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I know there's a few that like a bit of prog on here. Really enjoying this new one by Karfagen. Real 70's prog sound to some of it. Some great tunes and a few great guests including Richard Sinclair from Caravan on a few tracks.

https://youtu.be/YSL__MtVL10

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Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (1969)

Stumbled across this earlier! Might be well known to some folks on here but completely new to me! Right up my street! Could probably have put this in the metal now listening thread to be fair.

https://youtu.be/sN1t-sPxPJM

Really enjoying the new album from VR SEX. Another band from Andrew Clinco from Drab Majesty. This one's more post punk, goth rock kind of thing. Good stuff.

https://youtu.be/FwOFdGXvk78

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

Had this same condition a good few years back. I never had the excuse of playing much sport and it took ages to diagnose as they initially discounted it. Have they suggested a fasciotomy on both legs? That's what I got done but one leg at a time. I was fortunate that it was covered on the NHS here. 10k is a fucking nightmare! Can't give any advice there except I consider the surgery to have been an unqualified success.

No way! Yeah fasciotomy is the one! They want to do 4 compartments in in each leg so 4 incisions but both legs at the same time. What was your healing process like? I've been told they're applying for special funding for me because of my age and because it was affecting my work but my last appointment I had some wanker doctor that basically talked me out of it while putting me on the waiting list for surgery so not sure if I'll even go through with it even if it's covered.

Yeah I got 4 done too. Part of me wishes I'd got both legs done at the same time simply because it doubled the recovery time getting them done separately. In both cases I had to walk out of the hospital as the physio wouldn't give me crutches...something about the tissue closing over if I rested too much. Not going to sugar coat it...it was bloody painful. The recovery time for both legs was only a couple of weeks but taking it easy for a while longer. The pain eased to easily manageable after a few days though.

I'm really glad I got it done. Made a massive difference as it was badly affecting me every day. I get the odd twinge every now and again but cured for the most part. Absolutely zero regrets.

I started running/playing rugby over the last couple of years and was loving it, but started getting these severe crippling leg aches. So after a year of tests and appointments, turns out I have something called compartment syndrome and have 2 options,  get quite invasive surgery on both legs that would have me not being able to walk for 3 months or just put up with it and stop running any semi-substantial distance and give up any sport and the hopes of ever doing anything like rugby again. It's also considered an elective surgery because it's not degenerative and there's no risk to not having Surgery so would cost about 10k. Bloody disaster, maybe just putting me down would be easier  I'd never heard of it before all this, couldn't it have just been the lotto I won?,

Had this same condition a good few years back. I never had the excuse of playing much sport and it took ages to diagnose as they initially discounted it. Have they suggested a fasciotomy on both legs? That's what I got done but one leg at a time. I was fortunate that it was covered on the NHS here. 10k is a fucking nightmare! Can't give any advice there except I consider the surgery to have been an unqualified success.

For anyone that likes earlier Genesis the Steve Hackett Genesis revisit live albums are well worth checking out. The band is absolutely superb. Seen him a fair few times touring the Genesis stuff and it's a stunning show. Great to see these older tracks given a new lease of life.

https://youtu.be/bFgdvFnAVX0

https://youtu.be/5hDktUIzoQo

https://youtu.be/oIcTis6KgJY

People that get on buses dressed like they're on an Antarctic expedition and then start opening windows because they're too hot 🤬

Still using Revanced and seems to work ok if you use the Revanced Manager app to patch the suggested YouTube version on your phone which mightn't be the same version Google force on your phone. You can get the suggested version from apkmirror

https://revanced.app/

Looks to be available for purchase on Bandcamp for £7 but charged in $

Nice one.

Album launch livestream on now:

It's absolutely brilliant so far!

Edit: Well that was fucking class. Give it a day or two and it'll be ripped, a good one to listen back to.

Still up on the original live link posted above. Have it ripped in case it disappears soon though. Tonight's viewing sorted along with the BBC 2 Cure night

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Here's some links to their BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music things from earlier this week

https://youtu.be/y107ghrnWdk

https://youtu.be/sD9_-770bQk

Album launch livestream on now:

It's absolutely brilliant so far!