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Escondido 28 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent CT20 3BD 01303 246624

Koko 1a Camden High Street, Camden, London NW1 7JE

The Engineer 121 Folkestone Road, Dover, Kent, CT17 9SG

Thomas Ingoldsby (Wetherspoons) 5-9 Burgate, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2HG

cafe tusk 24 west street, fareham, hampshire po16 0lf (01329) 235511 / 235522. fax: (023) 9266 6612

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 trolleyed o Astoria 157 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EN 020 7434 9592 [Tuesday 25 January 2000]

Reading Festival Just went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echobelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm. Reading Festival Reading, Berkshire [Sunday 28 August 1994]

McAlmont and Butler Free thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys and also Space Islington Academy London [Friday 1 November 2002]

Drugstore Club Maker night. Thom Yorke performed with Drugstore, and Michael Stipe was in the crowd. Support from The Bigger The God and Groupie and double gin for a pound. ULU Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY [Tuesday 14 March 2000]

Mummm, my ears hurt Big up to Raging Speedhorn, and their album... [Friday 11 August 2000]

McGee and Primals reunited... Alan McGee is managing Primal Scream... [Monday 4 September 2000]

Lesbians more popular than Metallica, shocker Search Engine Shenanigans... [Wednesday 6 September 2000]

Tonight's gig action Hot gigging action! Stick you! In the Dome... [Tuesday 26 September 2000]

REVERSE THE AGING PROCESS!!! No, go to a GIG... [Tuesday 2 January 2001]

Two votes in it, innit - Imagine wins List-TASTIC! [Monday 8 January 2001]

Tommy, and the ginger one The Monarch / Barfly [Wednesday 31 January 2001]

christopher biggins and lesley joseph sunday lunch at joe allen [Monday 5 March 2001]

the ginger one Our Price in Uxbridge [Sunday 11 March 2001]

Chris Moyles Pitiful Begging Aren't I always saying Carling is my favourite lager? BIG UP to Bass Breweries... [Friday 24 August 2001]

Happy thoughts, deep breaths, happy thoughts... Let's go gigging... [Friday 30 November 2001]

David's Coming Back... David Devant and his Spirit Wife return at last, gigging with Inner City Unit... [Tuesday 4 December 2001]

Bobby Gillespie Virgin Megastore [Tuesday 18 December 2001]

The gigging world has awoken - Bob Dylan, Sophie Ellis Bextor and the Highlands of Scotland... Bob Dyland and Sophie Ellis Bextor tickets on sale now... [Friday 11 January 2002]

Meet Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons! At Virgin Megastore! [Wednesday 27 November 2002]

ZZ Tour Original line up, Brixton Academy, Birmingham, and Newcastle... [Tuesday 15 April 2003]

Plans and Apologies [Tuesday 20 May 2003]

bit of a mess [Tuesday 20 May 2003]

Morrissey [Tuesday 20 May 2003]

blogging [Tuesday 20 May 2003]

Nice Packaging! Earlimart, bit like Grandaddy. [Tuesday 27 May 2003]

Mark and Lard Virgin Megastore [Tuesday 10 June 2003]

fat ginge on washing machine off the phones4u ad hmm well for six years during my high schooldays M [Saturday 5 July 2003]

Love on the roof With some sort of rice! [Wednesday 6 August 2003]

One of the twins from "A" Virgin Megastore [Thursday 7 August 2003]

Jayne Middlemiss Virgin Megastore [Thursday 7 August 2003]

Novelty Single Packaging` This is more like it! [Tuesday 12 August 2003]

Heating Engineer is here! [Tuesday 12 August 2003]

Heating is FIXED! [Tuesday 12 August 2003]

Bo Selecta man Avid I think his name is The Engineer, Primrose Hill [Tuesday 26 August 2003]

Blogging about Blogging about Blogging [Monday 8 September 2003]

A new 419 variant [Monday 8 September 2003]

Pidster [Tuesday 9 September 2003]

MP3 ID3 tagging in PERL [Tuesday 4 November 2003]

Looks like it almost worked [Tuesday 4 November 2003]

Five reasons not to believe "five reasons not to buy an IPOD" [Thursday 6 November 2003]

Damien Lewis, fit ginger bloke Camden, nr the Stables Market [Monday 22 December 2003]

Britney Spears Virgin Megastore - Times Square NYC [Tuesday 23 December 2003]

Quizno's singing rats [Friday 27 February 2004]

RE: Quizno's singing rats [Wednesday 17 March 2004]

Spongmonkeys [Thursday 18 March 2004]

Times they are a-changing [Monday 5 April 2004]

Another boiler! [Thursday 10 June 2004]

search engines [Thursday 10 June 2004]

popbitch doesn't want it's site indexed [Thursday 10 June 2004]

ah i understand [Thursday 10 June 2004]

I don't think the mini is all that [Thursday 10 June 2004]

