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[quote name='NoiseNoiseNoise' timestamp='1431811549' post='2775297']
Does anyone know a reliable Amp-Man/Woman in the Lea Valley area? I have 2 services and a couple of challenges for them.....
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Try Malcolm in Edmonton - 07760 245510. He fixed my amp a few years ago. Not sure if he's still on that number, but give it a go.

We're booked to play our final pub gig of the year this Saturday. It's been booked for about two months. We've publicised it in all the usual ways, FaceBook, LemonRock, local press etc etc. Lots of friends coming.

This afternoon, the landlord emailed us (he can't spell either):

[i]"Hi guys, got a bit of bad news about this Saturday's gig, a woman came in Tuesday and booked a private party and there paying for there own band, I cant find your number anywhere if you could give me a call back or an email back confirming this email etc .... "[/i]

We wrote back to him telling him that either we play, or he pays our full fee. He's now backed off and cancelled the other party (I bet she's pleased) !

How he thought he'd get away with it is anybody's guess ..........

Thanks for all the replies! Will let you know what happens, if anything!

I know this is a bit of a "how long's a piece of string" question but using the following parameters:

- Five-piece covers band been building a good reputation in the local pubs for the past year
- Normally charge £250 for a Fri or Sat night pub gig
- Hertfordshire based

We've been asked to do a pub gig the week before Xmas (17/12) and a separate pub gig on New Year's Eve. We've gigged both pubs before so they like us.

The 17/12 might warrant a slight uplift?

For NYE, I don't yet know if the pub will charge an entry fee, but what would others feel is a reasonable performance fee?

Thanks.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='1364745' date='Sep 6 2011, 10:38 PM']Possibly you mean No More Heroes?[/quote]
No, Hanging Around, 14 seconds in.

Anyone know how Jean-Jacques got that bass sound on the intro to "Hanging Around" ?

I look forward to the day when someone plays the bass riff in the middle of You Can Call Me Al live ............ as the second half of it is the first half recording being played backwards is it not? :-)

JJ

I read lots of autobiogs, and this is one of the best!

The "bass" on True by Spandau was via Jess Bailey's keyboard.

[quote name='The Admiral' post='928104' date='Aug 17 2010, 10:22 PM']Fair point :

£17.38 to list and put a reserve of £750 on it.

Final value fee : 10% of winning bid, up to a max of £40 - so £40.

Paypal fee : 3.4% on an assumed selling price of £800 = £27.20

So £84.58 then - a bit of rounding on my part, but still a ludicrous amount of money - over 10% of £800.[/quote]



I had no idea that PayPal fees were so high. What a scam!

Are you sure it would add up to £100, as the max final value fee is £40. The other bits and bobs plus PayPal would bump this up, but maybe not to £100?

Still too high though!

On the other hand ........... maybe it was a genuine mistake by the landlady. If that were the case, then she's probably correct in that she wouldn't want financial matters discussed with the staff. However, she could have pointed this out to you in a polite fashion.

If you have more bookings there, then she can't be that p*ssed off with you. You need her, she needs you .... just count the cash at the end of the night.

As others have said WD40 isn't a good idea - it will ultimately leave deposits on your contacts and it will be a lot worse.

Just had my Ashdown MAG C410T-300 repaired.

North London (Edmonton) - MPH Guitars - Malcolm 020 8372 2901

A quick Google suggests a couple of options in your area:

Wesley Music in Southport - there's a guy based there who services tube amps.
01704 532132

Also, Alan Stratton - 01928733866

Let us know if these come to anything, as it's always useful to find good people in this field.

[quote name='HarryPotter' post='732891' date='Feb 2 2010, 01:23 PM']It's 2 years old though, so I'm guessing it's out of warranty [/quote]

A warranty is something offered either by the retailer or the manufacturer at their discretion. They don't have to offer one.

Outside of any warranty, your consumer rights are extensive and, in this case, whatever the fault is, you may have a case for a product being supplied which is unfit for purpose or having an inherent fault. The challenge is that, after six months, the onus is on you to provide evidence to that effect.

Extract from [url="http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/consumer-rights-refunds-exchange"]http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/...efunds-exchange[/url] :


[i]Where the goods are faulty, take them back within 6 months and the shop has to prove they WERE NOT faulty when you bought them. After 6 months you must prove they WERE faulty when you bought them.

By law you have up to six years to make a complaint, but this doesn't mean goods must last six years, they must last what most people would consider to be a ‘reasonable' length of time. So if there is wear and tear that breaks the product then the likelihood is you have no claim. Yet if it was an unreasonable fault, you do.

If there is an argument over whether the goods are faulty or not – the burden of proof is on the consumer. [/i]

My combo is stored in my detached (brick) garage. I just make sure that it's covered with a blanket and one or two old coats - no ill effects so far after three years of this.

I use one of these to move my Ashdown combo around - which weighs in at 44KG.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-HEAVY-DUTY-FOLDING-PLATFORM-TROLLEY-TRUCK-130KG_W0QQitemZ200427124999QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Lifting_Moving_Equipment?hash=item2eaa633907"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-HEAVY-DUTY-FOLDI...=item2eaa633907[/url]

Not so good at getting up large steps or across gravel-filled car parks!!

Lots of them here:

[url="http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsessionid=RU4VC4E5BA5AQCSTHZOCFFA?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=trolley"]http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsession..._search=trolley[/url]

But check around on prices as Screwfix aren't always the cheapest.

Apologies if anyone else has posted this earlier, but Coldplay are having a clear out for charity:

[url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/coldplaykidscoauction/m.html?_nkw=eodcs&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3911.m270.l1313&_odkw=&_osacat=0"]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/coldplaykidscoaucti...=&_osacat=0[/url]

Includes a Rickenbacker 4001, Fender Squier Precision, and a Guild .......

[quote name='bigsmokebass' post='679696' date='Dec 9 2009, 10:46 PM']bass centre any help? all i know is that its in london but im actually from up north so i'm hardly any help but wish you all the best ^_^

[url="http://www.basscentre.com/"]http://www.basscentre.com/[/url][/quote]

Unfortunately The Bass Centre doesn't have any shops any more ..... it's an online retailer now.

[quote name='silddx' post='673795' date='Dec 4 2009, 12:08 AM']Come on, cut them a bit of slack, will you guys? I had a subscription to the Angling Times (a weekly) until recently, it would almost always arrive days, even a week late, sometimes not at all. I cancelled it. It was sh*t. I've not seen complaints about BGM arriving late until now, give them a chance eh?[/quote]

Understand the semtiment but ...... if something you've paid for doesn't arrive, you phone them. They can't tell you why; the person who deals with subs is always out; they don't call you back.

I'm happy to accept that this is a one-off.

My subscriber copy still hasn't arrived. I phoned them again (third time). They say they're posting another copy to me today.

Suggest that anyone else still waiting calls them as well - 01884 266 100 .

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='672804' date='Dec 3 2009, 08:02 AM']First proper gig as a fan? Rush, at the same venue, on their first UK tour. God knows what year it was. 1978/79? Anyone?

P[/quote]

According to [url="http://www.wellers.demon.co.uk/30th.htm"]http://www.wellers.demon.co.uk/30th.htm[/url] it was 1977.

I phoned them yesterday (twice) - they gave me a story about "late to printers" etc and had to get them out to shops ahead of subscribers.

Should be with us subscribers any day they say ......