message query for the hat

that picture

http://www.clarkeology.com/img/crop/img_oldClarkes_titanic_plaque.jpg Ada Maria ClarkeCheers for that, made it a link back to your page....

That's probably Woolwich

Not Woolwick...

Mark Bolan's leather hat

H2G2 says Stokey library has Marc Bolan's hat on display. We didn't see it when we went there looking for it. Library has lots of videos and some DVD's to hire though, including loads of Buffy....

Phew what a scorcher

The Currant Bun says temperatures yesterday reached 101 degrees in Gravesend, but the official max was 99 point something at Heathrow Airport.Still got no hot water, landlord is here, engineers now say they can't send someone today, are not sure when...

looks like that works in IE!

Had better change that cookie to be encrypted...

What's that light? Don't make me go out there!

Born, three weeks overdue, about 8lbs.Partly inspired by the Samuel Pepys weblog, I'm going to have a go at using this to record events that have happened in the past, no reason why not...(gave up on this idea pretty quickly)...

What's Screen Select's deal then?

What a load of bank

And from home I get "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator"...Quiet night in tonight, ripping CD's and packing ready for the non-stag stag weekend... ...

Remote light switch has arrived

If you never hear from me again it is because I've tried to do some mains electrics by myself and it's gone horribly wrong. Dad helped replace the dry liner that I broke on the bathroom light switch, it seemed to go smoothly, we can isolate the power...

It's that the road is narrow I think

There would be room to get a bus down there if it wasn't for all the cars parked up, where mummy's dropping her little darlings off. Also it's all the damn three wheeled baby buggies clogging up the street.On a more serious note, the junction between...

Here's the link that is showing up in my referrers...

This link:clarkeology.com/stokey/51/9/...was in my referrers for my site (LotusGeek.com).Curiouser and curiouser ;)LotusGeek.com...

Oyster Cards - What a load of old crap!

Got an Oyster Card update from a friend:I tried to RENEW mine by phone and after a LENGTHY recorded message the operator told me:they didn't have any record of my card on their computers (how can this possibly BE?!?) because I'd bought my card at the...

Reasons why I won't buy that flat

When I've cleared 800 emails. Got to check them all carefully for unsubscribes, to make sure I'm on the right side of the law... A __________ B __________ / / / ____________/ _...

Kosso bigged up on techcrunch

They call him a seesmic.com clone but they like him... I thought phreadz.com was still a secret actually. For the uninitiated, it's like a chat room / message board, but based around your webcam. So many people have them these days that it makes sens...

famous people what done live in folkestone

knowhere has it all... I just made an offer on a house in the same street as Dot Cotton!

I think that's all the info we have

Married to our Harry Clarke and with a daughter called Mabel is all we know, as you can see on her page on the tree... Born in the late 1800's I would guess, working back from the ages of Harry's other relatives... Harry is our side of that family, I...

I thought that was Adam Hussain in the visor

Isn't that Eggsie at the front?

That's P Zane with the beard

2000AD AKA Two Hats, was the one wearing 2 hats... I was stood a long way back and the sound might have been distorted by the people, and the cider, so I could be wrong... I will get definitive answers from the band.

RE: The only record I have that's worth any money

Still got most of your vinyl?I think I'll never throw mine out - I've got CDs that have turned dull grey and won't play anymore but the vinyl still works, even if you have to blu tak a 10p to the pickup arm. Was going to comment on The Darkness but g...

Sorry to hear that man

NME alerts are sent out by hand aren't they? My popex alerts only got sent out to people who'd requested info on The Breeders because of a slackness on my part...I hear they're definitely playing Glastonbury, if that's any help... they're sure to be ...

Cheers for that!

There's a lot of confusion surrounding Tofts, I think I have it covered though - after the original Tofts was demolished in the early 60's, "The Tofts", ie Mr and Mrs Toft who ran it moved to new premises... and people still called the new venue (Hil...

If you're going to be like that...

then maybe we'll keep Robert Smith's plectrum!

Validation, that's what you need...

Just curious if this site validates... Unlikely I'd have thought.

what does it mean?

hi i'm the man the that made the robot costume for glc's recent video for more info check out my website at http://www.theotherchoice.co.uk/art.htm

That whale

has a bit of a bendy wand...

RE: That whale

on reflection, i think it's more of a semi. perhaps he was sitting on the top deck of a bus on a hot day - that always gives me a lazy.

RE: That whale

Oh yes, the vibrations, the drowsy daydreams brought on by the heat - soft lob guaranteed.

But that was a comment

Oh wait until I'm ready to tell my latest saga, you will love it.

That genuinely looks quite good

What we've all been waiting for

Russian DJ and MC bugs!

Toploader

TOSSLOADER more like, ha ha do you see what I did there..?

The Rainmakers

Don't know what day in February this was yet... Very poor turnout though apparently.

Skid Row

Gary Moore (also of Thin Lizzy's band of this name (nothing to do with Sebastian Bach et al) played Folkestone some time this month, not sure what day...

That Petrol Emotion

Blur

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.

Radiohead

I wouldn't imagine I was there, but I was there around that time, how strange...

Space

They still going? The Female of the Species, and all that... I think the ginger one might have left.

The Darkness

I dragged Neil and Camilla, of The Face and Popbitch along. IT WAS ME THAT MADE THE DARKNESS POPLIAR!

The Tears

plus 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....

Rosie's Dumplings

Irish folk, back for a post Paddy's day booze up... what do you reckon, should I try and book them for my wedding?

VALENTINES!

We are posted as having a Cabaret for Valentines Night but thats changed.

A fantastic gourmet evening. 7 courses of really amazing food. Live romantic music.

The Inbreds + Hatemail + My life In The Making + Zeroscape

Great Indie/Alt. Rock From Canada & UK. 7.30pm £4

Sassafras

Mistakenly originally spelled Sasafrass, sorry, think I got that from a Leas Cliff Hall poster from 1975.

Reading Festival 1999

Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.

WASP

Not sure what day, the ticket is very faded... Zed Yago supported, this site says REM played there only two days before, I did pick the gigs to go to......

Dogs D'Amour

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

Skid Row

plus LA Guns and Love / Hate. The latter announced a "secret" gig they were doing the next day in London, I should have gone they were one of my fave bands of the day.

Love / Hate

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

Belle & Sebastian

Karaoke as a warm up act? Or was it Franz Ferdinand? We went in late and missed all that, but a friend of a friend did get up and sing Lazy Line Painter Jane with the band....

Turbonegro

Whole lot of sailor hats in the audience, great gig!

Darkness album launch

With free bar and rock karaoke! Just found invites and a promotional sick bag, was I that bad?

Morrissey

Played a couple of Smiths songs, average apart from that.

Damon Albarn

Democrazy, bit worthy really, and not that thrilling, but nice to be somehwere trendy for a change...

Bitch Aid

The party to raise some money for popbitch - putting it here as a gig as I met John Deacon that day, I just found an autographed receipt in with my tickets...

The Beta Band

Tonight's venue is crammed with indie's brightest and best, all happily expectant

according to the review in the Independent, that's me in particular to which they were referring...

The Beta Band

NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolle...

Sleeper

plus Longpigs and 60ft Dolls I think, I have a POSTER somewhere that I will check...

Steve Coogan

Fairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, but warm up came from newcomer Simon Pegg. Whatever happened to him?

Symposium

Where I met Clare, bless! Hope I got that year right... Also, oddly Sylvester McCoy was there at the after show.

The Boo Radleys

Was it Sigur Ros supporting at this one? Just around the time I moved to London, was this really my first gig of that era?