snowychap Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 The world's gone mad: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 I haven’t been to a gig, a pub, or a club in 6 months. But referring to them as secret speakeasies, that could tempt me. I’ve already got the secret knock to get records out of my supplier’s closed door. Imagine if that secret knock got me inside for a listening party and a glass of brandy! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 57 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I haven’t been to a gig, a pub, or a club in 6 months. But referring to them as secret speakeasies, that could tempt me. I’ve already got the secret knock to get records out of my supplier’s closed door. Imagine if that secret knock got me inside for a listening party and a glass of brandy! Haven't been clubbing in ages, and now I'm absolutely desperate to go. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted September 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Haven't been clubbing in ages, and now I'm absolutely desperate to go. Edited September 25, 2020 by snowychap Updated gif 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: Haven't been clubbing in ages, and now I'm absolutely desperate to go. 13th March, in store album launch. Already knew everything was turning bad, so we were determined to enjoy it. Imagine being an artist that has self funded a record, invested all that time, with a tour planned through March and April to sell that record from a travel case as you go around promoting it. 20% top up from the Chancellor doesn’t even touch that, it doesn’t recognise how life in the arts works. Bring back the socially distanced responsible speakeasy. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) I had over 20 gigs booked this year, it was going to be my best year for seeing artists I'd never seen live before. I can't imagine I'll be seeing another within a year. I'm hoping most of them are taking the opportunity to write new material while they can't tour. Some of these acts have rescheduled again to April/May next year. I think they're kidding themselves. I imagine the musicians will be fine for the most part (obviously not all of them, as Chris mentions above), it's the support staff I feel sorry for. Edited September 25, 2020 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 25, 2020 22 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I imagine the musicians will be fine for the most part (obviously not all of them, as Chris mentions above), it's the support staff I feel sorry for. I'm not sure why you imagine the musicians will be fine, they don't exactly make pots of cash apart from the odd few at the top. You are absolutely correct about the support staff but it pretty much applies to the musicians too. Even at the grassroots level it is touring and gigging that makes the money (and associated Merch sales) in the main, not sales of physical copies of their material and certainly not streaming. Streaming changed the Industry model completely and turned it on its head, it used to be the other way around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 42 minutes ago, bickster said: Streaming changed the Industry model completely and turned it on its head, it used to be the other way around. You used to tour to support the album you'd released, now you release an album so you have something to tour with. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Albrighton Posted September 25, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2020 5 hours ago, snowychap said: The world's gone mad: Just thought one of the replies to this was worth posting - 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Somewhere in Melbourne, Australia I believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 25, 2020 Remember the pubs shut at 20 o'clock tonight... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 25, 2020 @chrisp65 won't be around much this evening, he's been called up to the Barry Home Guard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 53 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: Remember the pubs shut at 20 o'clock tonight... Why is the NHS logo there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 12 minutes ago, bickster said: @chrisp65 won't be around much this evening, he's been called up to the Barry Home Guard They used the wrong picture.... But yeah, I’ll be lording it over all the dirty heathen bastards around me for quite some time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted September 25, 2020 18 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Why is the NHS logo there? Patriotism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Heard a story today from somebody who had COVID and recovered. On one hand it reminds me of what I had last year, on the other hand it put the fear of god into me again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 So...what exactly is the app doing? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 UK scientists begin study of how long Covid can survive in the air Quote It is the question scientists around the world are trying to answer: how long can the coronavirus survive in the tiny aerosol particles we exhale? In a high-security lab near Bristol, entered through a series of airlock doors, scientists may be weeks from finding out. On Monday, they will start launching tiny droplets of live Sars-CoV-2 and levitating them between two electric rings to test how long the airborne virus remains infectious under different environmental conditions. ... Until now, it has been expected that Covid-19 is predominantly transmitted in respiratory droplets, produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks or breathes. These rapidly fall to the ground, providing the logic behind the 2-metre rule. Yet among experts, there is a growing consensus that the virus may linger in smaller droplets called aerosols, which may be carried over greater distances in air currents and accumulate in poorly ventilated spaces. This suspicion is largely based on outbreaks in restaurants and choirs, where people have contracted the virus despite being some distance from the infected person. ...more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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