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@spectator What does anyone expect when the comedians, programme makers and the ones financing it are all likely to have come from similar university backgrounds?

I giggled for the first time at Ranganathan and Frankie Boyle when their dire shows were binned by the BBC; as Patrick West wrote here at the time: ‘Satire should lampoon those who rule. Except BBC satire has for years shirked this duty. It no longer challenges the establishment – in academia, the civil service, the unelected House of Lords, the BBC itself. It’s instead been a staple of BBC satire to punch down, to mock and deride the conservative, middle-class, Brexit-inclined middle-Englander. Audiences have themselves become bored of the BBC’s repetitious, relentless belittling of ordinary Britons at the behest of a smug, self-satisfied elite.’ ✍️ Julie Burchill Article | spectator.com/article/why-mo…

@MArantes00 Finish the song minus one string. Swap out for a spare guitar if you have one available, renew the broken string at an interval if you don't have a helper on gig nights to do it before. Otherwise the rest of the band is playing for a song or two without you

You’re on stage… and your string breaks. What’s your move? 😳

@LesPurves Black Sabbath, workout a shadow of doubt

Four flawless 70s debuts on deck 🎶 Black Sabbath, Horses, Ramones, Marquee Moon You can only pick one… What’s your pick? #vinyl #nowspinning #recordcollection #classicrock #punk #protorock #70sMusic

@LuanHanratty Never saw any gigs there, but played hockey at Whitley Bay. That was a unique experience!

Whitley Bay Ice Rink was a proper venue back in the day 🎸🎙️

@MikeOCull The YouTube learners will hyper focus on one piece to nail it. Ask them to jam or work a piece of by ear and it's a different story.

I’ve realized something lately. I’ll probably never teach guitar again. Not because I can’t but because there doesn’t seem to be much call for teachers like me anymore. In the smart phone universe, I’m a dinosaur. My method of teaching requires motivated students who actually practice. The internet attention span is my enemy and has created student issues I can’t fix. It’s based on one of the cruelest lies ever told to the world: that everything should be fast and easy. When it comes to learning music, a lack of focus is a big problem. It makes playing seem like a “trick” and many modern minds have trouble with the long, tedious process of teaching an instrument to their nervous systems, much less doing the mental reps needed to learn theory or reading. They can’t focus long enough to attain the basic skill level required to get the landing gear up, so to speak. They get bored, as if the guitar and piano exist solely for their amusement. It gets hard and they quit. They shut down. They give up before the good part starts. Anyone who plays any instrument even halfway well will tell you that the first couple years of learning are pretty brutal. It takes the heart of a lion to endure the frustration and pain of building basic musical skills. Countless repetitions while seeing little progress is the experience. Anyone you’ve ever seen play well has gone through it and there has never been any other way. In other words, it’s the polar opposite of the internet/smart phone/social media experience. I can teach anyone to play the guitar. What I can’t do, however, is teach anyone to want to play the guitar bad enough to stick it out and conquer the basics. People either have the desire or they don’t. These days, most don’t. My problem as a teacher is that I can’t come up with some shiny new way of high-tech learning that leaps students over the hard parts. I could claim to and peddle bullshit to beginners but that’s not me. I always aim to speak the truth.

@DreyfusJames But they'll happily show the dreadful Mrs Brown's Boys. Kinda says it all...

BBC said ‘no’ to a documentary about perhaps the most influential comic & radio show of all time. Let that sink in…

@FacundoSavala @CaptainVirgilx None of them, I'm politically homeless. I'd find it hard to vote for any of these, they're all varying shades of useless. Pains me to say that spoiling my paper is possibly the best option

Who will you be voting for in the upcoming Holyrood elections, and why? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Please RT for a wide sample size, across all demographics. ✅️

@Pygar668177 @YourWullie Much the same as the likes of The Tremeloes, a solid band with some fine songs, but nothing to make them stand out in a big way. The singles I See The Rain and Reflections Off My Life are absolute bangers though!

@YourWullie For me, Marmalade had a big identity problem. A lot of diverse music in there and no Marmalade “sound”. I wonder if it limited their success

Marmalade originally formed in Baillieston in Glasgow's east end in 1961 as the Gaylords, and then later billed as Dean Ford and the Gaylords. In 1966 they changed the group name to The Marmalade. Photo by George Wilkes in 1969.

