Heartland

I know it's a bit more complicated, but if common cold is an argument for winning natural selection then why not cancer? :wink: Because cancer isn’t a viral infection 😜 Must say that's pretty good argument. :notworthy: My bad, mea stupidity. Hell no not at all. I was being kinda flippant. I don’t k...

How many of you use Spotify? Don’t! Spotify is not in the music business. They don’t care about bands, or fans of bands. They dress up their product to look like “unlimited music for fans of music” But really what its bottom line is Data Spotify is owned by Facebook who’s business model is owning ev...

Pista wrote: ↑

07 Feb 2021, 11:17

Love some Steven Wilson

The telling thing will be if anything does happen on the anniversary. It is clearly a date that has meant something to someone over the years. I was talking with the former Ms Swinnow, who attended the 1991 and 2001 dates, and she semi-jokingly suggested the band use this year's date to announce a ...

Much appreciated. Vol. II is underway. The whole chapter on the recording of FALAA I don’t think I agreed with one word. Do you mean the book's criticisms of the album's production in the recording chapter? Or do you mean the lyric analysis chapter? Just curious. I've been slightly disappointed tha...

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2021, 00:36

is this Ramirez? aha! i see from the img location it is.

Yes correct. I’ll admit I never heard of him before this show. My wife grew up in 80s LA so remembers a lot of the events. It was all new to me.

Dan wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2021, 15:55

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I was once at a gig at Post Haste in Wakefield where some joker kept his hand on the button of the smoke machine for over 10 minutes. There wasn't even a band on stage, it was between sets. You could barely see your hand in front of your face.

eastmidswhizzkid wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2021, 11:35

TheGoodSon wrote: ↑

06 Feb 2021, 11:02

It does feel sad to think that the 40th anniversary should come and go without any sort of fanfare.
What about some kind of online Heartland event?

something could be doable eh? i dunno, i reckon Quiff Boy could DJ for an hour or so playing 80's goth classics.

Fantastic idea

Bartek wrote: ↑

05 Feb 2021, 13:59

I know it's a bit more complicated, but if common cold is an argument for winning natural selection then why not cancer?

Because cancer isn’t a viral infection

Didn’t find a thread for pods, and it’s a medium I enjoy a lot. I’m not necessarily cutting a rug to them, so it wouldn’t go there. I’m not necessarily watching them, so it wouldn’t go there either. And I’m obviously not reading them (other than the show notes) so it wouldn’t fit there. Anyway, I’ve...

Mention of "natural herd immunity" above: There ain't no such thing. We get herd immunity from vaccines. That's it. Well I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that. Sure evolution has to play a role too, natural selection and all that Really? Natural selection hasn't done very well against the commo...

Pista wrote: ↑

04 Feb 2021, 19:50

Yeah it’s really good to see Gary Numan creating great music again

Finally finished this. After weeks (months) of a couple of pages a night (can’t keep my eyes open any more). Mostly loved it. The early pages filled in so many blank areas for me that I missed out on ‘in real time’. Discovering The Sisters post-FALAA and then digging in to the back catalogue I didn’...

Absolutely. So sad his pneumonia medicine prevented him from getting a vaccine shot. But what a life lived

markfiend wrote: ↑

03 Feb 2021, 10:19

I can't stand Yes

Agreed. No is my preferred answer, whatever the question

markfiend wrote: ↑

03 Feb 2021, 10:27

Mention of "natural herd immunity" above: There ain't no such thing. We get herd immunity from vaccines. That's it.

Well I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that. Sure evolution has to play a role too, natural selection and all that

Speaking of prog (as we were)

https://www.musicradar.com/news/76-of-u ... sts-survey

Coffin, here are some small sharp bits of metal. Get to know them

Either that or maybe an exodus of Brit musicians emigrating to the mainland, if that’s even possible any more

Awesome @Swinnow that looks wicked good. And the NMA DVD good news too. Cheers

Pista wrote: ↑

01 Feb 2021, 20:05

Wow, brutal

Not started it yet but on my list
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I’m sure you’ll love it, it’s so good. But my god it’s horrifyingly brutal

Wow, brutal

The Boatman - The Levellers

Ugh the specter of Judy Malkovits. Did you see that Plandemic video? Ridiculous. She spouts nonsense like magic microbes at the beach that give us immunity, and if we’re on lockdown millennia of evolved immunity will be just washed away. Among other gems. My idiot sister got wrapped up in that and i...

Knew I was in good company at the intersection of prog and goth :) Proggoth? I can dig that, even though it sounds like a Belarusian stew. Probably better than proth though :) I mean if you think about prog goth, a dark brooding cynical look at the world with 20 minute synth solos, that’s no true t...