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I wonder if a corn plaster might work, what with them having a hole in the middle. Might not be small enough though. Another thought is a small, Compeed blister plaster as they are very cushioned and very discreet.

The Hole in the Ground - Bernard Cribbins

Base price + delivery charge + import duty & VAT?

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam

Venus & Mars - Wings

Jack & Diane - John Mellancamp

Not terrible, but a couple of centimetres at least, coupled with high winds, with more to come. It’s not necessarily the conditions, rather other road users, with a lack of respect for the conditions. Stay home, keep warm, have another JD.

Probably just as well as the journey might have been, let’s say interesting.

Go with songs you like to listen to as a starting point, probably avoiding those with what are considered advanced/busy bass lines, at least to start with.

Roller Coaster Of Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sadness The Seat Sad Manners Fug Boy Three

Motordead Never got going.

Suck My Kiss - RHCP

Oh, go on, add me in and I’ll actually try to fail, which probably means I’ll have another gear-less year.

You’re OK with Pino, he has used his quite extensively with his recent collaboration with Blake Mills.

In To The Valet - The Skids

I have been described by friends as a bad man in this respect too. Living vicariously through other folks’ purchases is a legitimate way to avoid personally acting on GAS I find.

I’d love to, his family do sounds like an absolute hoot. However, word is that we’ve been booked for next year already. That said, after I’d left a couple of aggressive, coked up boys came up to our guitarist and said, “You were shite!” Our guitarist is a big lad and, unbeknownst to them, a former kick boxing champion. He just said, “Don’t do it,” and they took his advice. After that, I might just kick it into touch next NYE. What is with some folk, you’re perfectly entitled to not like us, but don’t come up and actually say it. The mind boggles 🤦🏻.

Just home from the dreaded Hogmanay gig. We have to do this as a 3 piece as our keyboard player always spends NYE with his extended family and fair play to him, I’d rather spend it with them too. Not a terrible gig, always interesting playing with more space in the mix, but I do miss the keyboards. As ever, some idiot insists on trying to speak with you whilst you’re playing, always a request that you can’t/won’t do. However, this was balanced out by a nice guy, who was interested in my bass (he was a guitarist, it turned out) and he looked up my bass, a Maruszczyk, while we were playing. Who says bassists never receive any attention? Anyway, we played OK, although the drummer is really starting to become clumsy (lack of home practise I suspect) and the groove often takes a break in these instances. The thing that gets me is the amount of folk repeatedly going to and from the toilets, with only moments spent in there. Who are they kidding? Perhaps they had bad colds, but I suspect the red nostrils were courtesy of Colombia’s finest marching powder. I’m not a prude, but a little moderation wouldn’t go a miss. Glad it’s over, only 365 days until the next one. At least it was an easy drive home. Rig as per Saturday’s gig earlier in the thread, with the side by side setup, which worked a treat again. EDITS: OK, maybe it was because I was tired (I wasn’t) but just read my post to find numerous autocorrects that made it seem that it was me on the illicit substances. ‘Have to’ became autograph () but more amusingly, groove became ‘groom’ .

Hogmanay shenanigans imminent. Going sideways again. Same rig as Saturday.

I made another year sans nouveau basses (I don’t know why I’ve gone all French). I hope to not repeat the performance for 2026.

The very reason I learnt to tie my own bow tie, although not Daniel Craig necessarily (I learnt way before Casino Royale).