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Oh balls. I'm on my computer so can't even claim autocorrect on this one, just idiocy.

BF actually suggest you can run a Two10 with an 800W amp as long as it's clean.

If I could have afforded to have kept it I'd still be using my old Marshall Super Bass head. I'd love to know what it would have sounded like through my Barefaced cab, as it already sounded pretty good through the Marshall 4x12 I used to have (even though that was fitted with guitar-tuned speakers not bass-tuned ones).

I was given a bass and hated it, a cheap and nasty Wesley five-string with a neck like a tree trunk.

I still have my Cort-made Korean Squier P I bought new in 1998. Definitely coming with me to the grave, that one.

Equivalent to, certainly, but one can be either or both.

He wouldn't have been able to legally call himself a professional engineer though.

Indeed. I'm a chartered engineer and sometimes shake my head at some professions whose practioners call themselves "engineers". In some countries the base title is actually protected without a qualifier (e.g. engineer would be protected without having to say one was a chartered engineer, professional engineer, etc.). I guess buyer beware and all that for professions like this with no protected titles.

It should mean that someone has been trained and/or served some sort of apprenticeship in making instruments. A mutual and sadly no longer with us friend of myself and @Merton did a luthiery course in Totnes some years ago, and following his journey highlighted how much work and dedication there is involved for a good one (and Kieran was a good one - I played an acoustic 12-string guitar he built and it was joyous). I used to get my instruments an initial setup from an actual luthier in Penzance some years ago and it was fascinating talking to him about his work. These days a lot of people get called a luthier because they can do guitar setups and repairs.

The next gig we have booked in is early March at a cricket club we play at regularly and where one of their committee is one of our core crowd. Hopefully we'll have some new songs to keep them interested by then.

NYE gig at Scholes Cricket Club last night. Arrived at 6.30pm at the suggestion of our singist to find the car park empty apart from his car and he and the drummist setting up the PA inside. The stage was large enough for the kit, my amp and the keyboardist, and over the next half hour the keyboardist and guitarist arrived and set their stuff up around a large Christmas tree in the corner. I'd forgotten my stand, but fortunately the guitarist had brought a spare so crisis averted. Somehow our guitarist managed to get her amp set up centre stage, but somehow I managed to be heard. I used my Siredowsky through the ABM and Two10S and it sounded great. Black Converse Chuck Taylors were the footwear of choice. We'd been told that this was a ticketed event so I was expecting a reasonable crowd, but our drummist suggested we might only get about 50 people in. Ten of our regular friends and family crowd turned up, and over the next hour or so a handful of other people drifted in - and I do mean a handful. We were told to start at 9pm, but at 8.55 there were only 20 people there including our crowd, so we agreed we'd go on at 9.15 to see if anyone else would brave the weather to watch us. They did not. So we played to a peak audience of 22 people, and to their credit they all seemed to really enjoy it and a few even got up to dance for a couple of songs. We debuted Mr Brightside and that went well, and apart from a couple of minor cockups from the drummist we all played pretty well, and we still got our full fee. Our lot had even brought a picnic as the club wasn't laying on food, and given the woeful attendance that's probably a good thing. At our mid-set break I got chatting to the outgoing chair of the club committee and he complained that the committee was now largely compromised of younger members who think they know better than the more experienced hands, and decided that last night should be a ticketed event, but then made no effort to promote it or even turn up themselves. He said they usually have a bonfire night event at which they have up to 5000 ticket-buying attendees, but that's a longstanding fixture in their social calendar. I sympathised based on my own experience of committee memberships, and he announced at the end of the night that a few people would be getting an absolute bollocking today. Home for about ten past midnight, with the stroke of new year passing as I was trying not to aquaplane on the M62. Obligatory "tonight's office" photo below along with a photo showing the maximum audience size.

There's a Japanese made UV70 for sale on here and for which I'm hoping for a sudden and inexplicable windfall.

Playing at Scholes Cricket Club tonight. Getting there at 6.30pm for setup and soundcheck, but no idea what time we're starting (apparently the club will tell us later) so equally no idea if I'll be home for midnight, or if I'll die of boredom before we start

That is a fun one indeed!

Schedule 9, Part 7, Paragraph 11 to be precise. There are lots of paragraphs 11 in the legislation.

It'll probably be OK with an amp more powerful than 300W as well, because the likelihood of the SNP putting out its maximum output is low. My 500W cab does OK with a 600W head, for example.

I have heard it but not in a complimentary context

Ah, the fallacious motto of authoritarian governments everywhere.

NYE at Scholes Cricket Club. Photos I've seen suggest they have a fairly large function room so should be good.

Some VPN providers will absolutely turn over records to government authorities, which is why the ones who don't make a big thing about the fact they don't.

If they ban them that's the end of working from home. Given how prevalent hybrid working is nowadays no politician would dare propose it.

You don't need a VPN to access the dark web, you just need the Tor browser, which is created by a non-profit organisation and has the backing of several government departments and NGOs around the world including the US State Department.