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ARTISTS EAT THEIR WORDS

... the opening of a most glorious exhibition, titled Shed of Leaves, by artists from Folkestone based group, White Shed, who are gaining quite a reputation for diverse and interesting exhibitions. The works on show all have a literary theme or conne...

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...

Strange time travel

As previously possibly mentioned, I am listening to old Mark Radcliffe radio shows, on the mp3. Just listened to the last ever graveyard shift show on Radio One, and then (in exactly the wrong order) the first ever graveyard shift show from 1993. And...

Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

See this ebay auction, loads of really good scans of Harry Clarke illustrations there, worth checking out out just for those, even if you don't bid... In fact, please don't bid, because I might.There is a much later reprint available, that's too high...

Programming is a poetry for our time

A fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ...

Reporting from the Lake District (being the fourth part of my two week holiday write up)

More photos up now, but here's a bit of video we did.We were originally going to go for a proper cottage for our stay in the Lake District, but I'm so glad we settled on the apartment in Keswick we originally went for. It was nice, all the mod cons, ...

Tales of mystery and imagination

No family tree updates for a little while, though I'm off to investigate The Grants of Winterbourne Stoke again in case I missed anything before, one of my great great great grandfathers is there. In the mean time, here's a smashing super rare copy o...

RE: SAMWAYS

Hi Emma! My name is Lisa Walters (nee Samways). My mothers name is Emma and my Daughter is also named Emma. My daughter is actually the 5th generation named Emma in our Samways family tree. We live in Newfoundland Canada. My great great Grandfathe...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
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FOLKESTONE POET MAKES BOOK CHART

Folkestone poet Ben Barton has made the Amazon UK's Top 5 'Hot Books' chart with his debut poetry collection...Called THE RED BOOK, it is described as his �greatest hits collection� featuring over forty previously published poems, from The Re-Birth R...

'Dial-a-Poem' along White Cliffs

Phone up and listen to poems while cycling new routes through Samphire Hoe etc. Odd idea......

George Sassoon obit, hmm...

George Sassoon, who has died aged 69, was the son, and only child, of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, and attained distinction in a number of interesting fields, read all about him in the Telegraph. He's mentioned here for a comment he once made about ou...

Paul Leslie CLARKE

Re: Paul Leslie CLARKEMy grandmother, Eliza Clarke, was left a 1914-18 widow with 7children, when her husband was gassed in the war. She remarried a Lawrence. Granmdad Clarke is buried in the top left hand corner of Stoke Newington cemetary as you fa...

Black Beans

Black Beans (Not the oriental soy bean used for black bean sauce)Can be bought in sainsbury's.I don't know when you first posted article.There are some good recipes on the net using black beans, they are very good for you, and higher in antioxidants ...

I love random spam poetry

I think they put these random words into spam to try to fool junk mail filters and make it look like a real letter. I especially like the part "languid feminist inhabitant". New bands looking for names should really want to get spammed. It's such an ...

V Festival latest

I've been quiet today, beavering busily on busted balance sheets, so HEY! Here's some news written by someone else; The Killers, Deepest Blue and Syntax have been added to the V Festival lineup... An old workmate of mine is in Syntax, friend to the s...

All Welsh, All Safe

Tracksuited rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain have put together an all-Welsh line-up for their upcoming hometown gig at Newport's NCLA. The GLC crew, who also play gigs with The Streets and The Darkness during February, have asked Barry rockers My Red Cel...

OX04 Festival

Just received word of this festival in Manchester, in aid of Oxfam, contact details for more info at the bottom of this message...Following the success of this year's OX03 festival, (an eight day event inManchester City Centre to highlight and raise ...

WORD from HIBBETT

The second full size MJ Hibbett and the Validators album "This Is Not A Library" is out soon! Well, not until the 21st of July, but we'll have some copies to give away very soon indeed. Until then, here's what Hibbett himself has to say: "If you coul...

What a polite letter...

Hi guys,I'm writing in regards to a night we're promoting in Manchester on 26th November. It's called Manchester's One Night Stand & the bands playing are Belle Vue, Poet's Corner, Overtone, The Unexpected & The Provisionals. The price is �3 & the ve...

Nostalgia is a four letter word

Went to see Morrissey last night, bit disappointing really. It was not The Smiths (though we got Meat is murder and There's a light that never goes out), you can never go back. Don't know why I was so mopey, it's all stupid things that I felt weren't...

Cut and paste job for a generation

Here is my review of Handcream for a generation - I cut some phrases out of messages in an email conversation I had about it. And remixed them.on a first player,it's a stayer. they are one of my bands ever beenlike primal screama hundred words?anyone...

Guildford Festival - INDOORS!

"Big Day In" will be Guildford Fest indoors, at Guildford Civic Hall on Saturday April 13th 2002. It goes from lunchtime to one in the morning, and will feature more than 30 different bands, acts, comedians and poets, including Athlete and Vex Red.Ca...

Genius... Poet... Twat...

Anyone seen the posters for the new "24 Hour Party People" film? Anyway there is an "official club promo night" for the film at ULU (Malet St, London) on Friday 22nd of March... there will be a load of giveaways of merchandising and music of the film...
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Barfly Cardiff presents Seafood

Hi, more listings, just to shunt that Limp Bizkit "story" off the front page...Barfly Cardiff ~ Kingsway, Cardiff CF10 3FD.Wed 20th June - ClosedThu 21st June - FF VINYL presents: Patrick Jones + guests (�tbc)Fri 22nd June - BARFLY & RIZING DAMP pres...

Sean Hughes

Sunday 3rd June, 16.00.

Looking a bit smug in all-black denim. He was drinking and chatting with his mates, or reading them poetry or something. They all looked smug too.

The Hardware EP

Got The Cooper Temple Clause's debut EP at last... Opening track "The Devil Walks In The Sand" is five minutes Led Zeppelin, but it's not just heads down rock, there are LAYERS to it..."Solitude" is an effects laden instrumental track, but with what ...

Tonight's entertainment...

It's Transcopic Records night tonight at The Verge, on Kentish Town Road... but it sold out way in advance... Why? Could be something to do with it being Graham Coxon's label, and there being rumours of him doing a set to close off the gig.Whether he...

Borders Bookstore

Free instore gig and poetry reading...

Portsmouth Pyramids

First of the Portsmouth Venue Campaign freebies helping out on the door. Plus Gunshot, Attilla the Stockbroker, nad Spot the Poet.
Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald