Islander

The most reliable rechargeable battery I've found would be a Sanyo Eneloop. I've used them in all sorts of things and never had a problem with them.

Same for me. I loved the band but as soon as Morrisey started whining that was it for me. The Rick Astley set was a revelation - The Blossoms were impressive as well.

I was rather impressed with Rick Astley and the Blossoms covering the Smiths numbers. Now there's a sentence I never thought would be said...

Bona to vada your dolly old eek... They're rerunning some episodes of Round the Horne on Radio 4 Extra (and some other old classics as well) 😊

I was 13 or 14, playing trumpet and at the Royal Festival Hall (I played Mozart's Alleluia as soloist). This was a Newham Academy of Music thing and one of a series of annual concerts called "Newham Goes to Town". I remember being very nervous before the solo, but as soon as I started playing I was fine and the music took over. What an experience!

Son of my father Molded, I was folded, I was preform-packed Son of my father Commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac Surrounded and confounded by statistic facts

If you go down to Willow Farm...

It's a Shergold modulator. The tone/volume module was an interchangeable unit - quite an advanced concept for the time. A mate of mine had one in the 70s.

Crimson. https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/guitar-maintenance-tools?page=1 https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/fretting Very high quality and UK manufactured. Not the cheapest but buy cheap, buy twice.

That one was used in Iain Banks' Crow Road.

It's just embarrassing.

I know, and quite rightly so. I was using it as an example of something really dreadful

Actually, returning to this, they didn't need permission to cover the song. All they had to do was to pass on any publishing it generated. Simon wasn't aware they were covering it until they performed it on TV. His response was spontaneous rather than planned.

Erm, he would have been paid anyway. Try again.

And yet the highly talented and successful songwriter and performer Paul Simon, reacted this way: "Simon sent Draiman an e-mail praising the cover. “Really powerful performance on Conan the other day,” Simon wrote. “First time I’d seen you do it live. Nice, Thanks.” He also posted this on Facebook: “In case you missed it, Disturbed did a wonderful rendition of The Sound of Silence on Conan this week. The S&G cover also appears on Disturbed’s latest album, Immortalized.” Everyone's entitled to their opinion of course but I think I'll take Simon's over yours any day.