Cliff Edge

Jools Holland and the band at The Congress in Eastbourne. What’s to say? Brilliant evening, not a duffer to be seen on stage, every member of the band had a solo including the girl singers, and Ruby of course. Plus a surprise appearance for a couple of old Squeeze numbers by Chris Difford. Special mention goes to Imelda May, quite possibly the best supporting artist I’ve seen in years. No miserable songs from her.

I have astigmatism and I have always been very short sighted, plus advancing years have buggered up the close reading. I wear varifocal glasses most of the time with no issues. I’ve used contact lenses for over 40 years and currently use multifocal Purevision2 from Bausch and Lomb, bought online from Vision Direct. Best contacts I’ve ever used.

Some of them are.

I have a ‘72 Jazz I bought in ‘82 but in the intervening years I’ve had to change a few bits that stopped working properly or not at all, so not really 100% original now. But still plays well, and sounds good with a pair of custom shop ‘70’s pickups, but I prefer playing my Stingray.

Crikey that is cheap if it lasts. Bonus, rechargeable battery too.

I’ve been using an iRig Blue Turn for several years https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigblueturn/. Bluetooth and totally silent in operation. I use an iPad with OnSong but the pedal works with Android stuff too.

It’s the age verification where this has always been a bit of a nonsense. Savvy kids can put any age they like, and just keep taking out new accounts in different names and ages. Free gmail, outlook etc email accounts make it easy.

This is very sad news. Sam gave me reassuring and helpful advice around the time of my cardiac surgery.

Thanks for the introduction to Katy Hurt, I like what I hear. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the gigs

A bit off topic. The Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year has The Bar Steward Sons Of Val Doonican on the bill. If you have time to kill, trawling the acts appearing on various UK festivals this year has some wonderfully crazy band names. One of my favourites is Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5.

Thanks for all the info guys, If I had looked at the OnSong website which I haven’t done for several years now, all the info is there. Including some useful video tuts for doing exactly this. Even my old version of OnSong has all the required midi functions. I think all I need is the Widi Jack and I’m good.

It’s just buttons 4 and 5 via the expression socket to select presets.

This looks interesting, thank you.

Control a Stomp and an iPad using MIDI? May have been discussed already but before trawling 96 pages here I thought I would ask. I use OnSong on iPad, each song in a set list has BPM and elapsed time. I select the songs using a bluetooth page turner pedal and then select the Stomp patch I want using buttons on an Ampero Hotone. It’d be nice to do all this with one button push on something, possibly using MIDI as the Stomp doesn’t do Bluetooth?

There was a Queen tribute band I shared the bill with years ago called Flash Harry. They put on a good show.