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nekomatic

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  1. Since last time I’ve watched Blossoms (good effort from my homeboys, I’d be happy to see them live one day), Khruangbin (not at all bad) and Billie Eilish (didn’t blow me away, but clearly gave the crowd what they wanted). What more is there to say about this? It is what it is: clearly not the same thing it used to be once upon a time, clearly a massive commercial machine now, but equally clearly not just mainstream pop, or just dad rock, or just anything else it’s accused of being. And, thankfully, not the only festival there is to choose from, so people who want a festival but not like that can surely find one.
  2. I thought even drug dealers were fully contactless now.
  3. I'm sure Bluetooth is always 2.4 GHz. I think you're getting mixed up with Wifi.
  4. When I was in London in the early '90s I did a bit of volunteer bar work for the Workers' Beer Company at events like the Fleadh and so on. They did the bars (or some of them) at Glastonbury too and the opportunity came up to sign up for that. Would have had camping in a staff area with hot showers. But I was a bit of a wallflower and was nervous about not knowing anyone so I let it pass. I still kick myself.
  5. Cor blimey there's some grumpy gits on here isn't there. I've just watched Róisín Murphy's set and it was brilliant from start to finish, a great show from a proper bang up rock star with plenty of bass action to boot. If this sort of thing is typical for Glastonbury then I'm thinking I ought to go one of these years.
  6. I'm pretty sure it does. You don't notice it on your own posts because you can't bump a post without reading it, which makes it no longer bold.
  7. Well I’ve just started catching up with it all and am looking forward to watching a bunch of the sets mentioned upthread. We saw a bit of Macca last night but didn’t have the stamina for the full two and a half hours. Right now I’ve got Burna Boy on, I didn’t know him before and it looks like a lot of fun to be honest.
  8. On Saturday night Stockport Symphony Orchestra (in which mrs nekomatic plays violin) are doing Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony and the Brahms piano concerto… with Joanna MacGregor as soloist, quite a coup for them as she’s a big name and mrs nekomatic has just come back from the rehearsal with her and reports she is amazing. It’s in the Town Hall, if you’re in the area do come down.
  9. Marshall MB15s show up secondhand fairly often, and sound good.
  10. Honeyfeet at Band on the Wall on Friday night, who were every bit as good as expected.
  11. Nope, playing and drinking don't mix for me - you'd have to ask the audience whether my playing suffers but I really notice the loss of focus and it's no fun. Which is a shame because otherwise I'd quite enjoy a beer or two (not much more, I'm cheap to run) in the atmosphere of a gig or jam session. Maybe I just need to practice more, or practice drinking more, or practice more, drinking. It has to be said that there are alcohol-free or very low alcohol beers now that are actually not bad, which is a revolution compared to a few years back.
  12. That’s what’s on our floorboards!
  13. One set of strings posted promptly and received just as described, thank you very much!
  14. Hello, my name is nekomatic and I also have a collection of microcontroller boards that I bought because they sounded cool but have never done anything with 😄 Fortunately I don’t have anything MIDI controllable so this thread hasn’t had me ordering any new ones - yet. Nice project tho!
  15. Yeah but… as noted upthread, the amp probably can’t drive another cab in parallel and it probably won’t work well to connect two different cabs in series.
  16. That’s a signature model I wasn’t previously aware of…
  17. Jacob Collier on Thursday - feels like a year ago that we booked it, just realised it's this week!
  18. Don't let me stop you trying out the fabric options if you're brave enough (I would be terrified of messing it up), but I used Tuff Cab on my recent cabinet refurb project and was very happy with the results. I used the Black Brown colour rather than plain black and although it's a very dark brown, I really think it helps the cab look a bit less like a big ugly black box in the house. Blue Aran will send you small samples of Tuff Cab painted board for a nominal price, although if you're outside the UK then the postage might knock the price up a bit. If you do go with Tuff Cab then do read the Blue Aran blog post and the advice from various people on my cab thread, as both were helpful to me.
  19. Having listened to a bit of that, it is my opinion that Youth should never have wasted his time being in Killing Joke, and should have just got on with producing.
  20. That sounds like a brilliant line-up. If I walked into a venue and saw that lot set up on stage I would be like WHOAH, this is going to be AWESOME. So lucky they managed to reanimate one of the chaste young women to play the theme from Get Carter. So weird that she came back looking like Roy Budd.
  21. I feel I ought to do a round-up of the Manchester Jazz Festival, as we did quite a lot of it this year. (If you feel otherwise, please skip to the next post.) Daniel Casimir was great, I hadn't heard him live before and I'd seek him out in future. Jasmine Myra, The Deportees and Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat all played fine lyrical contemporary jazz and Secret Night Gang decent jazz-funk or neo-soul or something. Kara stood out, three singers (plus band) singing quirky soul type stuff in close harmony (apparently there's also a K-pop band by this name… it wasn't them). Nguvu didn't quite live up to their billing for me, basically a competent funk covers band with a couple of good originals. Laetitia Alexandratos deserves mention for tearing it up on six-string bass though, especially as she was just depping and is usually their sax player 😮 The Intergalactic Brasstronauts played ska and reggae with a brass-heavy line-up including sousaphone and contrabass clarinet covering bass duties. Good party band but not mrs nekomatic's cup of tea. Ruth Goller's SKYLLA was an absolute highlight for me - the sort of thing that you will either love, hate or ridicule, the latter not discouraged by the fact that the three of them perform in paper headdresses like goat or dog skulls, but I thought it was incredible. Goller creates sound textures on the bass, using a lot of harmonics and unpitched notes, and she and the two singers add vocals I assume are mostly improvised and for which my nearest reference point was Maggie Nichols, but to my ears often sounding a bit Lappish or otherwise Nordic. It was in the perfect setting of St. Ann's Church on a Wednesday lunchtime and I dragged a friend along who was generous enough to say he quite liked some of it. If that description makes you want to run a mile then fair enough, but you won't hear anyone creating a more individual sound with a bass guitar any time soon. Zoë Rahman played a solo piano gig also in St. Ann's and was brilliant. Gary Crosby brought a sextet to do a show dedicated to Mingus and obviously this was a fine band and should have been bass heaven, but I couldn't shake off the feeling that it was all a bit polite compared to what Mingus must have been like live. I also can't quite shake off the feeling that I've never really got Mingus though, so maybe it's just me. Ayanna Witter-Johnson was another great discovery - she sings (and would be talented enough if she just did that) while simultaneously funking out on cello, and is well worth checking out if you get the chance. And last of all Tim Garland and his group themed around Chick Corea, who you would expect to be superb and yes, they were. I hadn't heard Conor Chaplin on bass before, and also Ant Law on guitar who was ace.
  22. Do you know about hive.co.uk for CDs? They aren’t always as cheap as Amazon but give a percentage to a local shop of your choice.
  23. Delighted to see the Derek Bailey and Stockhausen fans representing. You should check out Ruth Goller’s SKYLLA who I may get round to writing up in the gig review thread.
  24. I’m no PA guru but I find it hard to imagine the use case where you need to put 1200 W into a single load but couldn’t split the load across two channels instead.
  25. It turned out I lied about Nubya Garcia (as did the programme, but they’ve edited it now). Sorry. Daniel Casimir was great though, as were Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat who we caught earlier today. Terrible name, great band!
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