A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[rower40]

Signs for traffic to Download have started sprouting nearby, so I went onto their website to find out exactly when it is:

Download Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.

THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK

(My bold)
Methinks they can't count very well.

[StuAff]

Signs for traffic to Download have started sprouting nearby, so I went onto their website to find out exactly when it is:

Download Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.

THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK

(My bold)
Methinks they can't count very well.

Campsite opens day before, closes day after. So yes, up to five days if you're camping.

[rower40]

Signs for traffic to Download have started sprouting nearby, so I went onto their website to find out exactly when it is:

Download Festival is a mammoth five day rock event,
based at the spiritual home of rock Donington Park.

THE UK'S PREMIER ROCK FESTIVAL
10 — 12 JUNE 2022, DONINGTON PARK

(My bold)
Methinks they can't count very well.

Campsite opens day before, closes day after. So yes, up to five days if you're camping.

Phew - thanks for explaining, all makes perfect sense now.
I can dispense with the earplugs for the "shoulder" days...

[Kim]

I was going to say, probably the time dilation effect of someone else's loud music...

[Basil]

I see that "Yma o Hyd" is #1 on iTunes again.
Prolly because football.

[Mr Larrington]

I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?".  Coming to a cutting room floor near you.

New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th

[Tim Hall]

I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?".  Coming to a cutting room floor near you.

New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th

Ooh, ta v much M. Le Maire.
My Young Lady has just had notification of more recordings in That London at the start of July. She is applying for tickets.

[Mr Larrington]

Fans of True Scottish* Pirate Metal will already know that Alestorm's new album Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum is out today.  Consider this due warning for the rest of you scurvy landlubbers.  Yarrr!

* Or a Scottish as any band consisting of an Englishman, a Scotsman, a Hungarian and a rhythm section from Norn Iron can be

[Tim Hall]

I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?".  Coming to a cutting room floor near you.

New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th

Hurrah!. They kept my pearl of wisdom in.  First answer to the question. That's me that is.

[Mr Larrington]

I was at a recording for the Infinite Monkey Cage last night. Robin Ince read out my rib tickling, allegedly funny, answer to the the question "Would you rather be a bat or a fly...and tell us why?".  Coming to a cutting room floor near you.

New series kicks off with “Bats v Flies” on June 25th

Hurrah!. They kept my pearl of wisdom in.  First answer to the question. That's me that is.

(Heads for the BBC's Webby SCIENCE with finger poised to click "Download")

Not available yet Arse!  Or is it?  Where's the bloody "Download" button gone?

[Tim Hall]

Not available yet Arse!  Or is it?  Where's the bloody "Download" button gone?

The BBC's Webby SCIENCE sa "Select the Download option (if there is no download button, the programme may be available to stream only)"

OTOH, this jbexes for me

Code: [Select]

tim@Dalamar2:~$ get_iplayer "monkey cage" --get --type=radio

[Mr Larrington]

Ta!  I'll try get_iPlayer in due course.

Edit: It worked.  Hurrah!

[rafletcher]

10 Freeview channels, including BBC4 HD, were switched off 2 days ago, so check your recorders if you use such antiquated devices. Also Quest HD went. But the SD versions remain. Why that is, rather than the HD channels being moved when the mux was switched off and the SD channels closed is left as an exercise for the viewer.

ETA apparently BBC4 HD is slated to return with increased coverage - but no date given…

[Mr Larrington]

ITV4 hasn’t moved recently, though, which may be accounted a Good Thing.

[Tim Hall]

I was at a site for a Very Large Civil Engineering project last week.
Stay with me.   

As is usual there was a site induction (no smoking, emergency procedures, who are the first aiders etc) plus speed limits. Site speed limit is 10mph, or 20mph on the "Yellow Brick Road". This is what the main haul road has been designated, which tickled me.

I mentioned this to the enginner giving the induction. She is from ABROAD as she is a FOREIGN. "Ah yes" she said "I think of Elton John."  Now my first thought was the Wizard of Oz. Is it an age thing or a where you were brought up thing?

Mind you I was there again this week, working with a different engineer from ABROAD.  As we drove down the Yellow Brick Road I mentioned Elton John and the Wizard of Oz to him and I just got a blank look.

[Kim]

Presumably Sir Elton reached parts of ABROAD that the Wonderful Wizard didn't?  Possibly simply because radios are more prolific than distascopes (either anbaric, or the old-timey fillum kind), and music tends not to require translation.

I also note that as a privileged westerner from the tail end of GenX, in a country with plenty of cinemas, the opportunity to see The Wizard of Oz in one has arisen precisely once, as part of an LGBT film festival^[1].  If you didn't grow up with a telly full of old films, you're probably completely unaware of them.

I've probably said before, you haven't lived until you've heard Sacrifice performed with a strong Zimbabwean accent.


_{[1] Friends of Dorothy, innit.}

[Peter]

One for Wowbagger:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDS_DYO524

Bach bourre on a home-made (not "self-made" as described in the comments) pipe organ.  A piece well-known to guitarists, too, thanks to Andres Segovia.

[Mr Larrington]

Segovia covered it as well 

<== mostly aware of it from Leo Kottke's version

[Peter]

Segovia covered it as well 

<== mostly aware of it from Leo Kottke's version

I think I may have mentioned that....!

[Mr Larrington]

Sorry, the smiley et the question mark…

[Peter]

Ah!  I'm not aware of that by LK, D - did he do it on his 12-string?

[Mr Larrington]

Various web sites suggest not and my untutored ear finds it hard to tell the difference unless it’s Roger McGuinn with a Rickenbacker 12.  It's on “Mudlark” from 1971.

[Peter]

Thanks - I'll try and find it.

Edit:  Definitely a 6-string!

[Mr Larrington]

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London novels are set for TV adaptation.

[Jurek]

The Nike World Cup advert is currently being filmed at my place of work. Ronaldo is expected to put in an appearance over the next few days. We've already had a couple of his body doubles hovering around. The film crew have put their toilets right outside our window. Their catering looks better than that which comes out of our canteen.