Hello Pete and welcome. You made a very good choice (imo) buying NVA.

https://i.imgur.com/navYEYN.jpeg The Police ' Zenyatta Mondatta' Went yesterday to the funeral of my wife's niece. She had MS and was only a year younger than me. The music played was Supertramp, Queen and The Police. Years ago she had given me her old LP's and this is one of them. Needed a bit of ...

slinger wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:39 pm Well, that's buggered up the "war wound" stories for any future grandkids, mate.

got some shrapnel in there

It's not going to be much of a scar.

I had some cd copies somewhere but I think i threw them away as i couldn't bring myself to listen to them. The bass player (Paddy) will have some as he keeps everything and he's in the wedding band i am deputy drummer for. I think the original live recording of all our songs that we did at Soundwork...

Brilliant memories, Stu, and I bet whispering Bob agreed with you. :lol: Bob was a lovely bloke, if he didn't show you his teeth :grin: He had heard our music, liked it and wanted to play it on his show eventually. Our music had a country flavour to it. He was talked at for an hour though . Richard...

Didn't Embrace come from Huddersfield? Edit: just checked - their 2000-released album 'Drawn From Memory: (which I might even have a copy of somewhere) was partially recorded at Soundworks in Leeds. And they came from Brighouse which I used to pass through everyday when I lived In Huddersfield and ...

I came across this recording contract from 1999. I dropped everything for six months to become a rock star. That never happened of course. Six months driving to the recording studio which was directly opposite Yorkshire TV building in Leeds. I remember the smurfs albums were recorded there cos they ...

I thank you both for your advice. I haven't seen much of the world, I haven't been out of Europe. Holidays never really interested me that much, it's only when kids came along that I made more of an effort. When I do go away I want to be as remote as possible with as little human interaction as poss...

One thing that worries me about retirement is being bored. Right now I'm as bored as a bored person could be. It's a challenge thinking of things to occupy myself although being slightly incapacitated limits me a little. Sure, I've got hobbies like drumming, gardening, wildlife, making stuff badly, ...