SteveXFR

Parking won't be a problem. If you don't get a ticket in advance, you can pay on arrival. Parking marshals have card machines. Last year it was £30 If you need a ticket, there are loads in the Arctangent Facebook group for sale

She's got a Two Notes Le Bass (stolen from me) which has an awesome sounding DI and dual channels. Based on everyones advice, I think I'll look for a compact head. I've got a nice Eden 2x10 cab she can use for gigs during uni holidays. I've put her Ashdown MAG 210 combo up for sale. I like Ashdown so I'll look for an OriginAL 300 head. Her nice new Jazz bass will have to wait

Has anyone here (or your offspring) done the commercial music course at Bath Spa? XFR Jr is starting in September and I'm wondering whether she'll need an amp or do they just need a bedroom practice amp and instrument? I'm looking at replacing her 2x10 combo with a head but struggling to find a head for similar price that's as good as her Ashdown

I'll be there for the full weekend. My third time. I'm local and old so driving in each day and taking the kids Thursday. Really looking forward to Bossk, Julie Christmas, Baroness, Red Fang, Mogwai, Night Verses, Meshuggah and Electric Wizard.

I just sold all my gear. Where was the international music media interest in my stuff?

I guess if you're in a punk covers band, you'll mostly be playing to punk fans who know a lot of the more interesting stuff whilst in a party covers band, you'll mostly be playing to drunk people who wouldn't notice if you only played Mustang Sally & Wonderwall alternating all night

One of my mates wanted to start a 70's punk covers band but wanted to just do the big hits (god save the queen, anarchy in the UK, rock the kasbah etc). I think it would have been much more fun to do the less obvious ones. Submission by the Pistols, Anti Pope by The Damned and Dirt by Stooges plus some GBH, UK Subs and Angelic Upstarts

I watched a covers band at a local event recently and three songs in, me and my mate managed to successfully predict ten songs that were in the rest of their set. So many covers bands all play the same songs. Be less predictable, choose something different. I must have heard dozens of bands play Hey Jude, Freebird, Purple Haze (badly) and God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols.

That's pretty good. I shall have a listen to more of them

Beelzedub - Orbital

Angel of death - Slayer

Picture - Nickelback Dreadful song.

Bristol was heroin capital of the UK in the 90's, not the 70's

This discussion has wandered a little off topic

Ryanair and Pick N Mix. Will you also be dining at the prestigious Wetherspoons restaurant? You're really living the billionaire lifestyle.

Sadly you don't get much for a squid

Poundland have pick n mix

Try BHS. The one between Woolworths and Blockbuster video is the best one.

Village People?

A couple of them had drug problems in the past (before the band). They are now very much against drug use.

Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz

Dopesmoker - Sleep

They look like what they are. They've not had easy lives, they have had addictions and personal problems. Music was their recovery and it's transformed their lives. They're now living their dream, touring the world, selling out big venues, headlining festivals, selling number 1 records

I would think it's exactly the review Idles want

I just saw an article from GB News about Idles set. They're not fans, who'd have thought it? Absolute fury about the anti monarchy chant (even though GB News hate Charles) and the dinghy and ceasefire displeased them greatly. I get the impression Idles my not be upset about this review. The writer seems to think politics in music is a new phenomenon (it goes back at least 100 years) and exclusively liberals (Ted Nuget, Kid Rock & Jason Aldean are liberals?)