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    How was your gig last night?

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    We done a gig last Satday in Hereford...

    I was a bit disappointed to see that we were headlining - simply because I was still dribbling from a cold, had been at work all day and had to go in for 0900 the following day as well. And we were due to go on at 2250, which meant after a hour's drive , home by 0100 and up at 0630...

    After we'd soundchecked I found a lovely leather sofa next to the fire in the pub's main bar, so I sat there with a Guinness 0 and read my book, which was rather nice. I was then able to recover sufficiently to watch the other bands; Hurricane Tapes - sort of Joy Division-ish with decently played Ricky bass, A Noise, who we'd played with quite a few times before, who dress in bizarre costumes (glitterball on bass player's head - he played a fine 5 string Warwick - drummer in yellow cheese-string-tube-thing, singer in multiple teletubbie/rabbit/bear/wtf outfits). They're huge fun and play sort of rave-punk bangers - recommended! And finally, MC16 who we also know - great Clash-inspired agit-punk with reggae overtones. Always excellent value.

    And it appeared that 10 minutes changeover between bands wasn't enough (I told him, I did!) - we finally came on at 2310. Luckily, despite not having rehearsed for a month we played well and even managed the tricky end-on-three of Knockout for possibly the first time ever! Folks jigged about, police weren't called, no punch-ups and no vomiting in my bass case, which was also rather nice.

    Managed a near record 42 minutes to get home for 0100, quick Woodford Reserve and kip ready for work.

    Kit was ACG bass into Helix (modified Aguilar tone with a touch of envelope filter and variable drive on the pedal), into BBE/Crown amps and DBX compression into Markbass 4x10. Boots were 12 hole Martin bike boots.

     

     

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    Sky Arts and other music related programmes

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    2 hours ago, Mickeyboro said:

    I miss Top of the Pops

    I remember as a young punky teenager waiting with bated breath through Doctor Hook, Hot Chocolate and a whole host of other MoR pap for a glimpse of Proper Music (eye of the beholder of course!). And sometimes we'd be rewarded with some Siouxsie, or perhaps Ruts, or at a push, Sham 69... And sometimes even 2 or 3 in a programme!

    Though I got far more joy from the other music progs as they were live and often Proper - there's just no replacement for these (apart from lonely old Jools); instead it's a diet of fake reality shows and appalling game shows with the incredibly annoying Michael McIntyre.

     

    Sky Arts and other music related programmes

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    10 hours ago, casapete said:

    ‘Later with Jools Holland’

    Indeed... And while it's often formulaic in terms of acts and Jools always has to smear his boogie on anything he can, it's a shame that this is the only live (occasionally new) music show regularly on TV (that I know of, at least).

    This dearth most certainly doesn't help raise interest in any grass-roots live music...

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    Sky Arts and other music related programmes

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    59 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

    real music

    If you ask my mother, there hasn't been any real music made for about 100years😁

    She'd class any popular music as pop racket, whether it's Charlie xcx or Led Zeppelin or the Butthole Surfers!

    However, I'd like to see far more music on TV, whether it's modern rnb, dad rock, Japanese Noisecore, Bebop, Baroque, Modernist, goth, street punk, metal, whatever. 

    After all, we used to have the Tube, OGWT, Rock Goes To College, TOTP and now we have virtually nowt apart from Glasto once a year, some nostalgia docs(which have far more talking than music) and occasional pop bands on things like Jonathan Ross Show.

    It's pretty dire!

     

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    Sky Arts and other music related programmes

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    Recently I filled in the BBC "what do you want from the BBC" survey... One of the questions was "how do you feel about the amount of music on the BBC?". I answered "want more ", obvs.

    They sent the results out yesterday, and I was appalled to see that 22% wanted more, 50% said it was about right and 22% wanted less!

     

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    BassChat Ultimate Top 40 - Updated 2025

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    For Choked:

    Blood Sport

    Buried Alive

    Two Can Play

    Blind Faith

    Inside My World 

    Kiss This

    Conspiracy

    The Reaper

    Wired

    Knock Out

    Don't Dictate

     

    For Weeds:

    Hammer

    Tall Buildings

    Feed The Creature

    Turn To The Left

    Glorious Times

    Bedtime

    Mother Tongue

    Penny Arcade

    Angels 1-5

     

    Any of 'em could be Xmas no.1!

    😁

     

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