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No, youtubers are not the answer nor are podcasters, just like radio they'd have to pay royalties to the artists publisher which would leave them very little if anything for their efforts. Youtubers and podcasters also come and go, publish at eratic times etc, thats isn't what the industry wants. The Industry works to release schedules many months in advance, years in the case of larger artists. Interviews and radio appearances are all timed to coincide and there are unwritten rules about the questions etc The Industry doesn't want to send an up and coming band round to Bill's house in Cleethorpes one day and Fergus' house down a country lane outside Dumbarton the next As for how many kids listen to the radio, absolutely loads of them, why do you think the likes of Capital exist? Radio 1 still has 9 million listeners, 6Music has 2.5 million (and that is steadily growing, it's not that long ago it was 1 million). Even Absolute has just inder 2.5 million, Those are just some of the ones aimed at the younger end of the market or the ones that break new Music. Radio 2 (whichh does break new music but for an older audience) dwarfs them on nearly 15 million listeners. Despite what people like us who lurk on the internet think, masses of the population aren't like us and hell yes, they listen to the radio and the Music Industry wants it that way, There really isn't any point in them changing their approach to podcasters and Youtubers it would be an absolute ballache for them.

Can’t see record companies wanting that to happen. Music Industry needs radio for exposure, it’s far far easier for them to plug their product if the outlets are narrowed as opposed to people having to trawl the internet for music podcasts across a ludicrous number of channels. Radio is massively important to the industry

Yeah this isn’t one of those. It’s all a very specific narrow group of genres and the vinyl isn’t available elsewhere. You also get access to the whole library to stream or download. I had a good listen to it all on Bandcamp before I signed up. One bloke called Colin runs the whole label from his house. It’s very much an enthusiast thing, not at all corporate

I'd suggest thats better than when one of these two clowns gets elected and the Government are on holiday anyway

There are currently no groundcrew vacancies at Heathrow Airport that I can see. A few Conveyor belt engineers, general odd job men for the terminals and plenty of analysts / lwayers / reward managers / etc in totally not safety related roles

Not going to happen on that estate, some of those houses are 300K, especially the ones at the front with exquisite view of the massive culvert they had to build because the houses are built on a flood plain that even the local farmers said was shit land The culvert is so big they've had to position lifebuoys along the road Planning permission was refused three times because of the flood plain issue

What's not to like? An entire summer of the Tories tearing themselves apart. Always remember, this is how they want it, none of this is anyone's fault but theirs.

1985 would like the rock you've been hiding under back

Ah yes, I agree but I guarantee you'd see the lady next door's nipples at that distance

So in a moment of madnees last month I joined the Castles In Space label's subscription service for £15 a month A Label of electronic artists producing library music, modern kosmiche, imaginary film music etc And the first package they've sent me I finally got hold of today, including the introductory bonuses there's 4 albums (one a double) and a 7" single. I've only paid them two months so far, not bad for £30 Everything is superbly packaged, coloured vinyl and comes in protective sleeves of one description or other. Usually they also contain a booklet with pictures to give you a greater sense of the concept. I'm really quite impressed by the whole concept First one I'm listening to is by Everyday Dust - Deadham Ridge (Original Soundtrack) "A scientific team is exploring the vast network of tunnels in the ice caves of Deadham Ridge, British Columbia, but their survey takes an unexpected turn with the discovery of strange and eerily large insect eggs in the icy chambers. A laboratory is set up but the examination is soon cut short. A colossal landslide has trapped the expedition deep in the labyrinth of caves. It's bad timing - the inhabitants of the eggs are beginning to wake from their icy slumber..."

Have a look at that photo again and notice how close the corner house is to the one in the next street. 2 meters tops or is this silly regulation only meant for houses whose rears are exactly parallel to each other. It clearly has no rear windows but the pedant in me says that isn't what the tweet is claiming Pedantic as ever

Hilariously it would put Sunak in a better position if he actually campaigned to have Johnson on the ballot

160,000 How many of those are actually dead is a completely different question

Apparently 6000 Tory members have now signed the petition for Johnson to be on the ballot paper as a third candidate.

Spotify's Algo is shit. For example: Talk Talk. There are two periods to Talk Talk, the early "pop" period and the later "experimental" period with one album sandwiched in the middle which sort of crosses over. I listen to the last two albums quite a bit or have done. Spotify will base playlists on this, so maybe it'll be a playlist based on Talk Talk, Slint, Godspeed You Black Emperor, you get the idea, fairly post Rock all of a sudden..."Talk Talk" (the song and early pop hit comes on), I don't even dislike it but just NOOOO! It bases song recommendations on artists and genres but isn't able to distinguish between periods of that artist Also Spotify's shuffling within a playlist is abysmal. I've got this massive playlist I created (well over 11 hours), press shuffle and it still seems to pick tracks from around the same 50 songs, shuffle again, its the same 50 in a different order, and repeat Spotify also thinks because you listened to a whole song that it recommended toyou and you didn't stop playing it in under 30 seconds, that you liked it so it chucks it back at you at somepoint and then bases further tracks on that - its bollocks

They are Representatives for Wellingborough though

Sorry but I'm calling that out as bollocks Just a Google maps screeny of a new development by where I live on what I would describe as a typical new housing estate If those houses are 21 meters apart I'll eat something I don't like Hell they have even started building terraced houses again

Panda Markets are a disgrace!

Rule Number 1 - kids and animals It really is basic stuff

It really isn't because it actually doesn't exist yet. The first system to even try it is being trialed on a short section of a german network, that only started last year. Just like driverless cars, we're decades away from open network driverless trains

Mainline passenger service lines on complex networks that still involve victorian signals in places and tokens on single track lines? The absolute vast majority are closed network Metro systems The longest driverless network in either North or South America is in Canada and is a whole 79km in length

Yes it was, my bad Doesn't seem to be an option for that Looks like I'll have to either "WFH" for an hour or get it Saturday. (between 10 an 1)

They need drivers.

I love the smell of Euston, the aroma of all the streets paved with gold liquid

What a load of grandstanding nonsense in the current climate Where do you hire all these spare skilled staff from? For a day (or two)? They came up with this wheeze because of the rail strikes Where's this surplus of trained guards (sorry train Managers) and drivers coming from. The Industry already needs more of them there aren't spares just waiting around for a strike. It's pretty much the same in any skilled industry