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Own Gig - want to book your favourite band to do a private gig?

Hmm just seen http://www.owngig.com on popbitch, it's a site where you can get together with likeminded fans and pay your favourite band to do a gig. And it really can work, see this news piece from them: We are a matter of days away now from making ...

James Goddon, is a decent man, a loyal friend, who if he gave you his word would stick to it no matter what. He employed a great number of people, and was loyal to Folkestone, it is just a shame Shepway council did not show him some respect.The town...

The Luggage, but for real

The Luggage, from Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic and other Discworld Novels, and it can be yours, all the money goes to charity.A unique opportunity to own a one-off replica of the luggage as featured in Sky One's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's T...

RE: Amy Winehouse (aged 14) in The Fast Show

That was on BBC3 last night as part of a program about annoying pop stars.

Buffy, BACK!

ROCK \m/ OK not actually Buffy, but the long rumoured Ripper spinoff, hope this will be good... This on popbitch forum today:Antony Stewart Head stars as Rupert Giles in "Ripper", by Joss Whedon, filming next summer for the BBC.www.popbitch.com/image...

Making Music History

We are attempting to create a World Record for the most recorded versions of one song - a single symphony - �All We Need Is Love�� The website is set up, the charity - Children In Need - is in place and the top ten downloads will be released on the f...

The sister-in-law's waters have just broken

This is a medical term that is related in some way to having a baby apparently. This means we're likely to have a new niece this afternoon, we'll call in to see her on our way to Canterbury for lunch tomorrow, I think she's in Ashford. This new niece...

Making your votes up

Cheers Stu for pointing out Justin has blogged about the Eurovision thing on his myspace. Are people still doing myspace then? I must admit my facebook network hasn't really bloomed like it might have done, that's what only adding people you really k...

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...

A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu...

Thursday morning roundup

Just caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti...

Excitement for this week:

Hmm, so far not much. I am mostly pinning my hopes on one job offer that I'm expecting to hear back from any minute now. It's a really good fit for my skills and experience, I only hope I don't get "gazumped" by someone offering to do the job for hal...

Lovely day today

Super bright on leaving Folkestone, just so sunny as to be unreal. Very cold though, and only going to get colder this week. Could see lots of stars clearly from bed last night (through the open blinds, no missing roof or anything) so it's possibly r...
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RE: Trivium are coming to Folkestone

Yep, Trivium are definately heavy.There is a fair bit of singing still though, which is really ace as Matt Heafy has a fantastic voice. I'm really looking forward to the gig :)Everyone should check out the Road Runner United/Allstars album if you hav...

RE: I was testing the stars here before putting them on popex

I was testing the stars here before putting them on popex

Think I might pull them again from here! Maybe just leave them for posts that have links with them, so you're voting for the link...

hold it

you go away being busy and the litle and come back and its all change.
all i can see are stars all over the place... am i going mad (possibly) or is there a reason?

New feature

Ratings, that's what we needed here... now each time you see STARS on the site, click on them to give a rating to a local venue or a gig. When enough votes are in we'll be able to see which are the most popular venues, gigs, etc. Any questions?Anyone...

Hard-Fi come to Folkestone

Friday 16th December, isn't everyone normally at some Pogues reunion show in London around this time though? Blimey though, proper contemporary pop, LCH you are spoiling us! Get the album Stars of CCTV, and we can all sing along together! ...

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Double Lone Star Comedy

Hello all, In an attempt to get everything sorted before the Edinburgh Festival gets underway this weekend, here is all the information for the beginning of our Autumn season at the Lone Star Comedy Club. We kick things off in style in September wit...

Francis Clarke & Elizabeth Marriott

Any decendants of the above born fro 1870 to 1881
lived in Bailiff Street, Northampton Had own
business selling fish, game and poultry.
Moved to cottage in Blisworth, Northants

fgc.starsky@btinternet.com

Concerts and Rubbish

Popstars rejects Liberty X rewarded some children from Channel School, Folkestone for doing some charitable things today, according to The Scotsman, though it's likely to have come from a newswire... They recycled rubbish and did concerts. And so did...

Return of the jeteye

Tired today, nice weekend, until we started getting back to London... Went to Chambers three times over the weekend, excessive I think, but it's my fave place in town so all the time I can get people to go there I think we should... bought some new k...

Sandy (ex big brother)

As Mnmnmn likes to include reality tv 'stars' in her spots so will I. He was just walking, wearing glasses, hair is scruffy, looked moody. He's the one who escaped over the roof.

V Festival latest

I've been quiet today, beavering busily on busted balance sheets, so HEY! Here's some news written by someone else; The Killers, Deepest Blue and Syntax have been added to the V Festival lineup... An old workmate of mine is in Syntax, friend to the s...

Philip K Dick + Richard Linklater can't fail, SURELY?

"Richard Linklater has lined up quite a list of stars for his Hollywood adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. So far, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochran have signed on to join (gulp) Keanu Reeves in the lead...

Download: Stage Three

Not satisfied with simply hosting the biggest names from the worlds� of rock and extreme sports, Download, on the 5 and 6 June, will also be the place to go to see some of the hottest up-and-coming rock bands of the moment, as it announces its third ...

Two gigs for this week...

Right, tomorrow night I am off to the 12 bar Club, Denmark Street, Soho, MJ Hibbett is doing a gig of some sort... he's second on supporting someone called Nikki Link. Was he not in Motley Crue? ONLY JOKING "latin rhythms blended with evocative folk/...

Intimate Performances

There are literally only hours left to go for you to have a chance of getting into the Music Passport "Back to the Bars" gigs...The Cure, The Darkness, David Gray, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, Craig David, Super Furry Animals, Travis, Divine Comedy, As...

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Jim Bob Book Tour

Ex Carter USM singer JIM BOB tours again in MAY playing his usual mix of newsolo material and old Carter classics.He will also be reading extracts from his fantastic new Carter autobiography"GOODNIGHT JIM BOB - On The Road With Carter The Unstoppabl...

Passport Ebay update

The Cure are the runaway winners of the Ebay Passport popularity concert, a pair of tickets to see them at Barfly London is currently standing at over a thousand pounds... in a not very close second place are Starsailor, then Pet Shop Boys, David Gra...

Astoria

With Starsailor and Ryan Adams and I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate....
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald