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I still have a few metal tapes as well...and I don’t mean heavy metal 😁

... and talking of Trump enablers, look who's legged it from the Covid-19 armageddon that's the USA (Billionaire US Citizen, vaccinated by UK tax payers) Poisonous Toad in (luxurious) hole https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/18/rupert-murdoch-receives-dose-of-covid-vaccine-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I can't make this up... Before the lockdown around the first week of March last year I went to a local pub for their Tuesday night special. It was not my regular establishment but one I did frequent. They had Tuesday night trivia. I sat next to a guy I'd seen regularly at the sports bar I frequent and we started to talk. He was in his mid to late fifties I think, like me. He told me how much of a Trump supporter he was and was quite proud and prolific about it. He went on about it for a while and like in similar situations I just listened without commenting... The answer to the current trivia question was announced as "Boris Johnson". I commented that I should have guessed that due to Brexit. He asked what's Brexit? I explained to him what it was and about the European Union. He said "That's good to know.. I always thought Brexit was a corporation or company of some sort...". He then asked "What's the European Union?"...

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There's nothing quite like the sound of a Moog modular!

The Electoral College system unfortunately can crush the sense of moral responsibility and can perpetuate this defeatism, once bitten twice shy

With a famous face or two... With Captain Sensible. With Ryuchi Sakamoto. With Maggie Ronson, (Mick Ronson's sister.) With Kate St John and Laraaji of Channel Light Vessel. With Channel Light Vessel at The Jazz Cafe, London. With artist Peter Blake. With Duane Eddy. With John Leckie in West Haddlesey Village Hall during the recording of 'Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam.' Bill with Hajimer Tachibana in Japan. Bill with David Sylvian. With Stuart Adams in New York, USA. With 'The Units' and my daughter Elle at Haddlesey House in the '80s. With Gary Numan in the studio. Bill on stage with Roger Eno in Spain, 1990's.

Well, this is about as raw and authentic as it gets Johnny Cash - Hurt (Official Music Video) (A Trent Reznor song.)

Sometimes I forget what a great draftsman you are, Bill. Reckon you could’ve gone in the direction of architecture. Was that ever of any interest to you, architecture? I think I can match the building in the photo’ easiest with the last drawing What’s a hopper? I like the clouds in the middle one. The middle one reminds me a bit of Egon Schiele. Maybe the bottom one as well. The last one reminds me slightly of the sketches that were included in textbooks at school, but only because of the splashes of colour.

Definitely California. Could be SB. I just figured that golfing was a big deal in Palm Springs and all the palm trees. And the San Jacinto Mountains in the b.g. But it all looks the same. Could be San Gabriel Mountains, too.🤷🏻‍♂️🏌️‍♀️ https://youtu.be/yCTXvyTrcGU?si=xR4r9JCDgoQes-bm

