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8 minutes ago, zahidf said:
Have a disinfectant spray to go to a gig!
The following is a story that had a high level of baseline of inebriation so some details might be a bit blurry but:
In 2011 Shangri La has a damned/saved vibe, where areas where full of zombies and those that could get the cure. It was the first year I'd really explored down there so might not have got the full grasp of the narrative. One night, I think Friday, after headline time I was walking around the alleyways with a friend when a secret door opened up in the wall. A shifty looking bloke asked if we wanted to be 'saved'. We said yes and got taken through the 'wall' into a room where we checked in our wellies and got those blue plastic protective footwear things you get at swimming pools, we then went through a decontamination unit and sprayed with what appeared to be dry ice/the cure. Moving onward we went through a spa with massage tables and eventually made it to this massive bedroom with probably around 30 people chilling in there. There was thick carpet that felt like a dream on feet that had been in hard wellies for days already.
There was a bar in the corner so we stayed and chilled for an hour or so, we were just talking about moving on when a large curtain opened revealing a live band (all dressed and made up to look like zombies), playing just for the small group of 'saved' in this bedroom. so we stayed for a bit longer.
At the time I thought this was a batshit dystopian future that only a SL creative could dream up. Now life is almost imitating art.
I'm aware this is off topic (for the thread if not the forum) but @zahidf's post reminded me of the night I've not thought about in years and not sure if I've shared the events on here.
Side note: I miss the alleyways, a victim of their own success.
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1 hour ago, Gilgamesh69 said:
Sat down in your chair, fist pumping in the air to I Predict a Riot. Ricky telling everyone to "make some noise!", followed by a few muffled cheers from the audience. (and other unnecessary negative comments)
You don't need to sign up.
Let the rest of us get excited, if we get our hopes up and let down it's really not your problem.
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This looks interesting:
Passport: Back to Our Roots is a nationwide series of one-off intimate gigs by the UK’s biggest artists, supporting the independent grassroots venues that form the foundations of the UK’s live music scene.
This is your exclusive opportunity to watch the biggest artists play their smallest gigs – live and in person like they should be – while making a huge difference to the UK’s crisis-stricken grassroots music venues, who need urgent help due to COVID-19 closures.
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23 minutes ago, august1 said:
check out the new the last shadow puppets tune on spotify called mist
@Cam91 with a great shout that it sounds like a remix of the Question of Sport music
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1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Foals / RHCP / George Ezra
Looks like an IOW trio
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35 minutes ago, Tommy101 said:
It was in the BBC live feed for Boris' press conference this morning.
'Indoor performances with socially-distanced audiences in theatres, music and performance venues will also be allowed from next month.'
I just hope that can work and not lose money for the venues and artists.
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6 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:
Wow, really? Where did you read that?
It was in the BBC live feed for Boris' press conference this morning.
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If they are talking about outdoor events in Autumn, surely festivals are looking good for next year. If it's seasonal, they might bin the idea over winter but then try and get control again in the spring and let the festival/sports economy bounce back in the summer. If it's not seasonal, and the R stays around the 0.7-0.9 level then even with local spikes and lockdowns we should be in a much better situation in summer next year than they hope to be in November
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That Allergies album is great, will be working through the back catalogue this afternoon.
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From 1 August, there will be a slew of new freedoms, including re-opening indoor performances. Larger concerts from October. Could be the biggest gig announcement of the year.
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10 minutes ago, Quark said:
Will give Protomartyr a listen, wasn't on my radar but some good chat on here so I'll give it a spin.
Big ones for me today are Lianne La Havas and The Allergies. Looking forward to that one, should be some good summer Friday vibes.
Perfect music for a sunny Friday morning coffee.
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Heard this on Annie Mac last night. Lovely Summery vibes
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I really wish they'd leave I am the Walrus alone. Felt like a waste of a song when I saw them. (More so than Songbird)
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14 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
Hello Tommy101,
I've just realised that you may have read my last post wrongly ie not in the way it was intended. It was meant to be self derogatory ie. towards myself.
Don't worry I didn't take it personally!
(I was back on topic for the record though, well, ish, I take any opportunity I can reminisce about that QotSA set)
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They were great at Victorious last year, would love to see them at their own gig.
