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Bumping into friends in London

KERRAZY, went to London last weekend and it was smashing, and we bumped into good chums Ralph and Linda and baby Astrid in GAP, what are the chances of that? OK, we had already arranged to meet up with them earlier that day at Pain Quotidien, which w...

RE: Thanks for chipping in on the site anyway

Sorry to jump in but I'm seeing some valuable input here. You're all clearly live music fans so could I ask you all who would be your top 5 live bands to see. It would be most helpful if they are current and still performing and preferably the kind o...

Someone else struggling with their Habitat Radius wardrobe doors

Wonder if the person selling this wardrobe was planning to sell the wardrobe anyway, or if the doors not shutting properly has driven them mad and made them want rid? That's how I read it:This wardrobe was bought from Habitat around 3 years ago. It c...

Live pirate map!

Missed opportunity, why use google's default map pins instead of little skull and crossbone graphics?This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2008....

Cure tickets on sale at 9am

Get them here, good luck. An initial batch already sold out through www.nme.com, guess that's why there are no advanced tickets that we O2 customers are supposed to get.Maybe see you here later if we miss out, though I'm not sure we'll pay much if Th...
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RE: MediaMonkey

Hello Pauly, long time no speak/hear. Hope all is well, you have probably tried this already in your infinite techno-know-how but if (in iTunes) you select all and right click on a track you can choose to "Get Album Artwork" and it should get all tra...

RE: Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

I have a similar problem and I got tired of fighting with it. Most of these cameras also will send a screen shot to an ftp server so I wrote a vbscript that polls the server and then sends an email using my workplace smtp server. Obviously, you need ...

Who is Russell Brand?

Lordy, could Russell Brand have done anything better to raise his profile than that phone call to Andrew Sachs? Mostly it's probably the Hate Mail on Sunday that's to blame. When the original Russell Brand show went out, no-one was listening. It's on...

Wilde Flowers 1967

I was a founder member of Wilde Flowers along with my brother Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers and later included Dave & Richard Sinclair. We were based in Canterbury and were the originators of the 'Canterbury Sound' which later spawned tw...

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The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November

The Holloways play the LCH, get tickets here. Not yet sold out, no need for ebay (yet). Support from local acts Underground Heroes and Seven Storey Down, full press release to follow.More dates nationally, at cosier venues than we get here, guess Fol...

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RE: sandy toksvig tickets

Hi Clare,

I have managed to get hold of 2 tickets to Sandi Toksvig if you still need them.
Please call me on 01303 245799.

Roberta

MediaMonkey

When I had hard drive problems recently and had to restore all my music library from a backup, I only had backups of the actual tracks and not all the associated itunes stuff. This means I lost most of my album artwork and things! Annoyingly itunes w...

RE: sandy toksvig tickets

Hi Clare,

Please email your contact details to me roberta@creativefoundation.org.uk
I can't promise tickets at this stage but I can keep your name and contact you if anything changes.

Roberta

Metallica tickets

Metallica tour the UK! Get tickets here, on sale Friday morning.Wed 25th Feb - Nottingham Trent FM ArenaThurs 26th Feb - Manchester Evening News ArenaSat 28th Feb - Sheffield ArenaMon 2nd Feb - London O2 ArenaTues 3rd Feb - New...
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Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)

Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev...

A rare night out in London tonight

Meeting a friend here after work before meeting Clare later, and staying in a hotel, how decadent. Tomorrow, lunching and shopping.Camera update: it just sent me an email, the first in days. Always a bit nervy receiving a mail saying "motion detected...
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More camera strangeness

I had a burst of five emails in a row from the camera, not sure if it's when I'd tweaked with the settings or not so no idea if it's working or not. Might try turning off the video attachment see if that's any easier on the email. Found lots of stuff...

Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

Dug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a...

FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008

FOLKESTONE LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberThe full programme is now available on the festival website www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk where you can also book tickets online.Top names this year include Kate Adie, Will Self, Denis Norden, Sir ...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008

Where is the lineup? www.folkestonelitfest.co.uk has nothing yet. I really should have already joined up as a friend and be running their site for them shouldn't I...Names I've heard so far include Will Self, John Hegley and a return for local lad Da...

Hmm, I might have that on vinyl too

I was obviously drunk when I wrote that. I don't have it in my itunes, so I probably don't have it on a CD, and just assumed that it was not a cd single...
Yes, come to the gig!

F-I-R-E I-N E-S-C-O-N-D-I-D-O

Has there been a fire? And did Gate 28 reopen? We were not in that part of town all weekend.Here is video of a fire in Escondido:That's Escondido, California though, not our favourite local restaurant. Yes, still my favourite, went to Sandbanks this ...

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David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
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Lone Star Comedy returns on Saturday September 27th

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton � on Saturday September 27th.The line up consists of THE AMAZING MR SMITH, SHELAGH MARTIN, compere TIERNAN DOUIEB, plus a newcomer�s act. THE AMA...
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The plot of a Christopher Brookmyre book

OK so this story doesn't have a plot that we know of so far, but each bit of information that's eeked out of nowhere by the press leads the imagination in different directions, like a good book. Of course, this is not a book, these are people's lives...

Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...
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savour aroma

Ate here last week The female maitre de was rude and unpleasant to the point of hostilitywe overordered by mistake and werte treated like criminalsthis is yhe wotrst attitude problem ive encountered in a restaurantwill never eat here again...
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"if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle."

That was the advice from www.folkestonefringe.com, so I did.Probably not worth making a major detour for. Perhaps it changes every day though and brightens up someones walk to work, from the niceness of The Bayle into the grimness of the town centre....

Free bottle of wine at Pizza Express

Register at www.filippoberio.co.uk, got to promotions, and enter the "you can only possibly know this if you actually bought a bottle of olive oil" code "VINO EXPRESS". Ping, a free bottle of wine next time you go to Pizza Express. We already got our...
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Canterbury Cricket Club

Should probably have gone to this one...

Islington Academy

James Marsters' band... ooh, a stinker!

Goldsmiths College

A great gig, just round the corner from where I was living. Cheap booze and accompanying art exhibition.

Sound Republic

Free gig, recorded for XFM. Beset by tech problems, I think Bernard kicked the barrier down in frustration.

Dingwalls

Robyn Hitchcock
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Walpole Park

Ed Byrne and Rob Newman

Camden Falcon

plus Chicks, at Camden Falcon. Probably a Barfly thing, but when it was at the Falcon... anyone remember such days?...

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Southsea Common

Kirsty MacColl and Tom Robinson. Honestly, I went to some better gigs than this.

Portsmouth Guildhall

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