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[Lateralthinking1]

JC, I guessed as much - just asked so that you knew I was taking notice - Lat.

[Globaltruth]

Well remembered Global. A lot of very important form filling to do ahead of my fortnightly execution. I was wondering if I might have put people off. I could withdraw for a week like Mr S and there might suddenly be a rush of newcomers. Obviously this is theoretical and not something I dare risk.

There are probably about ten or a dozen people I can think of who have posted. Most though don't appear often. We are still doing better than "The Verb". I know the jazzers were struggling a bit at one point and then suddenly turned it around. A bit of a network there when needed I think.

Mostly, people will do what they want to do. I have no objections to 6 and indeed 2, 4 and late night aspects of 1 being courted and there is overlap in many of our topics and styles. We might be suffering from the perception in many that 3 has nothing to offer them on the radio or wrongly above their heads. If I can sit here very happily, many could. I'm not exactly Steven Isserlis.

I do wish that we could get folk music onto 3 and also have an experimental music programme as they had in the seventies. Imagine if the late John Peel had been given a weekly 90 minute slot here and that had continued with someone else. I favour Maconie for that one I think - the combination of musical pitch, breadth and being identifiable although Hepworth would be very good. Then there is Garvey, Gideon and even Da Banc but I'm not sure if any wholly suits voice-wise. My third choice is Mr Ravenscroft because he has a now about him with a lot of echoes of then and is distinctive and even curious in that sense.

Unfortunately, these things aren't going to happen. Ultimately we could I guess merge with jazz but I find it odd. The fact thatPopp Charlie's people are not coming across, the numbers of listeners to the world music programmes not doing so and so on. Maybe we all should have a discussion with Mr S on what the principal gateways are reckoned to be commercially in terms of people coming into this genre from other areas. I think I sort of know and that probably isn't good enough. Lat.

Popped onto the Charlie Gillett & froots fora today - posted a plug for this place on the CG one, to be honest there was v.little evidence of activity on either of those either.

I considered posting a link on the The Archers messageboard, but need a bit more time to think of a link between WM and


An everyday story of griots perhaps?

And PS seems to have vanished from r6.

Wonder if there's a massive FaceBook World Music community? [shudder]...

[Globaltruth]

so, been a bit quiet in the chain...went big on blue songs.

Reaction?



3022 & counting....
the link to the chain of links

[Lateralthinking1]

You did those quickly Global. While you were working hard, I was getting hung up about plutonium. I don't think those people above are real because it is very unusual to see three in a photo that all have green eyes. Has anyone seen Gideon's mate or has he gone off to Port Isaac and joined the Fishermen's Friends?

[Globaltruth]

You did those quickly Global. While you were working hard, I was getting hung up about plutonium. I don't think those people above are real because it is very unusual to see three in a photo that all have green eyes. Has anyone seen Gideon's mate or has he gone off to Port Isaac and joined the Fishermen's Friends?

In fact, it's the old 'more than 100 songs - blue' playlist....

they are real...well, as real as anything. In the 50's it was imagined that plutonium would have this kind of effect on a chap, so there is a kind of link. and that's what the never-ending chain is all about...

We should maybe have a Farewell PS thread, as we never had a proper leaving do for him?

I now suspect PS has been a victim of the cuts, and that Camo and the lads passed a quick piece of legislation that every message board has to lose a %age of active subscribers....like Big Ken I was probably sleeping at the time.

[Paul Sherratt]

Two weeks of four times the normal workload followed by a forced week in the south west with only this dogy phone to net connect with leaves a lad at a social disadvantage!

[Paul Sherratt]

PS. Had a copy of that Port Isaac lot. It went in the bin

[johncorrigan]

PS. Had a copy of that Port Isaac lot. It went in the bin

Hey Paul - good to have you back - you've been missed. We three were starting to feel on edge .....and it evens up the members to moderators ratio.

[Paul Sherratt]

John - not back yet. It takes an hour to compose and send two sentences.............. Now I,ve been asked again to knock out a show for a wfmu stream but I,m hopeless at setting up sound files and uploadin. Any experts out there ?

[johncorrigan]

John - not back yet. It takes an hour to compose and send two sentences.............. Now I,ve been asked again to knock out a show for a wfmu stream but I,m hopeless at setting up sound files and uploadin. Any experts out there ?

Where's Martino when you need him?

[Globaltruth]

Hey welcome back..., I bet The chain didn't stretch round the coast last time you were here... Not too sure what you need to do but happy to help.

What do they need off you? A) Just songs? B) Songs & PS dulcet tones? All in an mp3? A few more details pls....

[Lateralthinking1]

I really like that blue people group. Haven't seen them before. They are very good.

I have been slipping a few musical magnets into my Spotify choices. I could tell what was happening by the Richter scale monitor in my shed and activity in the van der graaf divining rods above the refrigerator.

The maths are quite simple. Turn the satellite dish towards Glastonbury Tor. Then add astrological conjuncts, subtract sporadic pigeon flight, multiply by the number of vehicles on the A303 at Chicklade and divide by the circumference of plutonium particles between East Quantoxhead and Nether Stowey. Next, sprinkle moon dust over a Carpenters record. Then blend in a food mixer for 30 seconds with Worcester sauce.

If you want to try it at home, make sure to tip the collider in the mixer at 45 degrees. And remember, operate it at the level of 94239Pu -->92235U + 24He where 24He represents the alpha particle and is hence a helium nucleus. CERN and Lea and Perrins have helplines if you get into any difficulty.

Anyhow, I did it and it showed that while Tom Brosseau and Barrence Whitfield had the force of St Ives to Andover, Charlie Louvin got him as far as Abinger Hammer. It was Peatie Wheatstraw who pushed him inside the Greater London boundary. I expected Waltham Cross to be honest so Colliers Wood was a definite plus. All it then took was for that special blue boost to get him to the centre and inside the computer screen. Those are generally both one and the same. If in doubt, the next time you are there, have a very good look at Portland Place. It is not as it was.

Of course, I predicted that blue was on the way from the Peaks when the wind chimes started to play Woodstock and the seaweed on my clothes horse changed to PH3 at ten past seven. If it had been any other colour, the deutorons would have been all wrong. Red would have found him playing the harpsichord on a bus in the Imagined Village. Olive induces an arc towards the north of Papua New Guinea and some reconfiguration of tangerine under their Alternative Vote system.

[Globaltruth]

Great post Lat, made my day so far.

I'm so glad that the old box** I dug up in the garden a few weeks ago marked 'Property of Pandora - DO NOT OPEN' didn't have anything to do with his disappearance.

No-one's noticed anything going on anywhere else have they?
Thought not...




**actually not a box at all, more an old jar or pithos. thank heavens it wasn't a can of worms

[Paul Sherratt]

Hey welcome back..., I bet The chain didn't stretch round the coast last time you were here... Not too sure what you need to do but happy to help.

What do they need off you? A) Just songs? B) Songs & PS dulcet tones? All in an mp3? A few more details pls....

B. I'll flesh that out in a day or so when I don't have to struggle with the oh's phone

[Lateralthinking1]

Did you see that Global? It came in on a crimson modulation wave that was activated by the Oldham Tinkers.