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Where would you look? I’m thinking there might be some Black Friday deals on the horizon.

I read they had recorded 23 tracks so there is more to come and there's another with Paul. I also read that Ringo might also be involved in some way.

@nekomatic I've got a couple of albums with her playing alongside the great saxophonist Andy Sheppard.

I'm not going to draw any firm conclusions about the new Blur album after only a couple of days listening. Most of the tracks feel to me like tracks at the back end of an album AFTER you've heard the best 5-6 tracks - more like the embers of a late night camp fire on a beach... no graffiti aerosol cans exploding in the fire. Like new shoes - takes a while to wear them in.

Orwell's 1984 audiobook read by Peter Capaldi - he's a good choice what with his great diction, gravitas and a mix of panic, menace and barely contained resentment in his voice.

@Frank Blank - well that's debate to be had - in a pub one night myself and a mate were trying to decide on the best opening 4 bars of any piece of music - Beethoven's 5th tied with Ticket To Ride I think. I still rate Complete Control as one of the best singles of all time - I used to slap it on almost every Friday after finishing lectures at uni.

That is an interesting album - a rich complex sound - not that I was expecting Billy Bragg or anything. Glad you mentioned it.

Out takes with Elvis invariably cracking up laughing - from an era when almost everything was done in one take. I have the vinyl packed away in a box in the garage but was nice to finally find it again.

This is right up my Straße! I had no idea he had died!

I stuck some pennies in fwiw.

I use the free Bitwarden - to generate, store and automatically paste in passwords - it works across Windows, Android, iOs. I have changed mine just for the sheer hell of it. As @velvetkevorkian suggested - it's worth checking https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - it's very possible the same username and password have been harvested from another site that he was using. The question that has to be asked is - has BC been hacked (unlikely as only one incident [so far]) - this is why maintaining sites (as I've found) can be a PITA - you have to keep on top of security updates and sometimes the updates don't always work out. Worse than that - depending on how extensive the site security patch is - any hand crafted changes to the code have to be redone - it's not always simple and problem free.

Who do these guys think they are? This is who - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.O._(band) and pretty damn good imho.

A great collection of well crafted songs. I know of Rob Aldridge from the criminally under-rated Umajets - he died at the back end of 2021 - he was about 58 I think. His fb page has some nice videos of him playing acoustically for 30-60mins just for the joy of pleasing his fans - I always think you can appreciate the guitar work more when it’s stripped back to one guitar and vocals.

@Barking Spiders When I see Simple Minds mentioned I think of the great early John Peel sessions and also about the time they headlined the Leeds and Reading - I went to the Leeds gig - not specifically for them - there were just so many good bands on the bill that year - standouts were All About Eve, Martin Stephenson and the Dainties, The Levellers (I think) - it was a great day. Before SM came on there was a short video promoting the work of Amnesty International - it featured someone being held in a squalid cell, horrible food being shoved under the door, being hosed down with cold water and shouted at in strange unfamiliar language then… a letter is slid under the door of his cell… and some wag in the crowd shouted “It’s your poll tax!”

I don't think I've mentioned it here before or seen it mentioned either but there's a site I use for discovering music and books - GNOD - Global Network of Discovery - a site - one of several interesting sites set up by Marek Gibney - some of his projects have been short lived by GNOD has been running for a good few years. Go to gnod.com and scroll down to the music section - you can try both alternative ways to explore or discover new music that you might like based on you entering the name of a band or artist. I've been listening to piano jazz and be-bop - Bill Evans and Vince Gauraldi - if I choose the music-map.com option and enter Bill Evans I see this map:- Interesting eh? So this led me to look for Sonny Clark and I must have a listen to Oscar Peterson - I already know Ron Carter and Cannonball Adderley. If you go down the other route and choose the https://www.gnoosic.com/ link - you get to enter 3 bands/artists and then you get a set of suggestions - the names you enter helps to grow the dataset.

I read his wiki page today... his death was described as the "longest suicide in history" - tragic! Weirdly, someone has Bill Evans as their specialist subject tonight on Mastermind... better check that wiki page again.

@Linus27I am by coincidence digging Bill Evans - I have 4 albums on the go ATM.

This is pretty easy listening... Vince Guaraldi Trio (he did the music for Charlie Brown) Any idea why so many of these youtube links are not embedding?

Really nice Christmas/Winter vibe to some of this album Bear (2022)

This is a really good album - as usual a stream of quirky, weird narrative songs and a voice that reminds me at times of John Martyn.

@Barking Spiders I first came across Blue States watching this... thought it worked brilliantly.

Found some mp3 hidden away somwhere weird on my HD - might have been an accidental drag & drop. Also quite taken with another (Gary) Numan I watched the Sky Arts doc on him (again) - his wife - lovely as she might be - did seem to me to have the quirks of a coke user - brushing the end of her nose with her hand a lot. What I loved about the doc was his 3 girls - they are so supportive of his music - two of them sometimes appear on stage with him to help out with backing vocals - you could see that great bond between him and his girls.