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Another sublime female singer - far from my usual music taste, but what a voice - Rhiannon Giddens.

And from somewhere else on the amazing spectrum that is music, Steve Marriot:

Dusty. So much great stuff, here's a particular favourite:

Can't fault Gear 4 Music, including them putting a minor issue right with no fuss.

Not so much at home, as I tend to play unplugged at home, but the difference between rooms always gets me, especially having to have quite a mid heavy tone on stage to make the lower frequencies sound good out front. I think volume also has a huge amount of influence in the home vs band difference.

Sort of missed the point there Rich. But then there seems to be a lot of this going on in this thread, which is why I've DM'd Stew.

Chris Packham can be quite informative - but yes, that would really need to be in Off Topic!

No, please do. Didn't intend to be 'harsh' and apologies if it came across that way.

Which is fantastic (wish I had 10% of your dedication). But would anyone else want to watch/listen?

Which of course, you are perfectly entitled to do! Sometimes (often) clever just fails to entertain/amuse/please me. Purely personal.

Perfect example of 'just because you can doesn't mean you should' (bass player, not Ella).

Wow, didn't realise Ace of Spades is so young or is that I'm so old?

That looks like it is in exceptional condition! Congrats on a fabulous new bass.

Diving for dear life when we could be diving for pearls.

I bought the Specials Encore a few months back. It somehow got put in a pile and completely forgotten, so I dug it out this evening and stuck it on in the car. Not what I was expecting at all, but all the better for it. A really mature sounding album, with very some Blockhead like funk, some very strong Fun Boy Three influence (great reworking of Lunatics) and some right on politics 👊🏼 Would have chosen Vote for Me but they haven't credited Ernest Ranglin for th eobvious borrow, so instead, another of the more reggae styled tracks, Embarrased By You. Whole album definitely worth a listen.

Can't say they weren't warned. The festival made it absolutely clear that it would happen. Sounds like Cooper's timing was a tiny bit better than Lemmy's!

Yes, plot your journey on Google maps and play around with the departure/arrival times. Their data is understandably good (and a bit worrying).

Friday night is probably the only guaranteed no-no. Been doing a lot of miles recently, including two trips, Sussex to Luton. So far everything has seemed a little lighter than pre-lockdown.

Not so much short, but Alice Cooper wouldn't believe how strict the curfew was at Gulifest, so left the stage at the end of the set, at which point all power went off, and he hadn't performed any of the big hits which he'd saved for the encore! Oops!

And an lot of Cool for Cats was up there.

Roger Glover

And a corker from Elvis Costello: To tell the truth our mum ran off with someone else's father Went for two weeks holiday in Taramasalata

Ian Dury - so many to mention, but three classics: Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. He must have been a pencil squeezer. He didn't do the Mona Lisa, That was an Italian geezer. I could be a lawyer with strategems and ruses I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises I could be a writer with a growing reputation I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station Shall I mourn you decline with some thunderbird wine And a black hankercheif?

Something that really came across in the documentary - very enigmatic, huge stage presence, even when he wasn't doing very much. Just facial expressions alone could be enough.

That is glorious! Nice 'investment'