message query for see

There does seem to be some sort of local connection here

I recognise some names on http://www.channelwebscene.co.uk, but the site itself is a bit short of detail, and so was that introductory post... care to come back and tell us any more?

Beer festival at the Ship this weekend

See you there all weekend! Looking forward to this a lot.

Going to try out the quiz for the first time in ages on Tuesday too, be afraid if you are competing against us...

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Little Switzerland Cafe and bar

Visited Little Switzerland as we were told there was a fantastic view.We were not disappointed.Wasn't staying at the camping and caravanning site but if ever I needed that facility it would be the ideal location, beautiful views,clean and quiet. It h...
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It's Fareham, it's a squirrel, it must be the Daily Mail

A squirrel carrying a coconut.UPDATE: The Sun has it too. I don't read either of these papers, but The Guardian news podcast seems to have missed it......

Folkestone Fringe update, actually in time for the mailout this week!

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:on wednesday 20th and thursday 21st aether flyer play the leas liftaether flyer are still alive thanks to a scientific experiment gone bizarrely wrong, and exactly eighty years on, with an exhibit of their mu...

The Death of Twitter

Last Bus Home has the details. I hope it's true, I'm glad, can't be doing with it at all myself. I think I said before, it seems to me like someone thought blogging was a bit of a hassle, having to think of something to say and then saying it, if onl...

This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g...

Speaking of tipping, see what tipped over

This tree tipped up in the high winds I guess:That's the terrace / smoking area of The Bank Bar under that tree, don't suppose there was anyone sat out there with today's weather anyway. This looked fresh, it must have only just happened. Snapped tod...

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Ah, see, that's family, that's different!

OK, I will give you fifty pee when you run me back to the station on Sunday...

Tipping etiquette

Had the day off today a day working jolly hard at home, as our new fridge freezer was being delivered. I shouldn't joke about it, the working from home I mean, but it's a running routine between Clare and myself, she works at home once a week usually...

Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

Hot Leg tonight

Hot Leg tonight at Proud Galleries, Camden, That London. Bit concerned about it really, got to leg it out of work at a pretty busy time for us, lots on at the moment. Leaving a little early anyway, train to London, hurriedly catch up with friends tha...

RE: Ricky Gervais in Folkestone

umm, if this was filmed in Capel then we should see Folkestone Harbour in the background surely? Looks like it's filmed at St Margarets-at-cliff looking back towards Dover harbour - which is out of shot on the right?

Has anyone seen Clare?

And I assumed she just headed off to Barcelona as planned! Someone's got her! Can you read that phone number?I'm posting a lot more this weekend. Can you tell I am bored? I've even done some cleaning and some DIY, and for TWO walks around town....

Some old photos of Folkestone

I bought an album of photos not so long ago and these photos of Wear Bay Road and Folkestone were included in it. I thought you might like to see them and possibly pass on the the ones of Wear Bay Road to any residents of houses featured. I don't kno...
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PHREADZ podcast

Well sort of. Some of the content from Kosso's phreadz.com is also available in MP4 format, which is kind of handy for ipod video. So I'm hoping this feed will populate my ipod with the fascinating conversations these guys are having. Only some of th...

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 ...

Someone wants to pay for links from my website

PR Precision are looking for sites that would be interested in publishing content on behalf of a number of our clients which include some of the UK's biggest brands. For a site such as www.clarkeology.com we'd be prepared to pay up to �100 per month,...

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall...

Sad about Dave

This sunny weather would have been just right to see a dolphin leaping about.
Good to know you're still checking the site out Mick.

RE: sandgate dolphin on youtube don t watch

Dave disappeared sometime in November and hasn't been seen since unfortunately

What's on here and across the Channel?

Well someone just emailed to suggest picking up a copy of "Coast To Coast" magazine (does it have Fred Dinenage and Fern Britten on the cover?) but you can also see what's going on the homepage of the Gerald...MORE than sixty summer festivals and eve...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Oo-oo-oo, we're going to the zoo-oo-oo

Just had a meeting at Port Lympne, at their conference facilities, as we needed a lot of people in the room at the same time. Nice place, good to see the house, I've not been before.Some monkeys were whooping all through the meeting, very distracting...

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MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock press launch and things

Hello - this is a special mid-month version of the newsletter just to let you know about some RATHER Exciting New Things, these being our new single, the video to go with it, and the press launch for the Edinburgh Show. Let's GO!THE NEW SINGLEOur bra...

