Recent content by dsg

Sadly I wasn't able to go to this concert, which featured music by Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire and a performance by Suzanne Ciani using the Buchla analogue synth but it was shown last night on BBC4 and is now on the iplayer. For those of us who get excited about such things, it is a sublime...

Limited signed copies of Music For Installations on CD and vinyl now available from Rough Trade. It's released tomorrow. It looks and sounds lovely. Be like Eno 1973 not Eno 2018 if you want a copy. Damian

Captures the intensity and excitement of their incredible live shows. They have no peers.

I've dealt with a few ISPs including all those mentioned above and not found one to rival Andrews & Arnold. We have a FTTC service and get 70-80Mb/s. They are not the cheapest, in fact they are fairly expensive, particularly if you use a lot of data but their charging structure is flexible and...

Another Touch fan here. Mike Harding seems a nice chap. He's a musician in his own right, you know, with some recordings released on Touch. I've had similar positive dealings with Type records. I think the people who run these relatively small labels are doing it for the love of the music as...

Ok, maybe that was a little harsh of me. But I was making the point that a lot of people jump on the bandwagon without really knowing what they are talking about. Physics is hard, particularly the type of theoretical physics Prof Hawking studied but my point was that it's fairly easy to buy A...

How many of the worthy saying farewell to this great mind can describe any of his theories (present company excepted, obviously)? How many copies of A Brief History Of Time remain unread on bookshelves? Science illiteracy is still prevalent in the UK unfortunately. Damian

Sorry for thread resurrection but Rise in Worcester has closed for good. Good little shop it was, part of a small chain with branches in Bristol and Cheltenham. Cheltenham has closed as well and Bristol has been taken over by Rough Trade. The fall of Rise. Where to buy records in Worcester now...

I alternate between loving and hating him. I liked parts of Pure Comedy. I saw him live at End Of The Road and sort of liked him but drifted away to see something else. The audience-artist engagement was lacking. There's something about him that puts me off and makes him seem somehow false -...

I have a secret liking for Aqua's first album Aquarium. Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones and best of all Turn Back Time are all stone cold pop classics.

I bought it a few days ago and it's growing on me, a lot. The music and arrangements are really original and interesting but she also shows her emotional vulnerability. She seems to divide opinion: the excellent Robin Ince slagged her off at End Of The Road a few years ago when she performed...

Thumbs up from me. A good upgrade, modernised and much better with phones. Let's face it, most internet access is on a mobile device and the old site simply didn't work on a phone. I'm discovering the new features. Damian

I like Rise in Worcester, my local city. Rise is a smallish shop but they manage to squeeze in a lot of vinyl and I'm often surprised at their eclectic selection. A decent range of CDs and a few books as well. The staff are friendly and approachable and the shop is family-friendly - it's in a...

Thanks for all your suggestions. I tried various loading caps: 1n, 4n7, 10n with no effect. I'm not sure what other changes I can make to the earthing - I've tried arm cable to Superline and arm cable to preamp with no effect. I know I was convinced the Superline was faulty but could this be a...

Can anyone help with this? The left channel of my Superline has started making a sound like gently blowing on a microphone. It started several months ago so I took it to a Naim dealer. They plugged it into their system and it worked perfectly during an extended test so I took it home again. It...