I don’t quite want to shell out for a new copy of Stage with the corrected song order and crowd noise restored, but I’m sure it’s a better listen.

All in all Blackout, but I think the Nassau versions of Station to Station and Fame are near definitive. While I like Stage, it has always seemed a bit sterile and joyless so it’s nice that they let a bit of […]

Why? First problem is finding a giant male hamster and next problem is trying to chop its balls off.

Prince Charles, apparently.

Just listened to your Young Americans episode on the weekend and much enjoyed it. I’ve been on a Bowie bender lately and have discovered the recent 70s live albums that have been issued (Cracked Actor, Blackout and Nassau).

My favourites:
Chart Music: Each episode is a 3-4 hour analysis of an episode of TOTP by a rotating cast of ex-Melody Maker journos. Episodes with Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkarni are the best. Episodes with Simon […]

Rickenbackers of the type played by Townshend aren’t neck through body. The neck tenon is reasonably long but doesn’t go go past the neck pickup.

Agree entirely. This season the unthinkable happened: my 14yo son, who had been a fan since he was about three, has abandoned the show. And this isn’t a growing up thing either, as he is visibly pained by this and […]

Fender and Gibson are notorious for making dealers commit to buying a substantial portion of the range each year to remain as dealers, which is prohibitive for smaller stores (who only want strats, teles, p-basses […]

I’m sure it will be blunt and inefficient and all that, but what is the alternative? Have enough inspectors to individually check the tens of millions of dwellings in the UK? Enforcing this as tenancy changes […]

I didn’t realise what an issue this was in the UK until I heard a good feature discussing it on the Wired podcast. The UK is doing a great job converting to green electrical energy, but the reliance on gas heaters […]

Experimental results are in: It overflowed tank C, which means the installers fucked up. If we had left valves open as per the design we would have lost 33,000l of water.

I’ve always preferred the instrumental P.E Squad/Doo Doo Chasers to the vocal version on Funkadelic’s ‘One Nation Under a Groove’. Just a slice of greasy funk that can be enjoyed without the scatological chanting. […]

Didn’t even have to play it to know exactly what that was!

Yes please.

I had assumed the grammatical garbling was part of the new use of ‘they’, but a quick trawl through a usage guide confirms that ‘have’ should have been used.

I did, however, come across these other alternative […]

If it was a bespoke pronoun I wouldn’t mind. My problem is that they hijacked an existing pronoun that already had issues.

Assuming the size of the connections can handle cover whatever water flow occurs, it boils down to whether a larger head of water in tank C can overcome the input pressure of the outlet from tank B, which has a […]

We had it plumbed by tank professionals. This is a theoretical question that I may be able to test practically in a day or two, rainfall depending.