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Jared 
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Great review Steve, I'm pleased you enjoyed their music. It's interesting that you describe them as 'heavier' in their execution than Magnum and others.. the problem for WiE is that they have often played alongside female fronted metal bands, but they tend to be far softer and melodic than most, to the extent that they've always been a bit of a round peg. Court of Conscience was their most polished offering, but it was also their lightest, to the degree that there was practically no metal in evidence, but neither are they proggy enough to appeal to Magenta fans...
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: May 07 2022 at 17:38 |
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I love me some Judie Tzuke. Saw her and her amazing band live at the King's Theatre Glasgow in May 1982. Great show. The Sportscar album's title track is fully fledged jazz rock in my book. I think her daughter is also a professional singer?
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lazland
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Posted: May 08 2022 at 02:00 |
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Email sent to my very good friend!
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lazland
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Posted: May 08 2022 at 02:03 |
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Thanks for this Jared. Yes, I had seen this. We have been to Acapela a couple of times. It is a really good venue. The difficulty we have is arranging care for my mother in law, and this is why we go to so few gigs these days, but I highly recommend anybody who can to get themselves over and support a wonderful venue and set of people.
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lazland
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Posted: May 08 2022 at 02:07 |
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Yes, I think I described them as “symphonic metal”, not in order to start a new sub-genre, but as a descriptor. I think personally they should be on PA and wonder whether they have ever been suggested? Anyhow, it is an album which I think will appeal to all decent prog rock fans, and hopefully my review will bring them some attention.
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lazland
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Posted: May 08 2022 at 02:09 |
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Yes, she is, and a very good one as well. It is her voice on Bully and her name is Bailey.
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lazland
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Posted: May 09 2022 at 14:56 |
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I was going to add top albums of 2013, but time defeated me tonight. However, before I upload that in the next couple of days, there is the Ale of the Week on the Beer & News Page. On the same page, but in the sports section, the finest try you will see in your life, quite incredible from this last weekend. And there is a book review, Field Work by Bella Bathurst.
As if that wasn’t enough, new Video of the Week which is by Julie Fowlis.
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lazland
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Posted: May 10 2022 at 09:36 |
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Top Ten of 2013 added. Work computer gave up the ghost today, so extra time for Mr Laz on a far more important project!
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Posted: May 10 2022 at 11:25 |
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Work is overrated....
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lazland
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It most certainly is, my friend! The perfect combination today. Couldn’t work owing to IT issues, and get to work on my personal site, and get paid for it. Happy days!
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Jared
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Posted: May 10 2022 at 11:41 |
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Being a Care Assistant, I find the prospect of not going to work and still being paid, a bit more problematic..
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nick_h_nz
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My wife works for Cambridgeshire Council as a re-enablement care worker, but she is paid for her hours, regardless of whether or not she works them all. That said, it’s not that she doesn’t go to work, so much as sometimes she has less calls, so is able to finish early. I joke about her being paid to sit and watch Netflix.
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lazland
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Without kicking off a political debate, I would support a huge pay increase for all workers in our care sector, who are disgracefully underpaid, imo. As an unpaid cater, I know what it takes to do this job.
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nick_h_nz
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Oh, without doubt, care workers (particularly those in the public sector, like Cherish, rather than the private) are woefully underpaid. You have to have a real passion to help people to want to do the job, because for what is required, the financial remuneration is abysmal. Pay freezes have been in place for years, meaning a series of effective decreases in real pay over the years. Even worse, at the moment, is that what is paid per mile of travel has also been frozen for years, and with petrol at an all-time high, the job is simply too expensive for some to do.
Cherish routinely does one and a half to two times the shifts she is contracted for, because due to a combination of covid and rising prices (with no accompanying rise in pay and/or travel allowance) a lot of carers have had no choice but to change career. She is exhausted and depressed, and doesn’t want to be doing these extra shifts, but (as she says) who else is going to do them? It is heartbreaking to think of the people out there who are relying on care workers, who are stretched and exhausted. One of my wife’s best friends is a midwife, and she is in the same situation. Pay has never been great compared to the workload, and has been frozen for years. Due to covid and rising prices (and no accompanying rise in pay) a lot of midwives have had no choice but to change career. So the people who need help most, at the beginning and ends of their lives, are still having their needs met, but by an increasingly stretched and exhausted few. It can’t go on like this, and at some point it won’t. Cherish and her friend couldn’t ever imagine doing something else, I’m sure, yet both have been seriously wondering how long they can keep it up. |
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Jared
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Nick's post is, as usual passionate, erudite, well argued and factually correct. Please believe me, I could hijack Steve's blog on this subject, but I won't.... all I shall say is, we should have a workforce of 60 to cover the county, but we presently have 25 with couple on long term sick. Because we don't have a fully staffed team, 90 year olds are sleeping in hospital corridors and paramedics have created their own permanent car park outside A&E.
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lazland
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Needless to say I agree with both of these very well informed observations.
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lazland
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Please do take a look at Red Rain Ukraine, a video I have posted on the Ukraine section of Beer & News Page on the website. It is absolutely astonishing and deserves a very wide audience. If you are on social media, please share the YouTube link far and wide.
In addition, new reviews of albums by Kaprekar’s Constant and Deaton LeMay Project on Album Reviews 2022 page. Also, a restaurant review on the section in Beer & News Page.
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Thanks for the video Steve, I have re-posted it.
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lazland
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Thank you, Chaps.
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It’s a really good album, so enjoy!
