You might want to spend the rest of today updating your CV. Any prospects you had at your current companyy are now Scotch Mist

She strayed, she's the one that should move out IF it comes to that. Hope it doesn't but rose tinted spectacles don't suit me

B or C. I would never do a 400mile round trip just to see a car I might buy

If colour is not an issue and all else is equal then i'd go for the lower mileage example

Business card? What's one of those then?

If I had one it would probably say Senior Analyst/Programmer. Bit dull really

do the driver & passenger look like this?

I've seen a Range Rover driving round Bradford with a chrome wrap like that.

I think he's lost 😉

I'm considering demolition. I'd have immense fun tearing down something like the Get Carter car park in Newcastle.

Gateshead

clap or crap?

"betwixt"?

I thought that was a word that only shandy-drinking estate agents used.

bah't 'at*

*"without a hat" for you furriners

Not planning on going to any in the near future but I'm playing a few between now & xmas 😉

Depends where you are brassneck. No shortage of pubs & bars in Leeds putting on live music

Some places, albeit not many in Leeds, operate a 'pay to play' policy where the band basically hires the venue; others operate a 'flyer' scheme where the band only gets paid according to the number of punters that bring a flyer with them. Both these schemes allow the venue to easily afford the PRS licence, but it's not popular with the bands

I'm sure there are, but when I was first learning there were only books & videos.

Try http://www.mikedolbear.com for starters

fair point.

The TV licencing people will be next on our cases. Actually, they already are.

"We have a list of all addresses that don't have a TV Licence. You'd better get one or we'll send the boys round.
What do you mean you don't have a television? Everybody has a television"

I dare say they do.

Radio & TV airplay royalties go to the writers of any particular song. But TBH radio airplay is small potatoes compared with the earnings a decent stadium tour and multi-million copy record sales can make.

But for your average working band, the recorded material is used to promote the tour, which is where the money is earned; 20 years ago the tour was used to promote the recorded material.

That's how Radiohead can afford to give away their recordings – they make it all back on tour, with interest.

like I said, it's not new, it's been this way for a long time.

It's up to the management to sort out the PRS licence in the same way as it would be for a TV licence if you had a TV in the workplace.

http://www.leedsmusicforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=284

what do you mean scraprider?

This system is hardly new – it's been developing since we first started recording and broadcasting music, and while it's not exactly ideal, it's the best they've managed to come up with so far.

Would you rather have to pay a subscription to listen to radio, like you do with Sky TV? Or maybe expand the TV licence fee to cover radio?

well, only in so much as you need to be within 3-5m of the socket – however long your fly-lead is really.

There is a reason why businesses still use, for the most part, wired networks

It wasn't that disruptive – took a team of 2 guys less than a day.

blatantly ignoring the 'drummer vs musician' jibe:

We haven't yet, I need to get onto that. We've only had stuff out on air and been playing live since February, so they probably haven't processed the claims yet. They're not known for being quick.

no cables round the skirting – all under the floor & out behind the skirting.

No I didn't do it myself.

If I had done it myself then it would have been cables round the skirting (and about £70) but that used to be part of my day-job so I couldn't be arsed

20th Century it may be, but it works. How many of you are driving round in 20th Century cars?

No it probably isn't much use for the iPhone that I don't have

Seriously folks, ditch the wifi.

I recently had my house networked for under £200 – this did not require any channels chasing into the plasterwork by the way

RJ45 sockets near to the router; more RJ45 sockets in each room where I want to use a computer; some Cat5e cable and a bit of manual labour to connect them together. Then some patch cables to connect the router to the sockets, and some 3m fly-leads to connect the computers to the network.

Bingo, no more wifi blues

I always hoped musicians just enjoyed creating music, regardless of whether they got paid or not.

I'd hate to think of making music as "work"

I do it for fun – if it wasn't fun I wouldn't do it – but if I play live or sell a CD or download, I want to get paid for my time as much as the next man, so that it costs ME less to record the next one.

