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Robert Smith with Olivia Rodrigo. Now that’s a duet I wouldn’t have predicted

Kneecap. I gave this a try and I am the wrong demographic. Maybe it’s an age thing but it just sounded like the generic noise I regularly hear coming out of Corsa’s with horrible body kits and the tinny headphones of yutes who like to eat Maccy Ds on public transport with their feet on the seats.

wrong place!

3 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

The thing is that it just drives people further away from caring what the media say.
 

Which isn't a good thing in a world full of unmoderated social media junk. 
 

Bona fide news organisations at least carried some gravitas whether you agreed with their politics or not.
 

Nowadays it just seems a race to the bottom of clickbait and space-filling chaff. 

The rot set in with rolling news. 24/7 coverage of what’s going on right NOW. Content becoming less relevant than immediate impact. It’s now not far off rubbernecking motorway pile ups and gossiping about celebrities.

I largely ignore what passes for news now. 

On a Glastonbury note. Greentea Peng, Black Uhuru, Cymande, Ezra Collective. Just great.

12 minutes ago, BassAdder60 said:

What I did watch I thought was very lack lustre and poor ( perhaps an age thing ) but with one or two exceptions I felt Glastonbury had sold its soul slightly 

This has been an accusation made about Glastonbury since it stopped being a free festival. I think each generation has an expectation about what type of festival Glastonbury is/should be based upon their personal experience of enjoying the festival during a particular era.

17 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Cymande are pretty funky, nice bass tone, never heard of them before 

Great band 

You probably have… just sampled in plenty of hip hop

10 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

It’s all performative stuff, it’s very punk and all that.

 

And of course one man’s terrorist is another man’s revolutionary.

 

If you’re upsetting Keir Starmer and Kemi you’re doing alright by me.

(My tongue is very firmly in my cheek. Please do not consider this an endorsement for the IRA!)

I guess so. Without a thread derail though it must be kind of obvious to most people now that there are deep structural issues with capitalism and neither right nor left have a solution. The best I hope for is not to turn on each other and make things even more ugly. So anyone preaching division or proposing violence as a solution whether with a guitar or ballot box can just fcuk off.

9 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

Weren’t we all in our 20s?

 

Joe Strummer et al all said stupid things in their time. Personally, I’m all for politics in music as a child of the 80s.

 

It’s better than the apparent apathy that’s prevalent among so many of them now. 

To an extent I agree, but kind of draw the line at supporting terrorists and paramilitary groups. I feel the same about people who  get all starstruck by gangsters and serial killers. Not much glamour or glory in being a terrible human being.

37 minutes ago, chriswareham said:

Mixed feelings about Kneecap playing. I listen to a lot of anarcho-punk that can have some pretty muddled up politics, but a band that seem predicated entirely on IRA cosplay rubs me up the wrong way. Perhaps it's just because I was minutes away from being blown up by an IRA bomb in London back in the 90s, but a band that openly celebrate an organisation that deliberately targeted civilians and are now just an organised crime syndicate sickens me.

Problem is banning or censoring them just gives them a platform. I’d never heard of them before the recent controversy. Now I have. Still not listed to them. When interviewed they seem like confused puppies.

8 minutes ago, Cato said:

Back when I used to go every year in the 90s it was mainly indie/alternative bands and some dance acts with a smattering of of world music and the odd curve ball like Johnny Cash.

 

The music scene seemed a lot more tribal back then and generally peiple who were into one 'scene' wouldn't relly listen to orher genres, or admit to liking them anyway.

 

The whole tribal snobbery thing was epitomised by the NME of the era which delighted in sneering at anything that wasn't obscure indie, including bands that started out like that but dared to become popular which is why they infamously gave the Stone Roses debut 4/10.

 

I think attitudes are a lot healthier today with most people happy not to pigeon hole their musical tastes into one narrow genre and I think Glastonbury has become better for widening it's line up to pretty much a bit of everything, from tiny amateur bands right up to global superstars, across multiple genres 

 

If  you're at Glastonbury and you can't find something you like, you probably haven't looked hard enough.

Yep. So far I have enjoyed Osees, Loyle Carner, badbadnotgood and am looking forward to watching burning spear and vieux farka toure.

It’s kind of like those folks who write in to complain about TV programs or shows “after two hours of suffering through this degenerate filth I was utterly disgusted to find there will be another episode, I can’t believe I will have to endure this again”

I would recommend not bothering with Glastonbury if it bothers people so much, but with the sheer variety if you really can’t find something you like I am a little lost for words.

I kind of see both sides of the pay for free argument. It’s worth noting though that Glastonbury keeps going due to the vast array of volunteers, from security, medical, cleaning, maintenance etc. Artists always used to get free entry and camping and a 40 minute set seem like far less hassle than cleaning up afterwards or herding in a couple of hundred thousand revellers.

