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I see nobody has replied yet, so I'll start the ball rolling. I have an NXT 5 - photos here: Warning - it's LEFT-HANDED! Pros: very very portable; looks great; extremely easy to play, as its action can be set as low as that on a bass guitar, and it's got DOTS! Adjustable bridge height makes bowing perfectly comfortable too; extremely easy to set up through holes in the back plate, without the need to remove the cover; has a fully adjustable tripod stand that eliminates the need to balance the bass on your body while you play - it stays where you put it and you can walk around it. Cons: doesn't sound like a double bass, even with the corresponding switch activated; doesn't 'feel' like a double bass, and offers much less of a physical experience, because it's so small and thin you can almost play it like a bass guitar; the tripod is rather horrid to look at. Er, that's it for the cons... I do like my NXT a lot; then again, a normal size double bass is bigger and heavier than me, and a lefty is practically impossible to find and try before buying/ordering one from scratch, so EUBs are just about my only option.

Two threads on the same topic - now merged.

Jack's question was generic, because we do all of our posters, flyers and images in-house, so to speak, and we are in the fortunate position not to need external services. But since enquiries about posters and flyers have appeared in the past on this forum, it's good to know we can refer any future ones to you.

Yes, sorry. I've had an immensely busy and stressful year, which has majorly impacted on the writing, editing and publishing of anything that wasn't deadly urgent BGM articles. I'm not out of the woods yet - but I'm hopefully running out of "things to do before looking at that blog". Keep the faith

Unfortunately it has long changed hands and stopped hosting music. It's still a nice gastropub in leafy West London, though. Yours truly was behind the camera, marveling at the speed of Jack's disaster recovery action! @Al Krow I'm reasonably sure the wireless system wasn't a Smoothhound - that one came later, Jack was using a different one at the time, IIRC

Yay! Topic pinned, date in diary.

There'll be quite a few of us there in January. We'll be the British Invasion!

Yes, he's correct, @charic, it looked like this: Edit: the number was clickable, and you could copy the url of the individual post to go directly to it.

Couple of vids from the Red Lion: Back In The Night Wild Side of Life

Halloween gig at the Prince of Wales, Wimbledon. Yes, the band went overboard with costume and makeup More Halloween (but less makeup), the following day at The Tabard. The Red Lion in Little Missenden, mid-November.

Time to add a few more photos from the Dogs' latest gigs. Unplugged gig at a birthday do in Stepney at the beginning of September: The Black Horse in Greenford at the end of September: The Goat Inn, St Albans, in mid-October: More in the next post

I'm with Charic, that does sound weird. Definitely have a word with Sims before condemning the neck.

I've joined you in the Going list!

I have been able to check out the vid on my proper PC. The - rather underrehearsed - introduction by Marco and Riccardo is only partly about Stu himself. They say that he's just back from "The G4 with Joe Satriani" and that he's worked at creating his own signature head which Markbass will showcase at NAMM (I'll try to catch up with Stu there and ask for details!). Most of the remaining talk before Stu comes in is in the form of recommendations and instructions to the audience for live-streaming on FB, asking Stu questions and refraining from overloading the Wifi (I guess they mean the bandwidth). You're not missing anything if you don't speak Italian - just listen to Stu

The clip doesn't seem to work on my mobile at present. Is that Marco with Riccardo introducing? I can only see the first frame.

LOL I'll see if the Configurator can do red or orange, which would be even more to his taste! Edit: @Happy Jack, we're joking, the current trend in our (music) household is, in fact, all about seafoam green...

I heard that too, tried it and couldn't get along with it at all. But worth learning to use it if you want to avoid shelling out for Photoshop. I recently bought Elements 15 (which isn't the latest version but it's recent enough to do the job) and it was around £70, which I believe was well worth paying.

Photoshop works on the principle of LAYERS - imagine rectangular sheets of paper or acetate which you can only pile on top of each other, not cut into shapes. You have to open each file you want to add to a new "canvas", and once they are all open in Photoshop, you "duplicate" each file into your new canvas/image, then resize and move/tilt the duplicates as needed in the new canvas, and forget about the original files. It's very easy and quick, much better than any clumsy mobile app or free software, once you get the hang of it.

Wife? That looks like something the husband might get, in this household, while the wife usually sticks to black or natural...

Paid work with tight deadlines takes precedence...

The Junkyard Dogs have had their band flyers printed by this company for the last 4 years. Easy upload of your own art, quick and efficient. Reasonably priced as well, and delivery is £5. [url="https://www.instantprint.co.uk/"]Instantprint[/url] We haven't tried them for large posters yet - have a look at their options and prices online. I wouldn't recommend Vistaprint - unless they have changed their ways since I last used them - simply because their (exorbitant) delivery costs are hidden until the last moment before you press BUY, and usually cancel any savings you may have over other companies.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1509356781' post='3398203'] and of course men never have moods swings? Some cheap comments appearing on this thread. You'd think we have no women members.... Oh, before anyone says anything like, 'it was just a bit of fun',.... don't. [/quote] [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1509358662' post='3398224'] Seems like you have answered both your own questions. If i have offended any women with my comment i will happily delete the post, but let them speak for themselves. [/quote] Agree with Yorks in principle. In practice, you have no idea how effing boring, rather than purely offensive, menstruation jokes/puns are to women, no matter who they are told by (and that includes other women).

Mail Boxes Etc. seems to be a legit company: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03107457 I have no experience of it, though.

29 September for us please! And the blog from this year will be ready once we're back from holiday.