Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

"Close your eyes" by Michael Robotham. A good book, I've read a few of his before and had forgotten how good they are.

Excellent. As it turns out, the two I uploaded are still readable at 600x so it's no issue. It was just to take out the guesswork of how small things needed to get. I don't upload a lot of photos onto here, though I might go through some article scans when I get a minute.

Could you edit the "image too large" message to include the limits? I just uploaded a couple, I always resize to 800 pixels across by whatever the aspect ratio dictates for vertical height, but it just said "too large". It'd be handy to know what the limit is. I resized both to 6...

I'm self-employed doing two different things. I've scaled one of them back as my main customer is almost but not quite closed, the other has become a bit busier as people want stuff to be able to get things done while they're staying at home.

Re 1980 in the USA. The list says the gig for 24-Nov-1980 was in Chicago, but there's a scan of the flyer for that gig which says it was on the 28th. Meanwhile, someone on the Facebook group has posted a badge for Bogarts (which I think is in Cincinnati) for 24.11.80, and a ticket for the same date....

They should be arrested for going against the 2 meter rule. Ricky Gervais brought this up the other day, it's a nightmare for him to leave the house as it is, he had to wait 10 minutes outside a pharmacist, & was dangerously close to a member of the public, so he took a walk round the block, &a...

… but live, going by you tube video, they just sound a load of noise to me. That's probably just youtube users recording quality - loads of Stranglers videos are rotten quality on there as well. I saw them locally once or twice - in the 2000s - and they were pretty good. Sound was certainly better ...

Makes you think of what people like David Icke have always been saying that its all true. Genuinely, nothing at all that I've heard in the news recently makes me think that, and I can't imagine anything will. Doesn't he say the royal family are shape-shifting lizards, or some such nonsense? And one...

I'm not that familiar with much of his stuff - like probably more than one person on this forum, I only knew "White Room" because Hugh did it - but I can see the technical ability of what he was doing. In some ways, though, that can be a bit too much sometimes. When I saw Wilko at a local ...

BBC4 showed the edition of Imagine entitled "Beware of Mr Baker" again last week, it was quite interesting. He does seem to be very good if you like that kind of drumming, but it's not for me - I don't mind complicated stuff, but sometimes it just goes on too long. Maybe it's better if you...

nbm wrote: ↑28 Aug 2019, 20:29 Saw KT Tunstall last night opening for Squeeze. She's still telling the same story!

I wonder if her fans roll their eyes and go "not that story again", the same way that Stranglers fans do when JJ starts banging on about that fight?

A recent spell confined to someone else's choice of radio station reminded me of:

PM Dawn - Set adrift on memory bliss (the Spandau Ballet sample song). There's a drippy bit where someone says "hoping she'd be a big PM Dawn fan" or something like it.

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