OT: Fishing for a Spotify invite
Ian McCall
Cheers,
Ian
ray
> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
>
You should have email.
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SM
> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
Unfortunately not. I didn't realise there were invitations since I must
have requested one from Spotify early on but looking at my account it
seems invites are only available to premium subscribers.
Stuart
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SteveH
> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
If anyone else wants one, reply to me by email, as I have 5 going spare
at the moment - I'm a premium subscriber.
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SteveH
Adrian C
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
>
Ah, Spotify :-)
Sorry, I have to share this link,
The Uninspiration Chillout Gods - The Worst Chill-Out Music Ever ...
http://open.spotify.com/album/3nAewOBndmbl13CYU1pVB7
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SteveH
Tim and Flavio - you should have email invites winging their way to you
now.
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SteveH
Ian McCall
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
>>
> You should have email.
Thanks - signed up.
Cheers,
Ian
SM
I like that each of the 77 tracks is labelled (Chill-Out Version) but
why why why?
Flavio Matani
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Tim Dunne
> Tim and Flavio - you should have email invites winging their way to you
> now.
Cheers, Steve, playing with it now. Thanks for the invite.
Tim
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SteveH
> SteveH wrote:
>
> > Tim and Flavio - you should have email invites winging their way to you
> > now.
>
> Cheers, Steve, playing with it now. Thanks for the invite.
It's addictive - especially if you have an iPhone / iTouch and spend a
lot of time in the car.
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SteveH
Pd
> The Uninspiration Chillout Gods - The Worst Chill-Out Music Ever ...
> http://open.spotify.com/album/3nAewOBndmbl13CYU1pVB7
Sweet Home Alabama - sheer class.
Another Brick in the Wall - coool.
My ears are bleeding, softly.
And while I'm here, why does one need an invite? I just downloaded
Spotify and signed up, no invitation required.
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Pd
Bella Jones
> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
Did i miss something? what is the invite for? I've had spotify for
months.
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Peter Ceresole
> Did i miss something? what is the invite for? I've had spotify for
> months.
If you go to <www.spotify.com>, it redirects you to the english web
site, and offers Spotify Premium for �9.99 a month, or Spotify Free,
which requires an invite.
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Peter
Ian McCall
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
>
> Did i miss something? what is the invite for? I've had spotify for
> months.
Free accounts. I want to try it out before I subscribe to anything, and
the free accounts require invites.
Cheers,
Ian
Flavio Matani
In my case, I can put up with the ads (I thnk, we'll see) and I cannot
really justify paying ten quid a month for this at this point
(skinflint, moi?)
SteveH
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2009-11-22 09:23:55 +0000, m...@privacy.net (Bella Jones) said:
> >
> > > Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going
> > >please?
> > >
> > > Did i miss something? what is the invite for? I've had spotify for
> > > months.
> >
> > Free accounts. I want to try it out before I subscribe to anything, and
> > the free accounts require invites.
> >
>
> In my case, I can put up with the ads (I thnk, we'll see) and I cannot
> really justify paying ten quid a month for this at this point
> (skinflint, moi?)
Well, the big advantage of the subscription is that you can cache stuff
for offline listening. But the value this offers really depends on how
long you spend away from 3G or WiFi connections during a typical week.
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SteveH
SM
> Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>
> > I quite fancy giving this a try - does anyone have an invite going please?
>
> Did i miss something? what is the invite for? I've had spotify for
> months.
I wondered too - I'm a bit a hazy about how I got an account earlier
this year but fairly certain an invitation wasn't needed back then.
Bella Jones
Adrian C
> And while I'm here, why does one need an invite? I just downloaded
> Spotify and signed up, no invitation required.
>
Good Spot.
They have opened the gates for the UK. It was closed to 'invite only' in
September after the iPhone/iPod Touch application launched to prevent
their infrastructure diving under the stress of that accouncement.
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Adrian C
Adrian C
accouncement.
>
Ahem. Announcement...
Funny, google has Results about 59,600 for accouncement.
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Adrian C
Peter Ceresole
> They have opened the gates for the UK.
Where?
