Nail Soup

Yes. Listen to it a fair bit, probably more than any other station. If I remember correctly they played Tomorrow Never Knows at breakfast time the other day - so that's not bad going!

Daft Punk split a couple of weeks ago, after many years. So why do bands formally split up rather than just stopping doing anything?

That was the soundtrack to my daily walk on Thursday just gone.

Let’s get the cocoa on!

No but I assume it was a result of the popularity of very early electronic bands like Kraftwerk. Not sure about that - my understanding is that it was intended as a kind of bass guitar substitute, the target market was not 'experimental' musicians.

I finally got round to getting the Au Pairs back catalogue compilation a couple of weeks ago and came to exactly the same conclusion. In fact I listed to the whole double CD and thought how great it all was.... until very near the end when suddenly there were a few frankly awful songs. I checked out the sleeve notes........... they were recorded after Jane left. And shortly before the band packed up for good.

Well it works for me anyway!

And the 303 was definitely not invented to meet a demand for rave music. In general musicians find a way to abuse the inventions.

Me too. It does look good, but none of the buttons are 'pressable' Seemed to work OK on an acoustic instument.

Been posted here before but for example the invention of mics/amps for gigs was just intended to make the voice louder. But it actually made crooning possible. It was not demand for crooning which led to mic/amp invention.

For some OTT punk bass lines check out Brian Ritchie on the Violent Femmes first album - e.g Blister in the Sun.

Most Stranglers bass lines.

The Pop Group

Something for half time:

Would need a decent EQ ...........to boost the centre-mids.

Most football managers will tell you the importance of MarkKing😃!

Someone who overplays and is flash, but still delivers the goods? How about Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes? (Not sure could play footie for real though...)

In football the stereotype goalie is like the stereotype drummer - the 'loony' of the group. Any bass players who fit that bill?

I've found that writing tab (or even writing lyrics with chrods above) only really if you use a monospaced font. So 4 I's are the same width as 4 W's. I think that comes as default in notepad. See below comparison of Courier and Arial:

Intense rehearsal?

Well done Dad3353! And well done everybody - high standard across the board. Looking forward to the next one...……..

Or apply stickers. Well, I guess not anyway...…….

Depends - are the stickers solid paper or laminate?

New film doc about Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex......... Sky Arts 9pm Saturday 6th March. From what I gather it's told from the perspective of Poly's daughter Celeste. Really looking forward to this..... one of my heroes!

The way I look at it is that Weller is kind of the genius..... but without Foxton (and to a lesser extent Buckler) bringing the songs to life he'd be an unheard-of genius.