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Having just bought the CD reissue off Mickeyboro of this parish, I’m listening to the stone cold classic 1971 British jazz album A Symphony of Amaranths by Neil Ardley, which features a galaxy of talent of the time including Ivor Cutler as narrator on this track:

Bought Mick’s Neil Ardley CD, a pleasure doing business with him.

I can’t see why not. I’m no teacher btw, just going on my own experience and second-hand experience of my kids learning piano and violin, and ‘practice it slowly’ seems to be the answer to most things.

So “Mog-you” then?

(checks lists of controversial topics above) phew, looks like I’m OK to start that ‘Jamerson vs Kaye’ thread then

This is a good call, I have the B1 Four. It has line in and headphone out, powers off batteries, 9 volt adapter or USB, has a tuner, metronome or drum patterns to practice to, it’s a recording interface, and it’s a multi effect unit as well if you need that. Oh and I think you can use it as a looper too. You can get them secondhand for about £50.

KOKOROKO at New Century last night. Monster band, great gig. Diverse but mostly youngish crowd, several hundred strong, out on a Monday night to get down to what is at heart a jazz band (if anyone feels like disputing this they played a song in 5/4 - QED). There is hope for the world, you know. Support from the highly entertaining Lady Donli who is also worth checking out if into a (very broadly) Afrobeat kind of vibe. My first time at New Century (well it has only been open two years now 🙄 ), great space but the stage seems a bit low for the size of the room hence no photos as they would have too many backs of people's heads in the way.

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.

If someone knows the cabinet they might be able to suggest without measurements, but if you can supply measurements then people will definitely be able to help out. It looks like this is a two-way cab with 5" midrange drivers as well as the 10" speakers, I assume these have their own sub-enclosures to isolate them from the main volume? You’d need to give the dimensions of that as well as that volume needs subtracting from the main enclosure. Also the diameter and length of the reflex ports, which will tell us how the cabinets are currently tuned.

Saw Otway with Attila The Stockbroker a few times back in the ‘90s, good times. Does he still shamble up to the mic, peer at the audience and announce ‘I’m Otway’?

Tonight, The Courettes (a ‘rock’n’roll duo’ - not sure how that works, I assume backing tracks) at Night and Day in Manchester - hope the neighbours upstairs don’t mind 🙄. Suggestion of a mate who usually suggests plaintive Scottish folk stuff - no idea what he sees in them, will find out. Thursday 24th, the always magnificent Honeyfeet fronted by the always formidable Rioghnach Connolly, Albert Hall in Manchester as part of Womex (so the support may be interesting). Seen them many times but never in such a big venue - indeed I wonder if they’ve ever played such a big venue? I heartily recommend these guys if anyone is interested.