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Say She She Great fun, would recommend (catch them soon before the one on the left goes on mat leave). Backing band solid and mostly invisible except for the middle of the show when the women left the stage for a break. Look, here they are!: Support from Gitkin, a three-piece playing sort of instrumental surf-dub. Not bad but not quite interesting enough to excuse them the cardinal sin of having no bass player.

Say She She at Manchester Albert Hall tonight, Kokoroko at New Century on Monday.

I was feeling bad that I'd not got my act together to go to this, and you've made me feel much better about it thanks!

I guess I would try finding one or more patterns or riffs that demonstrate the problem and practice them slowly and quietly, with a metronome, concentrating on fretting cleanly and with just enough pressure, so you aren’t banging your LH finger down excessively hard. Then gradually increase the tempo and volume. I find it’s easy to use too much force with the fretting hand, and something I need to consciously practice out.

To pass 7 mA through 1 Mohm you would need a voltage of 7 kV.

There are a bunch of crossover circuits on Rod Elliott’s site, some with PCBs available although these work out expensive with the shipping from Australia, unless you happen to be in Australia. If you’re building it yourself you can play around with the crossover frequency and see what works best.

I’m going to say Nautilus are trying a bit too hard there, while Mother Earth aren’t trying quite hard enough 😁

Well I just picked a video of people speaking Dutch at random and I'm going to say that while they do talk in a bit of a monotone much of the time, once they get excited about something there's plenty of pitch variation. Maybe it's not so much about the language, more the national character.

Do you have a clip or link as an example? I’m not sure most people will have considered this in such depth! Having some familiarity with Swedish, I can believe the claim that Nordic languages score high on the pitch range metric and the suggestion that it’s more so if the speaker is trying to come across as super-friendly or engaged. I always thought of English as a fairly middle-of-the-road language on that score. What about tonal languages like (any form of) Chinese?

That seems completely implausible to me. I just quickly looked up lithium-polymer batteries on CPC and a 2200 mAh 11.1 volt one is 100x34x22 mm which I think is about four times the volume of a PP3.

I always understood that qualitatively a steeper filter will have a higher Q, but I’m not up to speed with the actual theory of Butterworth and so on, so would be interested to know the answer.

Way too far off to commit, but put me down as a maybe!

Cool, do let us know how it was!

It was fun, but they had a backing track.

The Courettes at Night and Day. Great fun, but couldn’t quite forgive them for using a backing track rather than a bassist (and an organist). Although they very nearly won me round by their endearing habit of yelling “IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!” when it was quite patently Thursday. Support was The Lotts, who had one trick and played it tolerably well… repeatedly.