Bored with the whole thing (LONG)

Boy? I'm flattered

:lol:

 

There you go Paul! See how easy that was? You pulled!

 

Get right in! Your place or mine TB? :MILD:

 

Not so fast I don't do ugly people Photos please

 

OK, you asked for it....

 

Think I'll pass :chunder:

ps. I always knew you were one of us Paul

:lol:

 

I had had a few £100 burning in my pocket (yes I now have a little bit of money thanks to my new job) and had to think should I upgrade my HIFI or buy a new digital camera?

I ended up spending £600 on a holiday to spain staying in 5 star hotels and I bought a new 3 mega pixel Fujifilm digital cemera with zoom lens.

I am quite glad I spent the money on the holiday/camera rather than buying more silly HIFI stuff. I am actually selling my DAC and other bits all I need is an amp, turntable CDP and speakers/headphones.

 

Sorry to hear that, Mo - it will get easier. Just don't dwell on the events - you seem like a pretty cool person from the way you talk so we know you're not an axe murderer or anything; you will find someone else (when you're least expecting it) no doubt

Mind you, that's coming from someone who's never been in (reciprocated, anyway) love, and boy am I cynical about these things...

 

Paul,

Maybe the suggestion of getting out more is a valid one, but maybe going out to see more live music could be the trick. I've been out to see more bands in the past two or three years than I had in the previous ten and its certainly resparked my interest in music. No CD or record can ever be as exciting as a great live act.

Living in a town with a couple of excellent small venues with reasonable prices and a promoter who regularly tempts good bands new and old to play does of course help ... and I don't know where you live.

Of course it could be that in your search for hifi you've wound up in a hifi place which doesn't suit you. Why don't you pack the hifi away for a couple of months and go back to the Kenwood for a while, see if it changes your listening habits. If it does then maybe it would suggest you've taken a wrong turn in your hifi quest - bad news I know but not a tragedy like losing your taste for music

Your point about sometimes hifi getting in the way is perhaps very valid. I know no one who likes music more than my girlfriend and she couldn't give a hoot what its played on. She appreciates a good sounding system, but it doesn't actually matter to her.

Final suggestion - they do a thing in the Observer's music monthly section where they ask a celebrity what kind of music they like and then make suggestions for things they haven't heard, to prevent their musical tastes getting stale. Maybe we could all do the same for you here - a bit like "if you like that, then maybe you should try this" sort of thing.

 

I do go out as often as I can afford. The live music one may be a good idea I guess, should maybe go to a few festivals or something, I dunno...

Unfortunately thats not an option, since its not mine to take back really (I was using it on an indefinite basis before). I'd be leaving my folks without a stereo then, I dont think they'd go for that somehow

Thanks for your suggestions though...

 

Festivals - yes No chance for Glasto, but still tickets for Leeds I hear (The Sunday line up is a particular corker)

As for the Kenwood - Temporary swap?

 

just out of interest, Paul, where exactly are "the northern wastelands"?

i ask because you could be near to some very interesting goings on in the live music front

 

I think I have the solution. Click here to get started on your road to recovery!

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Durham.

 

Go to "Boom!" - it's in Portugal, full on psy-trance; details on http://www.accessallareas.org/

Me, I can't wait for Glastonbury

 

The psy-trance festival sounds good. Cant afford to go though

As for Glasto, is it your first time? I went back in 2000 i think it was (the year before it was called off), and it was great. Good music, good atmosphere, and naturally, I was off my head

 

Neither can I - boo hoo! It looks AMAZING! I guess my mates Loveday and Dunx'll go to that since they didn't score Glasters tickets (unless I win that comp at notaloud.com!)

No dude - it's my second; I popped my cherry last year and had a blinder - though this year my "off my head" bit'll be saved for Sunday-Monday (have a plan to beat tired tent packing AND the comedown - if it works (start hitting the hard stuff Sunday avo and keep going through to Monday avo, when I crash out after having a bath!). I'll stick to truffles, smokes and mushies for the rest of the weekend....

 

Ah, that'll be the draw of Wagner's "The Valkyrie" then . Just try not to switch off after the Valkyries ride/abseil in at the start - the 2nd half of the act is absolutely fantastic music as well. Shame the production is getting such dog reviews (I've not seen it myself yet).

(In case anyone's wondering what I'm blathering on about, they're performing the last act of ENO's production of "The Valkyrie", the 2nd part of Wagner's Ring. This is the act that starts with "The Ride of the Valkyries" - and apparently all 8 hefty lasses are sort of bikers and swing on to the stage on ropes etc).

 

All you bastards going to Glasto, stop bloody rubbing it in ... I'm jealous. I've been going since the early nineties, but have been unable to get tickets two years running. I don't understand it, it used to take at least a couple of weeks to sell out right up to the advent of the big fence (which don't get me wrong I do think is a good thing)

I just don't understand it - it isn't as though most of the fence jumpers could actually afford it anyway. My theory is that now that they can keep all the scary scally drug pushers who congregated round the dance tent out, people aren't so worried about it - its more of a nice family outing so to speak. Again not necessarily a bad thing, but mark my words before you know it, it'll have turned into a jumbo Womad - full of sandal wearing, Guardian reading, Greenpeace subscribing, tofu munching drama teachers with a baby called Tarquin and a passion for apalling world music.

I'm jealous ... bastards.

Tony (who sometimes wears sandals, does read the Guardian, subscribes to Greenpeace and sometimes eats tofu ... but hates children and world music ... even if he has been to Womad (and it really is like that folks), but isn't a bloody hippy and if anyone says so I'll do em.)

 

Is this the hippy-style 'free love' that I've been reading about?