The Time Has Come - UKMGPU Manchester 2
Justin P.
again.
Availability everyone? I'm thinking a Sunday, and fairly soon!
John Rimmer
"Justin P." <jus...@parkerfly.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Sounds good to me. Any Sunday will do for me at the moment.
Rick Booth
> "Justin P." <jus...@parkerfly.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yes, the time for beer and curry and guitar chat in Manchester is here
>> once again.
>>
>> Availability everyone? I'm thinking a Sunday, and fairly soon!
>
> Sounds good to me. Any Sunday will do for me at the moment.
AOL! Except today, obviously.
- Rick
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Paul Simpson
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Poo, bum and plop. I can see that this 'Real Life With A Job And
Everything' lifestyle is going to seriously get in the way of my
socialising...
If someone promises to e-mail me with the details of the when and the where
when UKMGPU 'Manchester - The Revenge' has been organised I promise to do
everything I can to come along (I'm going to be travelling all over he UK
for the next three months). *Thinks - do they want me to come along after
last time? ;-)*
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clive.murray
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>Yes, the time for beer and curry and guitar chat in Manchester is here once
>again.
>Availability everyone? I'm thinking a Sunday, and fairly soon!
wowsers, yes! I am up for that in a big way.
HOWEVER. due to current joblessness (and tearing around like a blue-arsed
fly going to interviews and trying to get another job) I won't be able to
make it if it's any time in the next 4/6 weeks. the money just won't stretch
that far... dammit.
I should be employed again within a week or so, but the next paycheck will
be a little way off.
ack! if too soon, no. if we're talking in about a month, then YES!
cheers,
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Mark Williams
> Poo, bum and plop. I can see that this 'Real Life With A Job And
> Everything' lifestyle is going to seriously get in the way of my
> socialising...
>
> If someone promises to e-mail me with the details of the when and the where
> when UKMGPU 'Manchester - The Revenge' has been organised I promise to do
> everything I can to come along (I'm going to be travelling all over he UK
> for the next three months). *Thinks - do they want me to come along after
> last time? ;-)*
>
Look on the bright side Paul. You have the opportunity to host
UKMGPU's (Travelling Simpson) 1-10. All you need is a
little forward planning.
Paul Simpson
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> Look on the bright side Paul. You have the opportunity to host
> UKMGPU's (Travelling Simpson) 1-10. All you need is a
> little forward planning.
Heh - that thought has just cheered me up no end (got throat infection -
DTT gig pulled cos I'm the singer - buggered up DTTs chances of getting a
gig at same place again - DTT and Paul not happy). Well spotted, and
thanks! Dates for the Travelling Simpson UKMGPU Roadshow to be posted as
soon as i get them :-)
Paul Simpson
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> wowsers, yes! I am up for that in a big way.
>
> HOWEVER. due to current joblessness (and tearing around like a blue-arsed
> fly going to interviews and trying to get another job) I won't be able to
> make it if it's any time in the next 4/6 weeks. the money just won't
stretch
> that far... dammit.
>
> I should be employed again within a week or so, but the next paycheck will
> be a little way off.
>
> ack! if too soon, no. if we're talking in about a month, then YES!
Yeah, be nice to see you again a bit nearer to home territory Clive :-) A
few weeks would let me find my feet in my new job too and let me find out
which Sundays I'll have free.
tim_j_...@hotmail.com
it, being a Manchester dweller as I am.
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James Screaton
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> Excellent. Assuming it's open to all (ie, invited) I'll be well up for
> it, being a Manchester dweller as I am.
>
last time :)
Cheers
James
James Screaton
"Justin P." <jus...@parkerfly.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Sounds good for any Sunday - I might even manage to stick around for the
curry this time ;)
As long as you can organise the weather so I can cross the pennines, or at
least
arrange for Sherpa Tensing to guide me across if it snows.
Cheers
James
Torpedo Dave
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>
(nip the snip)> Natives of Manchester are quite welcome - after all we let
Liverpudlians in
> last time :)
>
Harumpf!!!
I'm a scouser not a 'pudlian thank you very much.
Dave "Calm Down" Galbraith
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Frightening on many levels - I went to Liverpool Uni so I should be
able to handle it, plus there's the home advantage.
T
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James Screaton
<berg...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:94h9mq$ci3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Scousers eh? Good grief!
> Frightening on many levels - I went to Liverpool Uni so I should be
> able to handle it, plus there's the home advantage.
> T
>
To be fair, David Galbraith is a really nice guy :) It's me who should
worry - a Yorkshireman in Manchester - I only hope Paul Simpson will be
there to even things up a little :)
Cheers
James
Ross Edwards
>
> <berg...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > Scousers eh? Good grief!
> > Frightening on many levels - I went to Liverpool Uni so I should be
> > able to handle it, plus there's the home advantage.
