Oh blimey, I saw them last Spring 1989, just as that hot summer was kicking off. Was a weird date of sorts with the lovely Amanda. Support was Manchester band Rex I think, which looking back seems like a weird pairing.

Not done one of these for a while, because my listening/viewing/reading hasn’t changed that much. Mod, Soul, Reggae, Country and Prince. That’s about all. And everytime I try to watch a film all the way through […]

I love the Reacher books. The films are OK but they should come with an inspired by the books – the business about Reacher’s height and build, the size of him is a massive part of the character. It’s actually am […]

I once slept in the same bed as Susie Dent.

Mutual friends own a caravan. Susie wasn’t in the bed at the same time.

I loved Big Country too. Didn’t listen to them from about 1990 until a few years ago, but haven’t stopped listening to them regularly now.

1983/84. I do actually listen to so much of the music from then now. I really don’t believe there’s anything I don’t listen to at least some of the time.

If there is anything that is my metal phase it’s […]

Oi she’s mine! Or I’m hers. Or something.

I sort of agree with you. I find that the music I liked between being 6 and 16 sort of shaped my tastes for life. But while I still listen to a lot of music from that time I do listen to new stuff. But it sort […]

These sound modules are all sample based. So older machines may be cheaper but will have less memory. So less samples so less realistic response to playing. Quiet to loud for instance won’t be like a real piano […]

For older kit eBay is the place. If poss you want to see it in person, to check for wear and tear and ahem that the knobs work.

This is the probably what I would go for, the proper instruments sounds will be […]

The Roland Integra looks beautiful. Although at over a grand it’s a wee bit pricey!

Been a while since I bought one but for real sounds in a module I always went for Roland.y old jv1080 with Hammond/electric piano expansion card was always useful. Presume they’ve made more recent equivalents. […]

Oh that looks nice. Working with a decent music player on my smart phone was probably the most ease of use I’ve had with music players since the original Walkman back at the start of the 80s. It doesn’t make so […]

Initially while it was being annoying, it would take an hour before it would actually start updating – that is before the file count shows. And then overnight to update the library. Now it’s immediate on that and […]

So, I’ve fixed all my metadata and renamed all the files to match. I’m in the middle of putting it all into folders, before moving onto the Fiio. I’ve got A & B done and put onto the machine and it is amazing […]

I’ve only just realised I’ve a sd card slot on my laptop. I can format the card and load my music on that way. Which at least speeds up some of the process.

I’m one of those dangerous people, who knows some […]

I’m organising the library to do just that. Wanted to do that first, but was too impatient!

ExFAT works with the player, but you have to use a FAT32 formatted card to update the firmware. Guess I could keep a […]

But even on mp3s alone with cheap headphones it’s still the best listening I’ve ever had.

The things i own in physical form I’ll look at turning lossless, but there’s a load of things only owned digitally. Ill probably have a lossless library and an mp3 one and keep them separate!

Thanks for the tip. I wanted to rename my files but was put off – I had some other file tag editor a while back that was just awkward and slow. But this is a pleasure to use. Really fast on my average little […]