Go to the spotify site and you pay 9.99 for an account, or get a free
account by invitation only.
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Peter
Pd
Flavio Matani
From the site it seems you can only use the Premium version (ten quid a
month) on mobile, including iPhone.
SteveH
> SteveH <itali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Tim Dunne <Bit_B...@Blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > SteveH wrote:
> > >
> > > > Tim and Flavio - you should have email invites winging their way to you
> > > > now.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Steve, playing with it now. Thanks for the invite.
> >
> > It's addictive - especially if you have an iPhone / iTouch and spend a
> > lot of time in the car.
>
> From the site it seems you can only use the Premium version (ten quid a
> month) on mobile, including iPhone.
Yes, sadly.
However, for less than the cost of buying 1 album a month, I get an
almost unlimited choice of music to listen to.
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SteveH
Flavio Matani
Oh, indeed, of course.
In my case, I suspect the free version is quite ok for my needs.
Adrian C
Whoops. I clicked the home page links while signed in.
Yes, it's still invite only. Sorry for the mis-information. Normal
service will be resumed shortly after I take myself outside for a kicking.
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Adrian C
Bella Jones
all this said, i am now having a problem with my connection!
Bruce Horrocks
>
> However, for less than the cost of buying 1 album a month, I get an
> almost unlimited choice of music to listen to.
With all the discussion I decided to have a look and the one thing that
I couldn't find anywhere on their site was a list of the
albums/artists available.
I suppose they are at that stage of word of mouth marketing from kid to
kid where "yeah, they've got everything" (and where the kid's knowledge
of "everything" extends back to just the last year or two of the pop
charts) is all they can cope with. Is it too much to hope that they
might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
Regards,
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Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
(bruce at scorecrow dot com)
SM
> I suppose they are at that stage of word of mouth marketing from kid to
> kid where "yeah, they've got everything" (and where the kid's knowledge
> of "everything" extends back to just the last year or two of the pop
> charts) is all they can cope with. Is it too much to hope that they
> might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
You have to be a bit more specific than "classical" but a search for
Beethoven produces a very long list which as you scroll towards the
bottom just gets longer, sample here:
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<07....@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>SteveH wrote:
>>
>> However, for less than the cost of buying 1 album a month, I get an
>> almost unlimited choice of music to listen to.
>
>With all the discussion I decided to have a look and the one thing that
> I couldn't find anywhere on their site was a list of the
>albums/artists available.
This is why you should try the free version if you can get an invite
(or wait until they go open again).
> Is it too much to hope that they
>might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
They have lots of classical at sensible bit rates. I checked out the
complete 14 concert playlist for the Bradford International Orchestra
Concert Season plus Chamber Music Season on Spotify, with only one or
two missing items.
Who are you interested in?
Cheers - Jaimie
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Dorian Gray
peter...@gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote:
Wow, I just made it apparently - signed up for free account without
invitation on 28 August.
Dorian Gray
Bruce Horrocks <07....@scorecrow.com> wrote:
> I couldn't find anywhere on their site was a list of the
> albums/artists available.
I find they have more than iTunes does.
> Is it too much to hope that they
> might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
Seems so. Premium version gives you higher bit rates.
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray <D.G...@picture.invalid> wrote:
That might have come out wrong. What I meant to say was the free
version bit rate seems fine to me (160 kbps), and premium version users
have the option of that or 320 kbps.
Pd
> Is it too much to hope that they
> might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
They've had almost every obscure bit of music I've searched for, from
Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, through several variations of
Elgar's Serenade in E minor, to Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 (rather
oddly by the Mexico City Philharmonic).
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Pd
Graham J
"Pd" <peter...@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
news:1j9mx7w.q08txy1dwlaypN%peter...@gmail.invalid...
Shostakovich 5 is hardly obscure !!! I would have said it is mainstream
repertoire!
The Barber string quartet might be considered obscure, but even then his
rearrangement of the second movement for orchestral strings is well known.
