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A 1977 photograph I found on the internet. It's a Teesside punk band. I know who they are, do you?

 

The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir's website led me to a concert in Edmonton that was recorded for Canada's CBC Radio 2 . It's excellent but don't just stop there, there is an archive of many hundreds of concerts, covering many musical genres, all available on demand.
Try, for example, Vancouver's The Fugitives, who appeared at The Writers' Café a couple of years ago.
Or a recent Elvis Costello concert in Toronto.
There's much more - I've only just begun to explore.  

Hurt Me in Paris 1984...

I've searched the internet for an in sync version of this, but no joy. (There's actually a comment on the YouTube of this which asks which drug make one's voice 2 seconds out with one's lips, or words to that effect). This is from, I believe, RTE in 1990 when Johnny was pretty "straight"...

Many people in Teesside receive their television signals from the Bilsdale transmitter. It has provided a good service since the 1960s 1971. Currently it is transmitting the five analogue TV stations and six digital multiplexes. The digital broadcasts are transmitted using low power and are fitted amongst the analogue channels. One of the digital multiplexes is outside the range of the original group A antennae which cover the lower third of the band. It is also the one which is transmitted at the lowest power. I thought this was an acceptable compromise until the analogue transmissions are switched off in September 2012. I assumed that the six multiplexes would be moved to the lower end of the band, put up to full power and all would be well for people using group A aerials. This is not the case. Yes, they will have full power (and be using the better quality, but less robust, 64QAM encoding) but three of the multiplexes will be out of the range of group A. Mux6 will be even outside the range of the recommended for Bilsdale group K (bottom two thirds) antennae.
This is the current allocation of channels from Bilsdale and other local transmitters...

This is what it'll be in September 2012...
I always like a good graph, this one shows the response of various aerials to the Bilsdale transmissions...
The Crystal Palace transmitter in London is also in group A, this is its proposed allocation of channels post analogue switch off...
So it is possible to fit those six multiplexes into group A!

A huge amount of thanks to Aerials and TV, a great site which cuts through a lot of nonsense about "digital" aerials and the like. Do have a look at their rogues' gallery of bad aerial installations.

Jack of Spades, again from NaOH123...

That has to be the tool with which to play slide guitar!

Thanks to bOINGbOING for this...

It was good to see Ann at her mum's house on Saturday. She was on on one of her Avon trips to Billingham...

George was there too of course...
There's a few more pictures in the sidebar collection...

It doesn't get better than this...