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Comment on Why learning, playing and enjoying music is about more than memory by tonyragle

tonyragle — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:45:45 +0000

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Comment on Why learning, playing and enjoying music is about more than memory by tonyragle

tonyragle — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:42:36 +0000

Reblogged this on tonyragle and commented: This post inspired me to share my thoughts on the song in the attatched video.

Comment on Top 20 Albums of the Year, 2011 by tonyragle

tonyragle — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:01:57 +0000

This post made me aware of Elbow today, and I can only praise you for that. Beautiful selection. Thank you for your thoughts.

Comment on Red Hot Chili Peppers try to tackle ticket tout problem by Rob Rackham

Rob Rackham — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:28:23 +0000

Myself and my gf bought 4 tickets, 2 for me and her one night, and 2 for her brother and his mate (for Xmas present) the next night. Our tickets were bought on my card, and their’s on my gf’s card. Can u see the problem this has caused I wonder….?
And how helpful do u think the ticket agent has been, in trying to get round this problem..? Not at all. I can see why they are thrying this, but in my situation it has completely ruined my gf’s brother’s Xmas present.

Comment on Setlist fm or Songkick? The dilemma for music fanatics by Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:27:51 +0000

Hi chrisjeff,
thanks for your great review about setlist.fm!
Tom

Comment on Red Hot Chili Peppers try to tackle ticket tout problem by chrisjeff

chrisjeff — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:38:54 +0000

The ‘proving prior acquaintance via social networking idea’ seems a little too convoluted if I’m honest, Adam.
A refund system would be ideal from a fans’ point of view, but it isn’t in the interests of the organisers at all – they want the event to sell out and get the maximum amount of cash and aren’t concerned if tickets have to go to waste as a result.
It really is a conundrum, but I think the Glasto system should be rolled out at Reading and Leeds. Although, with RnL tickets selling very slowly and going for less than face value on sites like Viagogo and Seatwave, it might not be necessary…

Comment on Red Hot Chili Peppers try to tackle ticket tout problem by Adam

Adam — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:14:11 +0000

Printing names and photos on tickets is not the answer. I couldn’t go to Glastonbury this year, past the refund date, and with no way of selling the ticket on. Were it not for my employer paying me back for my un-used ticket I would have been £200 out of pocket.

I haven’t yet heard of a decent solution to the touting problem. For me it must still allow me to a) sell them on (at face value) if I can’t make it or b) give them to a friend. If neither of these are possible, there must at least / instead be a sensible mechanism for getting a full refund. Any ideas?

I guess even if you had a system in place for either transferring ownership or selling on at face value, you could never prevent the possibility that people would slip each other the difference behind the scenes.

Just thinking about a limited solution for passing them on to friends, rather than being allowed to legitimately sell them on at face value… Could you prove prior acquaintence via social networking? Eg give people the option to log into the ticket site with your Facebook account, let them take a snapshot of your Facebook friends when you buy the ticket…only allow people to transfer them to people from that list? Probably easier with e-tickets too.

I need sleep.

Comment on How Placebo trumped Spotify by Mathieu Méa

Mathieu Méa — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:55:12 +0000

“I’m sure Spotify will inevitably go bust fairly soon” lol
2 years and 1 million paid subscribers later, we can say you were wrong!

To be fair, now with services like Amazon Cloud, Google Music and Apple iCloud, it’s hard to know if the Spotify model is going to win.

Still, I use Spotify Premium as my only music source since a long time and I love it.
What I don’t like is not finding a famous song from Placebo for example :’(

Comment on Why I’m voting Yes to AV and why it’s crucial to vote by limeyrathgam

limeyrathgam — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:17:21 +0000

Interestingly put Chris – I like your thinking. AV may be a compromise but a debate is not being offered, and I am sure that if the No to AV campaign wins then for the foreseeable it will be used to argue that the British public want FPTP when they may simply not want AV. A referendum is actually a chance to have an impact if you bother to participate. So basically what Chris said.

Comment on Why I’m voting Yes to AV and why it’s crucial to vote by Graham Hall

Graham Hall — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:26:19 +0000

Chris talking nonsense….AV is a nonsensical compromise – By all means have a debate and referendum about constitutional reform, but not about AV. Say NO tomorrow to AV, don’t vote for compromise….VOTE NO…