GLOBAL VILLAGE: THE GIG LIST. I think this may have appeared on the old site but it's the perfect topic for this thread. In the '60s I had a band called 'Global Village.' We played psychedelic rock and blues music. We were a three piece band with the brief addition of a keyboard player who didn't stay long. Bryan Holden, the band's drummer, kept a diary with the list of gigs we played back then. Here's his list, complete with a few of his recollections about particular gigs. It may prove interesting to fans who might wonder about my earlier years as a musician. Global Village Bookings – all 49 of them. 1. Friday 06/09/68 - Stanley Lane Ends Working Men’s Club, Stanley, Wakefield. 2. Saturday 07/09/68 – Smokey City, Sandal, Wakefield. Smokey City was the name given to a regular Saturday night ‘disco’ at Sandal Rugby Union Club 3. Monday 16/09/68 – Wakefield Mecca. We got to know the manager of Wakefield Mecca, a chap called Jimmy McCabe. Wakefield Mecca was roughly on the site of the Ridings Shopping Centre. Jimmy must have felt sorry for us, and gave us a spot on what was known as ‘Motown Mondays’. Needless to say our kind of music didn’t exactly fit in with the theme of the evening and we ‘died’. Nevertheless we did get the exposure! 4. Friday 27/09/68 – Wakefield Mecca – at least somebody liked us! Perhaps Jimmy McCabe! 5. Saturday 12/10/68 – Brown Calf, Ackworth, nr Pontefract. This was a 21stbirthday party, but I can’t remember whose. 6. Saturday 19/10/68 – St. George’s Youth Club, Wakefield. I seem to remember this is on Dewsbury Road in Wakefield. 7. Friday 08/11/68 – Stanley Lane Ends Working Men’s Club, Stanley, Wakefield. 8. Saturday 09/11/68 – Smokey City, Sandal, Wakefield. 9. Saturday 16/11/68 – Bretton Hall (Teacher Training College nr Wakefield). I seem to recall that we played in a hall which had a stage at each end of the room. At the other end was a band called ‘Whiskey Martin’s Procul Orchestra’. 10. Friday 13/12/68 – Batley College of Art. 11. Friday 20/12/68 - Stainforth Central Club. 12. Tuesday 24/12/68 – Smokey City, Sandal, Wakefield. 13. Thursday 16/01/69 – Huddersfield Technical College. 14. Saturday 01/02/69 - Bretton Hall (Teacher Training College nr Wakefield). Played alongside a band called ‘Skin Deep’ 15. Saturday 15/02/69 – Builders Exchange Club, Hudderfsield. The first of many….a great venue….amps turned up at max……sweat running down the walls…encore after encore! 16. Friday 21/02/69 – Hall Road Working Men’s Club, Armley, Leeds. We died here! Typical WMC – volume at zero, “Turn it Down!”. When’s t’bingo comin’ on? 17. Saturday 22/03/69 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield. 18. Saturday 19/04/69 – Wakefield Technical College. This is the gig where we were supposed to be playing alongside a soul band who didn’t turn up! We ended up playing their spots as well with impromptu renditions of ‘In the Midnight Hour’ etc! According to my diary we got £35 for the night – we normally got about £12 - £15. 19. Friday 09/05/69 – Normanton Grammar School, nr Castleford. I remember for this gig we borrowed some ‘Orange’ amps from a guy in Huddersfield and they were the bees’ knees; we borrowed his amps on several occasions (the old Vox’s and Selmer’s being a bit tired). I’ve also got some photos of this gig, but can’t recall who took them. 20. Friday 06/06/69 – Stanley Lane Ends Working Men’s Club, Stanley, Wakefield. Page 2 (Bryan's list takes up two pages on the text he sent me, so, as he's typed it, the actual 'count' of gigs starts at number 1 again on the second page, but it's actually gig number 21, and so on up to gig 49.) 1. Saturday 07/06/69 - Bretton Hall (Teacher Training College nr Wakefield). Played alongside a band called ‘House’ 2. Friday 27/06/69 – Thornes House School, Wakefield. 3. Sunday 29/06/69 – Peel Hotel, Leeds City Centre. 4. Saturday 26/07/69 – Our Free Concert in Clarence Park, Wakefield. Several photos are around of this event. 5. Saturday 02/08/69 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield. 6. Sunday 03/08/69 – Peel Hotel, Leeds City Centre. 7. Saturday 06/09/69 – Open Air Concert at Hyde Park, Leeds. The ‘stage’ was the flat trailer off an articulated lorry. The organisation was non-existent, and unfortunately the local TV station (Yorkshire, I think) sent a camera crew to film the event. The following Monday (8thSeptember) it appeared on the local evening news programme (‘Calendar’) with us performing, but being overdubbed with a Duane Eddy track, whilst the commentary took the p**s somewhat! 8. Friday 12/09/69 – Tadcaster Youth Club. 9. Wednesday 17/09/69 – Blackburn Hall, Rothwell, nr Leeds. 10. Sunday 21/09/69 – Peel Hotel, Leeds City Centre. 11. Sunday 12/10/69 – Grand Hotel, Harrogate (!) 12. Saturday 18/10/69 – Painthorpe Country Club, nr Wakefield. 13. Sunday 26/10/69 – Dewsbury Youth Club. 14. Friday 31/10/69 – Eastmoor, nr Wakefield, Youth Club. 15. Saturday 01/11/69 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield. 16. Saturday 22/11/69 – Olympic Rollerama, Leeds. Guess we played whilst the punters skated! Pete Bradley’s first gig. 17. Tuesday 02/12/69 – Charade Club, Rotherham, South Yorks. 18. Friday 12/12/69 – Batley College of Art.The only thing I remember about this booking is as we were setting up a number of Hell’s Angels came in for an innocent chat….however later in the evening a ‘rumble’ did break out as we were on stage! 19. Thursday 18/12/69 – Thornes House, Wakefield. Pete Bradley’s last gig! 20. Wednesday 31/12/69 – Smokey City, Sandal, Wakefield. 21. Sunday 11/01/70 – Tavern in the Town, Westgate, Bradford. This is where, at the end of the night and as we were loading up the van, we were approached by a couple of police officers who insisted on searching Global Van – apparently two people fitting the description of Global Alan (Quinn) and Global Babs (my then girlfriend, later to become my wife) were seen pinching a belisha beacon off its post! Innocence proclaimed and acknowledged all round! 22. Saturday 24/01/70 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield. 23. Tuesday 10/02/70 – ‘Heartbeat’, Bradford 24. Sunday 22/03/70 – Tavern in the Town, Westgate, Bradford. 25. Saturday 09/05/70 – Fraternity Hall, Huddersfield. Played alongside ‘Jupiter’s Child’. 26. Saturday 16/05/70 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield. 27. Saturday 13/06/70 - Bretton Hall (Teacher Training College nr Wakefield). 28. Friday 26/06/70 – Moortown (Leeds), Rugby Union Football Club. 29. Saturday 25/07/70 – Builders Exchange Club, Huddersfield.

I'd go with all of that!..😎

Is that Linder???

Cool video Alec. btw what is the "algorithm"? Here is some crazy 70's vintage footage that surfaced a few months back. Peter Hammill - Live in the studio 1974 - Swiss TV

Sounds like "The Eagle has Two Heads", Tourist... https://literariness.org/2019/05/16/analysis-of-jean-cocteaus-plays/

I was more into the Chuck Berry stuff that The Beatles lifted.

I remember eating pancakes there as a kid. Wildly inappropriate name. .

Yes, I lived on Earl Street.