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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 03:06
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

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Somewhat surprisingly (well maybe, given that I've never actually heard The Sentinel) it was The Enid.

 
Yes, the connection there isn't immediately apparent


There is, really...

The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense

Pallas - Complete B+++ocks!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 07:34
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Somewhat surprisingly (well maybe, given that I've never actually heard The Sentinel) it was The Enid.

 
Yes, the connection there isn't immediately apparent


There is, really...

The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense

Pallas - Complete B+++ocks!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 07:36
I went with Mrs Chopper to see Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan at the Union Chapel last night (first time I've been there, what a venue). 
Sara Watkins started talking about some guy called John who produced her first album. She asked him to come up on stage and it turned to be none other than John Paul Jones. 'kin 'ell!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 12:13
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Pallas - Complete B+++ocks!
 
Complete Neo-B+++ocks! (if you don't mind)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 12:15
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I went with Mrs Chopper to see Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan at the Union Chapel last night (first time I've been there, what a venue). 
Sara Watkins started talking about some guy called John who produced her first album. She asked him to come up on stage and it turned to be none other than John Paul Jones. 'kin 'ell!
 
I'm assuming it was a good gig, Alan?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2015 at 15:55
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I went with Mrs Chopper to see Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan at the Union Chapel last night (first time I've been there, what a venue). 
Sara Watkins started talking about some guy called John who produced her first album. She asked him to come up on stage and it turned to be none other than John Paul Jones. 'kin 'ell!
 
I'm assuming it was a good gig, Alan?
Indeed it was Jared, and all the better for seeing one of my bass guitar heroes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 07:30
The Union Chapel is one of my favorite venues - seen The Enid & Fishermans Friends there (not the same gig, obviously)

If it's a long gig though... take a cushion

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 07:37
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

The Union Chapel is one of my favorite venues - seen The Enid & Fishermans Friends there (not the same gig, obviously)

If it's a long gig though... take a cushion

Ha yes, somebody else told me that, so we did. Fortunately it was only an hour and a half so not too buttock-numbing. 
Support act was good too - a guy on his own called Samuel Ford. Unusual guitar technique - lots of banging of strings and guitar body and harmonics. One to watch I feel.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 08:49
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

The Union Chapel is one of my favorite venues - seen The Enid & Fishermans Friends there (not the same gig, obviously)

If it's a long gig though... take a cushion

Ha yes, somebody else told me that, so we did. Fortunately it was only an hour and a half so not too buttock-numbing. 
Support act was good too - a guy on his own called Samuel Ford. Unusual guitar technique - lots of banging of strings and guitar body and harmonics. One to watch I feel.
One day I really ought to get off my arse and actually see someone at the Union Chapel.

The unusual guitar technique sounded like fingerstyle from your description and quick YouTube of Sam Ford confirms that. This seems to be on a bit of a resurgence at the moment since Michael Hedges popularised it back in the 80s, especially with young singer/songwriter/guitarist around the London area.

This is a friend/acquaintance of mine called Daryl Kellie with the title track from his current album:





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 09:02
Yes, that's the same technique Dean. Nice song.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 11:21
I love that whole percussive technique - have done ever since I first saw Levin using the Chapman Stick & also his 'funk fingers'

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2015 at 11:36
Daryl does a pretty impressive fingerstyle version of Bohemian Rhapsody which I think I've shown on the forum once or twice before.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2015 at 02:07
Just thought I'd let you all know that *should* be completing on our house this morning...
 
apparently, I'm going to be down there in the morning, donning my marigolds and cleaning out the oven... Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2015 at 07:28
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Just thought I'd let you all know that *should* be completing on our house this morning...
 
apparently, I'm going to be down there in the morning, donning my marigolds and cleaning out the oven... Geek

Hope it all goes smoothly Jared. Maybe you should get the number of the local Pizza delivery, just in case.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2015 at 08:23
LOL

When we moved into our current house we was knackered by the time the lorry was unloaded and all the cooking & eating utensils were still packed away in the removal crates so I went to the local Tesco Express and bought three of those dreadful frozen TV roast diners that we ate with disposable cutlery. Each year after that Alex insisted that we "celebrate" moving day by having a TV diner on that day. Needless to say this  was one tradition that got quietly forgotten once she stated Uni.

[I should also add that the removal men asking "What's in here, Heavy Metal?" for every single one of the 14 boxes of CDs and LPs they unloaded got very old very quickly. Ouch]

Anyway, good luck with the move Jared, hope nothing too expensive gets broken or mislaid.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2015 at 11:03
^^ thank you both for the kind thoughts... Smile
 
unfortunately, the whole thing isn't as romantic as you picture as regrettably, we aren't moving into the property. even more regrettably, out of necessity admittedly, I'm becoming one of those people that I have very large reservations about... namely a 'Buy-To-Let Landlord'.
 
as you all know, I have lived in with my work for 20 years now, as has Sue who is also a development manager for the same company. well, it's all fun and games until you come to retire... homeless... Confused
 
at 47, this has been giving me increased cause for concern and Sue increasingly sleepless nights so last year, we decided to put all our savings together and buy something modest in a nice part of the country which we could retire to... eventually.
 
in the mean time, we have agreed to let it out for a reasonably affordable rental, give the right person relative security of tenure, carry out any works which need doing and keep any increases below the rate of inflation.
 
You are welcome to throw eggs in my direction, but I do have huge concerns about the present state of the housing market and the seemingly limitless appetite for BTL landlords to rip off the younger generation in particular. Neither of us want to be like that; we'll only buy once, out of necessity for our future, and be as fair as we can in the mean time.
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Despite not having as much luck finding a new apartment as I hoped when beginning the search back in November, right now I'm living with various friends and relatives, I'm probably otherwise more satisfied with my life now than I've been for years since I've been to a successful job interview yesterday. People who read the English-language Danish monthly newspaper The Murmur might see my contributions to that publication in the near future... gonna live like a freelance fiend now!



I'm also in the process of getting romantically involved with a Chinese exchange student living at my old dormitory as she developed a crush on me a couple weeks before I moved, she's currently on a study trip to Netherlands/Belgium/France but I've been staying in contact with her online.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2015 at 07:03
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Despite not having as much luck finding a new apartment as I hoped when beginning the search back in November, right now I'm living with various friends and relatives, I'm probably otherwise more satisfied with my life now than I've been for years since I've been to a successful job interview yesterday. People who read the English-language Danish monthly newspaper The Murmur might see my contributions to that publication in the near future... gonna live like a freelance fiend now!



I'm also in the process of getting romantically involved with a Chinese exchange student living at my old dormitory as she developed a crush on me a couple weeks before I moved, she's currently on a study trip to Netherlands/Belgium/France but I've been staying in contact with her online.

Congratulations on the new job and girlfriend!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2015 at 12:19
Thumbs Up good luck Simon Thumbs Up
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