snafuI tell you what’s gone wrong, it is yet another aspect of the great levelling down, dumbing down, reductionist society in which we now exist. !
Go on, admit it. It’s all these ruddy immigrants, coming into this country and dumbing down the rightful white, Anglo-Saxon natives. Education has had to be dumbed down in return to accommodate them and it has had a marked affect on society as a whole, you mark my words…*
Enoch Powell had the right idea, eh?
In other news:
Romania has been expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest.
Romania expelled from Eurovision Song Contest
Seems they haven’t been paying their subs since 2007, and their entry will have to go back to his usual job as a 24 hour emergency plumber in Walthamstow.
* Sarcasm, just in case you don’t recognise it, in full, guns blazing action.;o)
snafuI tell you what’s gone wrong, it is yet another aspect of the great levelling down, dumbing down, reductionist society in which we now exist. !
Go on, admit it. It’s all these ruddy immigrants, coming into this country and dumbing down the rightful white, Anglo-Saxon natives. Education has had to be dumbed down in return to accommodate them and it has had a marked affect on society as a whole, you mark my words…*
Enoch Powell had the right idea, eh?
In other news:
Romania has been expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest.
Romania expelled from Eurovision Song Contest
Seems they haven’t been paying their subs since 2007, and their entry will have to go back to his usual job as a 24 hour emergency plumber in Walthamstow.
* Sarcasm, just in case you don’t recognise it, in full, guns blazing action.;o)
snafuCan’t help who you have and have not heard of. Take your head out of the sand!!!;o)
Grim Reaper given final written warning
http://newsthump.com/2016/04/22/grim-reaper-given-final-written-warning/
Do like the idea that Alan Rickman might get the job!
snafuCan’t help who you have and have not heard of. Take your head out of the sand!!!;o)
Grim Reaper given final written warning
http://newsthump.com/2016/04/22/grim-reaper-given-final-written-warning/
Do like the idea that Alan Rickman might get the job!
snafuThe same could be said for most celebrities who pass away since many are not at their height of fame when they die.
Incidentally, the BBC have said that their annual obit programme at the end of the year will now be an hour long, rather than the usual half hour, to accommodate all the deaths so far and those yet to happen…
Thing to remember: in 2007 Prince spent 21 nights at the O2 arena playing to 20,000 a night (and the ticket price was capped at £31.21 as part of the promotion for his album 3121 – geddit?) as well as a few smaller and much more exclusive gigs after some of the shows, in London, so he wouldn’t be a stranger to those whose memory only goes back ten years.
snafuThe same could be said for most celebrities who pass away since many are not at their height of fame when they die.
Incidentally, the BBC have said that their annual obit programme at the end of the year will now be an hour long, rather than the usual half hour, to accommodate all the deaths so far and those yet to happen…
Thing to remember: in 2007 Prince spent 21 nights at the O2 arena playing to 20,000 a night (and the ticket price was capped at £31.21 as part of the promotion for his album 3121 – geddit?) as well as a few smaller and much more exclusive gigs after some of the shows, in London, so he wouldn’t be a stranger to those whose memory only goes back ten years.
snafuNot this year!
And he can pay for it! Should freak him out good and proper…
snafuNot this year!
And he can pay for it! Should freak him out good and proper…
snafuI’m surprised that the BBC (and others) still cannot broadcast live music especially well. Coverage of Glastonbury, other festivals and award shows have been let down by lop-sided mixes and amateurish mixing of ambient crowd noise and (for example) presenters speaking to camera, with bleed-through and feedback, etc. The technology has come a long way, but the same human mistakes seem to be much the same as ever. :rolleyes:
You ever been to Glasto…? There is so much noise that sometimes you can be listening to three stages at once. It does depend on which way the wind blows and does illustrate why in those long shots of the stage the audience can appear sparse when crammed up against the barriers at the front.
In addition, lots of the bands bring their own audio technicians; they might be very experienced and well trained, or they could be a friend of the drummers brothers girlfriends cousin who had once made an impressive mix tape. Some bands will accept advice and others won’t, and some techs will not admit that they don’t have a clue about the equipment that has been ‘sprung’ on them – one tech made the decision that, despite the wire being labelled correctly, because the plug was the same colour as their usual lead singers plug their singer was being mixed as the drummer by the festival-supplied techie, with devastating results.
