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Folkestone Literary Festival Brochure - OUT NOW!

Folkestone Literary Festival 2008 - 1st to 9th NovemberIf you haven't managed to check out the programme for this year's festival online you'll be pleased to know that the brochures are now available in many locations around Folkestone and the surrou...

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Space food!

A couple of future-food links from friends, to share... first actual astronaut food from Rob, and then also Hot Pack Self Heating Meals from Neil.Massive lunch today of sausages, ratatouille, and baked potato, an extra serving that Clare made up yest...

York (being the fourth part of my holiday)

York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho...

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...

What does the world health organisation know anyway?

The World Health Organisation recommends 24 degrees Centigrade as a maximum working temperature. But it's a recommendation, not law, so we can't leave the office, boo. If you're reading this at some point in the future, there's a good chance today is...

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...
Rated 5.35/10 on Folkestone Gerald

MARVELLOUS weekend then

It's all about the pictures this weekend, which I don't have to hand, so I must transfer, upload, and edit them into this post later... Friday my cousin had a baby, welcome to the world Keira Patel, and then Friday night Clare had a hair trial for th...

Send out another ad for MTV2 Gonzo tour

MTV2 Gonzo tour update! The fantastic new Rough Trade signings Fiery Furnaces are joining the bill (first on) on the Liverpool date, and local heroes Biffy Clyro are the special guests headlining the Glasgow show, on the back of their sell out show a...

all of the rocks

they were trying to find a curryhouse after playing a gig at the academy with hot hot heat. they were too important to talk to mere mortals on the street, so instead took a private jet 2 streets down and found a a curry house. then got in a van and d...

Stokefest

That website is all about looking for sponsorship, there's not a lot out there for punters in terms of lineups etc... Hank Wangford played at the Vortex on Friday, didn't know about it until we went there for breakfast yesterday though... Well recomm...

Reading additions!

Just added to the Reading and Leeds (aka Carling Weekend) festivals:GodsmackLadytronMull Historical SocietyAlien Ant FarmOK GoAll American RejectsThe RaptureHot Hot HeatMy Morning JacketFutureheadsSerafinKinesisand probably more, but the press releas...

Want to go to the Barfly tonight?

Sorry, you can't, it's Hot Hot Heat tonight and it sold out SO FAR IN ADVANCE that it's unreal. I can't even go, and I have been neglecting popex for a couple of weeks now to do some work for them, cuh, how do you like them apples?I will be mostly co...

You love it you slags

Hello... busy busy busy this week, but just stopping in briefly to remind you that the Hot Hot Heat single Bandages is out soon, on the 24th according to the hastily scribbled complement slip that accompanied a copy of the single to my office. Maybe ...

It's all going off at ULU

Sorry to be all Londoncentric, but popex is a one man band, and this is the town in what I reside... Got a couple of announcements from ULU for you... First off The Faint will be bringing their dark but also 80's sound to the venue on the 4th of Apri...

Gigs for you

All pay attention, click here and bookmark it, so that next month when you're saying "I didn't know White Stripes / Hot Hot Heat / Radio 4 / The Darkness / Bluetones / Wildhearts were playing, anyone know where I can get tickets for less than a hundr...