I cut all the acetates with strict written instructions listing what buttons to push and in which order I should push them (“get this wrong and you can blow the cutter head”). I also made dozens and dozens of export analogue tape copies for the whole world. 2/2
Not exactly, but I was involved. It takes years to learn to cut records, so I wasn’t allowed to do sessions without supervision at that time. But we had to cut 40 x acetates (1 copy for all the daytime Radio 1 jocks, 1 for Radio 2 and one for every ILR commercial radio station). 1/2
It’s possible, sounds like a mistake though. I was still at school in 1979 and 5 years away from my first job (at Utopia!). These cuts must have been done just before The Town House opened.
EMI definitely listed the matrix numbers on their box labels. But working at independent facilities in those days meant I almost never saw the tapes as they, along with CBS, PolyGram, PRT and Virgin were all self sufficient in catalogue cutting. I rarely did catalogue work then, it was all new stuff
Ugh
This man
This paper.
Using the same rhetoric as Trump’s lot, jumping on the Kirk bandwagon to claim victimhood and cancel free speech if it criticises him.
Farage incites riots on our streets, then acts all ‘poor me’ when his ugly racist ideas are called out.
No one should pander to this shit.
THE TIMES THUNDERER EXTRACT Fantasy economics mean Nigel Farage is heir to Liz Truss Liam Byrne Our Decoding Populism study shows Reform’s support is not a single army marching in step. It’s a fragile alliance of 5 “tribes” bound more by grievance than values. They feel under pressure, in precarious communities, pessimistic about the future, angry about immigration, and feel politics is broken. But two of these tribes, about 40 per cent of Farage’s base, are very persuadable. They worry about pay, pensions, bills, social security and the NHS. They are open to Labour, the Lib Dems, even the Greens. So what messages work?We found that four cut through most. First: the economy. Farage has tabled billions in unfunded promises. That means higher mortgages, higher bills, higher prices. Second: employment rights. Reform would scrap safeguards on sick pay, safe hours and zero-hours contracts. Third: social security. They want to cut £140 billion of support to pensioners, families and disabled people, leaving the vulnerable out in the cold.Fourth: the NHS. Farage has mused openly about a US-style insurance model, threatening free provision at the point of need. By contrast,attacks painting Reform’s leader as “Britain’s Trump” or focusing on immigration don’t move the dial. Populists thrive when debate rages on their chosen turf of immigration and identity. We must not fight on their battlefield. Populists govern badly but campaign well.And the price is high: international research shows countries under populist rule end up over 10 per cent poorer within 15 years. That’s a pay cut Britain simply cannot afford. So the strategy must be clear. Stop tilting at Farage’s windmills. Expose his offer as Liz Truss 2.0 — a sugar rush of fantasy economics that would leave Britain poorer. And counter his fake nostalgia with a real story of national renewal: a country fairer, stronger and more secure. Farage can be beaten — but only if we fight him where he is weakest, not strongest.
Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage..
Do so where he’s weak:
The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++
Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them
Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away
NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it.
“Populists govern badly but campaign well”
So blow up their campaign.
If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'
Agreed, and once he is elected, he will completely dismantle the BBC 🤦
Done.
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
When will the Govt do something about this....not until it's too late, never? Totally useless at protecting our democracy. They might as well hand Farage the keys to no. 10.
If instead of fining water companies money, they were fined shares, they'd either have to do the job they've been paid for or lose the company piece by piece.
Re-nationalisation at no cost to the public.
The gulf between what London is actually like & how it is portrayed by terminally online, self-styled ‘patriots’ & their political heroes is absolutely incredible. I wonder how much it has to do with the city repeatedly electing a Muslim mayor…
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
The SRC was painfully slow initially but I learned pretty quickly that to burn a CD you could do it at x2 (then x4) if you had all the audio on one stereo stream. If you used multiple streams it slowed right down. This was mid to late’90’s using Version 2. Geoff Pesche still uses the jog wheel!
Great for the 1812 Overture and also Ravel’s Bolero. SADiE was good way back when, streets ahead of the then competition (Sonic Solutions, AMS Audiofile, The Tablet etc). Sadly it has now reached the end of the line, but in its day it was a formidable , reliable and stable workhorse.
Did you get a copy, and if you did, what do you think? /End
… as there are several buttons that I mustn’t push in reverse mode as they send the lathe carriage in the wrong direction at lightning speed causing expensive damage (because all of the feedback going to the system is reversed). This is a part of testing new stuff and finding the unintended quirks.
Then added 5% to where it finished and made this my starting point for the inside out cut. This was my first ever commercially released inside out cut and Nick and the Saucers are apparently delighted with it. I will be happy to get the finished production boards installed… /3
My lathe tech worked out a way of adapting the VMS80 lathe for inside out cuts. I need to change the advance signal that feeds the groove spacing computer in a specific way then it functions correctly. To work out where on the disc to start, I ran the audio and the lathe in normal forward mode /2
Hello Mike, yes it’s my first inside out cut. Historically this wasn’t possible with Neumann lathes (only Scullys). I’m currently working with prototype modified parts, the final version is still under development. Only my lathe and one other in Berlin have been modified to date and we’re testing /1
a reminder that Radio Vatican is a member of the EBU and Eurovision is coming up. the new pope has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Donald Trump and Conor McGregor in the Oval Office.
The absurdity of deporting (unverified) gang members to El Salvador while having these two (court verified) sexual abusers in the Oval Office.
Dear BBC the USA is not ‘stepping up pressure on Ukraine to agree a peace deal’. It is taking Russia’s side in the war.
I’m still working at the moment, got about another hour to go. I honestly cannot wait to see this.
Correct, that was one of mine.
Elvis was your King and he died on the toilet, so maybe there's hope yet.
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
We celebrated Brexit’s Birthday in the village yesterday.
Cliff from the pub took out his sovereignty & we gasped as we watched it grow.
My good wife Bunty flashed her sunlit uplands.
And we feasted on clams & pints of wine!
Later on we burnt effigies of Alan Sugar & Piers Morgan.
🇬🇧🥳
Wowsers!