cant play GTA as ...

Manic Street Preachers 1994

I saw Cud and PJ Harvey at The Metronome I think in 1994. I am sure that Ride played in Folkestone on the same night as the Manics

"Folkestone's Premier Tapas place"

That's what Timothy's Wine Bar are calling themselves now. I hope it's improved since our absolutely dreadful visit, that was a Spanish themed night...

Mysterious young entrepreneur secures local support

Hmm 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,...

Mel B and Atomic Kitten but not REM

Giving interviews and posing for photographs. REM showed their true rock 'n roll credentials by refusing to meet the assembled hacks and leaving immediately after the end of their set.

Nicholas Cage

Watching the film - as you would be....

Morrissey

Swiped from a mate:all my mates who didnt go to ally pally went to the spread eagle, so i went there first and who was sat but a matter of feet away from me, only blimmin morrisey. didnt really bother me cos ive never liked the smithsBlimey... That's...

Ewan McGregor

Wearing a pikey brown coat. Didn't see what he was eating, but I imagine it was crayfish & roquette sarnie probably.

The Dark

Razzle of Hanoi Rocks previous punk band. Plus Sedated, Mutilate and Conditional Discharge.

The Pretty Things

+ Quiklik. Someone has memories of them playing at The Flamenco but I've seen a poster says it was the LCH.

Jacques

Anthony Reynolds and Matthew Scott, Jack basically, I preferred the whole band, but still good.

Caravan

Caravan Express Tour with Gordon Giltrap and Sundance

Manic Street Preachers

CANCELLED, rescheduled for a week later? Quite a few people now say they were there, so looks like it was! Last day on the Generation Terrorists tour possibly.

Soundgarden

Superunknown warm up show at Shepherds Bush... pretty huge venue for a warm up show now I come to think of it...

Polyphonic Spree

with Mull Historical Society, Hope of the States and The Hokum Clones

Daniel Lyons

The Sinden presents the world premiere of a new musical drama DANIEL LYONS. Written by BAFTA award winning author Roy Apps from his best-selling children's novel. Music by Steve Pusey.

Monsters of Rock

AC/DC, Metallica, Motley Crue, Queensryche, and the Black Crowes. A pretty special line up at the top of the bill, shame it was the shortest Donington bill ever. Got a coach up from Portsmouth. m/...

Belle & Sebastian

Not a gig, a weird press conference thing.

Paul McCartney

Mothers Day present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us before...

VH1 Divas

Chaka Khan, Celine Dion, Mary J Blige, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Jewel, Lisa Marie Presley, Ashanti, Shania Twain, Pat Benatar, Isley Brothers, Queen Latifah, Sharon Osbourne and STEVIE WONDER!...

Bruce Forsyth

Charity comedy thing, cool as, lots of names present, including Ian McKellen. Search the blog, I must have written this one up......

Presidents of the United States of America

Soho Live, plus 3 Colours Red and Imperial Teen.

Manic Street Preachers

with support from Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all...

The Wedding Present

Bush

plus Placebo. Not sure I actually went to this, I remember feeling really ill at the previous day's gig, think I was out for a few days with something like flu or glandula fever......

DAVID GRAY - SOLD OUT

Trained as a painter at the Liverpool College of Art, David Gray eschewed art for a career in music. Since then, he has had three UK No.1 albums and won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award twice - in 2001 for his breakthrough single ‘Babylon’ and ...

Pull Up The Roots & Electroacoustic Club present, Gurf Morlix, No Support

12.50

Square Mile Presents World Cup Screenings - Game 1 England v USA

Square Mile Presents World Cup Screenings - Game 2 England v Algeria

Pretty Things (Acoustic), Malchicks

Disney Presents The Lion King

23.5 - 60

The Creative Players present Robin Hood

The panto! Tickets from Chambers, Cafe IT, and Barleycorn, or phone Tony King on 07790 264 108. Bring your kids it's in half term week!

Disney Presents The Lion King

Speed Dating Night

Just turn up on the night and register your details for free by 8pm. Speed dating starts promptly at 8.30pm with 3 minutes per candidate. At the end of the evening, any matches will be announced (or not if you prefer it to be kept private)For more ...

The Datsuns

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

King Adora

Another "Barfly Sessions" TV thing, free and in the afternoon I think. Pretty poor.

UDO Live Presents Urban Friday