I totally disagree that Winehouse’s music appeals to adolescent girls, it’s far more sophisticated than that. With it’s jazz and blues roots it certainly has an appeal for old gits like me, in fact I think that all my friends and relatives of a similar age have at least one of her albums.
Oasis were one of the originators of the so called ‘Brit Pop’ movement in the 90’s, I was an old git even then. I remember going to a New Years Eve party in Manchester in the early 90’s hosted by the editor of the Guardian and being introduced by him to their first album, we were all pretty ancient, but could relate to their style by their obvious influences from the Beatles and the fact that guitar bands were blatantly back. Rather like the Beatles, Oasis were able to cross many age boundaries, those old ones who remembered the good old days, and the younger ones who were looking for something which in their eyes was new and different.

Anyway, if you wanted to see some rebellious class, it had to be Nigel Kennedy’s performance on The Proms on saturday.
Following up his incredible performance of Elgars Violin Concerto, he took up his wierd 5 string electric violin and played some jazz. Now jazz doesn’t impress me that much, but he did, even bringing on Jeff Beck to duel with him on guitar.
He finished with a version of Jimi Hendrix’ Third Stone from the Sun, mindblowing, he may also be somewhat eccentric, but can he play, and deliver the goods.

Lovely pics PMN, sums up the Britishness of these important symbols of our heritage.

I gather that the 1904 pavilion burnt down in the 30’s anyway, it’s not original, though whether it’s Arts and Crafts or Art Deco, it’s still a great loss.

I was amazed to see that as many as 600 were built, why was so much effort put into an obvious loser when resources could have been put into it’s contemporary, the worlds apart Mosquito, instead, it smacks of political intrigue. It couldn’t even be compared to the usefullness of it’s predessesor, the Whitley and wasn’t much faster either.
If any aircraft should be confined to history and forgotten about, it has to be the Albemarle, lets confine ourselves to supporting better causes and send the surviving bits off to the smelter, the cash might pay to ressurect something more worthy of reconstructing.

Gas barbies are a cheat, the fun of barbecuing is to use your own skill at working out the temperature etc of the charcoal and applying that knowledge to the situation, use gas and you may as well cook in your oven indoors.
Buy yourself a Weber ignition tube, a wonderful piece of kit that really gets the thing going very quickly.
The best barbie I ever did was 1000ft up a mountain in the Lake District with the Scouts. I dug a trench in the ground, found some dead oak branches, let them burn for a while then put a grid over the top and cooked over their red hot embers, everything tasted delicious, it’s the cooking medium that does it.
There are a few dead oak branches around at the back of our house, I intend to do that again sometime.

They will be soon. The other day I saw a teenage girl in town with the same beehive, the same make-up and even the same clothes. Crikey! that junkie is this girls idol? I felt like wanting to shake her. How long will it take before this girl puffs the same **** that Winehouse did?

Every cyclist taking part in the “Tour de France” who gets caught taking drugs (for whatever reason) gets fired and is sent back home in disgrace. Every popstar doing the same gets the best air-play they can dream of. It’s high time that Winehouse is banned from every radio-station until she gets herself sorted out.

I think you’ll find that if every band or artiste was banned from the airwaves for taking whatever, there wouldn’t be much music on the radio.
It’s not a modern phenomena either, it goes back a long way, look at what happened to Billy Holiday in the 40’s.
They did ban certain Beatles records in the 60’s for so called drug references, however ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ was a perfectly innocent reference to one of Julian Lennons drawings, it had nothing to do with acid, it was just a coincidence.
By their own admittance, the Gallaghers took just about every nasty thing going, but the point is, Oasis were able to get up and perform, apart from a few arguments among themselves of course.
The problem with Amy is that she can’t perform, if it wasn’t for her magnificent backing band, she would really be in trouble, but as Renfrew suggests, her entourage are encouriging the problem, they are the one’s at fault, but then again, they are on the gravy train aren’t they.

Happy birthday from me too! She’s catching me up.

By coincidence I was watching ‘The Golden Compass’ the other day and suddenly realised that the person singing over the end credits was in fact Kate Bush, thats the first time I’ve heard anything from her for a long time.
A great talent in all respects, even her promo videos tended to be rather good, I was very surprised when she didn’t maintain her early creative momentum, whether she will ever produce the goods again is anyones guess.

We all understand that with some people, Buchons aren’t much loved on here.
Yes, they get painted up to be something that they truly weren’t, but on the other hand, how many people have actually seen a truly original flying 109. Black 6 hasn’t been around for a while now, I was lucky enough to see it flying with the DB engined Buchon, in formation with the BBMF as well.
It would be interesting to speculate as to how many of these aircraft would have survived had not the BoB film rescued them from oblivion, probably very few, if any.
I don’t give a damn what engine they have, as long as they look the part and are representative of a famous fighter, it’s ok by me, it’s better than having a fake FW 190, going nowhere, being dragged out at Legends over the past 2 years to impress the multitudes, but in the end doing nothing.
3 Buchons over here sounds amazing to me.