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If Port Lympne are applying for the license I don't think there will be any problem with them getting it

The issue might be getting bands to play, after what happened last year. If none of the same people are involved then I expect big bands will start to sign up, but obviously punters are going to hold off spending the money on tickets until either som...

Legends of Folkestone

Speaking to a friend last night in Chambers about legends of folkestone a Facebook group he has set up. Hoping to swap some info with my Folkestone history section... Over 1000 members, nice, and some interesting sounding events:Events:Darth Vader vi...

Lone Star Comedy, now with added German standup

The line up consists of Henning Wehn, Liam Mullone, Jim Smallman and a newcomer�s act.Henning Wehn is the German Comedy Ambassador to the UK. He calmly and clinically debunks the idea that Germans do not have a sense of humour.Henning does this by ...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: Popbitch is in good company..

What is a betting shop/brothel? Do you go there, place a bet, the "ladies who work as prostitutes" have a big pillow fight in their underwear, and whichever punter's "lady who works as a prostitute" wins gets to have a go?

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 ...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

It will be ending today (as far as I know)

The official statement said midnight, but I'll be finishing work at five, so I think it'll be some point before then.Some links for refugees:Popex last.fm / audioscrobbler groupPopex google groupPopex yahoo group...

I think you're taking this very well

But I you're bang-on, it gives you 12 months to get the job you want rather than the job you need. I'm willing to bet most of the regular punters will quit once you go though. Do you know what channelfly are planning to do with PopEx once you're reli...

Yes, please come back :-(

I was just giving the benefit of the doubt, as there was only circumstancial evidence of this, and they were being a good punter in all other aspects - different address on every account, different email address, not bouncing my spammy advert mails e...

Still no Cure tickets

More went on sale just now for the Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Albert Hall, but they must have sold out by the presale link yesterday. Looks like ebay is your best bet then.Today I'm mostly working on adding some social networking type stuff to p...

And we did return to Escondido

And it was good again... still popular, as we could only be squeezed in for a table at nearly 10pm, booking in advance... guess this shows that there's not a lot of choice in the area and / or people get frightfully excited about any new restaurant. ...

Rated 8.02/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Fastr

Fastr - a game based on flickr... guess the common tag of the pictures that appear, the quicker you do the more points you get.Got to do more work on my ajax database selector today - when you come back to a form to edit it, the selector is just BLAN...

Squirrels and webcams

Ew, bogus squirrel rat crossbreed... surely that's just got the mange and lost the fur on it's tail though? It's a bit of a scrappy picture, could be some potatoshopping going on too.Also WOO, cheers Andy, got my webcam up and running in the end - I ...

Sly new coding feature

Updated my AJAX selector, the bit of a form that (on here) looks like this:but you can't click that one, it's just an image... Usually when you see one of these on one of my pages it's going to select something from one of my databases, but I put som...

More Javascript

Found the source of my problem with internet explorer, it's with var c = obj.getAttribute('class'); need to replace it with var c = getAttribute(obj,'class');function getAttribute( elm, aname ) { var avalue = elm.getAttribute( aname ); if ( ! ava...

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 ...

Lunch!

Met a couple of chums for lunch, on a boat, what a treat. No actual food there, just a couple of beers, then grabbed a falafel on the way back to work. Been monitoring popbitch board all day seeing followups to this bbc blog, a funny old business. Ev...

Woo got me The Tears album

I knew working in this industry for long enough would pay off, I just got it for free... Now I will feel obliged to say nice things about it too.Mmm, programming things today, changed the "band selecter" for popex, has had a knock on effect across th...

Johnskibeat

Just realised valued popex punter and fellow Clarke (though no relation) Johnskibeat isn't linked up here either......

Easter beaster

A lot to write about, had a huge great easter weekend and really managed to fit quite a lot in. Can I remember it all is the question though... Friday daytime is too long ago to be sure, but in the evening we did a little tour of Stoke Newington Chur...

CANCELLED

Looks like Goldie Lookin' Chain have cancelled tonight at the Leas Cliff Hall, when did this happen? Is it apathy on the part of the punters, or is it (as I heard) that the band refused to play because of the reaction they got when they supported The...

Rated 6.02/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The first rule about job club

Google blogger sacked, don't talk about work kids...Great weekend with a visit to Folkestone by Mum and Dad, took a trip to Lympne Castle, picked out some paint for the front room, and I DROVE A CAR, for the first time in about 8 years... piece of ca...

Sold out Barfly gigs

Cheeky, just been pointed at the fact there are tonnes of sold out Barfly tickets on ebay... looks like organised sellers too, not just punters who've ended up with spare tickets. It's not me though!An evening of no Angel last night, we are out of sy...

Splish Splash!

Boozetastic weekender in Folkestone, starting off with a shock drink in London! I rarely go out in the week any more, but popped in The Mynt Rooms for one with work chums, nice place, flash but comfortable, no ales but one pool table. Then, ONWARD, t...

Punter writes book!

Valued punter Charlie Williams has managed to tear himself away from his portfolio long enough to write a book Dead Folk... quoting him quoting someone else it's "a story of a doorman, a lost town, and a chainsaw named Susan. It's a tough tale set in...

Billy Boyd

Friday 21 May. He was looking for a parking space whilst driving a rather cheap looking blue BMW. So tiny he could barely see over the steering wheel. Rather attractive lady in the passenger seat, she had a lot of (what looked like) wet look gel i...

RE: Otterly fantastic

animalpuntastic!

oh yes yes yes yes yes I was weasily impressed

Led Zeppelin

Got this message from a valued punter:If you love Zeppelin you must read my dad's book. He was tour manager and security for the band. Best friend of Peter Grant, Bonzo and the others. "Leave It to Me" by Don Murfet, available on Amazon, �7.99 barg...

Kapetan Michales

I think I'm going to have stop eating out in Folkestone soon - we either seem to have a comically awful meal or the restuarant closes down. I have been going to Kapetan Michales on Bouverie Road West for about 18 months and every time I have had a g...

David Devant and his Spirit Wife

Well the gig was fantastic I'm very glad to report, a homecoming to Dingwalls (now called Lock 17 for some reason), the launchplace of their first album, was somehow appropriate. The place was packed, perhaps partly because of an enormous free guest...

Portsmouth Guildhall

The far less funny part of the Mary Whitehouse Experience, still we completed the set