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Graham J
Jaimie Vandenbergh
I don't know the piece, but asking for "barber string quartet" gives
all of Op11, plus lots of parts. Recorded artists are the Endellion
SQ, Chester SQ, and Leonard Bernstein + the NY Phil.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Adrian C
> I don't know the piece, but asking for "barber string quartet" gives
> all of Op11, plus lots of parts. Recorded artists are the Endellion
> SQ, Chester SQ, and Leonard Bernstein + the NY Phil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_for_Strings
Like ...
http://open.spotify.com/track/5cXlEtaF2Sky1xF6xf3BR7
http://open.spotify.com/track/2spjKg3AD8cPc6UrRDePyB
http://open.spotify.com/track/3LQdHWhwabhEQgjzHn05sL
(sorry I know it's horrid, being naughty)
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Adrian C
Graham J
"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:13:02 -0000, "Graham J"
> <gra...@nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Pd" <peter...@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:1j9mx7w.q08txy1dwlaypN%peter...@gmail.invalid...
>>> Bruce Horrocks <07....@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it too much to hope that they
>>>> might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
>>>
>>> They've had almost every obscure bit of music I've searched for, from
>>> Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, through several variations of
>>> Elgar's Serenade in E minor, to Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 (rather
>>> oddly by the Mexico City Philharmonic).
>>
>>Shostakovich 5 is hardly obscure !!! I would have said it is mainstream
>>repertoire!
>>
>>The Barber string quartet might be considered obscure, but even then his
>>rearrangement of the second movement for orchestral strings is well known.
>
> I don't know the piece, but asking for "barber string quartet" gives
> all of Op11, plus lots of parts. Recorded artists are the Endellion
> SQ, Chester SQ, and Leonard Bernstein + the NY Phil.
What about the Bingham quartet recording ...?
My point being you have to struggle to choose a truly obscure piece of music
to illustrate the original assertion.
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Graham J
Pd
> "Pd" <peter...@gmail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1j9mx7w.q08txy1dwlaypN%peter...@gmail.invalid...
> > Bruce Horrocks <07....@scorecrow.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Is it too much to hope that they
> >> might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
> >
> > They've had almost every obscure bit of music I've searched for, from
> > Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, through several variations of
> > Elgar's Serenade in E minor, to Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 (rather
> > oddly by the Mexico City Philharmonic).
>
> Shostakovich 5 is hardly obscure !!! I would have said it is mainstream
> repertoire!
Granted, they weren't good examples to illustrate obscurity.
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Pd
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<gra...@nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
>news:ot6lg5tdf2k8lp6v6...@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:13:02 -0000, "Graham J"
>> <gra...@nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Shostakovich 5 is hardly obscure !!! I would have said it is mainstream
>>>repertoire!
>>>
>>>The Barber string quartet might be considered obscure, but even then his
>>>rearrangement of the second movement for orchestral strings is well known.
>>
>> I don't know the piece, but asking for "barber string quartet" gives
>> all of Op11, plus lots of parts. Recorded artists are the Endellion
>> SQ, Chester SQ, and Leonard Bernstein + the NY Phil.
>
>What about the Bingham quartet recording ...?
>
>My point being you have to struggle to choose a truly obscure piece of music
>to illustrate the original assertion.
Well, I wasn't making that assertion - I was showing what the results
are on a piece that you deemed possibly obscure, in case that was
helpful. Is it not?
Cheers - Jaimie
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Flavio Matani
They have just one of Stockhausen's Klavierst�ke (the one with the
interminable repeated chord in the beginning). Looking for various
industrial/alternative bands brought _some_ results, but not the ones I
was after. Oh, ok; it doesn't know, say, This Morn' Omina but it does
have quite a bit of Diamanda Galas and the Tiger Lillies (but these are
kind of better known). Looking up classical guitarists is, again, a
mixed bag, mostly brings up the kind of 'top of the pops' of the genre.
Bruce Horrocks
Thank-you Stuart - I was worried that a trial investment of �10 would
result in nothing at all.
Bruce Horrocks
> They have lots of classical at sensible bit rates. I checked out the
> complete 14 concert playlist for the Bradford International Orchestra
> Concert Season plus Chamber Music Season on Spotify, with only one or
> two missing items.