> > T
> >
>
> To be fair, David Galbraith is a really nice guy :) It's me who should
> worry - a Yorkshireman in Manchester - I only hope Paul Simpson will
be
> there to even things up a little :)
>
Worry ye not... you might have a southerner to cope with!
S'pose I'd better practice my Manc accent...
Let me know when it is - might be able to persuade my 'guide' (ex-Manc,
now a southerner) to come with me... come to think of it, I might be
able to wangle a bed for the night at her sister's!
Ross.
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tim_j_...@hotmail.com
did the same.
Then again, you can take the girl out of Manc but you can't...
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Paul Simpson
> To be fair, David Galbraith is a really nice guy :) It's me who should
> worry - a Yorkshireman in Manchester - I only hope Paul Simpson will be
> there to even things up a little :)
I'll certainly be doing my best to get there - UKMGPUs are not to be missed,
and it would be great to meet up with everyone again.
Paul Simpson
> Frightening on many levels - I went to Liverpool Uni so I should be
> able to handle it, plus there's the home advantage.
> T
Hey, I went to Liverpool Uni too. I did Mechanical Engineering and Advanced
Manufacturing with lasers between 1994 - 2000. You weren't an Engineer or
in the History dept. during that time were you?
Justin P.
2 weeks time, maybe? What's that date? Duh.......
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BURNSV930
<j.scr...@sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
>Sounds good for any Sunday - I might even manage to stick around for the
>curry this time ;)
>As long as you can organise the weather so I can cross the pennines, or at
>least
>arrange for Sherpa Tensing to guide me across if it snows.
>
>
>Cheers
>James
Great, I am available (except one weekend in Feb, I will check).
All the best.
Vinny.
tim_j_...@hotmail.com
Was there from 1992-1995 in the Electrical Engineering dept. Many
nights spent in the AJ and so on. Was in a band called COTTON at the
time - played mainly covers stuff around Liverpool, at the halls and
stuff.
Used to use the computer room in the Mech Eng building before they
built the 24 hour one so you may have seen me around.
Small world...
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Paul Simpson
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> Recognised the address :-)
> Was there from 1992-1995 in the Electrical Engineering dept.
Aha! A 'Sparky'! :-) Or as you lot were known in certain circles in Mech
Eng, "masters of the mysterious flashing blue mystical forces only the few
understand and control". As you may have guessed, Electrical Engineering
was never my strongest subject :-) I spent many a confused lab session in
the Frankenstein laboratory behind the main Elec Eng tower - you know, the
one that looks like a 1950s power station inside.
>Many
> nights spent in the AJ and so on.
Remember the grim bunch that used to run the AJ? - well, they've now gone.
It's just not the same without Sid growling at you from behind the bar when
you dared to commit a social atrocity like actually ordering a drink or
something...
Was in a band called COTTON at the
> time - played mainly covers stuff around Liverpool, at the halls and
> stuff.
The name vaguely rings a bell - did you get a write up in the student
Gazette?
> Used to use the computer room in the Mech Eng building before they
> built the 24 hour one so you may have seen me around.
>
> Small world...
You're not wrong there. Hope to see you at the Manchester UKMGPU!
Torpedo Dave
How did the debut gig go last weekend?
Dave.
James Screaton
availability - are we using the same venue (was it the thirsty scholar ?-
but next door to the one with the flooded cellar) as that seemed easy enough
to find, and I believe had suitable beverages for the more discerning
drinkers.
Either day should be fine for me, so lets see who's available and take it
from there.
Cheers
James
tim_j_...@hotmail.com
EEng wasn't my forte either, hence the third. Get what I did my final
project on though; analyzing guitar pickups.
I built a test to mimic a guitar and tested different pickups at
different points on the test rig and analyzed the frequency response.
Learnt tons, forgot to write any of it down.
That '50s power station' was actually a state of the art something or
other for testing high voltage arcing. Or something.
Sid ! What a lad. Grim indeed. Ever eat there?
You're dead right about the Gazette - I wrote a blatantly biased
review, put it in another name and got my mate (Ents Editor or
something) to put it in for me. Tee hee!
Manchester PU should be top.
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Paul Simpson
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> Sparky indeed!
> EEng wasn't my forte either, hence the third. Get what I did my final
> project on though; analyzing guitar pickups.
> I built a test to mimic a guitar and tested different pickups at
> different points on the test rig and analyzed the frequency response.
> Learnt tons, forgot to write any of it down.
Hmmm, we've more in common than I thought - I too got a 'Carol Vorderman'
(3rd in Mech Eng, in my defence I had tonsilitis during the finals and
missed 2 of them) and my final project involved a guitar pickup - basically
an experiment into a self-tuning guitar string.
> That '50s power station' was actually a state of the art something or
> other for testing high voltage arcing. Or something.
State of the art?! Looks like something only the Russians would be running
these days. Big 'Thunderbirds'-style panels of blinking lights everywhere,
old fashioned big-handled switches, three-phase mains controls, grey control
panels and that funny shade of green on the walls you only get in military
installations and mental institutions... The equipment might be state of the
art but whoever did the decor had a definite cold war motif in mind.
