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Legal liability aside, I would not feel comfortable with the moral responsibility if it did indeed turn out to be a genuine alarm and someone was injured after I disabled the alarm. With my fire warden hat on from work, I’m appalled. A key rule is never to re-enter a building in a state of alarm until all clear is given. That is the responsibility of a Fire Marshal or Incident Controller; the person should be familiar with the premises and be fully aware of all the potential hazards therein. A company cannot simply outsource the role of Incident Controller / Fire Marshal that does this to its customers and visitors to its premises. On the evidence available it’s hard to see how Pirate can demonstrate that they have an effective emergency action plan is as required by law; clearly if they have one, it is not working. E2A: where the premises are routinely unstaffed, then that just means the emergency action plan must be more robust and actionable.

If Pirate treat their AI chatbots as members of staff by paying national minimum wage, NI & tax together with sick leave, holiday leave and other employment rights, then it’s perhaps fair to apply policies against using the public using inappropriate language toward them. Until that day, it’s an overreaction on Pirate’s part.

You can thank Dave from me for doing a great job! 👏

I wouldn’t want to use any web site that’s asking for my login details (!) over plain http. Sorry, that’s a very big red flag, it’s not 1995 any more. Chrome is not doing awfully wrong thing here IMHO (Safari gives me a warning that it’s insecure which is fine if you understand what you’re doing)

Martin Carthy - and he was very unhappy about it I just discovered a detail in an FT article that I was ignorant of up till now [emphasis added] https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/scarborough-fair.html !!!

A family outing to see Wet Leg at Brixton Academy on Saturday night; it's been fun watching them learning how to make a bigger show since the early days. The new album is going to be a belter - I should watch out for Davina McCall to be a single. I sold a few photos recently and spent the proceeds on a new camera that's small enough not to bother security at gigs...

That looks rather like percussionist Jody Linscott sat just to the right of Daltrey

Essex's own Martin Newell in Shepherds Bush Hall last night, Two sets, one solo and then another with backing band The Cleaners from Venus for the first time in over 30 years for this two night run at Bush Hall; though it was support act The Gardeners stepping into that role (my friend Tiv played guitar alongside Captain Sensible and Dave Gregory for what had previously been the Cleaners' final excursion in Japan in 1994) Quite a few famous faces were in the crowd... Thoroughly entertaining, when he goofed up a riff on the piano, he remarked "At least you know now it's not AI" 😆

Ex-Vöid being magnificent at The Victoria in Dalston on Sunday night with a drummer borrowed from The Tubs. 😎 In Love Again has been one of my favourite albums of the year. I'd not had a chance to see them since its release in January and they lived up to my expectations. worthy support from Bloody Death, who were a new discovery to me; I'm going to be exploring their back catalogue...

Thoroughly enjoyed Fairground Attraction at the Royal Festival Hall last year I am seeing Eddi at a one day festival in South London in August; I will be over the moon if Boo is in the band for that gig!

On the heels of The Tubs a couple of weeks ago, I’m seeing Ex-Voïd at The Victoria in Dalston tomorrow night in Love Again has been one of my favourite albums of 2025, so I’m looking forward to this

Last night at my most local venue, The Sound Lounge in Sutton, about 120 of us were treated to an hour and a half of improvisation by The Pete Roth Trio, plus a Q&A session at the start. The trio is Pete Roth on guitar, Mike Pratt on bass and the legend that is Bill Bruford drumming, persuaded out of 15 years of retirement by an overwhelming urge to play drums again.

Friday evening, after a few months' absence, Robbie McIntosh returned to my favourite local venue, The Sound Lounge, in Sutton, south London. Superb as always \

Not exactly live music, but musically related... on Friday evening I attended an event at my local venue, The Sound Lounge in Sutton, where veteran DJ Nicky Horne was talking about his encounters with The Beatles and David Bowie. He recently found the original tapes of his interviews with them that he thought had been lost and played some exclusive clips throughout the show. I used to listen to Nicky's Your Mother Wouldn't Like It and Six of the Best shows on Capital in the 1970s, when I was very young and Capital was quite a decent station. Some great stories. Worth catching if you have the chance.

I live in a small terrace house so usually it’s an NUX Mighty Plug Pro + a pair of headphone (closed back FIIO FT1 if Mrs C has the telly on or open back Sennheiser HD660S otherwise)