MrDuck

Amusingly enough, the airline in question doesn't serve alcohol either

Got taken to Villa Park to see a game with my best mate and his family (all Villa fans) and that was that. Within a couple of years we were European Champions, but it's been downhill ever since...

Don't see much point, and these things rarely work out so well 2nd time around.

Not difficult, as the people are nearly always being stiffed by the man!

Are the stars'n'stripes really necessary? Way too busy.

This is pretty much the conclusion I've come to aswell. But also, from what I've heard, Pardew and Ashley are very good mates too. As in he got the job while out on the lash with Ashley. It's brilliant to watch though. Insert appropriate popcorn gif I'd be inclined to think that too... but I thought I'd read that Pardew's contract gave him a max of 1 yrs payout if he was sacked, regardless of time remaining on contract.

Not convinced by the home kit, but loving the away!

I remember buying this one as a kid. Listening to it now.... oh god.

Ouch. The white one is a real shocker!

Only fools, open all hours have aged well And the likely lads was out 20 years before I was born, still find them funny and Porridge Only Fools & Horses and Porridge have aged well for sure, not so convinced about Open All Hours... saw a few of these a while back, bit painful at times.

French clubs very upset with Monaco, understandably so. The two different tax laws mean that it costs Monaco less than a third of what it costs other French teams to pay a player the same net salary. Ligue 1 have implemented a law stating that all clubs in the top flight have to be registered in France for tax purposes, but Monaco are fighting that as a violation of European law.

He didn't fail at Blackburn & Fulham.

Noo.... Umbro kits are so much nicer. It makes me sad to see Nike systematically chasing Umbro out of football. I hope they bid for us when the Macron contract expires. Umbro WAS a Nike brand. Just read that they sold it off to some other company. RIP Bumbro Not really, it'd been an English company since the 30s. Nike only owned it for a few years before selling it - one wonders if they bought it just to get their hands on the England contract. Bring back Admiral!

MASH was always my favourite TV theme, but these two sprung to mind as well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8jmZ77-bvw

I'm not sure how Hughes is a step up from Pulis, or a step in a "new direction". Odd.

A fit Dunne would have been a massive bonus this season. Shame it ended this way, wish him all the best.

Superman!

Made out of tofu.

Every time that I think I surely couldn't dislike Terry any more than I already do, he proves me wrong.

Denim?! WTF?

Well there's a surprise.

Sometimes sentiment is far more important. Fully deserved.

Yep, SoH excellent band

Before i changed to software, i used the Yamaha AW4416. At the time of release it cost me over £2,000 but the street price now is £500 for one in good condition on Ebay. It has 16 tracks all with automated faders and facilitates recording to CD in one box. It also has decent mic preamps but you would get better quality purchasing a separate mic preamp such as one of the Focusrite models! The audio quality transferred onto disk using the Yamaha AW4416 with a little care can be release quality and would certainly make a very presentable demo to record companies. Even in this day and age you will have to go on a steep learning curve to use it so make sure if you are interested in purchasing a unit like this, it comes with manuals. Hope this helps but unfortunately going down the software route and getting exceptable quality cannot be done on a budget. Yeah, I used the AW4416. Still got it stored away somewhere in the shed. Great bit of kit, ruined by the fact that it came out just before USB became the norm. Data transfer was a nightmare - once the CD burner on mine had broke, the machine became pretty much a write off. The interface was SCSI... which had by this time been phased out, and none of the compatible cd burners were available anymore If it'd had a USB port to access the hard drive, I'd still be using it now.

I used to use a Yamaha "studio in a box" many years ago. Great bit of kit, but a little limited. Switched over to an iMac which gives me a lot more options in terms of production tools and far less fiddly. My mac is dedicated to audio and film work... in years gone by it was pretty much essential to have a dedicated machine for this sort of stuff, especially on PC, but I don't know if that's still the case? In terms of pure quality, one of the most important parts of the equation is getting decent mics. You'll generally get what you pay for. If you're just multi-tracking yourself rather than recording live with other musicians, you can get away with one decent condenser mic that'll give you a great sound from acoustic instruments and vocals.