Alkaline

Hope so, sounds like they have a lot of ideas and aren't being pushed to do it so fingers crossed!

Looking forward to new albums from Tinashe, Frank Ocean, Jhene Aiko, Ignite, Polica, Aluna George, Deftones, M83, LCD Soundsystem, Soundgarden and Killswitch Engage.

Steven Re-Caulker would've been better...

One of our back windows started leaking during last weeks first load of rain, fastest I've ever re-caulked a window in my life!

Yes.

Why would he break a habit of a lifetime? Buy low, sell high...

Here's my top 20 for 2015: 1. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye 2. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness 3. Mewithoutyou - Pale Horses 4. Purity Ring - Another Eternity 5. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets 6. A Mote of Dust - A Mote of Dust 7. Disclosure - Caracal 8. Deafheaven - New Bermuda 9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and other Distress 10. Four Tet - Morning/Evening 11. Grimes - Art Angels 12. Hot Chip - Why Make Sense? 13. Mew - +- 14. Jaga Jazzist - Starfire 15. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special 16. Strung Out - Transmission.Alpha.Delta 17. Carly Rae Jepson - E.Mo.Tion 18. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall 19. Calexico - Edge of the Sun 20. Cradle of Filth - Hammer of the Witches

My reading has taken a severe hit since having a kid, I think I dropped down to around 20ish books this year. Usually I'm too knackered to read more than 10 pages or so a night before I start slipping off into slumberland.

I don't have a problem with the marketing, the hype, the shock value (ethics aside and mass consumerism being the polar opposite of punk), I do have a problem with their beer being shit though. That's personal opinion though, others can obviously like what they like etc. I thought the venue was SNAFU, which was hardly a mid-sized venue, unless it's had a major internal redisgn the stage was in a less than optimum position for maximum crowd coverage. Anyone in the know with details, I don't get out on the casual as much as I used to.

He played one game, realised how shite we were and got Hep C or something and fucked of back to Holland to live in a caravan with Marco Boogers (or some other mythical football malarkey).

It all stems from the sales between January and September (Armstrong, Mackay-Steven and Ciftci) and not renewing a couple of players contracts (Czerniak and Fojut). The whole spine of the team went in less than a year and threw any gelled squad out of the window. The signings, while decent in the most part, haven't started playing together and the talented players (Connelly, Spittal and Telfer) are too young to shoulder the burden of sparking the creativity of the squad completely. That coupled with the fact that Dillon and Rankin have been hiding all season and Paton had that court case hanging over his head meant that Jackie Mac unjustly got the dunt IMHO. Now we've replaced him with Mixu, who seems intent on sapping any creativity out of the team in favour of playing 6 defenders. I would maybe be at peace with that decision if we weren't being scored on like cheap hookers during happy hour. Shite season is shite. Fully expecting Championship football next season.

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Odious Little Coat

How many times has the wife been switched on and is she "as new"?

Yes, I thought Season 1 was ok, didn't see it getting a second series but when it did I thought I'd keep watching. 2nd series is leagues ahead of the 1st, it seems to have grown considerably into its story. Fingers crossed it carries on like it is, not even sure if the 3rd series has been greenlit?

Part of it is 'cause we have to pay VAT on eBooks whereas there's no VAT on paper books.

Yes, my wife and I love it, I think there's bits of us in the characters and thats what makes it hilarious for us.

I'm neither here nor there with them to be honest. If it helps someone get through the drudgery of their mundane and depressing life then great, if you like them just for fun fair enough, no skin off my nose.

I'm not sure about the new Grimes album. I really, really want to like it but it's not ticking the boxes for me at the moment, I will persevere though, hopefully it's a grower. I loved her single "Go", if the album had been mostly like that I'd've been all over it like stink on a monkey!

It must have loads 'cause there must be a reason why it's not getting played on Radio 2

If only it was in the thread title...

Hah, so true, so true.

Everyone should own Larousse Gastronomique.

No doubt a unique pick as well as no-one else will have heard of the guy.

I think it depends on what type of music you're going for but I've found synth-bass works quite well on some stuff. There's space for both in songs too.