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I have a burning need to know (don't ask why) if the Tony Freil who was a founder member of The Fall is the same Tony Freil who played the lead role in Wizbit, the 80s kids TV series about a hat shaped wizard. Does anyone know?

I've been getting a good reaction to my tracks on myspace, so I wanted to investigate options for selling mp3s online. Beatport aren't taking on any new labels, so I was looking at Bleep and Boomkat. Does anyone have any experience of getting onto these services with microlabels, how easy/hard...

I'm thinking of moving from London to Sheffield, to study and just live somewhere a bit different. My folks used to live in South Yorkshire so I remember going there when I was six - it was great, but my needs have changed since then. So can any current or former Sheffield residents...

This is a mix t'ing inspired by the Freestyle thread. It's NOT a freestyle mix - there's only two freestyle tunes on there, and both are from the same compilation - instead it's mashup of all sorts of 80s goodness. Mix was done on vinyl and cleaned up in wavelab. I missed a few edit points that...

Shadenfreude is such an ugly emotion, but.... I'm loving the fact that Conrad Black is going to jail. There's always been something pretty comic about him IMO - he's such a bumptious twat. The thought of him sweeping floors in chokey wearing his orange jump suit has been making me smile all...

I am buggered if I can work this one out. I've seen people in foreign climes do it with huge machetes, but I don't have much call for a machete here so I don't own one. I've tried the kitchen knife, which was borderline dangerous, and the corkscrew, which was just totally ineffective. I put all...

So I'm on my hols in Ghana, staying with some friends in Kumasi, the second city- and my buddy here has located a shop with a couple of thousand highlife vinyl 'upstairs out the back'. We're going to check it out tomorrow. From what he's already bought there, it appears 60s & 70s highlife is the...

I'm studying a HND in engineering at a college in London at the moment (in fact I finish next week). They are going to offer me a place on the degree course in September and let me skip the first year. Trouble is, there's been a few incidents this last year that have shaken my confidence in the...

OK, almost everyone and their dog has seen the masterpiece that is Rick James, but I didn't realise how much other quality stuff he's done. Then I found a tonne of videos on the comedy central site, and just spent all morning dying with laughter at the man's malevolent genius...

I've been rocking Arrested Development all winter on DVD, and I finally got around to checking The Wire out last week when I was ill - watched all of series one over a few days. Both total classics IMO. AD is just insanely funny with so many levels of comedy. Once you start getting into the...

No, not an except from the world's most cerebral standup act, just something I'd like to clarify with the more experienced/trained thinkers on the board. A few of the treads recently have orbitted around one or noth of these concepts - what's the distinction between them? Can they be used...

Anyone see this on BBC4 last night? What did y'all think? I was really hoping for some stuff on no wave, so it was a bit of a let down to get yet another retelling of the CBGB story - Ramones blah, Television blah, Patti Smith blah. Smith in particular I just don't get - she seems to me to be...

Hello everyone, I've had a good clearout and stuck the lot on ebay - about 100 records, some hifi and studio stuff, and camera equipment. Some items that might be of particular interest to you lot: Early 12" from Photek 12" white label from 2-step legend El-B. Can't find this on Discogs under...

Last Days Of Iggy And The Stooges 'He discovered that if he pulled his left arm back, blood would spurt out in a continuous stream... We had this saying that a piece of Gaffa tape will fix anything, but he was bleeding so bad the tape wouldn't even stick.' How on earth is this man still alive?

I was checking out a few stooges live clips on youtube last night (see youtube finds thread), absolutely blistering stuff. I'd like to get audio recordings of some of these early sets if they are knocking around. I have Metallic KO, which, while historically important and good value for Iggy's...

I got a new laptop yesterday & I'm installing all my whatnots on it. Just interested to know which media player dissensians use, cos I've got a choice of half a dozen. So, tell me what's your PC media player of choice and why... While we're here, does anyone know how you encode MP3s so that the...

I was reading a review of the new film of A Scanner Darkly, which set me off thinking about wierd books. The most headfucking book I ever read was also by Phillip K Dick - The Divine Invasion. It has the kind of plot that resists easy synopsys, but basically a woman living on a colony in the...

YES, YES, YES! What a tune! Dubstep SO needed to do this. Is anyone going to put it out?

Found it here and I just moved my embryonic blog over. It's like a superblog, or a halfway house between a blog and a website. You can host stuff on there & so on. Anyone else used it, or anything else like it?

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