Also… Glasto is a big deal for the BBC – they hire something like 300 camera persons and probably a similar number of sound techs; sometimes, depending on what else is going on it can be as simple as having used a professional system means you are hired. Other festivals bring different problems: at Reading one huge bands roadies were apparently ‘mickey finn’d’ by other roadies, for a laugh, with the result that their pyrotechnics got miswired and set off at the wrong moment and all the effects pedals were jumbled up.
That contest was never really about the music in the first place
Au contraire, it was always about the music and it was always serious – but only to some people and in some countries. The Eurovision fan club in Britain take it as seriously as Rocky Horror Picture Show fans take the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and in countries all over the world (yes, it is a European export!) it is seen as a force for good uniting all nations.
Britain gets a free pass to the final due to some deal done years ago (1970s?) which means we get a lot of promotion of the event to justify devoting a Saturday night to something as trivial as a meaningless music contest. Terry Wogan helped make the contest into an event in Britain, making comments about these strange people we shared Europe with.
snafuI’m surprised that the BBC (and others) still cannot broadcast live music especially well. Coverage of Glastonbury, other festivals and award shows have been let down by lop-sided mixes and amateurish mixing of ambient crowd noise and (for example) presenters speaking to camera, with bleed-through and feedback, etc. The technology has come a long way, but the same human mistakes seem to be much the same as ever. :rolleyes:
You ever been to Glasto…? There is so much noise that sometimes you can be listening to three stages at once. It does depend on which way the wind blows and does illustrate why in those long shots of the stage the audience can appear sparse when crammed up against the barriers at the front.
In addition, lots of the bands bring their own audio technicians; they might be very experienced and well trained, or they could be a friend of the drummers brothers girlfriends cousin who had once made an impressive mix tape. Some bands will accept advice and others won’t, and some techs will not admit that they don’t have a clue about the equipment that has been ‘sprung’ on them – one tech made the decision that, despite the wire being labelled correctly, because the plug was the same colour as their usual lead singers plug their singer was being mixed as the drummer by the festival-supplied techie, with devastating results.
Also… Glasto is a big deal for the BBC – they hire something like 300 camera persons and probably a similar number of sound techs; sometimes, depending on what else is going on it can be as simple as having used a professional system means you are hired. Other festivals bring different problems: at Reading one huge bands roadies were apparently ‘mickey finn’d’ by other roadies, for a laugh, with the result that their pyrotechnics got miswired and set off at the wrong moment and all the effects pedals were jumbled up.
That contest was never really about the music in the first place
Au contraire, it was always about the music and it was always serious – but only to some people and in some countries. The Eurovision fan club in Britain take it as seriously as Rocky Horror Picture Show fans take the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and in countries all over the world (yes, it is a European export!) it is seen as a force for good uniting all nations.
Britain gets a free pass to the final due to some deal done years ago (1970s?) which means we get a lot of promotion of the event to justify devoting a Saturday night to something as trivial as a meaningless music contest. Terry Wogan helped make the contest into an event in Britain, making comments about these strange people we shared Europe with.
snafuI wonder how many mourning his death, can name any of his songs ?
Well if they couldn’t at lunchtime they will know them all by tomorrow lunchtime – I can no longer get Planet Rock on my DAB but I suspect even they will have dusted off one or two by then. That said, I suspect that Radio 3 and Classic FM would have a little difficulty giving him context to their remit…
snafuI wonder how many mourning his death, can name any of his songs ?
Well if they couldn’t at lunchtime they will know them all by tomorrow lunchtime – I can no longer get Planet Rock on my DAB but I suspect even they will have dusted off one or two by then. That said, I suspect that Radio 3 and Classic FM would have a little difficulty giving him context to their remit…
snafuAnother name that some of a certain age (and interest) may have heard of…
(CNN)Joan Laurer, the groundbreaking female wrestler known as Chyna, has died.
Police in Redondo Beach, California, confirm that Laurer, 45, was found dead in her apartment on Wednesday. Police say they were notified by a friend who went to check on her and found Laurer unresponsive. The cause of death is under investigation, but police say there are no signs of foul play.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/chyna-wrestler-dead/
snafuAnother name that some of a certain age (and interest) may have heard of…
(CNN)Joan Laurer, the groundbreaking female wrestler known as Chyna, has died.
Police in Redondo Beach, California, confirm that Laurer, 45, was found dead in her apartment on Wednesday. Police say they were notified by a friend who went to check on her and found Laurer unresponsive. The cause of death is under investigation, but police say there are no signs of foul play.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/entertainment/chyna-wrestler-dead/
snafuSo will James Bond fans…
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/james-bond-director-guy-hamilton-dies-aged-93
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