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Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

GLC + SFA OK!

Goldie Lookin' Chain support Super Furry Animals! Again! Possibly only the London date, but I'll let you know when I find out more...Also, WORD on the STREET is that the two bands will be recording a track together too!SFA dates are as follows, there...

My Coco

Just a reminder, stellastarr* are finally going to release My Coco on the 8th of March, it's certainly the maddest thing on their album, and quite possibly the best, could be the best single you'll hear all year... www.popex.com/popEx/1/1/1/3/2/4/2/ ...

Pixies

It's official The Pixies play Brixton Academy on the 2nd and 3rd of June... and the tickets go on sale in the morning. I bet they end up adding more dates to that, they're midweek...If you'd like to know when Pixies tickets become available click her...

My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket, the favourites of Dave Grohl and also Clare's brother, are playing the Astoria in February...My Morning Jacket @ ASTORIA, LONDON, (Thu 5 Feb 2004)If you'd like to know when My Morning Jacket tickets become available click here if y...
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Insane in the 'Chain

I muchly enjoyed Goldie Lookin' Chain at Metro last night, here is a picture:The band righteously rocked the Metro, a crowd quite evenly split between fans, industry and friends. Highlight for me was "Metal", a rock pastiche laid over a mighty loopin...

Goldie Lookin' Chain tickets (2004)

Goldie Lookin' Chain tickets for sale here:Goldie Lookin' Chain @ Metro Club, London (Tue 3 Feb 21:00) [info / details]Goldie Lookin' Chain @ The Cathouse, Glasgow, Strathclyde (Sun 4 Apr 21:00) [info / details]Goldie Lookin' Chain @ The Charlotte, L...

Stellastarr new tour

Stellastarr play Camden Electric Ballroom today, same day as The Darkness Passport Gig, so it will make an excellent consolation prize when we don't win tickets... full stellastarr* tour dates follow:Stellastarr @ The Charlotte, Leicester (Sun 29 Feb...

You Knows It

I just got the best thing ever through the post...As you'll all know my new favourite band are Goldie Looking Chain so I'm thrilled to have arrive today not just their debut album "The Manifesto", and not only Adam Hussain's solo album "Truth and Sla...

SFA Tour OK

The mighty SFA take to the road again in the Spring and tickets are selling fast... be careful out there, looks like some dates have moved:Super Furry Animals @ Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, Merseyside (Sat 27 Mar) [info / details]Super Furry Anima...

Goldie Lookin' Chain

The excellent Welsh rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain are doing a proper London gig at last:Goldie Lookin' Chain @ Metro Club, London(Tue 3 Feb 2004) info / detailsThey also play Bristol Fleece And Firkin on the 1st of Feb, possibly a full tour is looming...

Turbonegro @ LA2 / Mean Fiddler

Don't you wish you'd bought Darkness tickets when I first mentioned them?Turbo Negro @ MEAN FIDDLER, LONDON, (Mon 8 Dec)Turbo Negro @ Mean Fiddler, London (Mon 8 Dec) [info / details]Turbo Negro @ TJ's, Newport, Gwent (Tue 9 Dec) [info / details]Turb...

Ten Benson

Ten Benson are touring about now! They've had a few false starts before, but I think this could really be there, time, get in there! Special guests are Sludgefeast, who I remember being similarly styled...Ten Benson @ Concorde 2, Brighton, East Susse...

Def Leppard Cover?

Ah, unfortunately not... Muse release a completely different track called "Hysteria" on the 1st of December... This is taken from their number selling pop album Absolution.As with their last ones, I've no idea what it sounds like as it comes sealed u...

You knows it!

Unfortunately for Reuben, I am also listening to Goldie Lookin' Chain, so they's not going to get another look in, you knows it! It's Welsh council house hip hop, maybe just the tip of the tongue heading towards the cheek, and it's funny as. There's ...

Duran Duran @ Kentish Town Forum

Gig last night was ace, though Duran Duran themselves didn't put on too much of a performance, at least to start with, they were happy with standing there knowing the crowd were loving them. The atmosphere in the venue was great, and best of all it w...

Free Jim Bob CD

Jim Bob is touring in October, and there's free CD's to be had each night... the first 10 people to visit the t-shirt stall each night will receive a free copy of "Acoustic Party 7", featuring solo acoustic versions of:Candy FlossCarry On AloneSealed...

Million Dead Tour

As well as the providing the backbone of the Kerrang! Club tour andsupporting the second leg of the huge Funeral For A Friend tour; MillionDead will be taking their stunning live show on a nine date headlining UKtour in November culminating at The Ga...

One Big Darkness

Darkness tour all sold out, tickets going for over a hundred quid a go on Ebay, what can you do..? Well you can take not of this mailout from the band:This Sunday, 14 September, sees The Darkness hit Cardiff in Wales for Radio One's onebigweekend liv...

Super Furry Animals Tickets

Slight repost from popex... Super Furry Animals full autumn dates are as follows;Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire (Mon 13 Oct)Southampton Guildhall, Hampshire (Tue 14 Oct)SOUTHAMPTON GUILDHALL (Tue 14 Oct)Carling Academy, Birmingham (Thu 16 Oct...

Council Fabulous

Freebie of the week has to be my Fighting Cocks "Council Fabulous" t-shirt I got from Charlie. First time of wearing it and some lady in Safeway was asking me where she could get one... maybe I'll fund the making of some more and we can sell them.Off...

RE: News night

Newsnight footage is here, available to stream from the BBC, and AT LAST, the new hosting company have set popex up properly so the server can talk to other servers... just added hundreds of new gigs and sent out hundreds of gig mails as a result...J...

News night

Channelfly was on newsnight last night, a feature about MP3's They interviewed some of my cow-orkers, very exciting. Shame they did it all on Friday when I wasn't here, otherwise I might have been on TV too. Looking forward to getting an mpeg rip of ...

Zero 7 tour

Zero 7 @ Colston Hall, Bristol, Avon (Mon 15 Mar 2004)Zero 7 @ Brixton Academy, Brixton, London (Fri 26 Mar 2004)Zero 7 @ Sheffield Octagon, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Thu 18 Mar 2004)Zero 7 @ Southampton Guildhall, Southampton, Hampshire (Tue 16 Ma...

Sign up for the gig mail before it's too late!

Oh, it is too late already, The Darkness have sold out! Well, at least their online allocation of tickets for Glasgow and the standing tickets for London have all sold out... if you've not got your tickets for the hottest tour of the year check out t...

Database corruption again

Fixed it and wrote a script that checks every ten minutes if something's corrupt, if it is it fixes it... should have done this a long time ago. Going to be wroking on all day.Tweak to the getGigs script that lists gigs on popex, adding an automatic ...

Flaming Gigs

Flaming Lips are that latest in a long line of bands doing big tours this Autumn... a couple of dates are on sale already, namely:Bournemouth International Centre (Fri 24 Oct)Brighton Centre (Sun 2 Nov)But the rest of the dates will be up here soon.....

THE KIDS on THE STREET are going crazy for the popex gig mail!!!

I now have Radiohead tickets! Yay me! 10 minutes later they sold out so we don't have the ten tickets we cummulatively wanted. I think there's going to be a very big fight when I tell the 4 people that didn't get tickets that I have 2 spare...If y...

Radiohead and Frank Black tickets

Sure to have sold out before these reach the front page, but HEY, this little selection were just put on sale, not bad eh?Biffy Clyro @ Patti Pavilion, Swansea, West Glamorgan (Tue 23 Sep)Broken Social Scene @ Barfly, London (Tue 12 Aug)Clinic @ ICA,...