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TrypF commented on the post, I have finally gone electric with my new car 2 months, 1 week ago
Our Hybrid Toyota is ideal for me and my wife – runs off battery 90% of the time round the local area where everything is 20mph, but runs on petrol for the long journeys down to my dad. Like others here, the main […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Another venue at risk of closure 2 months, 1 week ago
A cynic might surmise that if you were to effect a land-grab, you could get a conveniently placed neighbour or three to complain about noise from a struggling venue. When the venue is shut down you could swoop in […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Does vision matter as much as sound? 2 months, 1 week ago
Went to They Might Be Giants at Shepherds Bush Empire the other week and, while it was a great gig, I was reminded of how bad sightlines are there. I’m 5’ 11” and was on tippy-toes if I wanted to see anyth […]
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TrypF commented on the post, List Your Last Five Gigs, Please… 2 months, 2 weeks ago
They Might be Giants, Shepherds Bush Empire Big Star’s Radio City Live, Hackney Church Pretenders, London Palladium Stage Door Guy, The Moustache, Sydenham Sheryl Crow, Hampton Court Seeing Jason Isbell t […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Music to row.the Atlantic 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Lots of luck. Talking Book by Stevie Wonder does the trick for me, and goes brilliantly with dawns and sunsets.
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TrypF commented on the post, Timothy West, 90 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A great actor, one of your old-fashioned ‘safe pair of hands’ pros. Always remember him in the Tales of the Unexpected ‘Royal Jelly’ episode, which scared the bejesus out of me as a nipper. Saw him with his son in […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Freebie alert: Nye (National Theatre production with Michael Sheen 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Be warned: your viewing room will get extremely dusty in the last ten minutes.
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TrypF commented on the post, Can I have my money back? 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen Thomas Walsh tear strips off a sound engineer in the middle of a Pugwash gig for putting reverb on his voice. Quoth he: ‘Reverb is for feckin’ cheats!’ Of course, he’s got a velvety voice that can charm […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Can I have my money back? 2 months, 4 weeks ago
As I mentioned under Uncle Wheat’s recent review, Squeeze’s current line-up doesn’t lend itself to good sound. There are too many instruments clogging up the EQ and it creates quite a ‘dark’ sound. At the Indigo2 […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Write a song today! 2 months, 4 weeks ago
A well-meaning friend, sent me a countryish song he had made (ordered? had assembled? magicked?) on an AI site, and sent it to me (at half two in the morning, which tells another story). ‘You can use this in your […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Squeeze 50th Anniversary Tour 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Saw them at the smaller O2 venue in the Dome last year. They were good, and it was a great setlist, but they were too loud for the room and the beefed-up band removed an awful lot of any light and shade in the […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Freebie alert: Nye (National Theatre production with Michael Sheen 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I saw it in a live screening in our local cinema. I thought it was amazing, insightful and moving. but I’m a Welsh socialist. I’d say – cast it to the biggest screen you can and watch it all the way through if you can.
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TrypF commented on the post, Two days to go to The Big Day… 3 months ago
I’m properly worried. As commentators have said en masse today, Harris ran on hope beating fear, and the people chose fear. Since Trump decided to run again there’s a far more organised bunch of MAGA folk […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Two days to go to The Big Day… 3 months ago
She might not be the best Dem option (by a long chalk), but to overlook the VEEP woman of colour in favour of another thick-haired middle-aged white man in a suit would have had serious repercussions with a number […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Bingo Little’s 100 Favourite Songs Of All Time, nos 20-11 3 months, 1 week ago
That’s positively snail-like compared with this version:
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TrypF commented on the post, Brothers 3 months, 1 week ago
I’ve read Runnin’ with the Devil by their first manager Noel Monk, and it’s quite the eye opener, as is Sammy Hagar’s Red, though the latter author comes across (unsurprisingly) as more of a blow-hard. What both […]
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TrypF commented on the post, Bands that deserve more success 3 months, 2 weeks ago
One again, for me the answer is Pugwash:
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TrypF commented on the post, Give My Regards To Broad Street 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I have seen it – on YouTube. It’s a clanger for sure, but a few bits of this curate’s egg are of interest. It shows a grimy London in the mid-80s that is long gone – all communication is done on brown telephones […]
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TrypF commented on the post, We've done toys and sweets, how about a thread for UK comics of the 50s to early 70s 3 months, 3 weeks ago
IIRC you were either a ‘Whiz-Kid’ or a ‘Chip-ite’.
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TrypF commented on the post, Standing in the Shadows of Motown 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Watched this on DVD at the weekend. Bloody fantastic and, like the Buena Vista Social Club, a great tribute to these musicians before they died.
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