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Backstage at Elton John's new year's eve party...

This doesn't actually sound like a bad deal, New Year's Eve is always expensive and disappointing, how do you best tickets for Elton John, at the 'Dome, free drinks and an after show party too? All for less than 300 quid. Regular tickets are around t...
Rated 5.71/10 on Folkestone Gerald

This page only gets responded to every few months, but I could run a poll on the home page if you're interested... Who should play Folkestone?

Who I would like to come to Folkestone (again in some cases):The Cure (ha!)The Magic NumbersSuper Furry AnimalsDavid Devant and his Spirit WifeBelle and SebastianSuede (maybe they'll get back together soon)This is not for Zoo Thousand / ZOO9 is it? T...

Something to push my desperate ticket touting from the top of the blog

Terrible day of trains yesteray, have been training it in most of the week as my friend and neighbour who gives me a lift in has been off. Yesterday, morning train in CANCELLED! Started walking to look for a bus with a fellow commuter, and luckily we...

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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I fought the law, and the post office won

Damn, tried to beat the system this week, and failed. We went to see David Starkey last night, presenting his new book Henry: Virtuous Prince, part one of his biography. Very interesting, and makes a change to sitting in front of the telly, sort of. ...
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Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

I might know of one ticket

I think I know someone who might not be able to go, stay tuned, or email me - fg@folkestonegerald.com - or maybe some other kind soul will read this and reply?Sandi Toksvig is also doing a date at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, have you tried ...
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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...

AC/DC tickets

AC/DC are touring, first time in eight years apparently, though it's certainly not that long since we saw them at Hammersmith Odeon, guess that really was a special one off tour.Tue 14-Apr-09 AC/DC London The O2 On Sale From 10:00 17-Oct-08Tue 21-Ap...

RE: COOL!

Wow - that'd be truly spooky message. But maybe better than something happening when you're at home like 'noise detected in the cellar near that abandoned burial ground'

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...

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 ...

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

How strange to compare this Wagamama review with today

I never have Yasai Katsu Curry any more, though I used to eat it all the time in London. Maybe this was my first visit to the Canterbury branch......
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Another odd looking Bergerac Oak table

Here's another Bergerac Oak dining table with the same odd colouring as the other pieces I've seen on ebay recently... is this maybe an older colour that John Lewis used to do? Our bookcases are the mid coloured "Alsace" range, it's not that, but we ...

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...

My computer is dead!

Bah, turned it on today and I'm getting the blue screen of death with a unmountable_boot_volume error. Thought at first it was the backup drive or an IPOD plugged in, but no, it's the one and only hard drive that is knackered. Apparently I might be a...

Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

Sounds intriguing, something to do this weekend

From the Folkestone Fringe website:DIY fringe:if you haven't already had a peek, go up to the bayle and have a look at window, no 13 the bayle.I've got to go and have a look at that haven't I? I hope it's not a trick. The Bayle is a street in the ol...

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Maybe the PHP 4 to 5 will go more smoothly than I thought...

If all has gone according to plan, www.claremahon.com should now be serving up pages using PHP5, while www.clarkeology.com and www.folkestonegerald.com are still on PHP4. Pages like this Harry Clarke page or wiki style searches like this are using PH...

Google mapping cars in Folkestone?

Tesselate says google mapping cars (that they're using to do the street view on google maps) are "about", not sure if that means Folkestone. Just wondered if she was a Google employee, as we have the google mapping cars about now, and I guess it woul...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

The George in Rye July newsletter

We've been rather quiet on the newsletter front lately, having been nominated for UK Newcomer of the Year in the CATEY Awards, the Oscars of the Restaurant and Hotel world (sadly, the ceremony was not in LA). This award has previously been won by the...

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
Rated 5.68/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Zoo Thousand and Hate on the BBC

Here. Main things to be said are:* The organisers miscalculated cash flow* They had to cancel acts* Port Lympne stepped in, writing out a check for Ash there and then to ensure they'd go on stageGood on Port Lympne! I can't believe the same organiser...

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stereophonics again

I've got one of these, that's not it though, hope it goes for a good price. If you want to buy mine, maybe with the tickets I have for Folkestone, get in touch. We're going to end up going at this rate :-(Last chance for tickets (other people's ticke...

Rated 4.73/10 on Folkestone Gerald

New Cross Murder Map!

Just in case you're wondering how close the double murder and firebombing was from my old flat (even though I left there years ago), I just knocked this up for Mum and Dad, to give them a bit of a point of reference.View Larger MapIsn't google maps j...

Kent Festival weekend

Why would they organise Booshstock and zoo+thousand for the same weekend? They're both fairly close (Hythe and Tonbridge) and obviously aimed at the same indie kids, this is like putting Glastonbury and Reading on the same weekend.We're not going to ...

Book a horse racing table? WHAT?

What are you on about? This anything to do with Folkestone Racecourse? That's the only horse racing I have on my sites I think, and it does specifically say:This site is not affilliated with The Folkestone Racecourse. Every attempt is made to provide...

Nice pub, nice location

Bit pricey though I think. Maybe I don't put my hand in my pocket often enough, but three quid for a pint of bitter and one pound eighty for a diet coke seems a bit excessive to me.Lovely to sit out in there garden though, it's the only place within ...
Rated 6.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The 100 Club

Must have been someone more exciting supporting, was it maybe Hooverdam?
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The Joiners

I saw them in Manchester around this time too, maybe at the Night and Day?

The Wedgewood Rooms

Can't remember what, but I know I was at something at the Wedge this night, while Placebo were at the Joiners. Maybe it was a caberet.
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald