I'm very very sorry to announce that Richard Joseph passed away this afternoon.


I only just heard. Shit. Here's what I just sent to Andreas for posting on C64.com.
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I never really knew Richard "back in the day" - it was only later, meeting through the 'retro scene' that we finally became ...

U can still receive the death penalty in the UK for "treason" and "piracy on the high seas"

Not any more, as it happens. These were removed as part of the Criminal Justice Bill in 1988, and then the signing up to the European Convention of Human Rights in 1999 sealed the deal, as it were.

Up ...

beyond wrote:Italian - auto translated

Heehee - I get translated as "Very Daglish" - I like that

Cor - I wish I'd said that. But then I always was more of a pisstaker than a poet Hear hear.

Sorry for the major sarcasm, but I'm afraid your post deserved it. Read the comments all over this forum from the people who were there, and I'll think you'll realise how wrong you were. Believe me, man - I play *lots* of gigs - been gigging since I was 12, from the local pub up to the Albert Hall ...

Without even being in any of the previous events, I thought I'd share my view anyway.
Ermmm - thanks. I'm sure it'll be informed.


In my opinion, the format of the show as it was this year is pretty dead and uninteresting.
Yeah - all 250 people who were there thought so too - I was stunned by ...

I've got them all hidden away ready for when you get rich and I can blackmail you...

Ditto to all that.

Mog wrote:I bet you were.

I mean in *purely* a professional sense, of course, there being one less audience member there...I'd had all the flattery I needed the night before

You're just jealous Knight

If there is another BIT Live that's more scene driven, it might have to be 2006.
Naaah - that's defeatist. We can organise this in a year - *especially* if PPOT are over in July - gives us chance to do some face-to-face meetings to finalise stuff. Believe me - we can do this. I'll donate energy ...

Chris wrote:this thread may be subject to vicious pruning for the sake of clarity.

As this is a sticky thread, shouldn't that be viscous pruning?

Ouch - sorry

Evenin' all - this is the Comedy Police. This thread is contradiction of the 1995 Bad Puns Act, and will now be closed down. Move along please - nothing to see here.

Mog wrote:Can't believe Nicky didn't turn up. You try to send a substitute and look what happens.

Well *I* was disappointed...

Indeed, but my body clock's all f**ked up now - I'm looking round for a bottle of vodka and chatting with Mark by email instead