Heartland

already mentioned on dominion, but in case some of you missed it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/music/dream_ticket.shtml

this coming monday...

Monday 02 June

Robin Trower
Sisters Of Mercy
Blues Traveller
Idlewild

no one quite knows what gig it will be - maybe wake, maybe a more recent one? expected to get roughly a 30 minutes slot

it would appear that the cocteau twins one being played tonight os a bbc session, so that might mean that the sisters dream ticket is a session too - peel? kid jenson?

oooh, good quality session recordings!!

shame its not a recent gig though

must have been arranged as a present for a certain Mr Scardwell

Well if Mr Scardwel phoned your radio station, with a bee in is bonnet, wouldn't you do as he says?

Ed Rhombus wrote:Well if Mr Scardwel phoned your radio station, with a bee in is bonnet, wouldn't you do as he says?

@ Ed

was thinking of the date of broadcast

Quiff Boy wrote:peel? kid jenson?

Certainly hope it's Peel. I've been actively campaigning for 6music to dig these out of the archives.

Fingers crossed.

yeah I'm well chuffed - only trouble is I don't have a DAB receiver
Would some kind soul who does have a DAB be prepared to tape it and send me a copy? I'll make it worth your while!

Put it on your birthday list

its prolly gonig to be sessions, the BBc never recorded anything else apart fromt he OGWT session and an interview from reading in 91

matt

heave you noticed there's also a Chams gig coming up on that show Mr Quiff?

RobF wrote:heave you noticed there's also a Chams gig coming up on that show Mr Quiff?

to quote our very own sinny, "holy living sh*t!!"

i hope its the "john peel" show sessions they use - only 4 tracks but the raw power and energy in those songs is amazing - i've just listened to them now and its the best version of "good things" i've ever heard! incredible, and much better than the one which does the rounds usually!

bring it on!

Ok so it's probably gonna be a session, but has anyone heard the show? Does the DJ talk all over the tracks or will we hear them uninterrupted?

I'll be recording the broadcast anyway, if someone wants a copy on CDR just let me know. I hope there's no yattering all over the tracks too, but it would be good to finally hear them in stereo. I just hope it isn't Wake...

Michael

Dan wrote:Ok so it's probably gonna be a session, but has anyone heard the show? Does the DJ talk all over the tracks or will we hear them uninterrupted?

You tend to get 6music trails between tracks during the headline act (easily edited out with soundforge), maybe once or twice during the set. Sisters are 2nd on the bill so should go uninterrupted.

Just wish 6music broadcast higher than 128kbps on dab since I'll be ripping this to mp3. Might even make a recording from digital cable and see which sounds better.

Sorry if this is old news but if you're keen to get a recording of the Peel/Jensen sessions skip over to

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sistersrarities5/ (Peel '82)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sistersrarities6/ (Jensen '83)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sistersrarities7/ (Peel '84)

The songs are in full with no DJ-jabber.

Continued thanks to Michael for the time he puts into compiling these (and other) collections.

Theyre not complete though. Some of them fade out early. For example I have a recording of one of the sessions repeated on the Janice Long Show in 1987 and one song was around 45 seconds longer than the version in common circulation.

hmmm. doesnt look like i'll be around to listen to this at the time of broadcast...

i'll have to make do with the recorded playback afterwards

will anyone be mp3'ing it then?

I'm recording it via satellite, some digital radio stations came with the TV package and luckily that's one of them. Which means I'm going to be videoing the radio...

Anyway, as well as backing it up that way, I'm also going to be feeding it straight from the digibox into an audio CD recorder. (Is anyone following this? I know, I should get out more..)

I'm then going to take the CD back to the computer to convert it to mp3s, and upload hem to my Yahoo groups. However, the file size limit there means I can end up having to encode them at almost pointlessly low bitrates. QB, if you like, I could also encode them at high bitrates and drop them into your place if you don't mind. I know it's dedicated to the videos at the moment (which I downloaded from you, cheers!) so that's up to you really

Michael

JansenClone wrote:QB, if you like, I could also encode them at high bitrates and drop them into your place if you don't mind. I know it's dedicated to the videos at the moment (which I downloaded from you, cheers!) so that's up to you really

Michael

What's this place dedicated to videos of which you speak?

DerekR wrote:

JansenClone wrote:QB, if you like, I could also encode them at high bitrates and drop them into your place if you don't mind. I know it's dedicated to the videos at the moment (which I downloaded from you, cheers!) so that's up to you really

Michael

What's this place dedicated to videos of which you speak?

ahem.

just hosting the official "suzanne" live video that the sisters couldnt afford to host

ftp://quiffboy.myftp.org/

but it's not up at the moment...

tomorrow

JansenClone: PM incoming!

JansenClone wrote:However, the file size limit there means I can end up having to encode them at almost pointlessly low bitrates.

I already mentioned this in the yahoo group months ago, but there's a program called HJsplit which allows you to split a file info several smaller parts, and then after downloading the same program is used to recombine the files.
Using that method people have uploaded huge mpegs to yahoo briefcases.

HJsplit is a great idea. I've used it before and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Let's get all those rarities uploaded at super-high bitrates

DerekR wrote:HJsplit is a great idea. I've used it before and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Let's get all those rarities uploaded at super-high bitrates

and where, pray tell, can one obtain such a miraculous piece of software?

Quiff Boy wrote:and where, pray tell, can one obtain such a miraculous piece of software?

Version 2.2 available here

http://freebyte.swmirror.com/hjsplit.zip