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Out walking last weekend, late afternoon / early evening and spotted this big fella wandering across the path.

Most people on this forum have been stuck there for years

I'll give it a go, obvs me an Emily are bezzies so I'm sure she'll get up a ladder and turn it back on again if I ask. I was going to ask on the 19th when it'll be 6 years since the start of the Radiohead painting.

Myself and @dotdash79 have tweeted today … so anyone else with a twitter account including @Gnomicide would be great … I’ve tried Emily … bbc glasto and Glastonbury in the tags …

John Peel Tent & The Park Hot Chip 455 Jazz World / West Holts Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 376 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 136 Justice 1145 (+10) JaneIIe Monáe 70

No one. She is truly the lowest common denominator of global music.

Pitchfork have released their top 200 albums of the past 25 years, as voted by the man/woman/non-binary on the street. https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/peoples-list-25th-anniversary/ Radiohead dominate proceedings, Kanye, Arcade Fire and The National also feature heavily. It’s a decent list, especially for those bored of Rolling Stone mag regurgitating the same shit every year.

I’ve the same Dee … my account currently shows as shipped and I’ve rung the store … they have told me it’s likely to be updated and I should likely be able to collect it Tomorrow … or Monday at the latest. Hopefully the same for you

GKMC is the real Kendrick masterpiece...

So it is! Sorry. But they have been cancelled again.

Don’t forget the total banger “Something inside so strong”

John Peel Tent & The Park Hot Chip 470 Jazz World / West Holts Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 355 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 120 Justice 1155 (+10)

John Peel Tent & The Park Hot Chip 470 (+10) Jazz World / West Holts Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 355 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 120 Justice 1145

I’m not so sure … I reckon at some point @Matt42 has called just about every possible option 😂

Three times. As well as Black Velvet, My Way, Sweet Home Alabama and Mr Brightside

Let’s be friends!

My girlfriend got covid 2 weeks ago, and then I got it on the tail end of her. I'm free to leave the house as of today, but we had to miss gigs by L Devine and Salem. I think they odds of me seeing them again are pretty slim, but there are worse (better??) acts to be missing out on. Since returning to gigs with a social distanced WARGASM and a Sleeper/Bluetones twofer, I've been to: Godiva festival. The free festival that costs £12 for a weekend ticket. Supergrass on the friday were good, but didn't blow me away. Crowd was decent, but the sound is aimed at a very small area, despite the field really filling. We burrow in down the left hand side. Meanwhile snakes of teens would slither into the pit, wait for a mosh that would never come, then slither out again 30 seconds later. This would happen constantly, with numerous different snakes. When I started going to gigs, there were people to learn from, but now it feels like there isn't, and kids want to replicate what they've seen, but don't really understand the context for it, or how it organically happens. Saturday's crowd was much worse. At one point during Craig David I felt pressure on my back and turned around to find some scutty man clad in patchwork denim leaning back to back on me as if he was a cowboy falling asleep in the hay bales. I threw him off and he rounded up his group of mismatched friends. A white guy with dreads tried to give it the biggun, and I'm sorry but I am not one to be intimidated by some Big Mountain wannabe. They soon left. Craig David himself I expected more from, but the sound was not good. Performed his own songs, and others, doing what Sophie Ellis Bextor just did, but nowhere near as well. Sophie was great with her full band (especially doing Like A Prayer) but Craig stepping out from behind the decks to sing at 7/10 his capability, kinda reminded me of those terrible bottle service nightclubs that hire lads to do live drumming over dance songs. Couple weeks later and my girlfriend tells me Joy Crookes is doing a gig 1 minute from our flat. I get home from work, throw my bag down and walk out the front door to see her setting up in Victoria Square. She did maybe 6 or 7 songs, but wow. I've seen her before at the Hare and Hounds, but the surroundings here were surreal. A crowd of people stood around the Floozie watching an act buzzing with nervous excitement, laying it all out there with her voice, while in the background, chanting anti-vaxxers try and form their own version of Hands Across America down New Street. A proper talent with no upper limit to her potential success. The history of popular music is littered with also-rans, but if Joy connects with the general public, she's gonna go all the way. Saw Billie Marten after that. Not much to report. Sounded good but her set was front loaded, much like the current album. Castle and Falcon is a great venue that they keep physically improving. The bar is at the back now, so there's more side space, and you don't get trapped round a corner. The big one was Bring Me the Horizon. First arena gig back. Got there 40 minutes before Nova Twins, the first support. Normally that'd be a 10 minute wait, then straight into an empty floor. Not tonight. Whether it was the covid checks, arguments about bags we were instructed not to bring, or the all new staff, but the queue was insane. If anyone is familiar with the NIA (now 'Utilita' Arena) in Birmingham, the worst I ever found the standing queue was when it looped from the door, then down onto a bit of the canal. This time it went right down the canal all the way to the Distillery (fka The Fiddle and Bone). Sunk cost, we went off to the shakey, knowing full well were weren't going to see Nova Twins or You Me at Six. After sinking a few we walked back near 2 hours later, just as they opened the upstairs queue for downstairs people. After being questioned about the contents of my pockets ("what's that?" 'the fob for my building' "if you say so") we managed to see the last 2 YM@6 songs. Dunno if they sounded great or if I was just overwhelmed at being in an arena again, but with the lights, the sound and the atmosphere, it was a shot of adrenaline I hadn't felt since Halsey at the Millenium Dome in March 2020. Bring Me...were incredible. So many songs to choose from, and everything they played went off, including an phone-lights-on acoustic version of Follow You - a style I normally find anathema to a good time - which was actually lovely. The closing run of Obey, Throne and Can You Feel My Heart was pure euphoria, and I gotta hand it to the inventor of the 2 pint cup for creating the perfect vessel for non spill when you're jumping around. The band aren't to everybody's tastes, but I can't think of anyone else from the UK doing anything this big. I want to go back.

