Chalkhills Digest, Volume 14, Number 31

                 Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Topics:

     "Mermaid Smiled" is the MySpace song of the week
                OFF TOPIC: Recording Help
                      Paper and iron
    "Funk Pop a Roll" is the MySpace song of the week
                    Keneally & Gregory

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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com>
Subject: "Mermaid Smiled" is the MySpace song of the week
Message-ID: <900398.84561.qm@web32001.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi:

Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the
song of the week is "Mermaid Smiled."

If you want to know what Rupert the Bear has to do with this song, or
why Colin shocked Andy on it, check out the XTCfans blog site at
http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans.

A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands...

-Todd

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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:50:08 +0000
From: <homefrontradio@hotmail.com>
Subject: OFF TOPIC: Recording Help
Message-ID: <COL107-W69A6ABD1F19CFED00B7C9AD02D0@phx.gbl>

Hey All,

There's always seemed to be a lot of home recordists on list, judging by the
Chalkhill's Children compiliations, so I just wanted to ask if anyone has
any advice or suggestions about reducing latency when recording software
synths via MIDI?  I'm doing my own recording project and it's a *major*
stumbling block at the moment, since it's not consistent in when it decides
to cause problems or not.  There's not of advice online.  I'm on a PC.

Email me off-list, if you don't mind helping.

Thanks!
Simon
http://homefrontradio.blogspot.com/

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:48:43 +0100
From: Mark Fisher <mark-fisher@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Paper and iron
Message-ID: <E2152A64-5961-44CF-AD69-C282DD982AB0@blueyonder.co.uk>

The Observer newspaper's Music Monthly supplement has a column by
Simon Armitage in which he pays a visit to a different second-hand
record shop and sees what treasures he can find.

In the most recent edition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/vinyl.popandrock.ledzeppelin

the shop owner tells him he once sold an XTC single for "four
grand" (which would be eight grand for those of you who prefer dollars).

So what single would this have been? And who spent that kind of money
on it?

My guess would be Science Friction 7" with a picture sleeve - but
even with that rarity, I'd be amazed if it went for #4000.

Any guesses?

----
Mark

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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com>
Subject: "Funk Pop a Roll" is the MySpace song of the week
Message-ID: <414852.40590.qm@web32005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi:

Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the
song of the week is "Funk Pop a Roll."

If you want to know why there's no demo for the song, or why Andy
encourages everyone to "embrace failure," check out the XTCfans blog
site at http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans.

The music business is a hammer to keep you pegs in your holes
But please don't listen to me, I've already been poisoned by this industry

-Todd

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:29:47 -0400
From: "Scott N." <sgot@busydigits.net>
Subject: Keneally & Gregory
Message-ID: <28688674.119951225160987894.JavaMail.servlet@perfora>

Hopefully this isn't a duplicate post, but here are a couple videos
from Mike Keneally's Swindon show, with Mr. Gregory sitting in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdJthh0K5U0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8-By0OPnU&NR=1

Scott

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