I'll set you up with one Di when I come to stay. :)

 

Thanks Gill , you know how I "fear" anything technical :blush:

 

Love

Di

xxx

Album sales are truly awful at the moment. Less than 3k to make the top #40. :(

I'll set you up with one Di when I come to stay. :)

 

I'll bet the only thing you two will be setting up will be the drinks. :lol: :hic:

 

Album sales are truly awful at the moment. Less than 3k to make the top #40. :(

 

Bloomin heck that's both really sad and scary at the same time. :no:

I'll bet the only thing you two will be setting up will be the drinks. :lol: :hic:

Bloomin heck that's both really sad and scary at the same time. :no:

QUOTE(truly talented @ Aug 7 2011, 08:44 PM)

Album sales are truly awful at the moment. Less than 3k to make the top #40.

I totally agree Suggy, but at least we know Will will sell very well too :dance:

Thanks Gill blimey that is such low sales, wonder if its people getting fed up with music, (xfactor et al) or just the state of the present economic climate.

or maybe a bit of both and of course all the piracy that goes on, its a shame for the artists who work very hard :angry: at least most of us will buy the physical and also with the 2 formats and the signed copy, we have options, :cheer:

Love Phil xxx

 

 

Edited August 8, 201113 yr by phil3579

Sorry to bring this on here, (sorry Di too)

Im totally peed offwith the riots, the police seem to be doing nothing, apart from loitering on street corners in groups by cars that are on fire :no: and being so imbicillic that the car could have blown up. AND no blinking fire engines. :angry: fires blazing out of control :rolleyes:

I have to disagree with you Phil. The fire service are doing their best (as are the police and ambulance service) but they are seriously under-manned and have to go to the places with the most dangerous fires. Such as Croydon. They have brought in more than a thousand extra police from other counties.

 

That's the last I am going to say about it. Don't give these people the "oxygen of publicity".

Those rioters are the scum of the earth, attacking people in restraurants, that poor man who was injured and then mugged by some other deliquent .....the police need to get tough they should use batons on them ...telling them to go home is just not working :rolleyes:

I have to disagree with you Phil. The fire service are doing their best (as are the police and ambulance service) but they are seriously under-manned and have to go to the places with the most dangerous fires. Such as Croydon. They have brought in more than a thousand extra police from other counties.

 

That's the last I am going to say about it. Don't give these people the "oxygen of publicity".

 

The police authority has been seriously hampered by the human rights act, hense no water cannons and no batons, its ridiculous :angry:

 

Quote Sunday

Those rioters are the scum of the earth, attacking people in restraurants, that poor man who was injured and then mugged by some other deliquent .....the police need to get tough they should use batons on them ...telling them to go home is just not working

 

Totally agree Sunday, seems the only things they can do is protect and ask parents to ask their kids to come home, they have to get tougher, :rolleyes:

 

Love Phil xxx

Edited August 9, 201113 yr by phil3579

I agree Sunday this country is too damned soft! :arrr: For starters there should be a curfew issued. Anyone found loitering on the streets should be arrested.

I agree Sunday this country is too damned soft! :arrr: For starters there should be a curfew issued. Anyone found loitering on the streets should be arrested.

 

Totally agree Gill, ive just put news on tv, havent seen any yet today but friend phoned to say its all kicked off in Bristol :( and Liverpool.

Parliament to be recalled on Thurs :o Thursday :???: bit late isnt it ??

 

Ah they have batons now

 

Sony factory in Enfield has been blown up, not sure what they make there will google in mo ... just heard, its CD and DVD : :angry:

 

Wonder what this will mean for artists and films etc, anyone shed any light please

Edited August 9, 201113 yr by phil3579

Have you read this ...makes me sick.

Young girls on alcopops ‘dared’ each other to go and nick something.  Lads tried to break onto Lidl and set fire to it, and mothers sent small children in to fill shopping bags with food and beer because they are too young to be arrested.  I wasn’t the only one challenging some of this – other residents were trying to talk sense into those who had somehow lost all sense of their normal boundaries but it seemed like one big joke to a mass of hysterical people laughing all the way to the bank.  How could anyone putt their children in such a dangerous position, never mind ask them to commit crimes?

 

Suddenly a mass exodus: the precint had been compromised and there were shouts of ‘iPhones! Xboxes! Everything!  You can get whatever you want!’ Hoodies went up and scarfs went over faces, in they went and more ‘respectable’ cars started arriving to collect the goods.  Youths started arriving with hammers and the women and girls backed off.  What appalled me most were the amount of families, and I mean kids in the back seat, involved in all of this.  Like some kind of surreal supermarket sweep, winner takes all, what a larrrff! Children hung out of their car windows video-ing it all on their mobiles.

 

I could smell cannabis on the street, big time, and of course everyone had beer and wine bottles in hand from the looting.  The police were just a focus for all of the aggressive energy, and watching what was going on, I felt that letting them loot themselves out would be preferable to seeing them turn back on the police and smash all of the allegedly bullet proof windows in yet again – and take another pummeling with potentially lethal missiles.

