Loving the XTC and Buddy Holly double bill from @whisht and @thekrynoidman.

I’m in the mood for oddness this weekend. When aren’t I? This bloke is the son of yer’ actual physicist who didn’t get invited to those sort of parties and dies early – having given us the “many worlds” or parallel worlds theory. His son buggers about with instruments and…[Read more]

@Whisht What? no, it’s because you made a Jaws reference. I don’t even like football, which probably makes me a blasphemer considering I’m a Geordie.

@Whisht Classic

@Whisht, – it’s just occurred to me – perhaps Duggan, while obviously being played for comedy, is supposed to be obvious?

That is, if Count Scarlioni is known to be about to steal the Mona Lisa, but is too important to arrest – perhaps Duggan’s real job was to make the Count aware that the Louvre knows exactly what’s going on and has detectives…[Read more]

@janetteB Yes the sun shone and shone and shone, it’s nearly as bright as my nose and forehead now 🙂

@TrauMorgus Wlecome to the Rose and Crown where no topic is topical 😉

@Purofilion I think we both need more coffee…… as ever 🙂

@Whisht Genius, name adopted

@PhaseShift Yes the name has been adopted, if you manage to make Tewkesbury…[Read more]

@rob

Sterling work mate. Excellent suggestion from @whisht for call signs.

Good luck with it!

@purofilion     In those days in Canada, public school kids such as myself wore jeans most of the time. Nowadays, of course, it has changed. When I go to my son’s sports events at school, I am surrounded by teenage girls in leggings and tee shirts (sometimes with the nominal addition of short shorts, but not always). I always want to say, “Ho…[Read more]

Sorry to rub salt in the wound but Rik Mayall was set to be the villain in the aborted 30th Anniversary Dr Who ‘The Dark Dimension’.

I always used to think he would have made a great Doctor, too. Best not to dwell on  these things…

I loved Rik Mayall in nearly everything I saw him in (maybe even in that awful ‘Merlin’ ‘movie’). One of my fa…[Read more]

Rik Mayall
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@Phaseshift Brilliant clips
Not much to add except to echo what’s been said (@Whisht I had the same problem with Monty Python 😉 )
The first time I came across Rik Mayall was as Kevin Turvey…

Glorious 4 minute rambles
The trouble with Rik Mayall tributes is that he keeps making you laugh 🙁

@Whisht Cezanne? When discussing City of Death? Happy memories and terrible spelling. The great Jonathan Richman.

@TheKrynoidMan

Sorry – I’ve not read the Peter Hook book. I’ve tended to avoid music biographies because they can ruin some happy memories. I’ll agree with you in that I think Curtis was the damaged soul of Joy Division, and responsible for much of the sound trying to replicate it without him would be pointless.

@whisht

UNKLE always interesting…

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@Whisht

I am so sorry for your troubles. I’m glad you’ve been able to work out what was missing. A few years back we made the decision to rip our entire CD collection onto a music server and listen through a Sonos system. We had an obscene number of recordings and we were running out of room for them. My husband spent at least a week of evenings…[Read more]

@Whisht @Bluesqueakpip

weird law that says you hard drive and your back-up hardrive will always fail at the same time

Ain’t that the truth!

@Whisht – I sync to my Walkman. Also, stuff I’ve bought from the Dalek Empire (aka Amazon) is in their cloud, and stuff I haven’t is usually on CD.

There’s some weird law that says you hard drive and your back-up hardrive will always fail at the same time. Back when I was studying Computer Science, I was taught that three backups was the way to…[Read more]

OooooooH! Sympathies to @Whisht Don’t worry about what you’ve lost – the good stuff and favourites will find you again! Best of luck. And motto of the day peeps – as @JanetteB says – back up, back up, back up!

Excellent recommendation @blenkinsopthebrave.

@Whisht My advice to you is the same that I am continually giving my sons, back -up back-up and then back-up some more. I hope you are able to restore your music collection ASAP and maybe find some new favourites in the process.

Cheers

Janette

@Whisht

I feel for you, my friend. My advice is that the only recourse at this point is to dull the pain, and lose yourself in another’s misery.

For the first, I recommend a good bottle of red, and for the second, I recommend the following:

Both should be consumed at the same time.

@Whisht   I’d never heard that Ray Charles version before, gorgeous. He is amazing. On first listen, I just hear the soul, and think, wow. Then, on second listen, I hear the quality of his voice, which is so much cleaner, clearer, than you realize at first. And then, I realize that, unlike many singers of pop, rock, or blues, he is hitting every no…[Read more]