No Moon on monday
I've just treated myself to a nice 'Panasaki' HDD Multi-Region DVD Freeview Recorder thingy. It looks cool but it's taken me hours to figure out how it works. The Freeview pictures are better than what I was getting via Cable, recording to hard disk is great and I've managed to successfully copy stuff onto +R and -R DVDs. There are still a few things I'm stumped on though. The manual says I should be able write to +RW DVD discs but I've not had much joy with those so far. Grrr. Modern technology is becoming more complicated and harder to use. Does the average person in the street really know about 720p, 1080i, HDMI, HDD, RGB, +RW, RAM, NTSC, SD, VCD, XP, SP, AV2, and EXT1? And that's just half of the technobabble involved. I'm about 90% fluent but I still find myself struggling. Did I say it looks cool? Yeah, slim, shiny and black.
One task that I thought would be tricky to do was to hook up my ancient VCR and then copy stuff from my old VHS tapes onto the hard disk. This turned out to be a piece of cake! I've got some old family home movies, originally shot on cine film and transferred to VHS, now successfully transferred onto DVD. I'm really chuffed about that. I've also rescued a few things that I taped from TV many years ago - Bruce Springsteen's live from Glasgow 1992 TOTP appearance... anyone? OK, what about this rarity - A Pete Shelley TV concert, aired in 1986? Well I'm impressed even if nobody else is!
Back in the eighties I loved Pete Shelley's post-Buzzcocks solo albums. My favourite was his third and last - Heaven and The Sea. I saw Pete play at the Electric Ballroom, Camden on the tour for that album; It was, and still is, one of the best gigs I've ever seen. So it's a real thrill for me to watch the, previously lost, 'Cue The Music' TV broadcast again. 45 minutes of Pete Shelley on the telly! The audience appears to have been dragged into the studio from the street outside, but despite this it's a well shot, great performance from Pete and his band. Here's an ever so creepy, atmospheric, 'out-there' song from the show (best watched at night with the lights turned off). Enjoy.
And since I'm in a good mood, here's one of the great singles from Heaven and The Sea...
Pete Shelley solo myspace
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