Thanks also, this is useful to know.
> Who are you interested in?
Well, all of them. Or rather, those that might be a choice buy, but on
the other hand might not. Being able to listen to two or three versions
of so-and-so's piano concerto and decide on the best would be value for
money for me.
On the other hand, I could just keep listening to Radio 3's "Building a
Collection" and buy whatever they recommend.:-)
Graham J
"Flavio Matani" <flavio_matani...@mac.com> wrote in message
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> Pd <peter...@gmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Bruce Horrocks <07....@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is it too much to hope that they
>> > might have classical music and at sensible bit rates?
>>
>> They've had almost every obscure bit of music I've searched for, from
>> Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band, through several variations of
>> Elgar's Serenade in E minor, to Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 (rather
>> oddly by the Mexico City Philharmonic).
>
> They have just one of Stockhausen's Klavierst�ke (the one with the
> interminable repeated chord in the beginning). Looking for various
> industrial/alternative bands
Putting the words "Stockhausen" and "band" together reminds me that I think
he wrote a piece for rubber bands. Is that obscure ?!?
--
Graham J
SM
It's a pity there's the hassle of the invitations to the free version.
SM
> Well, all of them. Or rather, those that might be a choice buy, but on
> the other hand might not. Being able to listen to two or three versions
> of so-and-so's piano concerto and decide on the best would be value for
> money for me.
I seem to be using Spotify to preview music I then buy - maybe force of
habit.
zoara
Just out of interest, before I start fishing or an invite, do they have
any of the following artists of varying levels of obscurity? I always
struggle to find my kind of music on online sites (and often in record
shops; thank the gods for Spillers Records) and I wonder whether Spotify
will be any different.
Ø (hope that comes through properly)
Autechre
Bola
Jega
Lackluster
Mira Calix
Mouse on Mars
Oval
Panasonic (aka Pan Sonic)
Pogo (the artist that did Wonderland, not the other Pogo)
Pole
Scanner
Squarepusher
To Rococo Rot
Oh, and this artist just because their name made me laugh as I scrolled
through my music collection just now; Hairy Butter
Cheers,
-zoara-
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Pd
> �
12 (hard to search for being a single letter, but found an album called
Oleva with Mika Vainio)
> Autechre
38 tracks
> Bola
Agustin Carbonell "Bola" 32 tracks
Bola Abimbola 11
Bola De Nieve 113
Bola Sete 64
Bola Suriana 89
Jesus Bola 49
but no plain old Bola
> Jega
20 tracks
> Lackluster
maybe 30 (there's a Lackluster album that's not by Lackluster)
> Mira Calix
20
> Mouse on Mars
156
> Oval
maybe 3 or 4 - to separate out would take more time
> Panasonic (aka Pan Sonic)
2
> Pogo (the artist that did Wonderland, not the other Pogo)
maybe 8 collaborations, but mostly psy trance so not sure if that's your
Pogo
> Pole
maybe 30
> Scanner
30-50 including collaborations
> Squarepusher
34
> To Rococo Rot
77
>
> Hairy Butter
23
Might have found more, but fell asleep after listening to a few of those
tracks. Not saying they're boring, just sayin'.
--
Pd
Dorian Gray
<1590677798280752656.7...@news.individual.net>,
zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Just out of interest, before I start fishing or an invite, do they have
> any of the following artists of varying levels of obscurity?
<snip>
>
> Ø (hope that comes through properly)
Assuming that is a slashed capital O, I couldn't find it.
> Autechre
~38 tracks
> Bola
There are lots for "Bola De Nieve" and "Bola Sete"
> Jega
20 tracks
> Lackluster
~30 tracks
> Mira Calix
20 tracks
> Mouse on Mars
155 tracks
> Oval
3 tracks
> Panasonic (aka Pan Sonic)
2 tracks
> Pogo (the artist that did Wonderland, not the other Pogo)
Hard to tell - the only 2 by Pogo are "Onwards and Upwards" and
"Imagination"
> Pole
30 tracks
> Scanner
30-40 tracks, depending if you want to count "joint artist" listings
with Robin Rimbaud or David Cunningham
> Squarepusher
30 tracks
> To Rococo Rot
71 tracks
> Hairy Butter
23 tracks
Dorian Gray
peter...@gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote:
<spotify artist track counts>
Ah, you beat me to it, posting yours while I was reading and responding
to posts and searching spotify...
