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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 ...

Folkestone double death plunge smash horror tragedy!

Yoinks, yesterday someone chucked themselves off the roof of Bouverie Square in Folkestone, and today the end of our road was sealed off by police because of a "scene". Police were stopping anyone getting close to what had happened, so a) we had to w...

Rotunda / seafront masterplan starting to move ahead

Billionaire Roger De Haan has revealed he is in negotiation with a number of companies which will become partners in the venture to realise his popular Masterplan vision.The former Saga boss will redevelop the redundant site to provide benefits inclu...
Rated 3.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

SAGA and The AA to merge

PHEW they'll still be based in Folkestone, that's the main thing... The Guardian has more...

History in my day

Another bright and breezy morning, just cool enough to stop me walking down town in just a t-shirt, but warm enough not to stop me walking down town at all. I headed the usual route past the courts and the DSS (all the nice scenic points), to what I�...

The Sound Lounge?

What was / is The Sound Lounge then? This case study from CABE, regarding the building of the SAGA HQ in 1998 mentions it. Did it come and go? Or is it now known by another name?Already there are early signs of success. On the harbour is Chummy's sea...

Work continues apace at the shop

but the posters advertising for people to work at Costa (the only clue that it will be a Costa Coffee have VANISHED? Is this to be like the Starbucks saga - first mention of rumours of the store online and everyone backs away..? I hope not....

Spam Spam Spam

Wow what a coincidence that you all have the same positive points to make! Do you work for M&B Builders Ltd, are they desperate for some positive press? There's no need for deviousness here, a few biased comments are fine, someone else will come alon...

Did you know..?

Saga magazine is the biggest subscription monthly in the UK, and the editor is Winston Churchill's granddaughter Emma Soames? Read more in The Herald, (not The Folkestone Herald)......

Kerching!

So Roger De Haan raised more than a billion yesterday, by selling Saga to Charterhouse... Staff will receive a �1,000 cash bonus for every year of service, which is nice for them, and that nice for the town, where some of that money will be spent... ...

Folkestone in The Times

Another article here about the selloff of SAGA:One of his pet projects is to turn the old quarter of Folkestone into a thriving artists� community and anyone familiar with the area would know that he will need plenty of cash to achieve that level of ...

Want to invest in Saga?

Looks likely to happen, where you one of the interested parties? More than a billion eh, that's how come he can afford to buy The Harbour and build a university and I can't......

Folkestone in The Guardian

Here is the article from the Guardian that bigs up Folkestone, "This is an English seaside town that breathes creativity as deeply as it does the saline air that blows in from the Channel" it says here... nice one, lots about Saga founder Roger De Ha...

I Love You And I Don't Want You To Die

I Love You And I Don't Want You To Die is the new release from Frankie Machine, known here as Francis Albert Machine, part of Artists Againts Success, but released here through Choco Hearts... still with me?This release bundles together the first thr...

Shed Anthems

The mighty Shed Anthems by MJ Hibbett and the Validators has arrived at last and it is a thing of beauty indeed, a six track sampler type mini album, in follow up to last year's This is not a Library.I say sampler style, as it features tracks from th...

Shed Anthems

But that was a comment

Oh wait until I'm ready to tell my latest saga, you will love it.

RE: Updated Folkestone gig history

IT WAS THE SUNDOWNER CLUB MY DAD WAS THE BOUNCER BACK IN THE DAY..

No Sales: No Sellout

How can I fail to give a mention to Artists Against Success 5th birthday party, at the Windmill in Brixton on Thursday when I am quoted on their listings page, nice one... "ACE" in fact.The night will feature live delights from the history of the AAS...

Electric Soft Parade

Sending a mailshot to all popexers about the Electric Soft Parade Tourpopex adminBarfly development, most of the dayJust been reminded by Need To Know that it is the Artists Against Success do at Brixton Windmill this Thursday, not been there before....

Fair Play Trophy (once again)

This one's dedicated to all the Man U fans out there...Champion of the free interweb, MJ Hibbett and the Validators have released a web-single "Fair Play Trophy" for the world cup, listen to it here for free, and also feel free to pass it on.You migh...

Validators Competition

As reported in a news story last week MJ Hibbett and the Validators have an ACE Christmas EP out, "The Milk and Baubles EP"... It's released today by Artists Against Success...To win one of five copies they've sent us, just tell us where Mark comes f...

Filth Finale

The Cradle of Filth Scottish T-Shirts Saga has come to a conclusion; Looks like Tower Records Glasgow have backed down, boo... Just got this from the (er, ex) publicist at the store:Despite supportive articles on NME.com and ones to come in NME and K...

What you doing Sunday Afternoon?

This Sunday (14th January) at the Elbow Rooms, Islington is the next chapter in the ongoing saga of Arther Baker's Sunday Jam...Alabama 3 frontman Larry Love is the golden thread running through the day... He's treating the crowd to "The Larry Love ...