Seems on Sunday i forgot to check that one of the doors to our meeting room was closed properly before I locke dup.
An external door no less, leading onto the passage down the side of the building.
I checked both the internal doors to this room and locked them, but didn't think the outer door would be open.
Even if it was, surely you would expect the alarm not to set.
but NEVER ASSUME. When will I learn this!!!
That door isn't even on the alarm circuit, so setting the bells won't pick it up.
It's one of our fire doors - in fact the only sourc eof air in that room. I realsied today it has no other opening windows??
And this is somewhere we hire out???

Also neglected to actually alarm the Old Church itself, so I guess I messed up.

This evening I have been asked to be a signatory on the accounts, and on cheques. There have so far only ever been two, and one has just stepped down as treasurer. We are going ot have at least four I think

Now I'm not a great fan of any kind of free, post-anyhting you like anywhere kind of website, comprising as they generally do what I call the 'toilet wall' of the interweb, but my opinion is shifting now to a point where I can at least see some value in myspace and youtube and all that malarky.
Myspace, while I still hold that it is NOT the kind of place for credible, established artists with respectable careers behind them to table their wares, is much more significant in introducing and exposing new and unsigned bands to a bigger audience. I've found loads of great music on there.
Now my attention has been drawn to youtube for similar reason. more and more people are putting up actually quite good footage of gigs etc online, when otherwise of course no-one else would be able to see them. This blatantly ignores all copyrights and other issues, but for some artists (like John foxx) where there is no record industry red tape to get in the way, You Tube is beginning a goldmine for rare live material.
And copyright is the bane of creativity after all…

My point is here, fort those who have endured my rant so far.
I have software (SnapX) of which there must be loads all over the places, which allows the very simple downloading of such videos to this humble computer, and then with a quick bit of editing we have files for the archive. Over the past few days, Ive found about 20, all individual songs filmed on the tour last summer or even , like the above, in Europe earlier this year.
Some of them have already disappeared from the net.
from these, I have extracted the sound files and behold, they fit almost perfectly on a CD and have become an album called "Rarities Six" which doesn't exist anywhere in the world except my studio.
So why does no one else at the forum do this, and why are peope so excited at the idea that I might circulate what i have to all and sundry??
I think not.
In reply to two eamils already I have linked to the software i used (which is freley available for download).
I might be interested in trading with a select few, but primarily this is material for the Archive, and to be honest virtually no-one these days has anything I haven't got.

Come on guys, get off your bottoms and FIND stuff. It's all out there. Are people inherently lazy…?
Discuss.
No, don't. I was kidding.
The other thing that stuns me is that some of the peoplle posting the stuff don't know theeir basic facts.
A bit like the cushions anedote I posted some weeks ago.
There is one film of John and Louis performing Shifting City from last summer, titled "London".
First off, they played at least two dates in London on the first two, and two later in the year.
Secondly, have you actually WATCHED the video? There's clearly a couple of seconds that show the logo and name of the "Steel Stage" which is at the Leadmill in Sheffield!
What does it take to read things thru first and title things properly.

Grrr…

Having said that, sincere thanks to anyone who posts this stuff - for fans, collectors, biographers and archivists like me, the stuff is invaluable.