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Everything Else / Re: Non NMA gigs you just got home from or are going to

« Last post by Winterwulf on July 26, 2025, 08:23:08 PM »

Half Man Half Biscuit in Peak Cavern, Castleton last night  - quite literally underground music! Early on, HMHB main main Nigel Blackwell looked around the cavern and quipped "it'll be nice when it's finished", several tracks off the latest album got their live debut and they covered the Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man".

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Everything Else / Re: Whatever makes you happy..

« Last post by Master Ray on July 26, 2025, 07:12:57 PM »

Just spent an hour going through old posts from over a decade on this fine Forum and it did put a smile on my face.  That said, I'm not sure if it should go on this thread or 'what makes you sad', it's a mixture of both.  But I love the community that was once there, the way that we supported each other, quibbled with each other, sometimes fell out but reconnected.  The characters we talked with, people who I do wonder what they're up to these days. Probably dropped away after the Forum went so quiet for so long, maybe they might pop in again one day for old times sake.  I guess this Forum is a bit like a pub that was once packed most nights but some of the regulars gave up drinking...   

If anyone was once a poster but became an occasional lurker, why not log back in and say hello?   

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Everything Else / Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?

« Last post by Ghosttrain on July 26, 2025, 12:05:45 PM »

''Raising Hare'' by Chloe Dalton....''A nourishing nature memoir at its finest'' Sunday Times.......''A love letter to the natural world'' The Times.........just two of  the comments i have read that sum up the book  perfectly.........Beautiful...

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Everything Else / Re: The R.I.P thread...

« Last post by Guillaume on July 25, 2025, 08:50:00 PM »

My favourite Ozzy songs..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sVXK9o0Ys&list=RDW6sVXK9o0Ys&start_radio=1&ab_channel=BlackSabbath-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6HmfTdwYZg&list=RDo6HmfTdwYZg&start_radio=1&ab_channel=BlackSabbath-Topic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nI2V07X6k&list=RDG4nI2V07X6k&start_radio=1&ab_channel=OzzyOsbourne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulxNrRLbhEw&list=RDulxNrRLbhEw&start_radio=1&ab_channel=MadaM

RIP Ozzy 

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Everything Else / Re: Your dream NMA setlist...

« Last post by Master Ray on July 25, 2025, 08:09:08 PM »

OK, the last time this thread was posted on was 2020 and we've had five albums since then!  So here we go again, c'mon guys, let's go again, a 21 song set if you were picking the set for an NMA gig near you!

I Need More Time ( could be a great opener seeing as how old we're all getting!)
States Radio
Whirlwind
225
Never Arriving
Rainy Night 65
Winter
Too Close To The Sun
Lust For Power
One Of The Chosen
Purity
Born Feral
Stranger
The Hunt
Angry Planet

Better Than Them
No Mirror No Shadow
Here Comes The War

Modern Times
Bittersweet
I Love The World

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Everything Else / Re: Lemmy coming to Rock City

« Last post by Master Ray on July 25, 2025, 07:37:17 PM »

Visited the Lemmy statue in Stoke a few weeks back to pay homage to this magnificent gentleman.   

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Everything Else / Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?

« Last post by Master Ray on July 25, 2025, 07:35:09 PM »

A Song Of Stone - Iain Banks.

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on July 24, 2025, 08:03:52 PM »

OK, I'm a bit embarrassed by this (as someone who likes to keep in touch with popular culture) but I've only just gotten around to watching the Netflix show 'Narcos', the one about Pablo Escobar.  Just finished the first series and it's absolutely bloody brilliant.  Can't recommend it highly enough.   

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Everything Else / Re: The R.I.P thread...

« Last post by Master Ray on July 24, 2025, 07:59:04 PM »

RIP Ozzy Nothing more needs to be said Thank you for the decades of great music .

I think I've mentioned before that I was a metalhead since the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, for the uninitiated) in the late 70's.  So I was hugely saddened by Ozzy's death because he's ALWAYS been there since I became a fan of rock music. And now he's gone.

Yes, I loved the Sabbath stuff but I liked his solo stuff even better, rarely a bad album.

It wasn't unexpected that he passed away and thank goodness he went out on a high, headlining a massive festival in front of a stadium full of adoring fans.  And at the second biggest money-raising charity concert since Live Aid!   

RIP, fine Sir.

 

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Everything Else / Re: The R.I.P thread...

« Last post by Ron B on July 23, 2025, 07:59:11 PM »

RIP Ozzy Nothing more needs to be said Thank you for the decades of great music .