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on: October 11, 2026, 09:43:34 PM
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| Started by Dubai Danny - Last post by mickf | ||
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I'd love to see Oysterband, or the 3-piece, at Cropredy.
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on: October 11, 2026, 08:59:47 PM
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| Started by Harbottle (Martin) - Last post by Nick | ||
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Saw Lunatraktors and Masal last night in Oxford. Absolutely fine stuff.
Masal are a harp/modulo synth duo, while Lunatraktors are a percussion/a-capella/accordion and occasional hazard-bear costume be-decked duo. Both properly weird and wonderfully complementary, though probably not for the faint hearted! More of this kind of thing please! Cheers Nick |
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on: October 11, 2026, 08:52:10 PM
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| Started by abby (tank girl) - Last post by Nick | ||
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Upcoming gigs... Marillion, in about half a hour. I'm in Aylesbury, enjoying the Waterside Theatre once again. It's quite the hotbed of prog. Will be back up to see Steve Hackett in a month or so. Cheers Nick Time flies... Steve Hackett tonight. Technically this should also be in Recent Gigs - they've just played a set of his solo material. Genesis stuff coming up in 15 mins or so... Cheers! |
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on: October 11, 2026, 11:55:57 AM
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| Started by davidmjs - Last post by Shane (Skirky) | ||
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Tonight's R4 Archive Hour is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Some folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile. A friend on another forum points out that at an hour’s duration the programme is actually shorter than some of their songs…😁 |
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on: October 10, 2026, 03:51:26 PM
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| Started by Paul - Last post by davidmjs | ||
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Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Well, there we are then . 🙂 No. Just no. Jules The argument is simply that the Dead were the house band of the 70s/80s computer bods (Apple, MS etc etc). Which they sort of were - loads of connections with the foundation of the web etc etc etc. It's not really a musical argument. |
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on: October 10, 2026, 02:31:03 PM
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| Started by Paul - Last post by Alan2 | ||
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Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Well, there we are then . 🙂 No. Just no. Jules It's just struck me that the statement echoes Mr Lennon's remark that the Beatles were 'More popular than Jesus/' - I hope it doesn't prove as disastrous. |
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on: October 10, 2026, 02:28:44 PM
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| Started by Paul - Last post by Jules Gray | ||
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Tonight's Archive Hour on radio 4 is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Well, there we are then . 🙂 No. Just no. Jules |
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on: October 10, 2026, 01:33:38 PM
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| Started by davidmjs - Last post by Nick Reg | ||
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Tonight's R4 Archive Hour is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Some folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile. Stupid attention gathering headline but it's actually quite an interesting programme I think (or looks like it will be given a news article I was reading about it yesterday). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qmb Here's the article (unpaywalled) https://archive.is/CB3sZ Hopefully, one day, somebody will answer as to why so many (particularly American) Deadheads are right wing. I suspect it's that RW/Utilitarian crossover point, but what do I know... I literally don't know what to do with the "I have no time for the Beatles" bit. It's utterly meaningless to me. I bet a large percentage of the people whose music you have time for had an awful lot of time for the Beatles themselves? Thanks for the article- will definitely read later. I don't understand America, and its politics are equally baffling to me. I have noted reactionary tendencies in elderly hippies in our own country and I can't work it out either. Something to do with extreme individualism in outlook. There are libertarian s of the left and I think I might be one, and there are libertarians of the right. I'll leave it there. The Beatles thing has become my joke on here, and I think I should stop. I know what you mean about the influence- Ian Hunter- now there's a rocker I admire - said people who don't understand Dylan don't understand rock.n roll. He is entitled to say what he likes of course, I shall continue to enjoy my Mott the Hoople records. Dylan i shall not understand/continue to ignore till I feel.like hearing him if ever. |
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on: October 10, 2026, 01:01:41 PM
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| Started by davidmjs - Last post by Alan2 | ||
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Tonight's R4 Archive Hour is entitled: The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles. Some folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile. Stupid attention gathering headline but it's actually quite an interesting programme I think (or looks like it will be given a news article I was reading about it yesterday). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qmb Here's the article (unpaywalled) https://archive.is/CB3sZ Hopefully, one day, somebody will answer as to why so many (particularly American) Deadheads are right wing. I suspect it's that RW/Utilitarian crossover point, but what do I know... I literally don't know what to do with the "I have no time for the Beatles" bit. It's utterly meaningless to me. I bet a large percentage of the people whose music you have time for had an awful lot of time for the Beatles themselves? Thanks for the article- will definitely read later. I don't understand America, and its politics are equally baffling to me. I have noted reactionary tendencies in elderly hippies in our own country and I can't work it out either. Something to do with extreme individualism in outlook. There are libertarian s of the left and I think I might be one, and there are libertarians of the right. I'll leave it there. The Beatles thing has become my joke on here, and I think I should stop. I know what you mean about the influence- Ian Hunter- now there's a rocker I admire - said people who don't understand Dylan don't understand rock.n roll. He is entitled to say what he likes of course, I shall continue to enjoy my Mott the Hoople records. Dylan i shall not understand/continue to ignore till I feel.like hearing him if ever. |
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on: October 10, 2026, 12:31:03 PM
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| Started by Shane (Skirky) - Last post by Shane (Skirky) | ||
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A little light weekend reading. My night with Ken.
https://skirky.blogspot.com/2026/10/in-spite-of-all-stranger.html |
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