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
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Gone Ape

Went to Go Ape at Leeds Castle on Friday, bit of a work jolly. None of the pictures or video really came out that well, but here is me on a zip line / death slide / flying fox.It was great! Some pictures to come too.As a reward for watching my video...

If my own pictures are too dangerous and controversial for you

Have a look at someone else's pictures of Folkestone. Looks to me they did all of the Triennial things that we did in just the same order, but the differences here are (I think) they visited Folkestone especially for this (so The Triennial is working...

Bonekickers

Did you see Bonekickers on TV last night? I will watch some crap, but even I had to turn it off, it was so bad! I am still tempted to catch up on what I turned off on iplayer later, just to reassure myself that it was just about the worst thing ever....

Hans Anderson first edition

Slight repost from the blog:Hans Anderson Fairy Tales First Edition, only �800! The same seller also has The years at the spring at a cheaper price. Nice to see some Harry Clarke activity on ebay anwyay....

Islington Academy

Free show!

Barfly

The Darkness play a music passport show at Barfly London... Not sure whether to use up one of my competition entries on them, as I've seen them so many times......

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Barfly

Have decided, to use one of my entries for the Music Passport gig draw on a chance of seeing the Pet Shop Boys, and the other four on The Cure......

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Barfly

Amazing, we got in to the Barfly, read my Cure review.

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12 Bar Club

MJ Hibbett is doing his first gig of the year at the 12 Bar Club, that's Denmark Street isn't it? Onstage 9pm, 26th Feb at the monthly Hieronymous Bisch Bosch night... seeya there.Last night's Valentine's pub crawl was very nice, we st...

Astoria

Last gig ever! Played some great sets, the gig seemingly got chopped short, we left to the ghostly strains of "We'll Meet Again"... I hope we do.
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Islington Academy

plus The Ordinary Boys and The 22s. Looks like everyone was there to see the Ordinary Boys, but I thought they were a bit ordinary... stellastarr were OK, not quite as convincing as on record though....

Barfly

plus The Crimea seemingly...

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Electric Ballroom

Were you at this gig? Did you see an inflatable lady crowdsurfing? That was mine, I won it in a raffle in the Good Mixer just before the gig.
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Astoria

NME Brats show, plus Rocket From The Crypt, Peaches, and The Strokes, yes I did see them......
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The Garage

Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun

Spitz

Seems I fell down an escalator after this one

Goldsmiths College

Reading warmup, got very drunk on vodka red bulls, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there. Off to Reading the next day.

Astoria

NME Brats show? Plus Octopus, Mundy and Stereophonics again apparently. Must have been a week of gigs around this time.

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Santa Pod Raceway

I clearly remember David Devant and Holy Barbarians, David Bowie, Sex Pistols and Foo Fighters too I think, must have seen a lot more though......

The Joiners

See that, five in a row, Perfume, Thurman, Fluffy, Gouge, Longpigs. At the time I thought what a GREAT time this is for music....

Stanmer Park

Carter USM, PWEI, Teenage Fanclub, Dodgy, The Charlatans, Gene, Lighting Seeds, Skunk Anansie, Reef. Think I was at this...

Portsmouth Guildhall

£8.00

The Joiners

Ah, past their peak, still a treat to see them at a venue this size.

Portsmouth Guildhall

Second time seeing them here, Sinead O'Connor was there too.

The Marquee

plus Scat Opera

Portsmouth Polytechnic

plus Scat Opera

Poole Arts Centre

First time I saw them. Just caught up with a friend who was there too (and who I'd not seen for over ten years, he says Alice In Chains opened, followed by The Almighty at the Poole Arts Center gig '91 (if I remember correctly)...

Astoria

plus Godflesh and Bomb Everything (AKA) Bomb Disneyland. Got a video of this gig, you can see me stagediving on it....
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Brixton Academy

PWEI, plus my favourite band of the time Atom Seed....

The Pit

My favourite band of the time playing at the club I used to go to every week anyway, not bad... The Pit is now part of a bingo hall.

The Marquee

Plus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!

Mayflower Theatre

Snuck in, and got thrown out again before the gig started. Went home, having not seen the gig.

Portsmouth Guildhall

plus Under Neath What... went to London to see UNW a few days later, probably the Marquee......

Hammersmith Odeon

plus Living Colour. My first proper gig, went up on a coach trip. See the patches on my denim jacket \m/
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