… Previously

 

6 March 2012

 

Pink Floyd – David Gilmour

A fine player and a creative force to counterbalance the less affable Waters. A resurgence of late, with the Orb collaboration. Not everyone loved it. I enjoyed it very much. 8 from this birthday boy:

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
From A Saucerful of Secrets

The Narrow Way
From Ummagumma

Mudmen
Childhood’s End
From Obscured By Clouds

Fearless
From Meddle

Money
From Dark Side of the Moon

Wish You Were Here
From Wish You Were Here

Metallic Spheres
With The Orb

 

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26 February 2013

“OK, so Pete had three Twitter feed things that we know of,” Sue talked as she did her hair. “@PeteMadison56 where he was himself. @PeterHookeyNO where he was being the man from New Order and @MikeMiller65 where he was being the man from REM.”

“Not Crowded House.”

“What?”

“Oh, nothing, just a private joke we had.”

“Right. Now the last one, MikeMiller65 has put out nothing for a while, since October last. Repeat Eye Movement toured last summer but don’t appear to be doing anything at the moment. There was quite a lot on Peter Hookey in late November when they did a few shows and announced the tour they were or are supposed to be doing in April, then pot boilers and plugs for the shows every few days.

“So then I searched for NO Order to see if there was something from the band and, of course, there is. The band’s Twitter was plugging tickets every day until everything stopped on 6 January. So it’s pretty clear that Pete ran the No Order Twitter and probably ran the band too. His own Twitter also stopped, obviously. I haven’t had time to look for the other band members – you might want to do that if you get the chance.”

“What about the other band, did you look for them.”

“I did. There was the same. They are just in cold storage, I think. We can’t get into his Facebook with passwords and stuff. So park Facebook just for today, though we might get more from that than from Twitter eventually.”

“Why?”

“It’s a different sort of network. Twitter is not really about friends and such, more for broadcasting what you are up to, and you don’t learn a lot about the ‘followers’, but with Facebook you have a group of friends and the odds are that most of the People Pete was in contact with will be on his Facebook.”

“That could be very useful, depending on what they say tomorrow.”

“Yes, it could, but you know what, Martin? I don’t think the other band members know that Pete’s dead.”

“Why do you say that?”

“They haven’t said anything about it.”

“I’m not sure that’s true – what evidence says they don’t know?”

“Well, there’s nothing on Twitter, there’s nothing on Facebook according to Josh and there’s nothing on either Band’s site. Now you would think there would be something.”

“I don’t know Sue, there’s no good reason why it should be mentioned. Won’t they just get somebody else?”

“That all depends how close they all are and, being somewhat cynical there’s nothing sells records and gig tickets like a dead rocker. Oh, I’m sorry love, I didn’t mean …”

“Ah don’t be, it’s doesn’t matter. Look though, you said we couldn’t get into his Facebook. How is it done?”

“email and password.”

“Does it have a ‘lost passwords” thing?

“Not sure. if so it’s very small. Why?”

“Cos if it does I can get us in, but Sue.”

“Yes.”

“What is the point of Twitter?”

 

To be continued

 

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