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Guilfest, June 29th 2024 just announced.

You have to do a search to find exactly where it is.Well I did anyway. I've noticed there's quite a few event posters that make you search around for where the event is, not just gigs but all sorts of stuff. Either printed in small typeface hidden away somewhere, or not mentioned at all and presume...

I don't get the clamour for Gospel stuff, myself.I wasn't too fussed even when Hugh was doing it.It isn't live material for me.It was more or less abandoned by the original line up in the early to mid eighties.That's without googling.I stand corrected. There's often a good reason that songs don't g...

toilerinblack wrote: ↑16 Dec 2023, 19:16 Quick question has Baz ever sung North Winds live ?
Paul did the best live version of it I've heard...or is it now back to JJ now there's no Paul?

I believe Baz doesn't sing songs that JJ originally sung, I can't think of one, they're done by JJ.

Bob and his co-workers Susan and Tim went out to lunch to celebrate Bob's birthday and were sitting together in the restaurant when the waitress came over. She handed them their menus and said, "Good afternoon, welcome to Ruby’s Kitchen! Before we get started, might I ask if you're here to cele...

ThinkTank wrote: ↑05 Dec 2023, 12:55 That low on the set I'm not too sure they would get paid very much.

They wouldn't be going if it wasn't worth it. Sure, they won't be getting massive amounts, but it won't be £50 and a plate of sandwiches.

I guess it's like that other one a few years back in Vegas, they're not exactly well known over there. A decent bit of cash for a few hours work, and maybe an opportunity for them to do a few gigs while they're over there. And not really a festival full of bands of a similar style as far a I can tell.

On the poster if you look far enough down.

Oh, I read something recently that suggested he wasn't well, that's a pity. Documentary on BBC2 at 23:15 tonight.

I'm already bored with my time machine and I've only had it a year.

Probably won't bother getting it.

I bought a load of shares in a company that makes clothing for the clergy - vicars' cassocks, monks' robes, nuns' habits, bishops' mitres, that sort of thing - but the market collapsed and I lost a fortune.

Still, it did say in the small print that the value of vestments can go down as well as up

They say that Mafia members are nasty people, but while growing up, I lived next door to one and he was actually a nice guy.

In fact, every morning, he paid me £20 just to start his car.