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Oh my days! Carcass tour announced, my nearest is the first of the tour and, wait for it.......at a local drag club on a Saturday night. Got feeling it's not going to go ahead and I'll be left dissapointed. Hope I'm wrong, really looking forward to this. Had Carcass gig and drag club on my bucket list for a good while, never in a million years thought Id be able to chalk them both off on the same night out, at the same venue.

Fucking hell @sammynb are you implying he sold out after the Birthday Party? Big Jesus Trash Can took a really long time to grow on me. It was even harder work than most Cardiacs stuff tbh. I'll agree that Cave has got far less adventurous as the years went on but 86 seems a weird cut off date (though I'll concede I'm not hugely well versed in his output).

Aye it is. The V30 loaded one looks a really good deal tbh and should pair with my amp really well. I'm just being petty that the price difference between a V30 and a Greenback (speaker only) is £5 but loaded into the HB cab it's an extra £60 to upgrade the V30 to a GB. I'll probably go for the V30 loaded cab for £150. Just felt like having a grumble over weird pricing inconsistencies. Thomann are usually great for bargains if you look hard enough and pick your moment.

"Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!" In other news I'm eyeing up a Harley Benton 1x12 with a Vintage 30 speaker to replace the old Peavey cab, just a bit miffed that stepping up to the Greenback instead of the V30 is an extra £60. I've never been one to get hung up on speaker models but seems quite an questionable jump in price. Neighbours already hate me here, half wishing I'd just kept the 4x12.

Ah for fuck sake Tom. That one scene is probably a huge influence on the person I've become over the years. You and this youtuber have just given me another thing to worry about. Cheers for that! 😆

Ah close! I had a look today and it's from Fox in Socks. Honestly it's like Beat Poetry for kids.

Reminds me a page from an old Dr Seuss book (forget which one exactly) that I've got permanently etched on my brain and think I have memorised to a tee since my first scan of it when reading to one of the kids had me thinking "this cunt is seriously trying hoodwink me into accidentally saying something massively inappropriate to minors." Chicks with bricks come Chicks with blocks come Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Fucked if I know what any of them are singing about tbh, could be saying nursery rhymes for all I know. I can't really be arsed with a lot of that scene but my cab now belongs to these cats who I have a lot of time for, probably because they remind me a lot of early Carcass.

Ah shit, I misread that. Think I must've taken "puts us a few years into the project" as "we're only a few years into the project". My bad, I'm somewhat broken after a chaotic week. As you were.

Has it even been a few years? Could swear it's been less than two years since Howe/Celtic polava, and even less since the Newcastle takeover and Bruce sacking.

Disappointed with the lack of Scottish 4th tier chat on this thread. Stirling Albion and Dumbarton both only managing draws yesterday leaves it still wide open at the top with the Bino's only 4 points adrift with a game in hand and the postponed away day at Dumbarton still to go. It's looking entirely plausible we might have yet another implausible and fleeting season of getting humbled in the 3rd tier and I for one am really looking forward to the run in.

Aye man, original reasoning with the 4x12 was basically "where else am I going to get 4 twelve inch speakers for £50? I can turn it into 2 2x12s or 4 1x12" but then I got it home and remembered I'm actually a bit shit at woodwork so left it as is. Got plenty use out of it though and it's now away to experience the Scottish Death-Metal scene. Sounds like a good setup, maybe a bit underkill for gigs but there's nothing quite like slamming the front of an amp with 32dB of boost.

Similar boat man. So much furniture, so many stairs. Legs are completely gone now and not from the drink for once. Noticed a massive bruise on my foot this morning and was initially a bit concerned I couldn't feel it yet, then realised it was actually pretty sore after but basically nothing compared to the rest of my body. Also a bit disappointed, was really looking forward to having a boozer right across the road but I popped in for a quick half and within minutes had caught the attention of a few headcases that remembered me from school 20 odd years ago. I've always been quite partial to dodgy boozers for the sheer entertainment value but the reality of being a known face in one when I live literally directly across the road with a young family has me thinking I'll need to wait until my legs have recovered and make the more civilised establishment 100yards further up the road my "local".

