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Wordle 570 4/6

Right I'm playing this because I got a bandcamp email telling me that Rocket have just released a brand new 10th anniversary remastered edition of the album and I thought, oh I haven't palyed it in ages.That got me thinking, hold on, didn't they release a new variant only last year, so I checked... Goat - World Music was originally released in 2012, it was then repressed in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, they actually had a year off in 2019, repressed again in 2020, 2021, 2022 and now at the strat of 2023,at least one more (probably not one at all.) Very few of the variants are bog standard black and even before the 2023 variants are added to the list there are already 34 different versions of this album in 10 years but the sillyness doesn't end there. The original release date was 20th Aug 2012 and the 4 variants released in 2022 were released on Aug 19th 2022 but those aren't the tenth anniversary releases FWIW my copy is a translucent yellow 2015 variant. I love the album, the band and even Rocket Recordings would go in my list of favourite labels but come on stop flogging it to death. Free up the space in the pressing plants for some other bands... please

The story did indeed come from the Russian Defence Ministry It's just part of their look we have hypersonic missiles thing

Could have gone in many threads but here is the most appropriate I think

It's classic Russian posturing. These missiles are that new they only went into service the other week (according to Russian announcements - no actual evidence). They are ship-launched Anti-ship missiles, they weren't testing them, they were running anti-aircraft drills. That is supposedly the first ship to receive the missiles. It is supposedly capable of carrying 72 of them. All that has been announced by Russia is that the ship has received "A Batch". It could be 2 for all we know (or absolutely none) This missile has been rather rushed to production in the middle of sanctions. It's highly doubtful that Russia has more than a couple of dozen of these in total and they are probably the remains of the test stock built before the invasion and sanctions

Harry's Uncle Andrew says Hi at this point Sometimes those interviews aren't very well crafted at all

alternatively... Government: "we need to pass a law to make sure there is always a minimum guaranteed level of essential service" Everyone: "brilliant, about time you did some f***ing work".

Why do you have a defibrillator strapped to your chest

They never made money, that was the reason why we were forced to get involved. They always organised a Rag Ball that lost all the money they'd collected. This was Liverpool in the 80s, the Rag Mag, the staple of the fund raising was a handbook of old sexist and racist jokes compiled by what can only be described as socially inadequate Tories that organised the most excruciatingly embarrassing events. The idea that they'd ever make any money for charity was laughable. What they actually did was lose a charity (The Student Union) money every single year whereas we as the Ents Ctte were countrywide rarity in that we actually made them thousands upon thousands every year.

I don’t hate it but it’s also not as good as anything before it. It was a strange time for the band wit PdF going completely off the rails and I think that had an effect. I used to have a copy of the early demos for the album and I genuinely preferred the demos, But it’s not bad, lips like sugar and bedbugs and ballyhoo are probably my favourite tracks from it

You've been derring to say that for ages

The under appreciated third album. 40 years old in less than a month. This would have been bought in the week of release Produced by a young Ian Broudie and also has Shanker (the one one that played with Zappa, John Mcgoughlin, Gabriel, Bill Laswell, David Byrne...) on sitar This always takes me back to a gig on the tour at the Brum Odeon, I can see the swirling dry ice and Mac's red and black shirt sleeved check shirt (no overcoat - a rarity in those days.) I can still feel the excitement. Some of the Bunnymen purists hated this album and thought the change of direction was awful. These people were wrong. The band rarely if ever play any of the non-single tracks these days which is a shame It's not Heaven Up Here or Crocodiles but that is the point, they moved on but were still good. The first 4 albums are all great in their own way. First 4 albums being great is a high bar but some of the big bands of this era managed it. Bunnymen, Cure, Siouxsie all did it Anyway Porcupine by Echo and the Bunnymen and time for bed

I think I’ve told the story of how we booked Psychic TV for the Rag Ball at Uni because we hated the Rag Ctte and we were forced into it by the Student Council. Yes we lost them a shit load of money. Well that wasn’t the only time we pulled that stunt… Yep we did it with the Toy Dolls too, possibly the the year before Psychic TV. Mandate my arse. I think they may have eventually learned the lesson. I really should write a book about all these stories. A diary of an 80s music biz nobody

I read some of the replies to it earlier. Apart from the odd deluded tankie, they all pretty much told Galloway to do one, some of them quite amusingly

f***sticks, my first 6 since I changed my start word Wordle 569 6/6

I reckon you're perching in your yard getting ready to pull our chain

It got re-released in 2021 It's such a good compilation. I remembered it from back then and had no hesitation in buying a new copy You can always tell a quality compilation if a standout track is the last track

I only have one question. Have you got any more pointless questions?

We used Occado once, left us high and dry with no food for that nights tea. Just didn't deliver anything because a driver was ill at 10am on a Saturday morning, no attempt to get the order to us in the rest of the day As you can imagine, not using them again

UK considering supplying CHallenger 2 tanks to Ukraine according to Sky News

Did that happen at this venue too? I know it happened at the original Manchester venue on the Putin Shill UK Tour

You've won employment as @Stevo985's sock butler

Yeah I kinda get it elsewhere, it's specifically supermarkets I'm talking about Multistory Car Parks and the like, I'll absolutely reverse in because there's a 9/10 change when I get back some knob in a big Audi will have parked leaving his front end sticking out over the front of his bay reducing my scope to reverse out

Or a fat goalkeeper who dives to make a save and can't get back up again