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Not that keen on the Brooklyn Bowl are you? Procupine Tree, twice. I loved them in the mid 90s, they got boring after Signify though. Left gigs at the Scala and the Forum early. Black Sabbath at Hyde Park. It started raining and it was one of the first years after they'd redesigned the arena, very badly. Also they'd run out of the nicer lager in the beer tent.

Yep, got all four so far. You have to be pretty quick off the mark to get them, like within a couple of hours of the emails going out. I missed the third one (liveandwell.com) in the UK stores but got it via the US store. The postage was a bit scary, but it avoided customs somehow. Look At The Moon is really good, probably best of the bunch so far.

Assuming Brand X play their UK tour in the spring (I doubt they will but anyway) there will be zero Brands in the line-up, since Percy left and John Goodsall doesn't leave the USA any more.

I bought Doug's Dunlop DVP4 - all good here, friendly comms, speedy despatch and ultra modern delivery tracking skills on top.

Statement from the Steve Hackett Facebook page "In response to concerns that the Steve Hackett show in Manchester on September 24th conflicts with the Genesis show, all queries should be directed to the ticket outlet from where you purchased your Genesis ticket(s). We have no control on third party ticket sales or show announcements. However, we have been advised that since there are two Genesis shows (24th & 25th), Steve Hackett fans will be able to attend both events. Steve is really looking forward to seeing you on Sep 24th at the Manchester 02 Apollo!"

Also he came to see one of the Genesis tribs I used to be in. He was at one point seen singing along to the "whoa oh oh"s in Land Of Confusion

Ditto a few times, including backstage at the RAH that time he played Firth of Fifth with The Musical Box, and a lucky visit to his home and studio. Lovely humble and modest chap. I can confirm the original artwork for Spectral Mornings hangs in his downstairs loo.

I got one here. Kicking myself now for not offering it to them

Also, I don't think anyone's actually playing Behind The Lines in that clip. Nice to see 2x Moog Taurus 3 though.

Turns out CW is also an annoyingly good bassist

I had a parcel delivered by Hermes pre-Christmas. When I say "delivered" what I mean is they said they attempted delivery, we weren't in (we were - it was a Saturday night in lockdown), they would attempt redelivery on the next working day (ie Monday). On Sunday evening nice man came round with our parcel, he'd seen it in a neighbours garden and his wife had pointed out that was odd as the house was currently unoccupied. (They live a good 10-15 mintues walk from me). The nice man had spotted our address and brought it round himself to complete the job for Hermes. The retailer kept pestering me for feedback and I posted the above story on their website. Their moderators removed it as it wasn't anything to do with the thing I'd bought.

Winner of today's "Who's Stupid" competition: I had tickets for CW at the Electric Ballroom last Feb. Couldn't be arsed, sold the tickets on.

Thank god it's ok to wear white jeans again.

At some point in the early/mid 90s a cat snuck in through a barely open window and p*ssed in a Casio keyboard that was on the third shelf up (an expert flatmate later helped identify the odor). Turns out there's more p*ss in a cat than can comfortably fit in a Casio keyboard (who knew!) so it overflowed on to shelf two, which held my admittedly in those days much smaller record collection. Words were said, some of which I'm not proud of. Much of sections H-R had to be discarded/burnt. The specific cat was never identified (turns out you can't dust for cat p*ss) but this may explain my ongoing for dislike for cats to this day and an unexpected spike in second hand record shop activity in the Hampshire/Surrey/Sussex areas in the mid-90s.

Same here, an excellent lockdown pastime (for a few weeks anyway) There were some pleasant surprises to be had!

Blue passports though

Ikea Flintan. £55 without arms (but tone how do you type? lol) and a year on the return policy. Arms are optional extra at another £15 or something. Treat yourself to some shelves and that while you're at it

I hope no one covers this, it's the Bad and the Terrible all in one

Yeah, get a Ric.

It could get awfully chilly in Tyneside TV studios, even when wearing a fluffy jumper.

On the other hand, Soft Machine's London Jazz Fest date at Ronnie's was postponed from Sunday Nov 22nd a mere fortnight to Sunday Dec 6th, and so far no sign of shifting that.

Jeff Beck at the Royal Albert Hall. Originally May 26/27 2020. Then rescheduled for May 1/2 2021. And again to May 30/31 2022. JB will be around 78 years young by then. Hang in there Jeff!

Special delivery arrived yesterday.