I hear you on the whole acoustic thing. I've only got two, a cheap Japanese 70's thing I got for £30 as a doer upper and 12 string my dad sort of acquired and I ended up inheriting. All I've got here in the new digs so far is the SG, and the Firebird and 12string since I thought they both were a bit neglected and both deserved more love. Only really good deal I've got on Gumtree was that 4x12 I just gave away to my brother in law. £50. Originally saw it listed for £80 when I was looking for a single 12" speaker cab and was tempted but it seemed like overkill. Few days later guy had reduced it to £50 and immediately messaged the guy and uncharacteristically said to missus "I need the 7seater for a few hours, where will put the car seats?".

Ha. Nice one! How do you find these deals man? Do you flip most of them for a profit or is every wall and bit of floor at your house just covered with guitars? I've just tried to thin out my collection of gear a little. Gave the 4x12 away and sent most of my less favoured guitars off to temporarily live in my mums loft, the idea being I might find it easier to justify buying a new guitar and cab if theres not already loads cluttering up the house. After maybe 6 months and as many purchases I'll start gradually sneaking the old stuff back in when the missus is at work or something.

Ah it is what it is. He's one of four, fair to say I was already used to the chaos by the time he got old enough that his needs become more apparant. In a few ways (aye alright, very few) he's less work than his sister's. Plus, the sooner they talk, the sooner they talk back. Kindle is a good shout tbh, especially for stuff I really want to read. I dunno though, something about it just isn't the same as having a good old-fashioned bookshelf.

He's autistic, but that's really just scratching the surface tbh. Completely non-verbal and has a severe developmental delay. Fucking obsessed with numbers though, used to be number cards, then he discovered all our books have page numbers.. First thing he does is flick to the last page to check the last page number then he proceeds to rip out pages and line them up in number sequences.

Good drummers are hard to come by man. Keep hold of 'em. One of my closest mates is a pretty decent drummer who sadly doesn't play much these days through a combination of health issues, other responsibilities and his recent (somewhat impressive) homebrew operation that's taken over most of his free time. Most of my favourite bands are fairly guitar centric but if I was pressed on what I love so much about them I have it's the drummer. I'd maybe even go as far as putting Paul Gilbert in there, but maybe stop short of putting Carcass and Cardiacs in.

No joke man. Oldest daughter keeps her books locked in a cupboard. Missus brings home loads of the old stock and discards so we can leave them lying around as decoy books for him (the hope being he'll stop looking around for our books) but it only really distracts him for 10 or 15 minutes. He's soon back to tearing the house apart, probabaly looking for something he caught me reading 3 weeks before hand.

I had a copy of his book "Thatcher Stole My Trousers". Think I managed to read about a quarter of it before the lad got his hands on it and ripped out all the fucking pages. Did the same with my copy of Hitch22 aswell. Nightmare, have to hide all the books from him. Funny thing is my other half is a librarian.

Ah that's some great info. Sad as it is the right wing connotations with these boots isn't a new thing. Alexi Sayle wrote a fucking wonderfully sarcastic song on the subject. Can't be having bigots appropriating footwear, or even just clothing in general.

Ill have to look into this! Didn't know any of the new docs were Chinese made. Might explain why the pair my missus bought a few months ago completely destroyed her feet way beyond the usual expected "breaking them in" phase. This pair I'm on are fucking ancient, as much as a decade. Fuck knows exactly. I met a bloke at a wedding a good few years back who had a sideline as a mobile shoe-repair guy*, had him replace the soles and he patched up other things (forget exactly what and lost his number and forgot his name by now). * sounds mental but he seemed to make a killing focussing on the wealthier wee towns and villages around here that attract the hillwalking community. Absolute win in the "Smalltalk with strangers at a wedding" stakes.

Fucked if I know. That's surely a question for her.

Likely deserved for someone who's appealing to a football forum for clues on who might have been in their "lounge" other than immediate family. Mad game of cluedo could be about to kick off here if @trophyshy goes quiet.

Someone's trying to drop some hints and wants to go to Venice I'd guess. Valentines Day soon and all that. Any chance you lost your passport in the days before a holiday to Venice? That happened to me but with Florence. Some 12 years ago and I don't think I've been forgiven yet.