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I just sold a Höfner violin bass case to Sam and he was an absolute pleasure to do business with - prompt in payment, charming in communication. Highly recommended if you want to trade with someone you can rely on. Thanks, Sam.

Offshore Banking Business - The Members

I'm really pleased for him. I was really interested in his project to rebuild a church organ in the museum, which is a massive undertaking. Nothing worked well to start with. Then he automated it with MIDI. He was able to send MIDI that make it talk, there abouts. Brilliant. I'm surprised at the choice too since he's not particularly about himself as a pop star. He's a fun character, and very talented. I wish him every success.

Money For Nothing -(and your chicks for free) - Status Quo

Sweet Smell of Success - The Stranglers

Hi. I copied the link from your soundcloud track, but when I tried to embed it here, I got a message - The link could not be embedded because soundcloud.com does not allow embedding of that video. To check the tracks sharing settings, edit the track on soundcloud. Track Settings opens on the Basic Info tab. In there set privacy to Public. On the permissions tab, select them all (except Download if you don't want that option). Then copy the new link to the track and paste it here. Then see what happens? I enjoyed your track. Good sound and relaxing vibe. https://soundcloud.com/andy-travis-463973966/the-life-of-a-cow-painter-m4a?si=3b4ac711310b480091898f0f92db1662&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

It's a good rendition of Sledge Hammer, vocals like PG's, good players. But: to my mind doesn't add anything to the original. If it was a pub covers band it would be awesome, but for someone famous I would have expected them to make it a bit more their own.

The last of a recent batch of solo tunes... https://jellyknees.bandcamp.com/track/twister

Thinking about conventional small PA speakers - in small pubs I've happily used a single Yamaha DXR8 to carry vocals/acoustic instruments. It's good to have two for those instances where the room is wide, but one is enough for a lot of small UK venues if you position and angle it right. Sometimes, by the time you've put two speakers up you've obscured more than half the performance area from view!

Liked that!

Not sure what generation that is exactly, since round here I probably see as many if not more Gen Xers having those choices as Millennials/Zs! But IMO he's a really interesting choice - someone who merges music with hacking culture and has a popular 'new media' presence. Offers interesting possibilities for documenting development of a song/performance over social media which would be a very novel way of engaging people in the build-up, especially if followers can interact with the process. He's someone who I think retains something of the earlier DIY, anarchic spirit of pre-google YouTube in a positive way.