You can get a Windows 11, core i7, 16gb refurb Dell machine on Amazon nowadays for £120 or less. We buy them for the office and they are absolute workhorses.

The Dodgers effed up delivery of the box so not arriving for another week. 😡 This way I don’t get the Charlton gig any way so very interested to hear about that from anyone who’s ordered a box that includes it […]

Swap the hard drive for an SSD. Looks like you only need a 500gb drive which are cheap as chips these days. If that doesn’t speed things up enough it’s probably just that 12 year old performance is all you’re going to get

Snorts tea 😊 Never a wrong time for this, it seems

I’m mindful of potential circumstances beyond individuals control and I would accept a degree of lack of charity on my part were it not for the fact that on the two recent occasions this has been an issue, it was […]

The GLW has to book seats for anything, gig, theatre etc that include an end of row seat for me or I pretty much won’t go. It’s not claustrophobia in my case, just want a decent chance of being able to have […]

They’re all on streaming in lossless (and presumably TLRA next Friday.

I suppose it’s a function of my age (the 70’s were my teenage years) but so many of the current crop of “50th Anniversary” re-releases are albums that are so utterly part of my very being and this one is right up […]

Me too. Wasp Star is also tremendous and contains at least a couple of my top XTC tracks – We’re All Light and Church of Women. Underwhelming – pah!!

I switched on my vpn to have a look and wished I hadn’t. Hope you’re on the mend

It was adding the embedded link in the OP that did it – sorted. It’s fine in the comments

I’m currently listening to John Martyn Live at Leeds and was surprised because John Martyn refers to Danny as Danny Tompkins on at least two occasions. Maybe a joke, of course and I imagine drink and more h […]

There’s no change of style here so if you’ve read any of the previous books you’ll know whether or not you want to dive into this one. It’s long and I did find myself thinking “is it nearly finished yet” […]

Unless you want/need the camera differences etc from having a pro, I’d seriously consider the Air. I’ve had Pro Max models for the last few years (I’m lucky in that I can change my phone regularly via a work […]

My youngest (now in his late 20’s) was at this one and loved it. Personally I was at Level 42 at the Liverpool Phil which I also enjoyed tremendously

I’ve always found Amazon to be the best at the deliveries but over the last 6 months or so even they have changed and where they would always put the parcel into our unlocked porch (as per our written delivery […]

Jumped at this as it’s one of my all time faves. Listened over the weekend and the Atmos mix is a stunner and worth the extra outlay even though I have the last 5.1 version. Complicated Game in Atmos is breathtaking

This out today and if you didn’t stump up the rather inflated price of one of the box sets, it’s all on streaming, including the Atmos Mix

There’s an EP of several mixes of Dr Mabuse on streaming and it includes that version

I know we all have to go sometime and 86 is better than a lot, but Danny and John Martyn were such a big part of my formative years that this is sadder than many. RIP.