13 hours ago, Rosie C said:

My optician suggested one eye short vision, one eye long vision, but I dismissed that out of hand as a crazy idea

Sounds crazy. Works very well. I never persisted purely because the hassle of using them outweighs the vanity of the easier glasses option.

As ever something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay. If no one is willing to buy it, it won’t sell. At this point the price has to come down or the seller is stuck with it. It’s not worth getting upset about.

On 06/06/2025 at 09:08, neepheid said:

Enough with the flucking metric/imperial debate!  This is "How was your gig last night?" FFS!  It's bad enough when people start using it as "Basschatters upcoming gigs" but I've come to peace with that.  But this irrelevant bickering can GTF - it's making the relevant stuff disappear with undue haste.  Take it to bloody Off Topic where it belongs!

Indeed. Put your foot down. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. 

2 hours ago, Owen said:

I bought a new Mac Mini M4 last week. It has bricked itself within 2 days. I will not be worrying about plugins for a bit.

This is fairly rare but rarely terminal:

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-revive-your-mac/

34 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

This shrinking number of venues must be a pub covers band problem because I'm not seeing it at all.

I think it’s more of a North/South thing. A lot of venues in the South (London and the South East in particular) are no more.

let england shake - pj harvey

On 10/05/2025 at 14:47, Beedster said:

 

Ouch, 4-string PUPs on a 5-string bass, that's a pretty amateur design feature.

 

Personally I would just get it sorted, if it was a private deal it's a case of do your due diligence or accept the risk so you can't really go back to the seller now, and if the manufacturer/builder was that inept in the first place I'm not sure I'd want the bass going back to them for a fix.

 

Assuming the PUP cavity will take the correct size 5-string PUP's I'd suck up the cost and replace it/them. At least you can sell the originally installed 4-string PUPs. Good luck

^ This 

If it was a custom order my gut feeling is that the customer would have specified the make and model of the pickups. If the bass is a keeper then getting it put right will be far easier than chasing the luthier. My honest opinion is by the time you have jumped through all the hoops you will be sick of the sight of the bass. Even if the luthier agrees to fit new pickups for free, I doubt that they will pay for shipping and taxes to and from Belgium. It would be far cheaper and far less of a ball ache to get someone locally to do the work. It’s just wood. 

Looking at the influences this guy seems to think it’s still the 1980s when record companies were still throwing money at bands. Not sure I would want to be involved in any hard slog crawl to getting anywhere with this guy. Probably best hitching your wagon to the next taylor swift if you’re planning on hanging around with a diva.

I get it. I only really pick up a bass now when I need to work out a song as my kids are learning.

I had plans to get back to playing with other people for the first time since uni but never quite managed it.

I watched the content. I think I am just too old to understand the TikTok generation. Boxers that can’t really box, musicians that could be replaced by AI and extremely smug and irritating presenters. I guess it’s a DIY approach and back in the day old farts like me said the same thing about Punk? Whatever its all the equivalent to junk food for me. I guess it has a purpose for busy people with a bewildering amount of other distractions but it’s all a bit pointless.

A snake oil salesman got caught selling snake oil to people who want snake oil IMO. Bloke is a tit but IMO so are the people that consume this stuff.

John East or Retrovibe stinger?

17 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

Stitch is with that, you eliminate the reward aspect of years of learning. Why go through 6-8 years of training and education to be earning the same as a shelf stacker? Yes, we need shelf stackers, but there are those that would rather earn less and not go through rigorous learning and those that would choose to go through years of education to reach a goal. I agree, in an idealistic world, you're right. But in reality it wouldn't work as we'd have no surgeons and lots of stackers! 

Agreed. Not sure about you but I would rather the person piloting any plane I was on or operating on me was paid more than the baggage handler or security guard. It gives a certain reassurance that they are getting rewarded because they are the best at what they do in a competitive environment. I certainly know that the buck stops with me in my own field and it does so because I have more knowledge and experience than the people passing the problem on. If we were all paid the same then why bother? 

5 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Why..? Do pilots and surgeons need to eat more than till operators..? I'd have them paid for their hours of training, but at the same hourly rate as everyone else on the Planet. They would get more, yes, but cannot 'earn' more than 24 hours in any one day, whoever they are, and whatever they do. 

I don’t see many till operators sacrificing much of their youth studying for all hours, going into tremendous debt then later in life missing out on their kids growing up, working until the early hours, taking decisions that can lead to death or serious injury with all the stress that comes with this. I would quit my job tomorrow, let alone have spent all the hours and money to even get where I am if I could earn the same serving coffee. 

The people I know who earn more have sacrificed more, more time, more money, more stress and more risk. They deserve the extra. I started on the path and decided it wasn’t for me.