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I'll do that. I don't like always harping on about organ concerts, cos I know they're a niche interest, but we're genuinely fortunate to have some really top-drawer players living and performing locally.

It's a little known fact that, despite being an organist myself, I struggle to *really* enjoy the vast majority of organ concerts I attend. No such problems last Sunday at St. Michael's in Dun Laoghaire, where David Adams put in an absolutely awesome display of musicianship and virtuosity. Even Derv...

One of the best transports ever made, by all accounts. Good luck with the sale, Ken.

The common view that bookshelf (or standmount) speakers are easier to drive than floorstanders is, for the most part, completely false. Actually, all else being equal, the greater the volume of the speaker the easier it is to drive. Now, of course all else isn't equal most of the time and there's a ...

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Available on vinyl?

Dude, if you want a bigger picture just say so.

Yeah, that's about right. The band worked very hard and played well, in truth I felt a bit sorry for them having to put up with Axl's vagaries. Axl himself seemed to sing better when standing still than when jumping around, so in that sense things were good (he stood in the middle of the stage sulki...

Oh he's a bellend alright, and the whole thing was a shambles, but I really enjoyed the entertainment in its many and varied forms!

Comedy gold last night at the O2. Anyone else there?

I just thought of another album that I own and really like: Lifeforms, by FSOL. Quality stuff.

Does that count?

I actually possess a little bit of ambient/electronica as it is, but I'd like to know more. At the moment I've got some Orb, some Orbital, a little Aphex Twin, and that's about it. Still, I think there's a huge amount of overlap between modern classical and electronica. First time I ever heard Aphex...