Jemaa el-Fna is a cool vibe, no doubt.

It’s an amazing city. Definitely the right call staying in a Riad. When I stayed there I was in the heart of the Medina. Is everywhere still as hospitable as usual and offering you mint tea as you enter? Best orange juice I’ve ever had was from one of the carts in the city and only cost 2p a glass!

yeahits great until you test postive coming home (like me 3 weeks ago :-)) , in all seriousness its well organised for sure and easy (well apart from the arrivals form) And you;re sounding 'loca' -heading 'upnorth' 🙂

You can definitely expect NUFC to not sell arms to the Saudis, I think that's fair.

May raise a smile, made me chuckle 😄

Reminds me of a song.

Beautiful isn't it. We were there for 4 nights in 2010 when the Icelandic volcano erupted closing Spanish airspace. Ryanair cancelled our flight home and (eventually) covered our costs for another 3 days in a even more beautiful riad than the first 4 nights. It was hell 🙂

We don't know the reason, but there's no doubt there is a lot of nasty hate and division out there, amplified by social media, and all political leaders no matter their stripes should be careful of the language they use, and that includes calling tories scum.

Are they still going? Amazing. I saw them as the support act for Alice Cooper in 1972!

Didn't hold very steady, did you?

John Peel Tent & The Park Hot Chip 455 (+10) Jazz World / West Holts Chic ft. NiIe Rodgers 376 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, ParIiament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 160 Justice 1119 JaneIIe Monáe 90

Moderat are back. So far only one gig in Berlin announced Sept 2022.

Well, if Viagogo says so, it must be true! 🤣

I've just looked Editors up after being reminded of them in this thread. They recorded an album with Blanck Mass? Weird. I'm looking forward to the Courteeners album featuring Oneotrix Point Never.

No likes? No upvotes? Scoundrels. Reckon you need to post this in the main forum mate. What do you mean this isn't a direct message? Ah shi... 😜😘 😍 That's what we're talking about!! Ha! Was a celebration of the Gump run, with the idea to run until I was pretty tired and I'd go home. That happened after 42 hours without sleep!! I tagged a fundraiser on afterwards as a few people asked if I was and I thought "why not?" For my USA heroes, Peace Direct and the WWF. https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?pageId=1321110 (If anyone won the Euromillions tonight, or found 50p in an old jacket) My feeling when I saw the hill at Sutton Manor... Some Strava fun:

i'm in the 100% camp for the first time ever.

Why is it a pissy response? Because you don't like it?, because it's not what you want to hear and it's the truth? Go grab that violin, a box of Kleenex and stop crying!