I hope it's okay to publish this link.
Anne Williams is the mother of a fifteen year old boy who died at Hillsborough in 1989. She has spent the intervening years trying to get a fair inquest for her son. The original inquest for the 96 victims gave a cut off point of 3.15pm after which time it was wrongly stated that all victims had passed away.
At 4pm Kevin Williams asked for his mother. He could have been saved at any point in the 45 minutes that are not being covered by any inquest.
The full details are in the attached article along with the link to the governement's e-petition.
Anne needs 100,000 signatures. She's currently a long way from this and this could well be her only chance to get the justice she deserves.
This comes from a Liverpool blog but isn't about football loyalties. This is about a mother who deserves to know the truth about what happened to her son.
Please take a few minutes to read this, if you agree with the need for a new inquest sign the petition and pass on to anybody that you feel would want to support this.
Thanks
Ian

http://thekop.liverpoolfc.tv/_My-most-important-blog-ever/blog/5710846/1...

I'm positive we all have very different (and probably mostly negative)feelings toward X Factor but it would appear that one thing that a great many people are agreed on is that this series is weak to the extent that it's shedding viewers at a rate of knots.
So at a time when what remains of the singles chart is clogged with X Factor contestants, guest stars and songs used in auditions what is causing the revolt?
Is it that the viewers have finally realised that the winners will come out with identikit material that they won't enjoy? That they were only enjoying their memory of the original song whilst voting?
Have they tired of watching the judges tell us that a performance was fantastic when it was clearly average at best? Has the move to a supposedly younger feel alienated some of the audience as they no longer recognise the material? Have the judges arguments become far too staged?
What is it?
And are we watching the death throes of the show?

Who were the Surprise Sisters, where are they now and who decided this was good enough to release?

Last night I took my 14 year old son to his first gig. Elbow at the Echo Arena Liverpool. Utterly perfect, a fantastic step up to the arenas, wonderfully performed and brilliantly staged ending with Guy Garvey conducting a lap of the arena performing One Day Like This.
I genuinely believe Garvey is a national treasure and that the lyrics to the new album stand up as poetry in their own right. I've had to warn Tom that it's probably all downhill from here.
So, no questions, no point to make, just a chance to flag up that I got to share this with my son.
Here's the night will always win from last night, it's my son's favourite song at the moment. He has impeccable taste.

The BAFTAs tonight may as well be retitled The King's Speech Awards Show, such is the foregone conclusive nature of the results but personally it's one of those films that no matter how many people tell me it's incredible, heart warming, uplifting, human etc has me looking at it and going;
'd'you know what? I'm not interested'
I had exactly the same blind spot for Slumdog Millionaire, I'm just not interested and can't see a point when I would be.
Is it just me? Am I wrong or do others suffer from this condition with otherwise acknowledged art?
Not hatred or even dislike just utter apathy

The current inclemency caused me to come close to a major accident on the way to work this morning. Totally terrifying. To add to the horror, I was listening to the Good, the Bad and the Queen. I was giving it 'another chance'. Always thought it was a bit disappointing, I was wrong, it's bloody awful, endless whinging over poor Gorillaz demos (and I love pretty much everything Damon's done other than this)
As I wrestled with the wheel I thought "I'm not dying with this in the background"
The question is - what music would you NOT want to mark your demise?

Was anybody else aware of this incredible piece of investigative journalism?
http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com/

Tickets for the Roxy Music final (honest to god, really, final this time) tour went on sale today.
£50 - £75.
Is it just me or is this taking the proverbial in a very big way. I've paid more to see Leonard Cohen and as much to see Brian Wilson but as far as I'm concerned (and as much as I love Roxy) they're in a completely different league.
Am I alone in thinking this is a ridiculous level of pricing in the current climate?

After being available on download and then vinyl for world record shop day, Flaming Lips' version of Dark Side Of The Moon has finally quietly crept out onto a little silver disc, almost totally unheralded.
I personally think it's a wonderful reading of the album, given a total Lips approach but where does everybody else stand on it and who would we like to see do what next?
(My call is for the Lips to do a new cover album each year, let's start with SF Sorrow or A Night at the Opera)

Like many of us, I'm in a band. I've got bored of trying to introduce new songs in rehearsals and want to be able to record rudimentary home demos (purely guitar and vocals)
I'm a decent enough guitarist but an appalling vocalist and tend to sing in the same rhythm as I play. I'm looking for a basic multi track program that I can record ideas onto.
I've got audacity but can't manage to get it to play one track and record another.
Has anyone got any suggestions taking into account the fact that I'm tight and am looking for either free or cheap?

I'm sure Sheev is aware of this but I wasn't. a lovely warm fuzzy moment ...

So at the height of raggle taggle period Waterboys, Mike Scott plays a school assembley. Any other footage of impromptu gigs in odd places?

my wife wants to perform Nancy Sinatra's "it's For My Dad" at a tribute night to her father who passed away earlier this year. She's looking for an instrumental version of it to sing over but thre's no joy on this.
I'm lousy at playing by ear but more having heard it know that I'm more than capable of performing the guitar part from Tablature.
Only thing is, the only tab I can't find for Nancy is the song we want - can any of the massive help? Just the chord sequence would more than suffice.
Thanks
Ian