Beautiful. Hiraeth in all it's tonal gorgeousness.

XTC
The Cure
The Fall
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Wedding Present

The segue from the opening into the first song has to be one of the best openings to a live album ever.

You felt anxious because you somehow found yourselves in the bottom three, which is a travesty, but there you (still) are (but not for long...), and perhaps you were nervous about the 'post-Chansiri bounce.' For me, losing so spinelessly today was better than a 'Bouncing Day' humiliation.

Piss poor, wasn't it?

My own iPod Classic was last synced in 2011. I am plugging it into nothing other than my equally-as-old Bose (the one with the swivel-out jack for the iPod itself). Lo-fi air-gapped.

It may well be a long way off, but when it's done, how satisfying will that be? Enjoy the process :)

The Kraftwerk of their day...

I'm jealous :). I love Badalona...such a quirky, charming town, far removed from the excesses of BCN, and much more interesting as a result.

Badalona?

I remember leading an IBDP ToK teacher-training workshop at a prestigious private school in Kent. The music PRACTICE rooms each had a Steinway. Lord knows what they had in the main rehearsal rooms...

I've lived & worked in many countries over the years (Finland, 6; Lebanon, 6; India 5; Spain 5, and a number of others for 2/3 years), and making a linguistic tit of myself is the only way you can learn how a language really works & how it expresses the cultures of the place where it's spoken.

Reminds me a little of Gursky. Noice.

2-tier justice innit: "throw paint at a plane and you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you incite people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph, positive coverage on the BBC," and the Gbeebies lot wet themselves.

I suspect most of the commentariat on this issue aren't teachers. My international school in India banned them 2 years ago, and it appears to have had zero detrimental effect on the kids at all. There's no valid way to measure if it has or not, and they seem just nicer to be around. I'll take that.

Fair enough...but I wonder whose side the proto-fascist Meloni will be on.