Quote from: Trev on April 13, 2026, 09:50:42 PMRemember going to see ST in the Music Centre just after Thundercat joined, think he was only 16 or 17 at the time. I'd been playing bass a few years and thought I was getting to a decent level, than see this lad the same age as me doing stuff I still probably can't manage!

Watching him play his own stuff was mind-blowing. Could barely keep track of where his fingers were. Like he'll throw in these wee fills that aren't even on the studio versions and have you thinking "WTF".

Checking out some old videos of him online, he seems to still have the same two lads playing with him (keys and drums). The drummer (Justin Brown) is possibly the best drummer I've seen live (and I say that as someone who's seen Sean Reinert and Neil Peart).

Lyndon Laney, builder of Iommi's amps.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0krr5jk7zno

https://jrnl.ie/7013433

This is a new one to me but apparently hitting yourself in the face with a hammer and taking meth will make you more attractive.

Some people should not be allowed have children, and should be chemically restricted from doing so.

Big dirty dead bump because I have a couple of Silicon Impersonators ready to go and what is possibly the world's worst pedal demo put together to show what they do.  Give them a look here:

quilleffects.bigcartel.com

I have this. Beast of a yolk. Highly Recommended.

https://www.thomann.de/ie/alesis_strike_amp_12_mk2.htm

Just grabbed a The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud tshirt from BSMNT Merch. Let's hope that company exists and they don't clean out my bank account 

Grabbed a yellow 'Were You Of Silver, Were You Of Gold' design. Looks very nice.

I have pretty much zero interest in revisiting his work after The Quarry. The man cannot write dialogue, but insisted on doing it. Not for me.

Frasier and Cheers are god tier for me. Veep was amazing. Armando Iannucci is a genius.

The Wasp Factory's great, really odd. I'd also recommend The Crow Road by him, really pushed the nostalgia button for me when I read it (decades after the fact). Whit was also enjoyable.

Quote from: Maggot Colony on April 15, 2026, 11:44:39 AM

Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 29, 2026, 12:53:35 PMJust finished up Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin. It was grand. I love watching crime TV shows but the genre never really does it for me in book form for some reason.

You might fare better with an author like Derek Raymond. He wrote the Factory Series which could be described as noir, but they're much bleaker and more existential than most novels from that genre. How The Dead Live in particular is phenomenal. The prose is spell-binding.

GBH by Ted Lewis is another one worth checking out. He wrote the Jack Carter books, but GBH is more like a Camus novel set in Lincolnshire.

Savage man, thanks for the tips. I'll keep an eye out. By the Factory series does that include Wasp Factory? I only know that book by name.

Edit.  I see that Wasp Factory was by Iain Banks. The only novel of his I've read was The Quarry and it was total dogshit.