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The best views of the Beyonce fireworks were from the Other field 😉
They were huge though
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43 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:
Don't know why I've never bothered to check them out before despite their name often popping up, but this new Dream Wife album fucks.
I've not got the whole way through the new one yet but enjoy what I've heard. The first one is worth checking out too, I'd say it's a lot more jarring and angry in comparison but still accessible.
On a very different note Bedroom by bdrmm is released today for all your Hull based shoegaze needs:
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15 hours ago, priest17 said:
this is top.
Like that. Saw earlier in the week that their tour got rescheduled to spring which reminded me that I was going to pick up tickets. They are the first I've bought in a long time!
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6 minutes ago, BFisherr said:
The curse of 2020 goes on 🤣
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Could the deaths not decreasing at the same rate as cases situation be caused by patients being treated for longer (unfortunately sometimes unsuccessfully) than they were at the time that they contracted the virus? I.e. with more capacity in hospitals and more options they are taking longer to die than before. An extreme example of this might be that they would be taken off ventilators sooner if they were under higher demand?
I honestly have no evidence to back this up, just a theory to try and explain some odd data
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7 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
I was probably but over sensitive in my reply to you, no worries at all.
For reference that table that’s in the article wasn’t there this morning. I wasn’t that sleepy when I read I missed the thing. 😂
And I have re-read the articles I read this morning and can't find where is says Portsmouth only has 1 case so I'm sure that's been edited too. They're gaslighting us! 😅
It might be Portsmouth has gone from 1 to 2 cases and IOW only has the one case as @Henrik mentioned though.
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39 minutes ago, Cream Soda said:
Well yes, @Tommy101 was able to ascertain within minutes that the Portsmouth "spike" looks to be only 1 extra case so I don't see why the media can't do the same, they are supposed to be jourlanists after all. It's like they just want it to sound as worrying as possible.
Where did you get the info from about the one case btw @Tommy101?
It's actually quoted at 0.9/100,000 in the sky article that Ozanne shared, maybe the 1 I read this morning was a misinterpretation of that and I'm hypocritically spouting facts and figures without checking all the context etc myself.
At any rate I'm going to duck out of this convo, I was honestly trying to reduce overall anxiety with my post and it has come across as a personal attack/caused friction that was not my intention.
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7 minutes ago, Cream Soda said:
The media is suck a joke sometimes. What is the point in inciting fear like this for no reason? Is it just to sensationalise and cause panic to get more clicks?
I think that list did originate from government, not the media making stuff up. But I think balanced statistical analysis would also consider stats similar to that shown in that map that @squirrelarmy posted on the previous page
There will be future localised outbreaks, and I think it's right to be concerned about those areas, an local lockdowns seem like a logical way of limiting them, but it really doesn't seem like the authorities have their ducks in a row about the data. The lag time, consistency and context concern me.
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29 minutes ago, Ozanne said:
Sky News is a fairly reputable source, I hope you aren’t trying to claim I should’ve done some digging before posting the article.
Nope, was nothing personal and wasn't claiming that at all.
Whilst not contributing to this thread often I've been semi following it and appreciate that you seem to be sharing interesting and valid insight/data.
BUT I am questioning the methodology behind the categorisation of those 36 potential hotspots (which seem to have been reported in a wide spread of media). Some studies are using a % change in cases/admissions as a metric which is all well and good when numbers involved are high, but become statistically invalid when numbers are low as a change from 1 case to 2 will appear far more severe than a change of 50 cases to 90.
I think that the media in general (again not targeting your post/the sky article) has made a lot of money in worst case scenario without sharing methodology appropriately, or being selective about what they publish.
I hope this doesn't come across as me being flippant about the virus and how devastating it has been, will be an could be. I've taken government advice and will continue to do so, but the media distorting facts or sharing lists without proper context will continue to irk me and on occasion I will call it out. I due thing undue doom and anxiety should be avoided when appropriate but it is not an opinion shared by everyone.
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Scientists Are Holding A Music Concert To See How Covid-19 Spreads At Mass Gatherings
Hopefully this can get is all in front of stage safer and quicker.