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Great venue. I think its about time I looked for a few gigs to go to

How would you pronounce hyperopic, an antonym of myopic?

Its bio pic and my opic if that makes sense. The stresses on the O are different

Myopic is pronounced the other way My Opik

Its Bio (Biographic) Pic (Picture), there is no other way, it must be that or it makes no sense. You can't chuck the O on the other side because you want to sound intellectual

Erm, hate to break it to you but exactly the same happens to that word

Crépescule Collection 2 - State of Excitement. Another of my favourite single label compilation / samplers Les Disques du Crépescule were a trendy leftfield Belgian label who often put out UK indie artists product in that there Europe. One of the founders was Annik Honoré, who was otherwise famous for being Ian Curtis' girlfriend that caused him to split with his wife. They released stuff by Paul Haig, Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, Joseph K and many others. (all those are on this). It also features a Belgian band The Names who were produced by Martin Hannett who released records on both Crépescule and Factory Benelux (Factory's Belgian Label - thing of the labels as districtly different but with huge levels of co-operation) Paul Haig's version of The Persuaders Theme is on this which is ace as is Sorry For Laughing by Joseph K. Another label that wasn't afraid to release totally experimental product because it deserved to be heard not because it would make any money. They also released stuff by UK acts that wasn't officially released in the UK, Alan Rankine of The Associates released his solo material through them as did Paul Haig (Joseph K) This is the only one of their samplers I own but if I saw others (there are 3 others in this series) I'd buy them as long as the price was sensible

Of course we have, no sweat

Sent From Coventry. A brief snapshot of the Coventry punk / post-punk scene around March 1980. I bought this at the time because a member of one of the bands (The Clique) was the son of some friends of my parents. Now when I think back, Andrew was responsible for me listening to Lee Perry, as whenever we used to go around to visit, I'd end up in his bedroom and looking through his records, whether he was in or out and he had a 12" copy of Police and Thieves and a couple of Lee Perry albums which always fascinated me There's no real undiscovered gems on here, just bands being bands. By the time the record was released some had already split, some even reformed just to record their track. It's full of bands having a lot of naive fun. The sleeve notes are written by one Horace Panter of The Specials.

I predict people will say Russia is going to win and Boris Johnson will be PM even after he dies based on the fact that Led by Donkeys have got involved

Tbh ours at work is someone I drink with occaisionally but he's not really HR, he just has to wear a HR hat at times. He's not qualified in it in any shape or form. My mate's ex-wife on the other hand, who is qualified and runs her own HR Firm is what I've usually encountered in HR professionals. Professional Word Removed

Not in terms of the award it isn't. By removing it from Smith, they are saying that they don't award the prizes to the best which is precisely what the Oscars are meant to be They'd be saying you don't deserve that award because you are a word removed. It lays open the absolute farce that this award ceremony is. (and all the others for that matter) They really can't do that, it busts open the myth

HR is a job for words removed of any sex

How can they do that and keep the facade of the Oscars being about the best of the year? To do that says Will Smith was best but we don't like him, here, you were second best but have this award anyway because you are nice Who would want that award?

Because you haven't changed the channel

No, they definitely were. You don't fly into another countries airspace with nukes onboard and not consider it a threat It's not a serious threat, but it was a test, it happens all the time, it isn't an accident. It's only reportworthy because of the weaponry onboard. They weren't flying in an attacking formation but the intention was to test the response and show off the nukes It's a very strange tactic because it can only result in Sweden eventually being more likely to actually join NATO but the Russians won't view it like that, they'll view it as sending a warning of what could happen if they do join NATO.

It’s a shortening of biographical picture so to split it up any other way other than Bio Pic is crazy talk. The wrong 'uns are putting the emphasis in the wrong place Bi Opic, that makes no sense whatsoever

Definitely swinging both ways with mild shock before the pic In other words just like biography There are also people who pronounce it like an Irish surname. Bi O’Pic. They need conscripting to the Russian Army

FTFY But seriously its four members of the classic line-up, not often you get that these days. I cant ever concieve paying that much or even going to an arena show but that Roxy price for the line-up is far better than some bands from that era that still play Oh and Brian Ferry is a word removed but hey

They can't stop opening over here, it's rare they shut down these days, though we did lose one during the pandemic but tbh it was shit, in a stupid location and the fella that ran it was an idiot. He was always an idiot, even back in the day, he was the bloke you used to avoid speaking to at gigs, that would then catch you out when you weren't paying attention and you'd end up having to talk to him. The sort of fella that made you pretend to be desperate for as piss I heard about his shop and was planning a visit and then I saw a few YouTubes of little gigs in the shop by local bands, realised who owned it and never went because he might just remember me

Stopped again 6 days later. Cornered by three patrol cars on his way home from picking up a take away Institutionalised racism at its best. The Met really isn’t fit for purpose

If you’ve heard of James Dyson’s new product, the Dyson Zone and haven’t pissed yourself laughing then you aren’t human (might do well in Asian markets though

That’s what they want you to believe. She’s working as a cleaner in an old folks home in Arbroath

Chesney Hawkes would be Tony's specialised subject on Mastermind. He even goes to see him live

I had a conversation in Probe yesterday about the Specials that caused a few people to gasp "Their only good album is the first one and lets face it at that point, they were a cabaret band"