> Sid ! What a lad. Grim indeed. Ever eat there?
Only the once, and that was quite enough.
> You're dead right about the Gazette - I wrote a blatantly biased
> review, put it in another name and got my mate (Ents Editor or
> something) to put it in for me. Tee hee!
Heh - nice one! Ah, nepotism... :-)
> Manchester PU should be top.
Looking forward to it! See http://www.ukmg.org.uk/ukmgpu3/home.html for
pics from the last Manchester meeting (and bear in mind most of the people
there on the day had never met in person before). I still don't know if
I'll be able to make it (hurry it up ICL admin people), but if someone can
e-mail me with the time and place I'll do everything in my power to get
there. I should also have finished the course of antibiotics that are
crusading against my throat and chest infection as I type this. Don't know
what's worse - the groggy crap feeling that the pills give you or the fact
that I can't go out drinking 'til I've finished them... :-(
tim_j_...@hotmail.com
"Paul Simpson" <psim...@liv.ac.uk> wrote:
> <tim_j_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Sparky indeed!
> > EEng wasn't my forte either, hence the third. Get what I did my
final
> > project on though; analyzing guitar pickups.
> > I built a test to mimic a guitar and tested different pickups at
> > different points on the test rig and analyzed the frequency
response.
> > Learnt tons, forgot to write any of it down.
>
> Hmmm, we've more in common than I thought - I too got a 'Carol
Vorderman'
Surely a Douglas Hurd?
> (3rd in Mech Eng, in my defence I had tonsilitis during the finals and
> missed 2 of them) and my final project involved a guitar pickup -
basically
> an experiment into a self-tuning guitar string.
>
> > That '50s power station' was actually a state of the art something
or
> > other for testing high voltage arcing. Or something.
>
> State of the art?! Looks like something only the Russians would be
running
> these days. Big 'Thunderbirds'-style panels of blinking lights
everywhere,
> old fashioned big-handled switches, three-phase mains controls, grey
control
> panels and that funny shade of green on the walls you only get in
military
> installations and mental institutions... The equipment might be state
of the
> art but whoever did the decor had a definite cold war motif in mind.
>
Hmm I kind of liked the Thunderbirds touch? Ever eat in the EEng cafe
hidden away in post grad land? (Notice an eating theme here). It was
total nerdism. Remember when they tried to update the paint scheme by
painting it the same colour as before? Well played uni people!
> > Sid ! What a lad. Grim indeed. Ever eat there?
>
> Only the once, and that was quite enough.
>
A sensible lad.
> > You're dead right about the Gazette - I wrote a blatantly biased
> > review, put it in another name and got my mate (Ents Editor or
> > something) to put it in for me. Tee hee!
>
> Heh - nice one! Ah, nepotism... :-)
>
Works for me!
> > Manchester PU should be top.
>
> Looking forward to it! See http://www.ukmg.org.uk/ukmgpu3/home.html
for
> pics from the last Manchester meeting (and bear in mind most of the
people
> there on the day had never met in person before). I still don't know
if
> I'll be able to make it (hurry it up ICL admin people), but if
someone can
> e-mail me with the time and place I'll do everything in my power to
get
> there. I should also have finished the course of antibiotics that are
> crusading against my throat and chest infection as I type this.
Don't know
> what's worse - the groggy crap feeling that the pills give you or the
fact
> that I can't go out drinking 'til I've finished them... :-(
>
Bad news ! You have to get cured. Looked at the pictures and every one
seemed to be getting along famously.
I can see why someone's proposed Sunday though - imagine a group of GAS
crazed slightly pissed guitarists spurring each other on on a Saturday
afternoon to new heights of purchasing. Hmm.
Cheers
T
> --
> All the best,
>
> Paul.
>
> You too can visit Planet Simpson -
> http://www.liv.ac.uk/~psimpson/planet/home.htm
>
>
BURNSV930
<j.scr...@sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
>So that would give us the 4th, or the 11th, depending upon Vinny's
>availability - are we using the same venue (was it the thirsty scholar ?-
>but next door to the one with the flooded cellar) as that seemed easy enough
>to find, and I believe had suitable beverages for the more discerning
>drinkers.
>
>Either day should be fine for me, so lets see who's available and take it
>from there.
>
>Cheers
>James
The weekend of the 9th is the one that I cannot make but the 4th or anything
after the weekend of the 9th Feb is fine.
All the best.
Vinny.
tim_j_...@hotmail.com
new band update'.
Went bloody well. Damned surprised actually. One of those gigs where
everyone comes up to you afterwards and tells you how well it went.
The bass player, drummer and myself had not played live for 2 years ish
and never together before, and the singer had never sang live ever, so
to have it go as well as it did was a real high.
Best gig I've ever done actually - totally enjoyed it and I'm just
worried I've had my lot now and I'll never do another that good ! Us
artistes eh, never happy.
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