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Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 23:08:57 GMT
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Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 23:04:30 GMT
R.I.P. Duane Eddy, pioneering rock’n’roll guitarist. Duane Eddy, the rock’n’roll guitarist who achieved solo stardom with a string of instrumental hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Rebel Rouser, the theme to the TV series Peter Gunn, and the theme tune DJ Johnny Walker uses to this day, "Because They're Young", has died at the age of 86. OBIT
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Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 22:20:39 GMT
S1 of Beacon 23 is done. I'll start season 2 tomorrow.
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Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 21:20:47 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen such a diverse set of results. The first five votes actually ranged from one to five. C'mon, own up, who awarded the "one"?
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Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 13:07:11 GMT
R.I.P. Richard Tandy: ELO keyboardist who shaped band’s futuristic sound, dies aged 76 Born in Birmingham in 1948, Tandy met his future ELO bandmate Bev Bevan at school. He was recruited by Bevan to play harpsichord on the Move’s 1968 single Blackberry Way, which reached No 1 on the UK’s singles chart. In 1972, Tandy joined the Electric Light Orchestra, which had formed two years earlier as a side project of the Move. Along with Lynne and Bevan, Tandy was one of three core members who remained in ELO until it disbanded in 1986. When Lynne reformed the band as Jeff Lynne’s ELO in 2014, Tandy joined again. Tandy and Lynne also collaborated on non-ELO projects, including the Electric Dreams soundtrack. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of ELO, alongside Lynne, Bevan and Roy Wood, who co-founded the group before leaving in 1972 to form Wizzard. OBIT
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May 2, 2024 11:58:45 GMT
Post by Slinger on May 2, 2024 11:58:45 GMT
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Post by Slinger on May 1, 2024 15:46:57 GMT
...some mad bint with the worst voice in the world As far as that position goes, I believe Ms Yoko Ono has tenure.
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Post by Slinger on May 1, 2024 13:01:02 GMT
Bloody Hell. I think I've just beaten the record for the fastest one-star review ever.
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Post by Slinger on May 1, 2024 12:59:40 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2024 23:12:14 GMT
Originally issued in 1977, Live Tapes is the perfect introduction for anyone wishing to discover the music of Barclay James Harvest. Less a document of a particular tour and more a summation of where the band had been up to that point, Live Tapes was recorded during the European tours of 1976-77. At this stage in their career, BJH had become very popular in Europe, especially in Germany where their previous studio album, Gone to Earth would eventually sell an astounding one million copies. Not bad for a band that would never crack the all important American market and largely remain a cult phenomenon in their native UK. While the song selection focuses on the band's albums for the Polydor label, Live Tapes includes some of their earliest best known material as well. "Crazy City", "For No One", "Child of the Universe" and of course "Mockingbird" are all here. The production for these songs is much clearer than that heard on the Barclay James Harvest: Live album from 1974. All the BJH classic trademarks are in place: gorgeous harmony vocals, biting guitar leads from John Lees, symphonic mellotron strings from Wooly Wolstenholme and the rock solid rhythm section of bassist Les Holroyd and percussionist Mel Pritchard. The more recent songs establish a couple of important things: as individuals, the writing was stronger than ever but it also showed that the band was growing apart. Contrast the symphonic rock of the clever "Poor Man's Moody Blues" which is both wonderfully self-deprecating and a clever passtiche at once, or the gorgeous melancholy of "Suicide?" with the California rock of "Hard Hearted Woman" and "Rock and Roll Star". Though no rift may have been evident to the casual listener at the time, the difference of opinion as to where to take the music of Barclay James Harvest would split the band after the following year's XII album. I'm an unashamed fan of BJH, and have been for years. A little bonus for you which is not on this album, but it would have fitted oh so perfectly, is simply called "Titles" which I bought as a single when I was in Holland one day, and is on their 1975 album, "Time Honoured Ghosts". Newly remastered by Paschal Byrne for the Eclectic Discs label in, I believe, 1999 'Live Tapes' sounds better than ever. The track order is slightly altered from the original vinyl, which may drive purists nuts, but the new running order also includes a few live bonus tracks to sweeten the deal.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2024 21:55:34 GMT
Jeanette and I both liked The Mentalist. We were quite surprised to find out that Simon Baker is an Aussie. Oh, and Owain Yeoman (Agent Wayne Rigsby) is Welsh.
