Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 289234 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2225 on:** 17 February, 2023, 06:06:31 pm »

New series of "The Infinite Monkey Cage" starts tomorrow on R4.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2226 on:** 20 February, 2023, 02:58:28 pm »

And “The Dead Of Winter”, the latest tome from Mr S MacBride of Scotlandland, is just out. Neither Logan McRae nor Oldcastle though it’s still set in the vicinity of Furryboottoon.

Steph · « **Reply #2227 on:** 25 February, 2023, 10:16:15 pm »

I am now binge watching a BBC show, oddly on ITV catch-up: being Human

There is some astonishingly good writing in there, reasonably often matched by the performances.

T42 · « **Reply #2228 on:** 07 March, 2023, 09:58:41 am »

I left the messages on my B2C machine's display in the original Italian because when you sing them it sounds like opera.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2229 on:** 08 March, 2023, 08:04:52 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk&ab_channel=WienerCelloEnsemble5%2B1

Ravel's Bolero for 1 cello, and 4 people.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2230 on:** 08 March, 2023, 08:16:25 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/08/game-dystopian-mirror-uk-dan-douglas-duke-smoochem

Duke Smoochem! Sounds brilliant...

Basil · « **Reply #2231 on:** 08 March, 2023, 09:34:33 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2023, 08:04:52 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk&ab_channel=WienerCelloEnsemble5%2B1

Ravel's Bolero for 1 cello, and 4 people.

Very clever.

T42 · « **Reply #2232 on:** 09 March, 2023, 08:41:48 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2023, 08:04:52 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk&ab_channel=WienerCelloEnsemble5%2B1

Ravel's Bolero for 1 cello, and 4 people.

Brilliant! Great estocada.

Ham · « **Reply #2233 on:** 22 March, 2023, 09:58:57 am »

I'm not a particular fan of U2 (R pretentious) but their tiny desk performance is entertaining, largely because of Edge and the choir I suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxo-loXdcH0

andrewc · « **Reply #2234 on:** 23 March, 2023, 11:54:20 pm »

I just played "Banging In The Nails" by the Tiger Lillie's to a former monk. He loved it....

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2235 on:** 03 April, 2023, 02:07:35 pm »

Hurrah: The lovely chaps at Rockosmos have just informed me that my copy of “Hologram”, the new album by the mighty Amplifier, is on its way to Larrington Towers

Bah: I'm away cat-sitting for the thick end of a fortnight starting tomorrow :'(

rafletcher · « **Reply #2236 on:** 06 April, 2023, 10:19:26 am »

I'm always on the lookout for new authors in my preferred genre (crime/thriller basically, easy reading mostly) and trawl Fantastic Fiction for inspiration. An I right to be prejudiced against those authors who's publication history shows 3 or 4 books in a single year?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2237 on:** 06 April, 2023, 10:30:42 am »

Depends which year

Some of them kept very busy during the Plague Season.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2238 on:** 06 April, 2023, 11:47:50 am »

BBC 6 Music are dicking around with their evening schedule. This means that from June (I think) Gideon Coe's show is mostly axed and he's going to do a time share with Mark Riley.

Arse.

citoyen · « **Reply #2239 on:** 06 April, 2023, 12:48:18 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 06 April, 2023, 11:47:50 am

BBC 6 Music are dicking around with their evening schedule. This means that from June (I think) Gideon Coe's show is mostly axed and he's going to do a time share with Mark Riley.

Arse.

I saw this mentioned elsewhere. Riley's slot is being taken over by Tom "Ravers" Ravenscroft and Deb Grant, both of whom I like but not as much as I like Marc Riley.

I've been following Gideon Coe's career since he was on Why Don't You? and fondly remember his morning show on GLR with Fi Glover. It's disappointing that he has been increasingly marginalised in recent years.

It's bad enough that we only get RadMac for a couple of hours on weekend mornings now. No doubt they'll all be shuffled off to Radio 2 before long.

Tenuous claim to fame corner: Gid Coe went to the same school as my son. And Robert Wyatt.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2240 on:** 06 April, 2023, 12:57:51 pm »

He (Gid) was very magnanimous about the proposed changes. Words to the effect that his current show is his dream job in music and dream jobs don't last for ever. What this new time share format with Marc Riley will be like he doen't know but he'll do his damndest to make it work.

Side note: Last night's show, with a tribute to his Dad (Jazz saxophonist Tony Coe) was fabby.

TheLurker · « **Reply #2241 on:** 07 April, 2023, 08:58:53 am »

You could argue that the link below is more properly something for ctrl-alt-del, but I reckon those of us who spend our days nose-deep in the IT slurry will already be well aware of the issues regarding ownership of digital products and, as the article makes clear, it's not just what we usually think of as software (operating systems, applications) that's affected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/arts/dahl-christie-stine-kindle-edited.html

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2242 on:** 08 April, 2023, 05:10:19 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 06 April, 2023, 11:47:50 am

BBC 6 Music are dicking around with their evening schedule. This means that from June (I think) Gideon Coe's show is mostly axed and he's going to do a time share with Mark Riley.

Arse.

andrewc · « **Reply #2243 on:** 08 April, 2023, 05:17:51 pm »

BBC manglement seem determined to piss off their audience. https://twitter.com/christt/status/1643907076626718722

"I hear that in a BBC radio staff meeting yesterday, management told staff to reduce the age of people listening to
BBC6Music by 5-10 years, with an optimum of listeners in their early 30s. If true, this is madness: an utterly skewiff corporate notion of who might listen or why."

It's a Tory plot to make everything non viable so they've an excuse to kill it off....

citoyen · « **Reply #2244 on:** 08 April, 2023, 10:41:35 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 08 April, 2023, 05:17:51 pm

It's a Tory plot to make everything non viable so they've an excuse to kill it off....

"Managed decline" is the term you're after.

Basil · « **Reply #2245 on:** 08 April, 2023, 11:02:12 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 08 April, 2023, 10:41:35 pm

Quote from: andrewc on 08 April, 2023, 05:17:51 pm
It's a Tory plot to make everything non viable so they've an excuse to kill it off....

"Managed decline" is the term you're after.

"C*nts" is actually the term you are after.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2246 on:** 09 April, 2023, 01:44:40 pm »

Quote from: TheLurker on 07 April, 2023, 08:58:53 am

You could argue that the link below is more properly something for ctrl-alt-del, but I reckon those of us who spend our days nose-deep in the IT slurry will already be well aware of the issues regarding ownership of digital products and, as the article makes clear, it's not just what we usually think of as software (operating systems, applications) that's affected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/arts/dahl-christie-stine-kindle-edited.html

Paywalled. I’ve “reached my limit of free articles” despite never reading the NYT.

TheLurker · « **Reply #2247 on:** 09 April, 2023, 02:43:26 pm »

Switch Javascript off.

Beardy · « **Reply #2248 on:** 09 April, 2023, 11:32:54 pm »

Why is the Now TV TV app for LG TVs such a bag of crap. It’s bad enough that I have to tell it to display subtitles every time I start the app, but it also seems to pick and choose which programmes it’s going to remember you are watching. It’s garbage.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2249 on:** 17 April, 2023, 03:27:07 pm »

Mr von Brandenburg and chums on stage in Hoorn (.nl) last Friday.

L-R: Misha Nikolic, Martin Turner, Sonny Flint (aka Mr von B), Danny Willson

Viddied by Miss von Brandenburg, on an iPhone!