There is another daughter of Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl who isn’t in the music business. I used to know her a little through work and the first time I met her, not knowing anything other than her first name, […]

Thanks. A little investigation required it seems.

Thanks Mike

Hijacking this thread for my own purposes, does anyone if there is likely to be any lag when watching movies from an iPad via Bluetooth headphones and does it depend on the devices or age/version of devices? Bad […]

It used to be possible to deregionalise DVD players with a special, expensive remote control. I’ve got a Panasonic from 2005 that was done. These days, it’s possible to buy region free players but presumably, PC […]

One solution would be to keep different external DVD drives for different regions. Annoying, but relatively cheap compared to the cost of your collection. Or you could get a region free player to connect to your…[Read more]

Don’t know about other labels but EMI started doing in house listening sessions around 2005 for a couple of their their biggest artists to try and prevent pre release piracy. Journalists were invited to listen on […]

I met the Onkyo guy who dealt with Maiden when I went to the Black Sabbath box set launch and chatted a bit about the player and headphones. Interesting guy with a Maiden logo on his business card as well as the […]

This was the first track I heard by them in the early 80s but didn’t make the connection

I saw Heart in the late 80s. Maybe I’ll dig out the Bad Animals album. Or not.

It’s not Harrow School, where Churchill went Moose, it was Harrow County Boys, a grammar school which my brother and I both failed to get into, for different reasons.

I’ve warned Audrey Fleurot that you’ll be at a loose end.

You’re right, although it seems it was 2010

I’m sure I read somewhere that The Housemartins toured by saving up Mars Bar wrappers to exchange for National Express coach tickets or was that just Heaton having a joke?

Larry the cat is ousted by Vyvyan’s Hamster, SPG.

The bigger the venue, the more kit you need plus I’m guessing some of it will be set & stage too. It seems flying the gear was the only way to meet the schedule. Iron Maiden not only do this but have their own in […]

The kit just isn’t the same these days and tours aren’t allowed to put crew and audiences in danger. The small amount of work I’ve done that crossed over between corporate and music was very H&S conscious, no […]

Sound equipment is more compact: A digital desk has all the outboard effects racks (delays, graphic EQs etc) built in and line arrays mean no one tours walls of Marshall stacks. There are no more huge “meat racks” […]

You’re right of course but my point is that I don’t recall hearing from them either, just marginal seats in the midlands and the north. I would be genuinely interested to hear what an overwhelmingly Remain cit […]

The silent disco” with wireless headphones is already here.