pogofish

but she has already got her mum to tell me that its too many people.

Err' date=' what on earth has she got to do with it?

As a landlord, she has [b']absolutely no right to tell you what to do in your place. Unless in a very pressing emergency or if you are making persistant trouble for others of course.

Having a couple of friends to stay is unlikley to fall into that category.

Sounds like a good excuse for a party!

50 or so gurning munters & a soundsystem ought to make your pals seem like small-beer to her then!

Otherwise, remind her firmly of all the slack you have cut her over her BF etc & insist on having them stay.

Good luck.

Never been to a festival....the fucking hassle/expense/suffering of hot weather and shite bands/idiots/cunts/more idiots/lack of toilets/confiscation of water/etc etc I experienced at Milton Keynes last year seeing Green Day has convinced me that I haven't missed much.

Thankfully, there are a hell of a lot of festivals that are not like that!

I tend to see the big-name sponsored & large overcomerciallised type events as a bit of a warning sign to avoid tho.

Crap bogs is something you do tend to get immune to tho. Or learn to regualte/stick to a liquid diet!

Crikey! My teenage years have just come back to haunt me!

Far too many nights in the Bowl! :o

Wish I could go but promised to another thing tonight.

Repeat Repeat by Peter Baumann - Bad synthpop with Robert Palmer type clone singing. Yegods!

Rainbow Dome Music by Steve Hillage - Aural equivalent of watching paint dry, watching the clear vinyl spin on the turntable was more interesting than any of the warbling on it.

Eventually, I did manage to flog the Hillage album for something like fifty times what I paid for it & I beleive the Baumann is now somewhat sought-after. Fools!

I can't really see an alcholholic burgling your house or jabbing you with a needle to get your new trainers. More likely to sing songs at you. But I'm sure it does have a severity of consequences as you mentioned.

Alcohol is a recognised contributory factor to something like 20% of all violent crime BTW.

How on earth junkies can be deemed fit parents is unbelieveble. Maybe at that young an age foster homes may be ideal for a period.

Why?

I used to work with troubled kids & yes' date=' an unsurprisingly high proportion were from households where various forms of addiction were a fact of life. That in itself didn't make the parents unfit, there were often a whole slew of other factors to contend with, sometimes quite unrelated. I will agree that addiction made [b']some utterly unfit tho.

Equally, the care system itself isn't that good at turning out educated & well rounded young individuals. Indeed, a disproportionate number of them will end-up in the addiction/mental-illness/social-isolation/crime cycle themselves.

roll on march 26th...

could you argue that smoking is the wosrt drug as it is legalised and probably leads to use of harder drugs?..

Try looking-up the overall stats on alcohol' date=' its primary & secondary casualties & its overall cost to society.

It knocks [b']all other drugs into the proverbial cocked-hat!

That will be Jayne then....

Spoke to her a few mins ago & yes, looks like we will be there for the whole night. So yes, no problem with leaving the camera running for the rest.

Single: Honnaloochie Boogie by Mott the Hoople

Compilation: Either one of those terrible "Top of the Pops" comps of cover versions or an album of Bond themes

Album: Blondie's Paralell Lines

Have you any idea how many people die from taking methadone? its not just kids who are at risk' date=' drug curious people with no resistance to opiates die on a regular basis..... my son included.[/quote']

Info here, Table 5:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/drug-related-deaths/04drug-related-deaths.html#table5

Very roughly & depending on year, it seems that methadone deaths run at around half to a third of other opiate casualties in Scotland & indeed, far from being a safer alternative, Methadone has a set of very particular side-effects & problems associated with it that have never made it the best choice for a treatment/rehabilitation drug.

Which takes me back to the commercial interests mentioned in my last post.

There is also another very pertinent issue. As well as widely differing physical response to opiates, a very significant percentage of people (@ 20-30% OTOH) lack the neural pathways to process opiates, so get no real effect from them & in an experimental situation, are highly succeptable to overdose.

There are many chemists which do not allow the user to take methadone off the premises and demand that it is taken on the spot. I agree with this idea and think it should be compulsory practice.

I thought that for this very reason' date=' most health authorities had stopped or severely restricted the despensing of Methadone longsince. IIRC there was a couple of very similar tragedies some years back which led to this policy?

Of course, I'm also aware that many pharmacies take flack from "normal" people for dispensing to addicts on site as well.

The child-rearing/junkie argument is a very different one & unquestionably needs to be reviewed on an individual case basis. Setting overall policy as a knee-jerk to a [b']very rare event could be just as bad in the long run.

Also, the whole issue of Methadone treatment itself & the amount of commercial self-interest vested in it by the producers & firms who market off the peg "treatment programs" is also another issue to watch.

Crikey, I'd effectively purged my memories of the Viewfield. Played a wedding there once & ended-up watching a whopping fight between various members of the happy families!

I'll spare you the list of shit jobs that I went through n'all!

Ninjas are cooler by far!

Yeah' date=' because well off, middle class, stuffy old guys in suits... that's what punk was about.[/quote']

Middle calss? Some maybe but by no means all.

My Father began his career as a shipyard apprentice & never thought he would stand a chance at getting a Uni place - his lot were about a Red-Clyde as you can get.

My uncle worked in a paper mill for many years & again, nobody from his side thought of themselves as Uni material. He eventually went stellar in his field but not in this country.

Plenty of the folk I work with today are from equally working-class backgrounds & you clearly have little idea of how much & what sort of work they had to do to get there & to support themselves whilst doing it, anyway. Often it makes having an ordinary job seem the easy choice.

i heard it was something trivial like "there is not enough toilet roll".

There is never enough of that!

Bring back Izal! :D

Yeah but most folk dont get it - striking is shit. same as the firefighters. do a better job and you'll be rewarded..

Come-on!

Uni staff (at all levels) have met & in fact exceeded a succession of increasingly strict govt-imposed performance targets & in recent years yet their pay still lags significantly. Never mind the other funding reviews, job-cutbacks & upcoming implementation of the Framework agreement which could well be another excuse to hold-back salaries even further.

Also for most, the "holidays" simply mean a move to a different type of work. Stuff they can't get on with during teaching.

And with The Dhol Foundation it'll make for a pretty rowdy evening.

Yup! :D

Think I saw them at the same festival as John Renbourn. Rather good. Maybe not the same year tho, things can get a bit blurred!

Saw John Renbourn at a festival a couple of years back & enjoyed it immensely. Williamson however has never been entirely my cup of tea, like some tho. Might well go.

Hang on, isn't that the same night the Peatbogs play the Lemon Tree?

That will be Jayne then...unless it's Julie .

Indeed it is.

One of the sax players in the first band.

Soft Machine played here in 1974.

Ahh, a little before my time.

Soft Machine played students union?

Can't confirm Soft Machine but various members have played here at other times Including one doing a stonking set at the Bobbin Mill once.

Back in the day, The Union had a really good roster of regular live bands & often had some absolute crackers in to play. Especially the more off the wall sort eg Nico, Jaques Loussier (Mitchell hall) & The Enid. Even a little known rock band called Texas playing the Beer Bar!

Oh yes, there are many old great bands who have played here over the years. Mostly when they were on their way up or down, seldom when they were at the absolute peak, although there are a couple of notable exceptions.

I was at the same HW show. Seen them more times than is physically good for me & that was not one of their most memorable performances I'm afraid.

You really don't want to know!