StopTout.com has been nominated in the Yahoo Search, find of the year award 2006.
Now in its fifth consecutive year, the Yahoo! Search Find of the Year awards 2006 celebrates the very best of the web by picking the top UK sites of the year that everyone should visit. From the weird and wonderful world of The Bee Dogs to the resourceful BritBlog guide to the UK’s most credible blogs, this year’s shortlist contains a cross-section truly representative of the unique diversity of the web.
Websites are short listed across 9 categories and StopTout.com has been nominated for the ethical category. We are also entered into the people’s choice category where web users get to vote for their favourite site. We’ll be hoping for your support and we will have details on how you can vote for us soon.
Here at StopTout.com we fully back The Save the Astoria campaign. A new petition has been set up by students Sarah Tennant and Jade Dickinson to save the legendry rock venue from the bulldozers.
The building, which has hosted Legendry acts such as The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Oasis and Blur, has been sold for £23.75 million by Compco Holdings to Derwent Valley.
The 2,000-capacity venue is understood to be on lease to music promoter Mean Fiddler until December 2008. Christine Gorham of Live Nation, which owns Mean Fiddler, said the company was powerless to prevent a redevelopment of the site.
SavetheAstoria.org has already had over 26 thousand signatures on its petition and thousands of music fans are voting for it to be crowned best music venue in the Vodafone music awards.
Personally speaking the Astoria is one of my favourite venues and no other venue of its size can
compare for atmosphere and access. I can remember seeing Muse play there with Coldplay supporting, a nervous looking Chris Martin entered the stage apologising for taking up everyone’s time whilst waiting for Muse, I remember thinking ‘this band are way too polite to ever be successful’. Another legendry week was when Blur had a five-night residency, seeing the likes of Damen Alban and Phil Daniels in such an intimate venue was truly unforgettable.
StopTout.com is encouraging it’s members to join the campaign and sign the petition. Members can do so by visiting www.savetheastoria.org
With help from the Barmy Army and their ex-pat friends in Australia we can announce that this will be the number 1 site to buy and sell Ashes tickets at face value. We have been contacted by over 700 fans with spare Ashes tickets who want to trade the on our site.
If you are an ex-pat living out in Australia, remember when you sell your tickets you will gain ‘etix’ and you can use these in the future auctions. So when you want to come to the home to the UK you should have no problems getting tickets for the English cricket season, Gigs, Festivals, Football or Rugby..