Mobile Clubbing [Friday 11 June 2004]

ipod and jogging [Monday 21 June 2004]

Digging for pie [Sunday 4 July 2004]

Chaos on the bus x od..ay and itx.s plsslng down.Mein a t shirt too... [Tuesday 3 August 2004]

Blogging on the iPAQ: UNCUT [Tuesday 3 August 2004]

Hot. Busy. [Thursday 12 August 2004]

You F**kin' MOOK [Friday 13 August 2004]

Luckily they didn't get their Dad's looks! [Friday 13 August 2004]

Let's hope they hold their beer better than the old man ! [Friday 13 August 2004]

I'd imagine if they opened their mouths, there would be a similarity ! [Friday 13 August 2004]

Return of the jeteye [Monday 27 September 2004]

search engines [Tuesday 28 September 2004]

A9 [Tuesday 28 September 2004]

The Darkness play Brixton, slight return [Thursday 4 November 2004]

SuprNova.org - .com and .net are scammers! - The REAL Universal BitTorrent source [Thursday 4 November 2004]

Hmm [Thursday 4 November 2004]

Azureus - WhatIsNat [Wednesday 10 November 2004]

iPod IS expensive [Wednesday 17 November 2004]

A response to the tale singing the praises of Stokey [Wednesday 24 November 2004]

Original Titanic Daily Mirror [Monday 13 December 2004]

The people on the Titanic Web Site think this is not an original but a reproduction [Thursday 16 December 2004]

How To Steal Wi-Fi - And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. By Paul Boutin [Tuesday 22 February 2005]

Mail::Bulkmail - Platform independent mailing list module [Wednesday 23 February 2005]

Doesn't the new Engineers album remind you of the Leas Cliff Hall? [Tuesday 1 March 2005]

The rules of commuting [Thursday 19 May 2005]

mOOMINTRUDE [Thursday 19 May 2005]

what, of star wars? [Thursday 19 May 2005]

evil cow [Thursday 19 May 2005]

Blogging about her seems to have done the trick [Friday 20 May 2005]

sleep [Friday 20 May 2005]

the more I blog it [Friday 20 May 2005]

ah yes the leaflet campaign [Friday 20 May 2005]

search.cpan.org: PDF::Reuse - Reuse and mass produce PDF documents [Friday 25 November 2005]

Buy Jay Kay's Segway [Tuesday 10 January 2006]

Dynamic DIVS [Tuesday 10 January 2006]

Yeah it's annoying isn't it... [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

RE: Yeah it's annoying isn't it... [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

Is there not a login box over on the right there? --> [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

RE: Is there not a login box over on the right there? --> [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

and you're typing in the right username and password? [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

RE: and you're typing in the right username and password? [Wednesday 11 January 2006]

Azureus : Plugin Details for SafePeer [Saturday 21 January 2006]

Double squirrel update [Thursday 20 April 2006]

RE: Double squirrel update [Thursday 20 April 2006]

I prefer the greys to the gingers [Thursday 20 April 2006]

RE: I prefer the greys to the gingers [Thursday 20 April 2006]

It's evolution in action I reckon [Thursday 20 April 2006]

rude boy [Wednesday 24 May 2006]

hey Don [Friday 26 May 2006]

RE: hey Don [Wednesday 14 June 2006]

you're => you are, your => belonging to you [Wednesday 14 June 2006]

Original Harry Clarke artwork [Tuesday 12 September 2006]

Train times did not work out well at all [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

RE: Train times did not work out well at all [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

RE: Train times did not work out well at all [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

redirected where? [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

RE: redirected where? [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

no it redirects you to that page if there's an error [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

RE: no it redirects you to that page if there's an error [Tuesday 7 November 2006]

Nice [Wednesday 8 November 2006]

RE: Nice [Wednesday 8 November 2006]

Yeah same login everywhere [Wednesday 8 November 2006]

good managing agent in folkestone [Wednesday 3 January 2007]

ours is just ten flats [Wednesday 3 January 2007]

Tales of mystery and imagination [Tuesday 16 January 2007]

RE: ours is just ten flats [Thursday 18 January 2007]

I've not had to do anything since I've been here [Friday 19 January 2007]

Harry Clarke colour plates [Sunday 21 January 2007]

Let the coffee wars begin! [Wednesday 14 February 2007]

RE: Let the coffee wars begin! [Friday 16 February 2007]

Is Nero that much better? [Friday 16 February 2007]

RE: Let the coffee wars begin! [Monday 26 February 2007]

A Cafe Nero in Folkestone [Tuesday 27 February 2007]

How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc... [Thursday 8 March 2007]

RE: Let the coffee wars begin! [Sunday 27 May 2007]

xml namespaces in jquery Dang I'm struggling with some work code that I really ought not be thinking about on a Friday night... [Friday 31 August 2007]

RE: xml namespaces in jquery [Sunday 2 September 2007]

jquery is great [Sunday 2 September 2007]