Where there were discrepancies in our figures, it's normally because
ordered by Artist and then subtracted from the total the few at the top
and bottom that weren't the artist in question. Or counted them
manually. :P
Jaimie Vandenbergh
I do that a lot...
Cheers - Jaimie
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in an hour. I have prepared practically everything. There are six ponies
in the stable across the fields." -- J R R Tolkien
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray <D.G...@picture.invalid> wrote:
> Where there were discrepancies in our figures, it's normally because
[I]
> ordered by Artist and then subtracted from the total...
zoara
> In article
> <1590677798280752656.7...@news.individual.net>,
> zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Just out of interest, before I start fishing or an invite, do they
> > have
> > any of the following artists of varying levels of obscurity?
> <snip>
> >
> > Ø (hope that comes through properly)
> Assuming that is a slashed capital O, I couldn't find it.
It was a slashed capital O.
Thanks for checking all these for me; tallies up reasonably well with
what Pd found, and gives me a good idea of what's on there. It seems
like it is worth giving a go - but now I need to find someone who still
has spare invites. Anyone?
zoara
> zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Ø
> called
> Oleva with Mika Vainio)
Sounds right.
> > Autechre
> 38 tracks
*raised eyebrow* given the figures for the others, I'm surprised this is
that low.
> > Bola
> Agustin Carbonell "Bola" 32 tracks
> Bola Abimbola 11
> Bola De Nieve 113
> Bola Sete 64
> Bola Suriana 89
> Jesus Bola 49
> but no plain old Bola
That is also surprising.
> > Jega
> 20 tracks
>
> > Lackluster
> maybe 30 (there's a Lackluster album that's not by Lackluster)
>
> > Mira Calix
> 20
Righto.
> > Mouse on Mars
> 156
Damn, I had no idea he was anywhere near that prolific...
> > Oval
> maybe 3 or 4 - to separate out would take more time
Sounds about right.
> > Panasonic (aka Pan Sonic)
> 2
Hmmm.
> > Pogo (the artist that did Wonderland, not the other Pogo)
> maybe 8 collaborations, but mostly psy trance so not sure if that's
> your
> Pogo
Nope, don't think so.
> > Pole
> maybe 30
>
> > Scanner
> 30-50 including collaborations
>
> > Squarepusher
> 34
>
> > To Rococo Rot
> 77
Not bad for this lot.
> > Hairy Butter
> 23
I thought these were one of those bands which only ever appeared on
compilation albums and label samplers, so this surprised me.
> Might have found more, but fell asleep after listening to a few of
> those
> tracks. Not saying they're boring, just sayin'.
Yeah, that's what I like about them.
Thanks for doing that for me. I think I might give it a go - anyone got
any invites left after all the exchanges this thread has provoked?
Dorian Gray
<1356802670280887320.5...@news.individual.net>,
zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> It seems
> like it is worth giving a go - but now I need to find someone who still
> has spare invites. Anyone?
Sorry can't help there - I got my free account on 28 August, a few days
before they required invites (from 1 September), and I would need to pay
for a Premium account to obtain the ability to send invites to others.
Woody
> Dorian Gray <D.G...@picture.invalid> wrote:
> > In article
> > <1590677798280752656.7...@news.individual.net>,
> > zoara <me...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Just out of interest, before I start fishing or an invite, do they
> > > have
> > > any of the following artists of varying levels of obscurity?
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > � (hope that comes through properly)
> > Assuming that is a slashed capital O, I couldn't find it.
>
> It was a slashed capital O.
>
> Thanks for checking all these for me; tallies up reasonably well with
> what Pd found, and gives me a good idea of what's on there. It seems
> like it is worth giving a go - but now I need to find someone who still
> has spare invites. Anyone?
I have a full set of invites if you want one
--
Woody