Just wondered if theres a problem at Dev Hell re the automated "resubscribe" emails?

I've just had one telling me there's only 1 issue left on my subscription. Checking my subs details on the website, I'm still good for another 20.

Anybody else had the same problem?

Apologies for polluting the stream, but since Bob was asking for ideas on his deli, I thought I might do the same. Not about his deli, obviously. We've done that.

I'm looking at setting up an oral history archive, free to access, using the internet. Long term I think there are possibilities for making it self sufficient but in the short term, it's a project that would need some funding. It's a national project, based in the West Midlands.

Is there anyone out there that either works for Heritage Lottery Fund or has experience of applying to them, that might be able to offer up a pointer or two in return for a dose of good karma man...

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With all the furore about podcasts, it reminded me of the Beatlecast of a couple of months back.

During the course, Peter Doggett came up with some stuff about His Bobness not having written Chronicles, or chunks of it at least.

I may have missed any follow up on that here, but if not, does anybody have any info on that? If not, surely there's a Word investigation to be done into the claims?

For those who havent heard it, I recommend you collect the podcast from "The First Time" on 6Music featuring Robbie Robertson.

A very interesting interview covering his whole career - still available on the BBC website.

The Alice Cooper one's not bad either.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/firsttime

By way of a public service announcement can I point you in the way of "The Charisma Years", a four CD box set of Lindisfarne material that seems to round up all the classic early albums plus a few extras, and all for the faintly scandalous price of £11.93 -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charisma-Years-1970-1973-Lindisfarne/dp/B004D5H2...

Here's a good reason to buy it:

It's probably too late in the day, but at 46, having never picked up any instrument in anger, I've taken to the idea of learning to play a bit of acoustic guitar.

Am I too old? How do you start? What guitar would you suggest for a beginner with 10 thumbs? I know I should get lessons but I fear my lack of free time might be against me - so am I doomed to fail?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Enough talking. Post us up a quality instrumental tune, simple as that. To start, Thursday the Twelfth by Bankstatement.

Magnificent cover. Good work.

I'm of an age and of a job that means I have to force myself down to the gym a couple of times a week to get some exercise and so I get on the treadmill for 30 to 45 minutes.

To block out the godawful racket they pump out of the speakers there, I take the mp3 player and I've found that certain albums work when you're running and some don't.

My personal recommendations for getting the best out of your running are the Rolling Stones - 40 Licks (cd1) and Hole - Celebrity Skin.

I've tried playing some prog, but all those tricky time signatures tend to make you fall off the treadmill. For some reason, The Beatles don't really cut it either.

Anybody got any other suggestions?

with collapsing airlines, but it did remind me of this piece of gorgeousness. They don't write 'em like that any more. Surely time for a reappraisal of 10CC's 1970 majesty?

Just picked up a dvd of The Stones in Exile, only had a chance to take a quick look at the bonus interviews.

A real pleasure to see Keef taking the interview process seriously rather than giving us the Cap'n Jack thing he's ben doing for years. Gives me sufficient hope for the forthcoming autobiography that I've just preordered it from Amazon - comes out in October, called "Life: Keith Richards".

Are any of the other Keef tomes worth a look? I never did get Bockris' version.

Maybe if they'd stayed together they'd have become rubbish, but I still miss what Talking Heads could do together...

Following the recent blogs about the Canterbury scene, it got me thinking about newer prog rock. Many of us gathered here today will know our readings from Genesis, and from Yes, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Camel and assorted other 1970s prog masters, but what of prog since?

I was of an age to be greatly taken by the new wave of prog in the early 80s, spearheaded by Marillion. Of those bands, Twelfth Night remain one of my all time favourite bands of any genre, but few survived the 80s - though a lot are still gigging part time - and not all the material has stood the test of time to be honest.

But I hear a lot about nu-prog and wondered if there were any recommendations from out there? I've heard Karnataka and like them, but a lot of it tends to veer to close to themetal for me - Dream Theater seem a case in point, though the little I've heard of Porcupine Tree doesn't seem bad.

So, any new proggers worth seeking out?

And in the meantime, a gratuitous link to a bit of Twelfth Night...
http://www.youtube.com/user/TwelfthNightOfficial#p/u/16/YhPjTGwvUJg

So now we know what The Coalition stands for, because they've put out a document to tell us, one which supercedes the manifestos on which the Liberal Democrats and the Tories both campaigned.

It now appears we have a government with a set of policies that nobody actually voted for. If you're a Tory, it may be that the "compromises" involved in getting a coalition have seen the specific policy that you valued above all, and which won your vote, elbowed out. The same is perhaps true of many a Lib Dem voter.

Odd isn't it that we've just come through a couple of years where David Cameron did little but complain that Gordon Brown had no mandate because he'd inherited the PMs job from Tony Blair, which, in itself was broadly irrelevant given we don't have a Presidential system and, while the party leader had changed, the governing party hadn't. Their polices remained largely the same. That's not true of The Coalition, and we're only 3 weeks on.

So, as the double headed Clameron are both such champions of politcal reform, here's a suggestion. Go the country on your coalition document. Give the nation the chance to vote on that platform and, if you win, you've got the mandate that mattered so much to you both when Brown allegedly didn't have it. Otherwise, you can't blame us for being just as cynical about you as we were about the last government, can you?

Van the Man becomes Van the Dad.

Imagine, having that curmudegeonly 64 year old as your papa. And, it gets worse for the poor little blighter, for Van's site says:

It described the newest Morrison, born on Tuesday, as "the spitting image of his daddy".