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Went to see Echo and the Bunnymen last night at the Brighton Dome. It was very much a greatest hits affair (with a couple of new songs), which for me was absolutely fine since I've never seen them live before - Lips Like Sugar, The Cutter, The Killing Moon, Seven Seas, Nothing Lasts Forever (somehow...

Thank you, all

It looks promising!

What are the server access logs looking like over periods of high CPU? (I'm wondering if bots are triggering multiple searches per second, which in turn puts a high load on mysql)

Fair :) I'd suggest adding a robots.txt file with the following: # Block unauthorised use of this site as training material for AI User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disal...

Back on. No new concert dates :cry: but it looks like :von: added some stuff :) Added stuff? Where? In "Information, Interviews and Bio-Mechanics". I haven't seen the picture in "What we're not ". Or at least I don't remember seeing it :oops: . I thought I went through the whole...

For the past couple of days I've been getting error messages on search saying 'the server is under a heavy load so you can't use search', and now I'm getting "Sorry but you are not permitted to use the search system."

Eighthcircle wrote: ↑18 Nov 2023, 03:56 I'm also fairly certain "believers in the bus" is a straightforward Brexit reference.

I completely agree that it means that as well

Re. the phrase "the beach": I am increasingly wondering if Eldritch is using "the beach" as a metaphor for being on stage at a gig. Firstly, there's the line on the official site: This website contains ninety-seven million words, which are "REDEMPTION" and " BEACH ...

And also confirmation that Dylan was fired

Echo & The Bunnymen, 3rd March, Brighton Dome

Fingers crossed for a swift recovery

Kudos and respect to Ben for sorting his life out

godgirl wrote: ↑28 Sep 2023, 10:14 Still, now Brighton and Hove cultural types will know something about nothing.

Yeah, All fair comment. I suppose where I'm coming from is trying to imagine how I'd feel walking onto the stage with Von to try to carry off the gig on Saturday night as Ben did. Like, Chris C is there in the back ground to run the 1s and 0s, but otherwise it's just two people, one of whom is very...

Have a great time, everyone!

I'll be watching this thread with interest this evening...

He asked another Sisters fan what he’d say to his niece and his friend replied, ‘she needs a bigger sample size – only after twenty Sisters gigs can you discern if one is good or not.’ He himself had been to thirty-five gigs. Hello Stiltfoxx - that was me Sorry - I was being slightly facetious in t...

A bit late notice, but a friend has had to drop out so I have a spare (digital) ticket for tonight. Price is a pint of beer. DM me

I didn't see any of the drama on the right hand side of the stage with Dylan (only heard about it in the Enterprise after the gig). Very much enjoyed the re-arranged FALAA - almost back to the old arrangement. Von was definitely wandering the barricades on the left hand side of the stage, seemed to ...

"The domain has expired." Same message on: www.thesistersofmercy.com www.parisriots.com www.leedsunderground.com The only working adress at the moment is: www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com Looks as it should but strangely enough, "record news" is down and also shows the "expired...

My view of AE is that of a Hobbesian Capitalist... very pragmatic and every man for himself. I see very little of the compassionate left in his lyrics. Well, he's always said he was left-wing (and has clarified that as 'old school Labour'), he put something on the Sisters website just before a UK g...

My view of AE is that of a Hobbesian Capitalist... very pragmatic and every man for himself. I see very little of the compassionate left in his lyrics. Well, he's always said he was left-wing (and has clarified that as 'old school Labour'), he put something on the Sisters website just before a UK g...

Well, I just got a "you might be interested in..." email from Amazon about sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds' new short story "Detonation Boulevard"

Dr. Moody wrote: ↑24 May 2023, 10:57

Well, that's a bit of a surprise!

More, Show Me, Doctor Jeep/Detonation Boulevard, Eyes of Caligula, Something Fast, I Was Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukXr_HlYjc I'm guessing that the low mix of Andrew's vocals is a sound engineer/technical fuck-up. The yells of "we can't hear you" and "turn the mic up"...

Personally I'd like to hear a lot more of the new-new (Dylan Smith era) songs some of the old-new songs (top picks would be Romeo Down, Summer, We Are The Same Susanne) a few songs from the pre-1985 singles (Alice, ToL are probably expected, but a fast Body Electric, a droning Heartland, or a raw Fl...