As I don’t post so much now I just thought I’d get this in first which is to wish all of you wonderful people the happiest, peaceful and successful new year in these troubled and uncertain times.
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And to you Mr dog. On to good things I hope. Best wishes to everyone here.
A happy and healthy ‘24 you too @attackdog and everyone else who comes to this place and everyone who doesn’t
Thanks, and to all
As someone else who doesn’t comment much on here, I would also like to wish all the Afterword community, best wishes and a healthy new year.
Happy New Year to one and all who frequent this place.
Yep, Happy New Year to all here. In a horribly challenging year this place has often given me some much needed respite. Thank you.
It’s 2024 in Stockholm and someone down the street must have won the lottery because they put on an impressive fireworks display that went on for ten minutes with hardly a second’s pause. Must have cost a fair amount!
Happy New Year to everyone here, and hoping for the world to regain its sanity in 2024…trying very hard to feel optimistic about that. Peace and Love, in the words of Ringo.
Happy New Year Y’all
Be good
Be nice
Don’t let the F*ckers get you down…..
Bliadhna Mhath Ùr, you crazy pop kids! Have one on me!
The BBC Alba Gaelic cèilidh seems to be coming from Govan this year. I suspect the beer drinkers ‘n’ hellraisers will outnumber the native Gaelic speakers! Slàinte!
Thanks for the tip Fitz.
Apparently, I was wrong! I consulted with my Auntie from Islay – she says Govan is fair hoachin’ with hielanders, teuchters and Gaelic speakers. She used to attend the Highlanders’ Institute back in the day, so I suppose she knows…
Feasgar math, everybody!!
And did you watch it, @fitterstoke. There were certainly a few joyless wee frees there, turning away from the stage the minute any guitar got picked up, conspicuous in their disapproval. I quite enjoy Tide Lines, the band who were featured a fair bit, who mix the sound of Big Country’s “bagpipe guitars” with R*nr*gs melodicism.
The Mary Wallopers, by contrast, who I fast forwarded through Jools to catch, were godawful cliched rentaPaddies. And I speak as someone who has sen ‘em live a couple of times, have the albums and like the band. They did themselves no favours by sticking to such low common denominator examples of their material as to parody themselves. Nice touch, tho’ to have Spider Stacy guesting to cover Streams of Whiskey, which, despite that, they still instilled with way too much blarney and black stuff.
Blwyddyn newydd dda!
Still 5 hrs to go here and I don’t plan to make it.
Happy NY all! Here in leafy NSW it’s rained buckets for about 18 hours, with constant electrical storms, so 2024 has started a bit on the soggy side. The midnight fireworks were cancelled – a bit of a relief since I’d already been asleep for an hour by then. We know how to enjoy ourselves here with no Jools to divert us.
At 9 this morning, with the rain still coming down in sheets, and feeling vaguely decadent, we started watching Maestro, the Leonard Bernstein movie. Let me tell you, it’s an absolute stone-cold masterpiece. Oscars all round, I reckon.
HNY to you too, @attackdog – if only you could go to the world’s trouble spots and sort it all out, as per my somewhat caricature-ish vision of your personality and proclivities.
Gotta be better than 23, doesn’t it? Well , doesn’t it?
Either way I am heading to beachside country and hopefully a healthier dotage.
Long live the Afterword!
As I read somewhere it will probably be worse than 23, but better than 25…
😀
Through heavy eyes and a medium-sized hangover, I wish one and all the Happiest of New Years
Wishing you all a good new year. Abed since 9, I feel suitably refreshed to face the year. Were the Mary Wallopers any good on Jools?
Poguesy.
No they weren’t. See above, a later, earlier comment.
Shouty.
That too. And much gurning. Trying too hard, basically.
Agree.
If you go to the iPlayer website you can see the musical performances without Jools.
I can’t find it right now, I did yesterday, but I’ll post it here when I do.
{Edit}: all the Hootenanny performances here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p07r5zb3/later-live-tracks
Mary Wallopers here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0gzwnsk/later-live-tracks-the-mary-wallopers-streams-of-whiskey-feat-spider-stacy-jools-annual-hootenanny-2023
Happy New year to everyone from a very wet Winchcombe. Here’s hoping for a better 2024 than last year 👍👍👏👏
Happy New Year to all at The Afterword from a soggy morning in the Cotswolds.
Peace and Love to all except the selfish bastards in our village who woke us up with a monumental barrage of military-grade firework mortars at midnight, ensuring that we spent the rest of the dark hours comforting terrified and trembling dogs and worrying about our ponies in the field up the road.
Grrr.
Thank you AD and best wishes to all here.
Here’s the New Year’s Eve single from Section Kase, released last night! I’m sure 1m 40 of punk thrash is just what you need!
January 1st 2024.
Iran had sent a warship to the Red Sea.
Putin has pledged to intensify his attacks on Ukraine.
Kim Il Jong or whatever the fuck his name is has told his military to smash the US and South Korea if provoked.
Looks like we are in for a bumpy ride but peace and love to all on this site.
Huge earthquake in Japan as well.
Hope erstwhile AWer, Napaj is OK
Happy New Year one and all. There’s a pile of shit in this world but there are lots of lovely things too, and this place is one of them.
I agree with Blue Boy. Appreciate Afterword as a source of entertainment and civilised debate on a range of issues. Happy New Year all.
Indeed. There are very few spats on here and those that are are mercifully brief. And of course you can ignore them too. I recently made the mistake of joining a Facebook bass players group (Root Plodders Inc ) and it’s awful. Nasty.
Plus I learn a lot here and it makes me smile.
Amongst the worst are home recording forums. Self appointed experts humiliate newbies for asking the wrong question on a daily basis. Resentment festers for years.
A bit late – but A happy & peaceful new year everyone!
I tried out an AI-generated greeting and this was the result:
»Happy new year from the heart of my harem! 🌟
May the festive season bring you and your loved ones joy, love
and warmth. Our thoughts fly to you with a joyful spirit,
like the bombers once flew over the skies of Berlin. Thank you for
another year of shared adventures and partnership.
Here’s to a happy holiday and a brilliant new year!«
Saw this on a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon online and it appealed to me.
I resolve to wing it in 2024 and see how it goes.
Started the New Year with the downstairs lights blowing, down the cellar flick the fuse, flash and lights off again. Come upstairs to be told by my wife “I can feel water”. Water coming through door jamb in the kitchen under the bathroom, back down cellar turn water off. Back up then up to the bathroom, no lights there either, feel water at the bottom of the shower tray realise water is coming through the door jamb in the bathroom. Aha leaky roof. Place bucket below the leak. Back down cellar turn water back on.
Next day call a roofer, he fixes the leak £200. Let things dry, rig up unused Christmas lights so we can see in the hallway, today electrician comes fixes ex water filled bathroom light switch £55. Switch lights back on hurrah.
Saw this on a Samuel Becket page.
My motto this year.