2008-09-22UTC05:36:35Nice weekendHad 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,... 2008-03-24UTC11:57:27Mighty Easter weekender, with The CureHope 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 ... 2008-02-29UTC04:49:32Alright, Mr Gordon Brown is listening to me...Another petition, regarding a tax on plastic bags. With the news that M&S are stopping giving them away, things are rollling in a greener direction. With this, and the recent sunday newspaper story that Brucie probably WILL be getting his knighthood ... 2007-07-17UTC12:31:54Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu... 2007-03-15UTC03:16:32This ain't no technological breakdownThis is the road to V. Back in the day I would have posted a link there on popex, because someone somewhere was getting paid for it, but this time I'm posting that link because an old chum from work is the singer in that band, so go listen to his tun... 2006-11-30UTC10:51:43Thursday morning roundupJust caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti... 2006-11-10UTC11:34:08Transport updatesJourney times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re... 2006-05-30UTC11:37:16Welcome to Miami!Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M... 2005-06-15UTC08:58:37So ebay's pulling the Live 8 ticketsWhy are they doing it so begrudgingly this time when they've pulled Glastonbury tickets no problem before now? Obviously this action alone won't stop people trading their tickets outside of Ebay, even (gasp) in the real world. There are still request... 2005-06-02UTC04:07:14Was he with the singer out of Action Plan?They seem to be inseperable...2005-06-02UTC10:34:40Action Plan + RazorlightA chums band Action Plan are supporting Razorlight at their secret gig at Highbury Garage on (counts on fingers) SUNDAY, the 7th of June... it's super sold out, so it's off to ebay again if you want tickets... There are so many there it seems they we... 2005-04-22UTC10:20:14Jimmy PageDidn't see him myself, but cow-orkers say they saw Jimmy Page in the Borderline last night at the Action Plan gig.... <br /><a href="http://www.claremahon.com/m/6372/Jimmy+Page">Rated 5.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2005-03-04UTC03:11:34Two of them!I see one of Action Plan around all the time, the singing guitarist, he looks like Gaz from Supergrass. Yesterday was very exciting, the other guitarist was with him. It was so exciting I nearly soiled myself.Apparently they were on their way to a gi... 2004-11-11UTC06:23:57Action Plan tonightOff to see <a href="http://www.actionplantheband.co.uk">Action Plan</a> at the <a href="http://www.plumpromotions.co.uk/">Betsey Trotwood</a> tonight.2004-09-15UTC12:44:29Action PlanPleased to report that the band were ace last night, and so is the venue. Can't believe we've not been to The Eye before, I suppose because it doesn't look like it'll be much from the outside, but inside there's a huge doglegged space with a couple o... 2004-09-14UTC10:31:11Free gig tonightFree gig in Stokey tonight at The Eye, Stoke Newington High Street, Action Plan are on at about 9pm...... 2004-06-10UTC08:41:02Another boiler!Lots of things I could do today, but it's hot again in the office, and I feel that's going to be a distraction... got to feed popex with chart info, this is normally a task for monday, but the ongoing problems have slowed me down a lot... nice to com... 2004-04-20UTC09:52:10Half snowman, half machineMonster snow and music event at Xscape Indoor Snow Arena, Milton Keynes. Lesley Mckenna and friends have built a big half pipe and will be demoing and competing in snowboardy type things. But that's not all, Zane Lowe is hosting the music side of it... 2004-04-13UTC10:22:11Download: Stage ThreeNot satisfied with simply hosting the biggest names from the worlds’ of rock and extreme sports, Download, on the 5 and 6 June, will also be the place to go to see some of the hottest up-and-coming rock bands of the moment, as it announces its third ... 2003-10-28UTC01:27:163 more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween...ACTION PLAN are playing Hope & Anchor on Friday 31st October, dressing up and everything, it should be aces.Don't bother looking at http://www.hopeandanchor.co.uk/ - it's a completely differnt Hope And Anchor.To stop Barfly from fighting me, I should... 2003-08-15UTC04:54:17WAHEY we're BACK!PopEx is back at last, sorry it was out of action for longer than expected. Well, when I say "sorry" I mean "I heard about it, but didn't really notice, as I have been on holiday this week.The site was meant to be online again on Thursday, so I made ... 2000-10-06UTC03:21:53Have a nice weekendHere are my plans: Booze Scalarama, for opening time tomorrow Football Booze More Scalarama and more booze - latest news is that DJ Downfall has been added to the bill, slotting into the Actionettes, Mrs... More booze Get to Uncle Bob's Wedding Recep...