I'm sure I heard somewhere that the Smashing Pumpkins played FolkestoneAm I completely mad? Did I just make it up? Or is there a chance they supported someone?Anyway, a couple of new shows just gone on sale, Ross Noble, and Ocean Colour Scene, knock yourselves out...... Nigel PlanerWalking along a street with a couple of hangers-on. And, of course, looking incredibly old. He was probably going over lines for some play he's currently performing at the moment.I didn't have a purely geeky weekendI went to Guildford Festival on Friday - it's a bit small innit? But it was alright, shame it wasn't a bit hotter on the Friday evening. We saw Tindersticks (who were exactly like I expected) and Pulp, who were a bit better - they started with that o... I'm sure I've nicked this from somewhere...The world is going to end. Some huge old fireball is going to crash into the earth, and everyone is running around, panicking etc, as you would. About 10 minutes before it happens, when it's clearly far too late, and things are getting hot, the hero ... There must be a site somewhere, with a dedicated pocket pc communitySomething like <a href="http://www.ipodlounge.com">ipodlounge.com</a> but for <strong>IPAQ</strong>.I knew I'd heard somewhere Neil Gaiman was from Portchester<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647474,00.html">It says so in this Time article</a>... He's 11 years older than me, so I'm not likely to have bumped into him around the town.@pauly #m12420 yawn bored of people complaining they have been caught picking their nose or being caught somewhere they weren't supposed 2b.@pauly yawn bored of people complaining they have been caught picking their nose or being caught somewhere they weren't supposed 2b.... I knew I got my sense of parental responsibility from somewhere!Wait a moment...The in-laws are on their way back from Ireland right now, via turtuous train journey, and I have to pick them up from the station and deliver them home. This means I can't start my Friday night drinking routine until after this task is completed... h... Lunch at the EastonStill in London with work, sort of in trouble for not providing receipts for our lunches, as we have been buying brilliant five pound lunch boxes from the street traders in Exmouth Market. So went in to a pub instead, where we could get lunch with a ... The Tearsplus The Subways. First official gig for Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler's new band, though they went and did a couple of sneaky warmups before this in Oxford and somewhere else. Not that great really.... Sleeperplus <strong>Longpigs</strong> and <strong>60ft Dolls</strong> I think, I have a POSTER somewhere that I will check...David DevantSomewhere, can't remember where this gig was <a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/7343/7343/Free+Cock+Fighting">but I mentioned it on popex</a>...Small World Solar Powered Spring FestivalAll over the bank holiday weekend, somewhere in Headcorn!Holiday 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.Gosport FestivalWedding Present + Credit To The Nation + Senseless Things. I know I went, I seem to remember one band did not though. One more band advertised somewhere, S*M*A*S*H? Not the Walpole Park in Ealing!...