 

I left just half an hour ago, as I was able to leave once the police vans were smashed up and they retreated temporarily.  Amazingly, just a few hundred yards away all is at peace and the riot is ‘on TV‘.  My clothes stink of smoke and I want to weep with rage at a society that has disenfranchised so many for so long whilst brainwashing two/three generations of children to want, want, want!  I can still hear the sheer joy in that lads voice, ‘X-boxes! iPhones! You can get whatever you want!’  All of his empty dreams being fulfilled – well temporarily anyway.

 

I also feel a kind of empty, shocked sorrow that I heard young children being taught to hate the police as they arrived, that parents would send them into dark, dangerous buildings to loot to feed their own greed, happy to teach them that stealing and looting and robbing and mindless waste and destruction are ‘funny’, because if I heard that once I heard it a thousand times tonight.  ’I just think it’s funny!’

 

I saw the faces of police personnel, hardened with concentration for the task at hand, while people laughed at the potential damage they would inflict on somebody else’s wife, son, daughter, mother.

 

Where is that from Sunday?

 

What a society we live in. :( :angry: In my opinion blame must be firmly placed at the parents door & the softly sortly approach in our schools. Reinforces why I couldn't wait to get out of teaching.

 

Saw that on the news about the Sony distributing plant phil & wondered what effect it would have.

Edited August 10, 201113 yr by truly talented

The Sony building was for storage only and was stocked with independent labels' CDs. Horrible for the makers but Will's are OK.

The Sony building was for storage only and was stocked with independent labels' CDs. Horrible for the makers but Will's are OK.

 

Thanks for the reassuarance re Will's album Pearl.

Where is that from Sunday?

 

What a society we live in. :( :angry: In my opinion blame must be firmly placed at the parents door & the softly sortly approach in our schools. Reinforces why I couldn't wait to get out of teaching.

 

Saw that on the news about the Sony distributing plant phil & wondered what effect it would have.

It was an eye witness report in a blog from a vicar or priest cant remember which.

 

Music week reported this about the fire.

CD warehouse instigates contingency plan

Wednesday August 10, 2011

By Robert Ashton

 

Sony DADC, whose warehouse containing thousands of indie CDs was destroyed in Tuesday morning’s fire, has actioned what it is calling a “Business Continuity Plan”.

 

The company is now back up and running from a new control room in Enfield.

 

PIAS is one of the main distributors affected by the fire and resulting disruption and PIAS COO Nick Hartley flew back from Madrid yestereday to oversee the disaster. He said his company will continue to work with Sony DADC to minimise the impact on the business.

 

Sony DADC has already identified a temporary distribution partner and it is envisaged that they will be in a position to pick, pack and ship orders in the course of next week.

 

Indie organisation AIM has already stepped up to help labels urging music fans to help indie labels survive the disaster by buying a digital download of an album from digital retailers or picking up a CD while stocks last. Small labels, who will be impacted most by the fire and will have to wait weeks – or even months – for an insurance payout will then be able to remanufacture their CD's and vinyl more quickly and resupply record shores.

 

AIM chairman and CEO Alison Wenham, who is orchestrating the indie sector response to the disaster, said “With the fans' help, labels and artists will survive."

 

There are over 100 labels, which are distributed by PIAS and affected by the fire caused by rioters in Enfield. They include:

 

Thanks Sunday for the info on the Sony building, i wasnt sure if Wills had been pressed as yet, but with a disaster that big it is sure to send ripples through the business. and thats saddening that it will effect smaller labels more. Its a shame that an already challenged music business, with the decline of people buying music, and the piracy that goes on, this has put further pressure on labels and artists. totally shambolic :angry:

 

The post you have put up that the vicar wrote is totally saddening, i cant believe parents are putting their children at risk and have them playing a big part in all this :angry: teaching them that crime is funny and its ok to do doesnt bode well for our next generation. :angry: and to be so disrespctful to the already discipline hampered police in this seemingly free for all society makes me sick, they are hurting other hard working people that struggle to make a living, the small businesses, i did hear one furniture shop that had been in a family for several generations had lost everything, thats so very sad, i always say what goes around comes around, hope the people that have done this get their just deserts, im suddenly totally ashamed to be British :(

 

Gill i was having a convo with someone recently about how difficult it is for teachers nowerdays :angry:

 

Something needs to be sorted big time to allow control back into this country.

 

Love Phil xxx

It's clearly more organised than just a group of random kids running around...one of the first people charged for looting was a 31 year old teacher apparently..marvelous example right there.

It's clearly more organised than just a group of random kids running around...one of the first people charged for looting was a 31 year old teacher apparently..marvelous example right there.

 

Yes totally agree hun, its being done thru websites such as twitter and instant messages that cannot be traced. and a 31 year old teacher should be ashamed of themselves.

totally disgusted with it all.

 

love Phil xxx

Are little WY forum is getting almost the same amount of visitors as D :dance:

Are little WY forum is getting almost the same amount of visitors as D :dance:

 

Long may it continue. I love our little Will haven. :wub: