Which is a new instrumental album from Neil Arthur called ‘Nil by mouth’ and apparently should go on sale for the first time tonight at their show.
I’m looking forward to hearing it.
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Hoping to hear some of this later …
Whilst I’m all for Blancmange playing new things, I do of course want to hear some old favourites. There’s nothing wrong with that right?
So I’m hopeful of some classics getting trotted out alongside the new stuff from ‘Semi-Detached’, and also hopefully some bits from ‘Blancburn’ too.
It’ll be an interesting night I’m sure.
Today is Blancmange day!
Their latest album is great stuff, I’ve been listening to it quite a lot over the last few weeks since it came out. There are some really good tracks on it.
Some thoughts about the 7th Doctor …
I listened to this audiobook the other day. I can’t even remember buying it, but I have it. The 7th Doctor wasn’t a favourite of mine, and I haven’t listened to many of the audio stories. I didn’t find this one too interesting, but it did make me realise just how little I know about the world of the 7th Doctor and companions.
My interests have always been around the 4th, 5th and 8th Doctors, but with a little of the 3rd as well. I’m also warming to the 6th. However, Sylvester’s Doctor passed me by in the main. I’m not sure that’s going to change particularly, but it is a strange feeling when you work out how much you don’t know about a subject you’re very interested in.
My old tracks: Another office daydream
Sakamoto’s Left Handed Dream
This is an album I’ve been meaning to get my hands on a this album for a long time. So I finally got a copy, and it’s really quite good after all.
I especially like that on the back of the LP cover there’s a credit for computer programming! You don’t see that very often these days.
My old tracks: Why doesn’t anybody love me
My old tracks: Palm Sounds is Great
Doctor Who: The Guardians of Prophecy
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I actually quite like the 6th Doctor stories these days, and this one is pretty good. It is sort of a sequel to The Keeper of Traken. I can see how it is sort of a sequel, but not entirely. That doesn’t make sense unless you know both stories though.
Anyway, irrespective of whether or not it is a sequel, it’s not a bad story entirely on its own merits. Actually it’s pretty good.
So I saw an Apple Watch …
And after all that it just wasn’t as amazing as I thought it would be. It was also thicker than I thought it might be. I’m just not sure that it is for me right now. I also think that the price for a reasonable model is too high right now. It might come down, it might not, and I’m not sure that Apple will want to replicate the same update cycle as their other hardware. People just don’t replace and update their watches with the same frequency. Or maybe Apple wants to change that too.
Anyway, for now I’m going to see how things pan out with my Pebble Time.
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