I like Walton Goggins. He first came to me attention playing "Shane," in The Shield. Apparently he was also in Sons of Anarchy, which I never watched.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2024 15:53:13 GMT
I've always gone to the local hospital for my blood tests, which is great as the hospital is closer than my doctor's surgery, and the "requests" from my surgery are now all electronic, they just give me a ring and tell me what time to turn up. The last time I went they actually saw me 15 minutes early.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2024 15:48:05 GMT
palace, I can't let you mention Indian music without crossing into Pakistan for the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, one of the greatest voices of his (or any) generation.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 30, 2024 14:15:46 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 21:55:14 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 21:53:56 GMT
It's a lot more than just a vehicle for Volumio. shop.volumio.com/product/motivo/The Motivo is now available to order for €1749, £1499 or $USD 1849. I've got a 30% discount code if anyone's feeling rich and curious.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 18:25:04 GMT
I've just finished the latest series of Alex Rider. I thought it was fairly abysmal. It's like somebody got the previous two series, put them through an industrial mincer, extracted 90% of the fun, and finally threw the remainder at a wall to see what stuck. "Tom" was an annoying twat in a hat, "Kyra" could seemingly hack any system in the world with a beaten up old laptop and magic software, and yet I wouldn't trust her to tie her own shoelaces. Goodies and baddies alike were mostly cardboard cut outs, and even Alex himself seemed like he was the donor in the world's first personality transplant operation.
The only consolation I can come up with is that whatever I watch next stands a bloody good chance of being an improvement.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 18:17:32 GMT
Excellent news. I'm now going to have to work out how to watch it all without subscribing to (spit) Apple. I'm gonna have to sell my soul, aren't I? The tools are freely (well, one you do actually you need to pay for) available.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 16:29:13 GMT
Silo's Future Gets Major Update From Rebecca Ferguson (Including When The Show Will End)
The future of Apple TV+'s science-fiction series Silo gets a major update from star Rebecca Ferguson, along with when the show will end. Silo star Rebecca Ferguson provides a significant update on the future of the Apple TV+ show. The story is adapted from Hugh Howey's Silo trilogy, which includes the novels Wool, Shift, and Dust. Season 1 explores life in an underground silo with 144 levels, where an engineer named Juliette (Ferguson) and others live due to the outside world being a toxic wasteland for countless years. As the season progresses, Juliette works to unravel the sinister corruption and dark conspiracies within the silo. Apple TV+ renewed Silo for season 2, which wrapped filming in March 2024. While speaking with Collider, Ferguson, who is also one of Silo's executive producers, shared how many seasons the show will be, and how they plan to film the final seasons. In addition to reconfirming that Silo season 2 has completed shooting, Ferguson revealed there are already discussions being had about the show's future beyond season 2, including an endgame of filming seasons 3 and 4 back-to-back. Read Ferguson's comments below: "I believe that the show has an ending, and I know when that is. So that's the answer. You will find out when the show is done. To be honest, I don't think it's a secret. The books are the books. It's three books, and the three books are divided into four seasons. So I believe, unless any Apple person is gonna jump on, I think we're absolutely fine with saying Season 1, we've done. Season 2 is shot and coming out, and we're now looking at green-lighting Seasons 3 and 4. And I think we would film them maybe together, and that would be the end."There is no shortage of ongoing science-fiction series, with many of the best ones being Apple TV+ originals, but Silo manages to be even stronger than much of its competition. Season 1 strikes a perfect balance between riveting character drama, intricate world-building, and shocking plot twists, all while seamlessly moving between various genres. The first episode grounds much of this drama in the story of Allison Becker (Rashida Jones) and Holston Becker (David Oyelowo), smart and likeable characters easy to get invested in, and through whose eyes the status quo and the potential secrets of the silo are made clear. Nevertheless, by the end of the first episode, as compelling and important as Allison and Holston are to the story, they are revealed to not be the main characters. The actual protagonist, Juliette, is only introduced moments before the first episode's credits roll, setting a precedent for Silo's many surprises ahead. Instead of just being a standard science-fiction show, Juliette's investigation into the truth makes the story feel like a police procedural, a murder mystery, and a political thriller, with all these genres complementing each other well. As for world-building, season 1 does an excellent job fleshing out the world of the silo, delving into the social hierarchy, politics, the technical and practical logistics of how it's maintained, and the forgotten history that led to the silo's creation in the first place. This is only a taste of the world-building to come, as the season 1 ending reveals eye-opening truths about the world of Silo, showing that the silo where season 1 took place is only a small piece of the much larger world that will be explored in Silo seasons 2, 3, and 4. SOURCE
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Post by Slinger on Apr 29, 2024 16:22:21 GMT
Apparently it was clogged up, and they had to clear the cache of adverts for penis enlargement, and 20%-off discount pizza offers.
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