RE: Is Nero that much better? [Monday 26 November 2007]

only one music shop and one coffee shop isn't it? [Tuesday 27 November 2007]

Useful tips for guitar beginners! [Thursday 29 May 2008]

Stop moaning about sore fingers, call yourself a man? [Thursday 29 May 2008]

It's not cheating, it's perfectly valid [Thursday 29 May 2008]

did your spell checker kick in there? [Friday 30 May 2008]

Refunds on BA and Virgin flights to the USA [Tuesday 22 July 2008]

Precision engineering? [Wednesday 10 September 2008]

Talk about hedging your bets [Friday 26 September 2008]

Who is Russell Brand? [Thursday 30 October 2008]

3 Imaginary Chairs No, 3 real chairs. #Habitat radius again [Saturday 28 February 2009]

How do I geocode my photos automatically for free? Got my #GPS log, but can't find my software... [Monday 9 March 2009]

RE: How do I geocode my photos automatically for free? [Tuesday 10 March 2009]

RE: How do I geocode my photos automatically for free? [Wednesday 11 March 2009]

Who understands ebay? Endless plugging: nothing. 2 days of silence: £20 commission... [Sunday 15 March 2009]

Blogging suffering as a direct result of twitter Nothing to see, not worth following the automated link! [Tuesday 24 March 2009]

Have sold 5 of my xbox games Not a raging success, can barely be bothered to write out these envelopes [Tuesday 24 March 2009]

kent.gov.uk/libraries FAIL Ah man I just did a big url again, sorry. This works though http://www.kent.gov.uk/LibrariespublicUI/OpeningTimes/LibraryDetails.aspx?id=32 [Friday 24 April 2009]

When did twitter stop shortening urls automatically? Or did I imagine that? Folkestone library page is at http://bit.ly/fDVD5 [Friday 24 April 2009]

Which changing bag should we get? It's all decisions this having a baby lark... [Tuesday 28 April 2009]

Folkestone Library / Amazon plugin Automaticlaly see if you can get a book for free while browsing Amazon [Monday 25 May 2009]

Bah, I just wrote my first greasemonkey plugin And now it's all going #jetpack instead [Thursday 28 May 2009]

Another lovely weekend Not much to report, although it's been a week. So don't click! [Sunday 18 October 2009]

RE: Another lovely weekend [Monday 19 October 2009]

I think it was the original blockingness that I got the report about [Monday 19 October 2009]

So Flickr has face tagging now too? Shame there's no standard for this yet using EXIF data [Monday 26 October 2009]

Trying to avoid thinking about work for a whole hour FAIL [Thursday 12 November 2009]

Photoshop project Let me know if you'd like to download the original! [Sunday 15 November 2009]

Seven bird roast, vegan style Pictures of my christmas dinner, possibly. [Tuesday 22 December 2009]

Closing down sale next weekend at The Neville Pundole Gallery Many items over 50% OFF original price! [Sunday 10 January 2010]

More Tales From The Tap Room A copy here on ebay, still looking for an original though... [Friday 29 January 2010]

Instant Karma's gonna get you It feels like only yesterday I was bragging about how good the trains were! [Thursday 11 February 2010]

Anyone written a pbworks plugin? Can I write plugins or do I just past in some js? [Thursday 4 March 2010]

RE: Anyone written a pbworks plugin? [Friday 5 March 2010]

It's a work thing! [Sunday 7 March 2010]

Folkestone's HEVY music festival is back agin this year! For a full weekend, bands being confirmed already, details here [Friday 12 March 2010]

Second viewing of the biggest investment of my life New house is STILL GOOD [Sunday 2 May 2010]

A bookcase to match our bookcases Collect from London (yawn) [Wednesday 19 May 2010]

Oh also went to Bybrook Barn today More bloggingness. [Saturday 22 May 2010]

Happy birthday mum [Monday 21 June 2010]

How do I insert the current date / time in a Coda clip? [Tuesday 20 July 2010]

Who are you @itsmeperkykhaye ? STOP MESSAGING ME [Wednesday 21 July 2010]

Not only did I watch a film I read a book, The Collaborators [Wednesday 21 July 2010]

What a shame about Alex Higgins [Saturday 24 July 2010]

One more day without exchanging contracts [Monday 2 August 2010]

Original Sony PSP just sold for £67 [Monday 2 August 2010]

RE: How do I insert the current date / time in a Coda clip? [Thursday 7 October 2010]

DIY weekend Painted the spare room, did not get our bedroom done too. [Monday 24 January 2011]

Bargain starting price for a "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" first edition [Friday 3 June 2011]

RE: Bargain starting price for a "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" first edition [Monday 6 June 2011]

Curry night was good [Monday 25 July 2011]

Insane rioting RING OF BATS [Tuesday 9 August 2011]

Lol Tolhurst is back for this Cure show [Friday 30 September 2011]

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