Twigman

The german girls are currently playing Wham! Club Tropicana loudly in the office!

Are you sure @Teebs is a 'him' ?

yes, ideally. I have a bass with 2 cavities where this isn't the case and it is silent too.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incudo-Copper-Shielding-Sheet-Self-Adhesive/dp/B00A235WDA A fiver for enough to do a few cavities. All that's required then is a sharp scalpel or scissors to cut it with and some paper and scissors to make templates.

I use these guys https://www.insure4music.co.uk/ I've never had to claim so I can't comment on their claim handling but their cover seems reasonable enough and easy to set up.

My cigarette consumption has increased dramatically as I seek solace in the silence of the car park.

And earlier I was subjected to this:

Sharing an office with German 20 something women has its drawbacks....currently they are playing this:

<tries again> Could you speak up a bit?

Seems it's just Granny on her washboard these days, then.

¿Qué?

Don't tell me they're still going without Mark E Smith or any original members?

How many layers does it have? My 83/84 Squier branded JV has a 4ply plate

Well I have made 3 precisions and have done it on all of them. They are not noisy, in fact they're silent. I can only assume the shielding helps. Considering it's cheap and easy to do, why wouldn't you?

I don't know what kind of gigs you're doing but clearly you're doing better than me.

I have a lead which I treat and store this way too. It's umpteen years old and works as well today as the day I bought it, which if I'm honest could have been anytime from the 80s through to the 2010s. It's not branded, just a generic cheap bright green instrument cable. I use it to connect my pedal board to my amp so it gets plenty of work.

But fans still have their favourite tunes irrespective of chart success. A band doesn't need chart success to have fans who are willing to pay to see them play. We play tunes from the entire back catalogue. Having a 'big hit' isn't really relevant. We are always compared to the 'original lineup' despite that lineup only putting out a small proportion of the catalogue. I know that when we bring on former members of the band our fans feel privileged to experience that.

We've had 9 albums out and have never been in the charts - the lower echelons of the indie charts don't count really , do they?. We're still touring.

That's as may be but there were over 200 bands at the festival. All touring. I highlighted them as exceptions.

Really? you have to ask? There are hundreds of them. I played a festival in the summer, in Leipzig, with over 200 bands on and not one of them has ever been in the charts, although New Model Army and Tangerine Dream might've been, I'm not sure. And that's just one festival. On the circuit we tour in Europe we come across bands that have never charted everywhere we go: The likes of Balaam and the Angel and Soft Kill for example.

The charts are of little consequence these days. There are many bands touring that have been going for years with multiple releases that have never been near the charts

How is that any different from a cavity with a scratchplate? You can still only shield the bottom and sides of a cavity (scratchplate or no scratchplate) with the pickup poking through the top

very strange stuff - but then this is Gary Emmins we're talking about - I've lost touch too - I only heard about it via our merch man https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvVKm20e7Ih51febhGQPR0Q https://thefilthyspectacula.com/the-main-deck

Now he fronts The Filthy Spectacula

Mark, his brother Gary and I jammed together a bit in the early 90s -small world