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Black plastic moulding, mitred & fitted round the entire front - not expensive (B&Q?) & looks fine.

I feel (a little) for the venue, but they do seem to be trying very hard and only managing to get it half-right. This is the problem when people who know basically naff-all about amplification get sold & told by a dealer. (no vested interest, of course - the amps are capable of making the neighbour think that the army has just started war games in their garden). It really does need an experienced hand in here - I'm with everyone else, get in, play & go home. Personally I'd not bother even considering a rebook (They'd hate me, I'm seriously loud....)

The classic was a wedding in a mega-posh Surrey golf club where there had obviously been a cock-up with bookings, resulting in us & a band sorting out spots. At the end, the best man, who was supposed to be paying me went & hid in the ladies toilet, only to be dragged out by my fuming (now) ex-wife. His protestations of having no folding on him went down like a lead balloon & he promised a cheque in the post on Monday......I reminded him that I worked a number of people in his social circle, & it wouldn't look good publicly if said cheque didn't arrive.....it arrived on the Tuesday.

Did a lot of this stuff back in the day, and only had two crappy experiences (still got paid) - now it's a slightly different world, and I'd be looking for a deposit and payment in full before I started.

Glad it seems to have come right for you, please post & let us know how its real-world test goes !

Call me confused - but Google is giving me a keyboard, not a juke? ^^^ oops - found it - possibly worth a Google search for restorers, but it ain't cheap.....

........as I 'said' ........

EBay is your friend - felt carpet underlay is 4.95/sq mtr, plus postage....that'll work........

Sorry Bill - post #14 duly corrected.

I've got Mackie C200s(passive) which have Neutrik xlr............ Edit - Woops, Speakons - it's been a long day............

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Give Matamp a look - British & frightening!

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Interesting (and not pleasant) view of the average (?) festival 'fan'. More of a worry to me is that this stuff has been going on now for 40+ years at Worthy Farm, and Eavis and company seem to shrug and walk.... (no, I don't know what they can/should do, but they seem somewhat complacent as they count the money).

Respect to Trojan Sound - using vinyl that close to that sort of sound pressure is an art form !

'Fluffers' used to be the groups of ladies that cleaned between the rails at underground stations, on the night shift after the power was off (obviously). ....so now you know....

Another vote for a second cabinet............

Could've been - we used to run a 'disco' at Henley Regatta, and we got murmurings from Marlow residents, about 4plus miles away, Glasto uses a lot more wattage.

Bang goes the neighbourhood...........

I used to have a resident situation with my sound system - picture a sub-basement (concrete) damp earth et al - we would set the operating tone(s) about 7pm. On a busy night the humidity would change (as well as the audience mass absorbing the levels) & I would vary the amp settings accordingly, otherwise the lot could sound awful.

I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought E.L.O. were bland - saw them on tv last year (Albert Hall?) and they were great, it didn't seem to translate to Glastonbury, somehow. Once the cameras stopped panning on the VIP pit, the rest of the crowd looked a bit still, and not sure of what they were doing there(?) - again, the Sunday afternoon slot is about 'classics', not over rated youngsters with soft voices and not much zap - their appeal still seems to be to the young ones (which is to be expected), who don't 'get' 'our' stuff - that's ok, I don't 'get' their stuff much either, it's a generational thing..............

Doing what (no I didn't ask that.........)?

I'm watching the Pyramid stage live on I Player, and wondering quite how it can take so long to do the changeovers? Seems to me that there's a lot of manpower involved here - I'm expecting that by now (this is 2016) everything this side of a drumkit should be (literally) on wheels? Please tell me if I'm wrong (don't bother pointing out 'this is a festival', please)

Thanks Paul, I'll check it out when I get in from work - Laurel Aitken had a good double album with the Skatalites (them again), It's a little different & worth a look (I'll ref it later) - a lot of the stuff came out when he was doing a load of skinhead gigs. :

Marley is widely regarded as 'white man reggae' - he was packaged and sold very much in the fashion of Rock musicians back then. No black kid in the UK would give it space (you had to be there). Reggae is a HUGE subject - cast around & see what you are comfortable with. The 'early' artist stuff is sometimes amazing - listen to Ken Boothe, Ernie Smith, Errol George, the Skatalites, Mighty Diamonds, U Roy/I Roy (different people) - Max Romeo, Hopetown Lewis...I ran and played reggae sound in the 60s & 70s - explore the progression, from calypso to ska, through Blue Beat to soca to rock steady to 'commercial' reggae (think Desmond Dekker, Bob & Marcia, Althea & Donna)- it's an interesting journey - I wish you well (and I haven't touched on heavy dub yet). Granted the early stuff with Peter Tosh is very good, but this has been almost lost along the way (I also have Marley with Bunny Wailer, somewhere) - I'm sure that the Skatalites were the Band of Choice in JA at one point....... vvvvvvv