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Played at Dunoon yesterday afternoon, at the Doon The Watter festival...great day, but hotter than the sun on stage... Some slight technical issues with the sound on stage, monitors died halfway through the set, but it didn't affect out front... Back home all tomato-faced after a day hunting down shade! 🙈🤣😎 VID-20220813-WA0021.mp4

Played the Kelso Scooter Rally last night...brilliant night...stage was hotter than the sun...!! Singer took a wee short video and didn't realise it was still running...! 🤣 VID-20220604-WA0004.mp4

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I was a late incomer to The Cure, being introduced to them - (I mean, like really listening to them, I always knew the singles) - by the now brother in law. First saw them in 2006 when they played the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs, playing 37, 38 songs, over 5 encores, utterly incredible. Fast forward a full 10 years and I next saw them at Wembley Arena, the Saturday night gig where they played 9 songs from "Disintegration", which was honestly one of the best concerts I've ever been to. The last time was at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, where they played the Glastonbury set, but a combination of the 10 hours plus rain, sodden, muddy ground added to the exuberance on my part with a few too many pre-match refreshments, leaves this one a long, long, long way behind the other two. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the "Pornography" / "Disintegration" / "Bloodflowers" albums are the ones to focus on, in my opinion...however special mentions to "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" and actually, bizarrely I do quite like the last two "4:13 Dream" and "The Cure" which were otherwise universally slated...! The live gig on Spotify / Deezer "Curaetion-25" is also a pretty decent listen too - remember when that gig was announced and was desperate to get tickets for it, but couldn't work around work / holiday / personal situation at the time. Each to their own I guess.

I see the Facebook Post that started it all has now been deleted... We've all been there, few sherbets too many...looking at pictures of your ex, or some other chunt that's currently p'ing you off... Ah, sod it, I'm proclaiming it to the world...cue 27 missed calls and 49 texts from big Bobby Smith later... The biggest ever feeling of the morning after "fear" ever, when 6 million plus Facebook fans of The Cure fans stalking you the morning after... 🤪🤪🤣

That clip in what, 15, 20 seconds, is the perfect example of stereotypical over-excitable Americans versus stereotypical downbeat deadpan British sarcasm...!

Genuinely a bit gutted at this...such an integral part of The Cure, both in terms of sound and look over the last 30+ years or so... Still, if the call comes...!!! 😏😂

Precisions, Precisions, Precisions...? 2011 Am. Std. 2 x Self-Builds And with Jazz cousin...

Haha, nice of you to 'fess up...! Seriously, I'd been swithering doing summat anyway, so that idea was the winner that kicked this off. Have a (virtual) beer 🍺 on me...!

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I didn't need a new bass...no-one ever needs a new bass...but well, sometimes stuff just happens in life, innit...?! So, a while ago @Useless amateurfires up for sale, a @KiOgonloom loaded Olympic White P-Bass body, with all chrome hardware fitted. In the same thread, a comment's made along the lines of... "Oh, that'd go lovely with the Status neck that's also up for sale!" Right there and then, I've went full Partridge.... "AHH-HAAAA" And the project was born. Switch / upgrade the chrome to black Hipshot Bridge, Thumb Rest, Ultralight Tuners, throw in a set of Delano's, fire on some DR Black Beauties, and et voilà. Of course, it didn't actually dawn on me for one second until it was completed, what I was actually putting together was my very own Duff PJ, minus the J...! Anyway, I present "The Substitutes" P-Bass, complete with engraved band logo neck plate. My 2nd, and last, project bass.

I bought a John East J-Retro 01 off Charlie recently, excellent communications and it arrived in bomb-proof packaging, all good. Thanks Charlie, Dougie.

Haha, that sounds like a disaster...and the drummer a total control freak...!! The songs we are planning on using the MP3 for are "Baba O'Riley", "Who Are You?" and "Won't Get Fooled Again"...all of them lend themselves for a wee but of time to get ready to come in...so far the extremely important pressing of play has fallen on to the singer and to date, 15 gigs or so down, we haven't had a single problem with it from that point of view. The only reason for posting was more our lack of technical know-how...we are looking for a solution which the band can set up and take care of ourselves, without relying on the house sound guy. Cheers, Dougie.

Im really no good with the PA's and mixers at the best of times, but that's such a brief and simple solution, even I get it... 😂 Thank you 👍