TimR

Why don't email providers just do the checks and then provide a verify service to third parties? Then anything you log into with your email is already checked for you.

But are extremely unlikely to. This will be retrospective, if someone comes to harm, there will be an investigation and the owner will have to show they assessed the risk, mitigated it. Any punishments will be proportionate. They're not going to take someone's house and throw them in jail for running a small local forum.

It's the owners not really understanding the implications. It's the old 'Health and Safety gone mad' syndrome, where people are just stopped from doing things by people who catastrophise everything.

I can't see anyone joining BassChat to pick up women or groom children.

It's is most probably a scam.

I've been in bands for 45 years and just when you reach an age when you think finally everyone is acting as grownups. Something happens to remind you musicians are mainly big kids.

Could be a number of factors. It's rarely just one factor. Daltry's ears are probably screwed and even with in ears he's struggling. Maybe Daltry has had enough now and this will be a good excuse not to play gigs for a long while. Regards Pino, wasn't it Townsend's choice to find someone who wasn't a lead bassplayer in the band so that he could step up from being rhythm guitarist?

I searched loads of places for a jack to fit my Ibanez, it's not standard is it? In the end, my problem was a dodgy Fender lead with an out of tolerance jack. There is an Ibanez dedicated spares site, it's not easy to use - doesn't really work on mobile. It's under support on the Ibanez website. https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pcw.nsf

When I had Hodgkins, I continued playing in the band and scheduled rehearsals for the days before the next treatment when I was going to feel better. We didn't gig much anyway so that may not be fair on your band if you'd be stopping them gigging. I walked a lot. I find that physical activity changes your mood, from 'sitting in the sofa watching TV' mode to 'doing something' mode.

The Kino album is worth a listen too.

The 90s material after Holidays in Eden is very different to the 80s Fish material and I'd go as far to say the first 3 H albums are still quite poppy but his lyrics are slightly less 'Fish' like.

I cannot believe a search of Marillion on the forum turns up nothing other than Word Ascociation and possibly a post by @Marillionred about a gig at the Albert Hall. Currently sitting in a Café in Paris having a beer. Just spent two nights at the Paris Marillion weekender. By luck I'm in Paris for the marathon tomorrow and managed to get tickets via facebook a month ago after they'd sold out. What an awesome show. Three weeks ago I managed to see Mr Punch at Camden Underword, again Facebook fed me something on the morning of the gig. For Fish era Marillion, comoelte with theatrics, they're amazing. Seen them twice now. I turned down tickets to see Marillion in 1984! And this is the first time I've seen them. Absolutely phenomenal gig. Anyway Pete Trewavas, doesn't get a lot of mentions. Ever. And is a big influence on me. Am I the only one, or am I rubbish at the search.

Might be worth posting in the Recording forum. I think some of the guys there are using AI.

If someone is organising an open night they need to be on the ball or it turns into the same 4 blokes, playing the same guitar tunes each week. With the 'organser' getting a one hour slot at the end. When I've organised Jam nights I've taken everyone's name down and a list of songs. Then tried very hard to rotate people around every 2 or 3 tunes. Not easy when you're the only bass player in the village. It also helps to have good WiFi and stands for phones and Busker books. Although less people seem to be able to jam from charts now and need to the something prepared - which isn't really a jam...

Yes. You'll find that most orchestras and big bands rotate and refresh their set list frequently. I know of at least one big band that rehearses for a weeks run of gigs and then starts rehearsals with new music once the run is done.