I'd much rather do that than write computer programs, to get paid, but for now it's very much a hobby

The point is that the musicians have already been paid for their performance by the BBC or whatever broadcaster is transmitting the music. How, exactly, can it be justified forcing people to pay for something that has already been paid for on their behalf? You are listening to a broadcast by a public service broadcaster. You are not broadcasting a performance.

actually the musicians do NOT get paid by the broadcaster*, that's why the PRS is there – to collect royalties on behalf of the artists.

I assume some of these rules go back to the days before magnetic tape allowed pre-recording of shows and, ultimately, the multi-tracked records (or whatever you want to call them) that we all listen to these days.

*unless booked to perform on a particular show by the broadcaster, but that's another issue.

Surely by playing their music in my shop I am 'advertising' it for them? If no one hears it then how can they decide they like it and go and buy it ( or download it for free…)!

you're only advertising it if you (or the broadcaster) tell people what they're listening to and where to get it from

Mastiles – yes.

You like to get paid for your work, don't you? Why should musicians be any different?

Much of legislation is 'catch all' to prevent previous loopholes from being exploited by the less scrupulous

The bigger issue here appears to be what exactly defines "public"

Not all radio stations that we can listen to – especially internet radio – is based in the UK; those based abroad (or on ships in the North Sea) will not pay a fee to the PRS.

To get round this, PRS charges everyone that wants to play music – recorded or live – in a "public" place in the UK a licence fee. I think other licencing organisations are available…

You don't pay the fee, the artists don't get their royalties and the world is a sadder place because fewer artists would bother to record anything for you to listen to for free

Cat5 cable works every time. Wifi sucks

if you're talking "Paranoid", nothing beats this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c37GdAzgQo

and also from the same band, "Eve Of Destruction", "Nights in White Satin" and of course, the seminal Banana Splits

is this a WiFi problem? if so, the answer is Cat5 cable between your computer & router.

Pogues' Dirty Old Town is great; follow the link to "Cinnamond" doing the same song and "WTF is that second rate quo copy!"

anyway.
+1 for This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren.
May I also suggest these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQV_8hhKZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mgmXng5rto – better version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kVBdVBn9w

I was made redundant in August 2000, with a finish date of the 21st. I was allowed to take garden leave between being informed and the effective date, so I used that time to do some job hunting; found a job and had a start date of 1st September.

For 10 days worth I didn't bother signing on.

New job turned out to be crap so I kept looking, and found another one 15 miles nearer home within 6 weeks but that's another story

that wood wasp is actual size

*no it's not 😉

a 4in thumb? where are you measuring from/to? or are you the BFG?

baby robin?

sorry, somebody had to 😉

wings – one pair or two? looong thin body or pointy wasp shaped body?

could have been a wood wasp or something – not all wasps look (or act) as mean as the common wasp

Wood wasp

common wasp

not so much this year (2010) as the last 12 months:

visited elder sister in Canada for her wedding; did a nice road trip from Calgary to Vancouver & back

saw youngest sister get married (ok, not as exotic as Canada, but Scarborough's not bad)

my band started playing gigs and getting radio airplay, going down well

watching 5-y-o niece growing up

that'll do for now

remember folks, other MP3 players are available

nice. and your point is, Macavity?

I'd remove the wallpaper too. Unless it's true "woodchip" it shouldn't be too bad.

Then you can fill any small holes & scratches that you made with the paper scraper & either paint the wall with emulsion, or paper it with your choice of wall covering

I never had it on vinyl; it belonged to a g/f at the time

FWIW I didn't use any bonding agent – didn't know about it at the time – but I did use a plasticiser towards the end of the project.

Having said that, the wall was made of rough concrete blocks so probably didn't need any

that's an extreme picture, taken 24/12/2009 – that's probably the first snow we'd had in 7-8 years. We got plenty more after that though. And we're only 10 miles from Leeds

I did our front garden wall about 12 years ago, I used a pretty standard mortar mix, 3-4 parts sand to 1 cement, water to make up a suitable mix.

I'm no professional but it's still on now.

The wall 3 doors down was done by a professional about a year later, with a mesh to help it hold. The mesh is still there… 😯

you can just about see the wall bottom left corner of this picture, the bit painted white:

it starts at the bottom of the steps at about 4ft high and the road has a gradual downhill slope so that at the end of our property the wall is about 7ft high

btw that's not a vulture on the chimney