@MetroUK Actions sometimes come with consequences, who knew?

From Girl Guides to the Women’s Institute, trans people are being told they don’t belong trib.al/T7fT1YY

@ThatEricAlper Every gig that I ever play

What was the concert that reminded you why live music can never be replaced?

@The3rdFrame @fife_football Rod was apparently a fairly decent footballer.

@fife_football If they two were in the opposition and you saw them jogging onto the grass you'd be thinking "cricket score".

It's Elton's birthday today. Here he is on trial at East Fife with another chap whose name I forget ...

@EliErlick JKR will have pocketed the proceeds from the sale of this copy ages ago. I'd be almost certain she's not caring

An iconic UK bookstore is offering visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter books for 25 pence. The Bookish Type, the trans-owned bookstore in Leeds running the promotion, will donate all proceeds to gender-affirming healthcare costs. Go support them!

@GlamSlam72 Never say never, the tapes for Status Quo's Live album were found fairly recently and given a fresh mix. The 3 nights of the Slade Alive performances would make a fantastic box set if they were to surface

Slade Alive was recorded over three nights, 19 to 21 October 1971, at Command Theatre Studio at 201 Piccadilly in London, a small theatre-style venue hired specifically to capture Slade’s raw live sound. The band played three full shows across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and the final album is mostly built from the Wednesday night performance, with a few edits and selections from the other two nights. All recordings were produced by Chas Chandler and later mixed at Olympic Studios. Although three complete concerts were taped, only the songs that appear on the original album have ever been officially released. No full recordings of the remaining songs from those shows have surfaced, and none have been issued on any reissue, deluxe edition or anniversary release. Every version of Slade Alive across all formats contains only the original album tracklist, and there is no evidence that additional songs from the Command Theatre sessions were ever mixed, archived or prepared for release. In short, the album was recorded 19–21 October 1971 at Command Theatre Studio in Piccadilly, and no other songs from those concerts have ever been released.

@ArtemisRising81 @DailyMail The scouts started to allow girls as the numbers were dwindling to seriously low levels.

@DailyMail Boys have been given until 6 September to leave Girl Guides. Get. It. Right. They are CHILDREN. Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell created the Girl Guides - for GIRLS.

Transgender girls must leave the Guides by September as membership is now 'restricted' to those born female trib.al/hUMMiIB

@stevekippax @SkyNewsBreak Girls have been allowed to join the scouts for more than 30 years

@SkyNewsBreak just for clarity they are talking about BOYS.... are there any girls in the Scouts???

Girlguiding says transgender girls must leave the organisation by 6 September – following its announcement in December that membership would be "restricted to girls and young women" For more on this and other news visit trib.al/Rx0iR33

@VintageRockN_85 Deep Purple were streets ahead of Bowie's band musically and at the peak of their powers as a live act in '72. I like Bowie, but not enough to win the head-too-head with DP circa 1972

Would you rather travel back to 1972 and see Deep Purple or David Bowie?

@GoldenNaraw @MaxellCorp I had the early 90s equivalent. It was too early for mp3 CDs. It was good at the time, though I traded it for a pocket minidisc player. That was by far the best portable system I ever had.

@keepercc19 @MaxellCorp Should go for vintage cdplayer 💿

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@NickHintonn The crown was closed to the public when I visited in 2006. 9/11 was the reason given. At that point there were no immediate plans to reopen the stairs to the crown.

This has gotta be the craziest Mandela Effect

@NeilBrocken @Amy_90_x Skol, that was still a common sight in pubs when I started drinking around 1991, along with Harp & McEwans lager. Never see any of them now, it's mainly Tennents or Carling in the pubs near me

@Amy_90_x Interesting to note that there was no such thing as ‘Lager’ back then.

When you could get shitfaced on a quid 😭😭

@WitchyMcWitch It's all pseudo-scientific bollocks. Nobody would be trans if people stopped playing along with it.

Can anyone tell me what "science" changes my husband (father of one) from a man into a woman if he says " I am a woman"