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Turin Brakes play the Leas Cliff Hall in August, 08/08/08

Hevy is extremely excited to be presenting their biggest event so far this August, featuring two of their favourite upcoming bands supporting Turin Brakes at the Leas Cliff Hall.Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneFriday 8th August 2008 (08/08/08)Doors 7:00pm...

Rated 4.59/10 on Folkestone Gerald

If a picture paints a thousand words...

Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this...

Train news

Hey London tube travellers, Here's a song for you. Only listen to it if you like lots and lots of swearing, and weak b3ta style graphics over a tune you've heard before mind. I'm not really that arsed about the tube strike today as, HEY, I'm well ou...

Cool bag

This bag is a strictly limited edtion from a local shop in Folkestone, it's made from leftover (unused) London tube train seat material:Retro and recycled and local and cool, all in one, nice. Via keetsa.com, some sort of enviro-blog I think.While I'...

No snow here

Had a few pictures emailed and texted in from friends and family about the place of their snowy gardens and the like. Just very cold here, and mostly clear, though I can see some low lying cloud or heavy fog up on the hills.On the top of both fog and...

Videos of Folketone: More underground creepiness

More creepy underground tunnelling in silence, this time footage of the Victorian reservoir at Crete Road.More pictures and things at www.undergroundkent.co.uk....

BACK, then, from Berlin

Did you even know I was away? I don't always announce such things in case you come round and rob my flat.Yesterday was not such a good day to be travelling. We eventually flew into Stanstead, with Air Berlin, with hand luggage and everything. I was o...

I nearly shivered

I nearly shivered just as I got to work, a brace of fire engines raced down Farringdon Road, all sirens blazing. It was too hot for a real shiver, but obviously thoughts all day are with the events of last year... Just looking back to what I wrote on...

I did link to that page, check the message again

Think it's on all my messages about the station. Yeah I read about that in that book I mentioned Underground London

Down in the tube station at lunchtime

Our trip to Down Street went very well thanks for asking, feel very lucky to have had a bit of a spy around. It's not normally open, but someone has to go down there and do regular inspections so we managed to tag onto the back of that. The station w...

Down Street Underground Station

My pictures are here, not sorted or edited yet, had too busy and drunken weekend. Chums pictures are here and here and here, fuller writeup is here.PopEx is back, that's good, I wasn't really out of disk space just out of inodes, hmm. Just recovering...

Going underground

Half day today, it's the day of the great lunch outing, going with some buddies on a tour of Down Street Underground Station this afternoon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the ...

RE: On my own today

Going Underground (jam)Sound of the Underground (that girl band)Tunnels of the underground (men at work) "Jump off the Eiffel tower,just have a look around!Move FAST in the tunnels of the underground"And of course our very own the 22 Metre Band's Cen...

On my own today

Work's been a bit hectic, my IT colleague is out sick, so I'm fielding all enquiries (though generally just batting them back with "dunno, turn it off and on again"). Also Clare is working from home today, so I had to commute in on my own, I think th...

RE: Cheers for chipping in

The last time I went it was a weird hotel bar/restaurant thing - this was years ago and I've never been back since. There used to be a gig venue/bar that everyone (I say everyone, I mean me and the crowd I hung out with) went most Saturdays called Bo...

Underground London

I am fascinated by holes in the road, not sure why, it's something about being able to see beneath the respectable veneer of the city. There's some work going on on Cannon Street right now, drains I think. Only about 2 feet below the tarmac of the ro...

Carnage on the underground

Well hopefully no actual bloodshed, but there's been chaos on the way in this morning... Got to London Bridge to find it jammed, most of the ticket barriers closed. Eventually got through the barrier as they turned off all down the escalators - I gue...

What I have done been reading

Just finished Underground London, and enjoyed it very much... Haven't reported in what I've been reading since I griped about The Moonstone I don't think, I really dragged through that one but enjoyed it by the end. Hmm, I'm a great reviewer of books...

Waterloo and shitty line more like

My new way of getting to the train (Chancery Lane - Tottenham Court Road - Charing Cross) was pretty quick yesterday but THE STORM on the way to the tube was frightening! AND, this morning, I tried coming via the Waterloo and City line, and it sucked...

Subterranea Britannica

Smart, underground bunkers and structures and things, details of the 1880 attempt at digging a channel tunnel, with pictures...

Hong Kong invests in Folkestone

MTR Corp (MTRC), Hong Kong's underground rail operator, has made its fourth attempt to expand into Britain by taking a 29 per cent stake in a joint venture to bid for a commuter and high-speed train franchise, according to www.thestandard.com.hk......

The ease of navigation of the London Underground

That rude tube map is here and there are a few others too... Rest of the lyrics of easily impressed and while we're on the topic, ACE NEWS, MJ Hibbett is going to be Steve Lamacq's Euro 2004 correspondent, what's the idea Mark?The idea is that I'm go...

Jonny Greenwood

Radiohead axe hero, on the very same underground platform as me, how exciting! He and a young friend boarded the Northern Line there, and headed South to Kings Cross, as did I. Now I come to think about it, I expect he's been following me around, wai...

A quarter of commuters have found love in the tube

according to a poll by London Underground. And who's printing this shite? Yes, Metro. What should the sharpest response be? The other 75% can never find love becuase they've gnawed off their genitals in sheer frustration at the poor service? Stuck at...

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 __________ / \ / \ / \____________/ ...

Very popular with Shoreditch types

Got a couple of pairs of tickets to each of the following PlayLouder nights at the ICA next week, if you can tell me:Which of these artists is really performing on one of these nights?Thursday 4 December (Doors 7pm, buy tickets here)Gold Chains, Roll...

Subterranea Brittanica

This sounds good, "The study and investigation of man-made and man used underground places".

Oyster Card Fears

My Oyster card messed up for the first time today, I'm not sure staff really know what to do when this happens. First bus it worked fine, then on the next bus in Finsbury Park it gave me a red light. The driver didn't know what this meant, except tha...

Oyster Card PARANOIA

Talking about the weather seems to be a tradition on the weblogs, I've seen a lot of people have links to "times they've mentioned the weather" etc, how odd. Anyway, where the bloody hell did that rain come from? And me without a jacket today. It pla...

Darkness playing Reading

And you all scoffed when I started going on about this band... Right, the mighty Darkness follow hot on the heals of signing a hundred billion pound record deal with satan himself (or something, details are still sketchy) with a slot at Reading and L...