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i think my mp3 player does have automatic level adjustment for input sources, it just so happened that it said "arghhhhhhhhh it's so fucking loud, i've turned myself down to 1 and I'm still clipping like a mo fo"

there is now a copy of sledgehammer that we did at 80s night up on our myspace page at http://myspace.com/preopcop

we knew the sample for everybody dance now was from the very early 90s (i thought it was 1990), however we thought most people would accept it as being an honourary 80s song. regardless, most of the intro song was actually ride on time by blackbox, which if i remember correctly was 1989. it was probably the most fun we've had playing a gig in a long, long time too.

this is why we have NHS24

where does it say anything about who is headlining? as far as i understood, the TBC is Hipslinky, and they are probably headlining.

BT - this binary universe hybrid - i choose noise

haha, add this one to the list of all time classics, please!

one way or another i want to sell this in the next six weeks before i disappear into the sunset. 700 quid would secure it.

can someone post a URL for this track, i'm intrigued now. myspace audio is not working on my computer, so if i can't download it i can't hear it. and then i might cry.

ok thanks for that. i have a few old 2000ad, judge dredd and warhammer annuals i thought they may be interested in.

ahh, but do you have a flag?

Is that comic/fantasy/RPG shop still open? Does anyone know if they have a website? Or does anyone have an email contact for any of the staff? ta

Taking 60kg of semtex in hand luggage?? that's ridiculous! they'd never get away with that. It's a STRICT 5kg limit!

i think you might be right! 6.3mm for standard jacks and 3.5mm for mini jacks. i wonder what is 1.6 that i thought of initially. i bet it was something silly like the length of a headphone cord.

the internet will evolve' date=' innovate and plough forward long after the RIAA & BPI cronies are still waddling along with their pants down by their ankles. P2P technology has been around since the dawn of the internet, and modern software frameworks have been around for at least 5 years to aid easy development of these technologies. i don't know where you get this illegal network garbage from - there is only one network in this discussion - the internet. if you are talking about Limewire/WinMX/Emule/Edonkey/Bearshare/Kazaa/Gnutella then do not be confused - they are not networks - they are software applications. anyone can run any of these applications - on any type of computer - on any type of operating system. these applications are true P2P because they are de-centralised and do not rely on a central server for people to be able to search for data nor to download it. email is not a network, it is a service that provides communication between two endpoints using well known ratified protocols. the network is the internet. describing "illegal networks" like you do is like saying a group of five men with beards speaking urdu is a terrorist cell. and the comparative action of the RIAA & BPI in "outlawing" these networks is like throwing every muslim in prison "just-in-case". it doesn't work and only drives people harder to work around the illegitimate obstacles placed in front of them. the response of the RIAA & BPI to the copyright infringement is to try to stamp it out - which will never work. they need to work with a better and more fair system that makes it easy for people not to bother file sharing, i.e. music services that have unilateral support from all major labels (i.e. so you can buy any music that you could buy from a selection of real music stores), and where the music downloads are unencumbered by rights management technology, so that if people pay to download a track, they can put it on their mp3 player, play it in their car, play it on their hifi, on their computer. DRM systems are a waste of time for music downloads and are restricting people's fair use rights. if you pay for it, why shouldn't you be able to do with it what you like. The reality is, file-sharing is a scapegoat for Sony BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner to use so they can bury their heads in the sand and maintain their crazy oligarchy a little bit longer. they are so scared of the natural devolving of power and distribution that is occurring in the western world's music industry that they are even joining forces with what at one point would have been their fiercest competitors. There is a natural evolution in progress from analogue to digital media and technologies, witnessed in the slow decline of radio to the overpopulation of cable/satellite/digital tv with a plethora of samey music stations playing the same old label pushed cash cows. the dilemma for the big four companies is that they have always been able to rely on this push medium, i.e. radio and television content is pushed out to viewers/listeners via their tv's/radios- they can either watch or not watch - if they do, their choice in what to listen to is dictated by the radio/television programme schedulers. the whole process is commercially orientated, via advertising, sponsorship, kickbacks, etc. despite being illegal, record labels have for years being paying radio stations to play and plug records in their schedules. the new digital mediums are consumer choice orientated - i.e. pull mediums. the user chooses what to listen to or what to watch. this is seen in technologies such as early filesharing via napster/audiogalaxy - users searched for the content they desired - and further in more modern P2P applications like limewire, gnutella, etc. etc.. In the last 2 - 3 years this paradigm has exploded: - myspace.com (all round media, including music, photos, personal pages) - flickr.com (photo content) - blogs (self authored journalistic content) - youtube.com (video content) much of this content is of a different standard/quality than typical pushed distributed content, but then that is probably why it is so appealing - because it has less of the contrived, polished, formulated, prescribed format that we are all so used to being exposed to. modern personal computer equipment and associated peripherals have given people with genuine talent the ability to demonstrate it thus - this is the very reason what sites like myspace.com (the music side) and youtube.com are flourishing so rapidly. filesharing technologies (and also to a limited extent recently, things like last.fm and pandora) have allowed people to find new music at a rate and of a diversity never really experienced before, in my opinion. in the years i have been using file sharing technologies, i've downloaded countless tracks that i have never bought the original cd for - but i can assure you that i've almost definitely either deleted the tracks soon after or not listened to them - so there is no sale lost. in other circumstances i have downloaded music by bands or similar to other bands i have liked, that have encouraged me to thereafter purchase back catalogues of bands/artists, or see them on tour. do you have evidence for your claim that record companies are losing money [b']specifically because of filesharing technologies? are these losses related to a loss of revenue? are these losses the result of a decline in album sales and/or singles sales? how do these losses correspond to the specific artists labels are promoting (i.e. cash cow artists over new and emerging talent or vice versa)? are these losses influenced by the merging and sell-offs of the corporations (e.g. both the Sony BMG merger, and Time Warner selling off WMG in 2004)?

shooting themselves in the foot because they are showing their inability or unwillingness to embrace the newly emerging models of music. how many bands had their first album written and recorded before having label interest 20 years ago? you could argue that the future is heading towards a fan/listener based meritocracy in determining which bands get signed or supported, as opposed to a previous model whereby bands get signed by a combination of location, ability to tour, quality material, timing, luck and money. the music industry is changing, like it or not. peer to peer networks and file sharing technologies like bittorrent are here to stay - and not just because of the music sharing purposes so commonly associated with the RIAA. "when free speech is outlawed, only outlaws will have free speech", goes some old phrase. the point being that the more that organisations like the RIAA keep trying to curtail file sharing technologies, the more developers and listeners will attempt to circumvent the restrictions. i am not asking this rhetorically: could someone tell me what artists would stand to lose if there were no RIAA / BPI ?

from the comments section of that page: http://www.streetpianos.org/Story.htm ACE! I want to do that NOW!

it was late when i listened to it, i could have imagined the vocal thing. also i did wonder if it could be something like a 12 string - when i said picking noise i really meant strumming noise. it's probably noticeable more because of the two separate tracks panned hard left and right. i wouldn't worry about it, it didn't sound bad - just noteable.

quite a nice production really agree with the vocals being too quiet, either normalise the vocal track or use a compressor/expander on it to bring it up a notch. also, was i imagining it, or were the vocals panned slightly to the right? dead center please!!! there seems to be a lot of string/picking noise from the acoustic guitar, it generally sounds ok in the mix and contrasts quite nicely with the bass and electric guitar, but by the end of the track became really quite noticeable. if you want to add drums (don't think the track necessarily needs it) there's a free drum machine program available at http://hydrogen-music.org

ok thanks for the info, very helpful.