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Pete Atkin / Music / Re: Senior Citizens Chords |
24.09.24 at 06:45 |
| Started by paulcreid | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Paul
You can't be expected to remember such trivia -- I don't, that's for sure. Come 2015 I was pushing 69 and we thought it due time to quit the nine-to-five (well, more like the 10-to-24 most of the time, in my case), so we sold up and moved to Canada to be near Alexis. We now all three occupy a splendid house in Squamish, a small town just up the mainland coast from Vancouver, and half-way to Whistler. We're at the head of Howe Sound, a fjord off the Georgia Strait, so right on the Pacific coast, surrounded by forests, lakes and mountains, with a mild climate rather like yours (except it does get quite hot in the summer).
Yes, that Facebook link worked fine, but thanks for posting it here with the smashing photo. Oh yes, and the early-MV (mailing list) 'Archive' -- I managed the first year of MV before I realised it would take me a lifetime (or what was left of it) to cobble together the next six years of posts in that format. For a while I had unredacted yearly digests available in a 'members-only' area, which I began to refurbish until I realised no-one seemed to care anyway. Just recently (well 4 or 5 years ago) I started again to build a new public version in concertina format (like the Newsletter archive) until that too ran out of steam. Of course the opportunity then arose to compile all of Clive's work into a new Web archive, which is now well into its third phase. One day I might finish all these projects. And the others...
In case anyone here is bemused by these references:
Year One MV archive -
https://www.peteatkin.com/mvindex.htm
Paul's first post:
https://www.peteatkin.com/mvdig002.htm#mv46
Newsletter archive:
https://www.peteatkin.com/newsletter.htm
Stawamus (St'a7mes) Chief Webcam (live view from our back yard) :
https://www.chiefcam.com
The Clive James Website Archive (augmented) :
https://archive.clivejames.com
Wizz Jones -- Through The Fingers:
https://www.peteatkin.com/covers.htm#fingers
Take Care
Steve
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Pete Atkin / Newsletter / The Atkin Newsletter |
14.09.24 at 00:39 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Just a reminder that Pete's occasional Newsletter is implemented as an 'Announce List' on the peteatkin.com mailserver. As such it's a one-way channel: it doesn't accept replies, and the sending address is not monitored. So should you need to contact Pete privately -- this applies to those of you who aren't in regular contact with him and so don't have his private e-mail address -- your best approach will be via MV.
You can use our Personal Message system to contact any member privately in much the same manner as posting publicly to the Forum. Just click "Message" from the top menu and then select "New Message" from the options above the column header bar. You need to know the recipient's Username, which may be different from the handle he or she uses on MV. Find that in the "Members" list, accessed from the top menu. In Pete's case it is "Tek_Painter".
Pete will always respond to an incoming PM. To ensure that you can too, go to your "Profile" page (top menu again) and scroll down to "Personal Message Settings". Make sure that "Notify by e-mail", "Enable PM preview in PM-Centre" and "Enable Personal Message Popup" are all checked. It shouldn't need saying that your contact e-mail address needs to be up to date -- it's near the top on your "Profile" page. Then save your changes by clicking the "Change Profile" button at the bottom.
While we're fixing things, you may have overlooked your Newsletter subscription. The system was revised in January 2011 (see This Post), and many members will have changed their e-mail addresses since then. The list is set up to automatically unsubscribe addresses after five consecutive 'bounces'. 66 addresses were removed just this week, leaving 574 active subscriptions.
Pete circulated his latest newsletter, MV2403, on Thursday, so if you believe yourself subscribed but haven't seen this one, you should update your details. You need to unsub your old address first if it's still valid, and then subscribe again with the new. Use the form on the Smash Flops front page, or at the bottom of the Newsletter archive page, where you can also catch up with any editions you've missed.
Steve
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Pete Atkin / News / Church Times! |
13.09.24 at 19:55 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by S J Birkill |
Here's a fine new article, Terence Handley MacMath's transcript of a part-email, part-telephone interview she conducted with an aging one-eyed rock and roll megastar non-Christian former BBC employee, ahead of said megastar's live on-stage in-church appearance with former archbishop Rowan Williams in Cheltenham, coming up next month:
(Note the 'Tickets' and 'Poster' links in this image are live in the Gig Guide.)
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Pete Atkin / Gigs / Re: Ambleside Again Autumn 2024? |
08.09.24 at 18:08 |
| Started by Jigbuster | Newest post by Jigbuster |
Looks like nothing materialised to add to Ambleside and Middlesbrough, but at least those two are happening and booking.
Zeffirelli's tell me several tables have been booked for a while, so I guess that will be some of you good people making the trip, but there's still plenty of availability. The food is excellent, and the meal deal is great value. The food is all veggie but very varied and carnivores are generally very satisfied.
I'm about to get some more local publicity going, so get your bookings in!
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Pete Atkin / Members / Re: New members |
01.09.24 at 14:22 |
| Started by S J Birkill | Newest post by R1chard |
So what brings you here?
To be honest, I signed up here ages ago to download The Wall of Death, but never got round to doing so.
How did you first encounter Pete's music?
I first heard, I think, various Pete songs on Alan Freeman's Radio One Saturday Rock Show in the seventies. They may have been from a BBC session.
What made you stay faithful through all the wilderness years?
A lot of the music from those shows have stayed with me all my life. Maybe it's sentiment or more I'm not sure.
What's your favourite Atkin song, and why?
Definitely The Wall of Death for some reason.
Where would you like MV to go?
Not sure, I've only just got here after all the years. My next next job is to find that download! |
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Pete Atkin / Gigs / Re: Pete and Simon at the Pheasantry 3rd August 2024 |
12.08.24 at 14:34 |
| Started by Seán Kelly | Newest post by Pete Atkin |
| Aha! Yes, we decided to drop Payday Eveving - and Thief in the Night! - from the second set, mainly because the first set had lasted a whole hour, but also because I thought we'd do an encore segue from Let's Try The Whole Thing Again into a requested Thirty Year Man. As it turned out, the sheer raucous demand from the clearly overindulged audience meant that I then tagged Girl On The Train on to the very end. I'm sorry not to have done those earlier two - especially Payday Evening, which doesn't get an outing all that often - but I'll fit 'em in somewhere as soon as possible. Maybe in Ambleside! And maybe again in Middlesbrough! |
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