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Who’d have thought it? The Prime Minister wants to help save BBC6 Music no less? anyone would think there’s an election looming…..oh, wait a minute…..

Nice to see some big time support for BBC6 Music

The Weakerthans. Are ace.

The have a new live DVD / album out “Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre”

Strangely the bands website doesn’t seem to have been updated with this momentous news? so I thought I’d post it here on my own high hit rate site (yeah , right). Anway, everyone should take a listen to the Weakerthans.

From http://www.38degrees.org.uk

The BBC Trust has now launched an official consultation on its proposals for massive cuts to its services. It’s asking us to email to say what we think of their plans to cut their website in half and scrap BBC 6 Music and Asian Network.

We need to make sure the BBC gets an overwhelming number of responses against these plans. The more of us who send an email against the cuts, the more chance we have of changing their mind.

It only takes 1 minute to email the BBC Trust and speak out against the cuts using this online tool – please click here to add to the pressure: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/email-the-BBC-Trust

Public pressure can stop the corporate media barons getting their way and persuade the BBC to put its viewers and listeners first. Please help add to the pressure by signing the petition here:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/BBC-stop-the-cuts

Thank you BBC for axing Radio 6 Music, the only decent music station with an ounce of credibility. Thanks a lot…numptys.

I went to see Cumbrian prog rock legends It Bites last night. It was a ‘special’ gig at Carlisle Art college , being filmed by a small army of camera men for a forthcoming live DVD release.

I last saw IT Bites in 1986, so this was really an excuse for a trip down memory lane.  The opening act was Jon Amor a bluesman from Devizes in Wiltshire, (home of the delta blues?) . Poor fella had one or two technical hitches to deal with but managed to pull off a convincing set – I particularly liked his cover of Tainted Love (in a blues stylee of course).

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