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Yet another reason to use self checkouts 😊

That’s what I thought. I was hoping it would be possible to donate directly. I worry about that kind of thing.

Anyone ever done this? Almost two years ago I recorded a friend of mine playing some flute pieces that I’d composed. I never got around to doing anything with them. Unfortunately he’s recently been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I’ve edited and arranged the recordings, and added some pIano to them, I now have five tracks that I’m planning on releasing via Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support. I want it to be as open and transparent as possible, preferably with all proceeds going direct to them, rather than to me and me having to pass it on. I’ve looked on Bandcamp and can’t see a way to do that. Has anyone else done this, how did you do it?

This. Who is seriously either going to be able to tell any difference between your tone and that on the record, or really be bothered?

I love browsing around these things.

Buy new. Unless something is very new and relatively simple in design; the Line 6 doesn’t sound simple, therefore more to go wrong. Few things seem built to actually last nowadays.

Have you got a smart phone? The voice memo app is great for spontaneous recording of ideas.

Is Pino’s rusted? I’m guessing no?

It’s a weird thing this relic’ing. I’ve seen quite a few fifty year old plus instruments, they could pretty much have passed for being from this century. I do know that’s not always the case, but I think the abandoned in the garden shed for forty years look that some relics have is a little over the top.

You don’t mention how you’re going to play the songs. Not meaning to come across wrongly, but a memory stick is only a storage device, it won’t play the songs. Have you got a smart phone? If you have then download them onto that, then play them from that. You just need a mini jack from your headphone outlet into the mini jack aux in.

Music was the only thing I was ever really any good at. It was all I really wanted to do, I did A levels intending to be a vet, but my heart wasn’t in it though. Gigs just took over. Then I started teaching. Then 8 years ago I decided I wanted to teach music at a higher level, and get better as a musician, so I auditioned for ICMP and got a place on their BMus, which lead to me then going on to do a masters, now a PhD.

I had an interview arranged with Access to music for a lecturer in music. They cancelled an hour beforehand and never got back to me. I’ve since heard a few people say they’re not good to work for.

You have to sometimes. You should always put a 90 degree bend in the string before cutting it, that helps prevent it from unravelling. Allow about three turns around the tuner, bend the string then cut about a centimetre past the bend.

I didn’t know he’d used a Wal. It’s not an instrument I’d associate with him.

I’ve still got 7 years left on mine. I believe you can buy burgundy covers for the blue ones 😁

That’s it isn’t it? The new passport is in reality a sign of regression, and a loss opportunity and freedom. Previously we had the right to live, work, study, travel freely and retire in anyone of thirty counties, also to receive free medical care whilst there. We now only have those freedoms in one country.

Blue passports printed in Poland, or is it France? Hopefully they’ve got the words ‘printed in Poland’ in a prominent place, in a bold font.

That’s changed in the recent immigration rules though, hence this thread.

That’s what I keep saying, it’s across the board, the whole of the artistic industry.

I wonder if our perception of working in the arts has a bearing in our reaction to this, ie, it not being a ‘proper’ job? I’m pretty sure there would uproar if the government introduced something that impacted the construction industry, which employs a similar number of people, and raises a similar amount for the country’s economy.

A friend I was at uni with moved there last year. His wife is American which helped, but he still had to overcome massive hurdles.