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First four tracks are monumental. Think they're all off the new album. The first was definitely Alone.

Not sure I agree with what you've said about the BBC -- they haven't demonised the budget, and there's a chasm between their coverage and what you'll get in the DT. But, then again, the DT thought that the Truss budget was the best ever -- see below...

Here's hoping RR cottoned on and charged extra duty for those aged in American oak :wink:

I'm going to be £17 worse off and if I want to reach your delightful parity, my partner and I are going to have to give up wine 😥

As no-one has mentioned it, Goodness Gracious Me still has its moments. The going out for an English sketch is one of the best made.

Thanks for posting this. It makes me want to watch your three aged well which were hilarious and some of which were poignant (MASH).

I can guarantee that's not me joining in with the boogie-woogie :smile:

You know full well that I'm neither great nor good, so htf would I know? Although I suspect you're right. It's probably a fairly select audience comprising Bob and co's mates and those that know how to wangle their way into such event in BBC music. It's probably a warm-up gig for tomorrow...

I tried and failed. Think the demand was way above supply. I didn't really find out because I wasn't sent the code that I should have done.

I do think Sybil is one of the most hilariously cutting characters in comedy: "Oooo, I know"

Haven't seen Butterflies in yonks, but thought it was charming if somewhat petty bourgeois. The other two are exemplars.

Eek. Disagree vehemently on this. Loved it first time and probably saw the two series more than once back in the day. Went back to it a year or so ago, and it's of a different era. Delightfully we've got some channel that's got Curb Your Enthusiasm which we haven't seen for about two decades...

Thanks for this. They were just selling tickets at the Troxy for tomorrow night (1 Nov). Any idea of who is in the audience tonight, and how they got there?

Well, indeed. The whole facade and conceit is vile, but bits of it are stunning.

I bought one via their website in the hope of going to the Troxy gig tomorrow. It was £15 inc postage. Pretty sure Resident have it at the same price.

Agreed, got a really good turn of pace over short distances too. Needs to focus on adapting to the physicality of PL, and I'd suggest that working with Georginio might be a plan on that front.

It might not have been flashy, gimmicky and bumptious, but it was partisan and political. There aren't neutral answers to these issues, and RR has bet that investment will revive the long-slumbering economy. We'll see if it does (I suspect it will, but I'm not nostradamus).

You've got plenty of plaudits for this post, so I'll be the one to break from the fit of harmony that has broken out on the politics threads on NSC. This isn't 'boring, sensible, slow and calm', it's the most significant budget since at least 2010. I've just heard Faisal Islam describing it as...

One of these is an ongoing 'joke' successively left by figures within the Treasury, the other is a report by an independent body with expertise in this area. But you carry on doing the Tories work for them, it's not as if they haven't got the press, wealth, etc behind them.

It's clear that hospitality has had it really tough for quite a while now and any rise in employer NI contributions (which are coming) ought to be offset with special measures for the hospitality sector to cope with it (eg reduced VAT). That said, the money has got to come from somewhere and...