Fri 9th Feb
STEWART LEE, Leeds Playhouse ****
Sat 23rd Mar
MOVING PICTURES, Huddersfield The Parish
Sat 13th Apr
PAUL FOOT, Halifax Square Chapel
Thu 18th Apr
STEWART LEE, Bradford St George's Hall
Sun 5th May
FM, Leeds Brudenell
Wed 22nd May
RICHARD MARX, London Royal Albert Hall
Thu 23rd May
YES, Manchester Bridgewater Hall
Thu 13th Jun
SHERYL CROW, Halifax Piece Hall
Sun 16th Jun
NILE RODGERS & CHIC, Halifax Piece Hall
Fri 21st Jun
THE KILLERS, Manchester Co-op Arena
Sat 31st Aug
BRAVADO, Sheffield City Hall
Tue 22nd Oct
The Libertines, Leeds O2 Academy*

* Chaperone duty

Quote from: Slim on February 21, 2024, 07:41:19 PM

Quote from: Matt2112 on February 21, 2024, 07:22:59 PMUPDATE!!

I've just been told that it's most likely the case that they haven't actually finished the area immediately around where I live yet and a dropped kerb should be present and correct tomorrow.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say, with as much empathy as possible, that this won't happen.

Tomorrow? Or ever?

They're here until the end of the month, so we'll see.

In fairness, looking again there does appear to be a line drawn on the front of the kerb which - I hope - indicates where the top layer of the road will reach and does suggest more work will be done.

I noticed some other examples on the dog walk tonight, so if they're not also done, we'll march on the town hall mob-handed.

Quote from: David L on February 21, 2024, 07:16:07 PM

Quote from: Matt2112 on February 21, 2024, 07:07:44 PMThe roads in our village are being resurfaced this week.

I came home from work today to find that the dropped kerb in front of my drive has been replaced by a raised one! 

As I understand it, this renders accessing my drive illegal as technically I have to drive on a pavement to do so.

Also, now I don't have a dropped kerb that renders it illegal for any inconsiderate twat to block my drive.

Will be contacting Calderfail (sic) council tomorrow...

Oooh, that's a f***kin' biggie! I'd be absolutely puce with rage if that happened to me. Good luck getting it rectified. Pr*cks!

UPDATE!!

I've just been told that it's most likely the case that they haven't actually finished the area immediately around where I live yet and a dropped kerb should be present and correct tomorrow.

The roads in our village are being resurfaced this week.

I came home from work today to find that the dropped kerb in front of my drive has been replaced by a raised one! 

As I understand it, this renders accessing my drive illegal as technically I have to drive on a pavement to do so.

Also, now I don't have a dropped kerb that renders it illegal for any inconsiderate twat to block my drive.

Will be contacting Calderfail (sic) council tomorrow...

Quote from: Fishy on February 21, 2024, 10:10:11 AMFound a great creepy/supernatural film on iPlayer last night.. Relic... surprisingly good

Yes, that's quite a good chiller, with an original plot and sensitively-handled subject matter that makes it stand out from the crowd.

I've a particular affection for the BT Tower, as a former employer's Fitzrovia-based HQ was only yards down the road and I really enjoyed my visits down there, having work lunches at the various eateries pretty much within the tower's shadow, all on expenses of course.

It's the first London landmark I see on my occasional journeys into King's Cross station, assuming the Emirates stadium doesn't count as one.

Greece has just transcended its deeply embedded Orthodox Christian identity and legalised same-sex marriage.

Thank Zeus for that!

Quote from: Matt2112 on January 23, 2024, 07:26:35 PMI'm going to be doing some solo acoustic gigs this year (and may add a percussionist for some/all of them) so have started upping the practise regime.

Today I was working on an arpeggio for the intro to Wasted Years (which is in Em with the droned open E); I've seen it done on acoustic by the nut, so an octave lower than Maiden's original version - nothing wrong with that.

But I wanted to see if I could figure it out in the octave it "should" be and found if I fretted a standard C chord shape but with the first finger  on the B string's 8th fret, then I had an Em chord* to work from, i.e.

0 (E)
8 (G)
0 (G)
9 (B)
10 (G)
0 (E)

That left my pinkie to fret the distinctive notes of the arpeggio (albeit I was doing this on the kid's small guitar at the time - and my slight affliction of my right hand didn't help - so it wasn't terribly clean).
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I do need to pull my gigging acoustic guitar out of its case though and use that.  Let's see how it goes.

This actually didn't go anywhere near as well as I thought it would - I underestimated the difference in the sizes between the kid's guitar and my APX and the fingering was impossible for a smooth and clean arpeggio; the tension caused by the stretching hampered the movements too much.

So for "gig-friendly" purposes for now, I've settled on just using pull-offs on the top E, like how it's originally performed, but getting the open G and B strings to ring in tandem to fill it out.

There seems to be flat earth forums aplenty on social media where "Poe's Law" is manifest to extreme degrees; many are almost indistinguishable from parody.

I was slightly shocked and saddened to hear this news on the drive home tonight.

He seemed to have been on the radio for as long as I can remember listening to it.

Those TOTP re-runs on BBC Four will have even more of a sense of nostalgia now.

Commuted both ways in daylight today.  Definitely lifted the mood.

If there's one rule that should definitely be introduced, it's one that penalises goalkeepers when they collect the ball in a stable, standing position and flop to the ground. 

I find it annoying even when my own team's 'keeper does it (which recently hasn't been often given our shocking run of form    ).

Nick, my condolences for your and your family's loss.

I trust your mum had the best care in her final few years; my own family has learned how precious that is over the last 5 years or so ourselves.

All the best to you.

Quote from: dom on February 06, 2024, 12:44:25 PM95%? - maybe it was covered more than I wanted to hear but that's a wild exaggeration!

That I heard - the other 5% was the equally execrable pious cringefest that is "'Thought' For The Day".

So basically 100% of obsequious deference to bogus authority figures, one of whom by the way proclaims he has been "divinely" chosen by the other, which of course begs the question why this doesn't preclude allowing a potentially terminal disease to slip through "His" omnipotent, omnibenevolent grasp.

Quote from: Fishy on February 05, 2024, 07:25:08 PMThe gush factor on the Beeb  6 o clock news about the king cancer diagnosis was almost palpable then they get Witchell in.. fuck off.  Think I'll be staying away from the news for the next few weeks/months

About 95% of BBC News's and Radio 4's coverage was taken up by all that this morning.  All the usual fawning sycophants and apologists are being given grossly disproportionate amounts of airtime, Royal-splaining for the proles who of course are regarded with the bigotry of low expectations.