The FTATR boys join Thom Yorke, Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway and the Greenwood brothers in looking at The Bends. The band, of course, couldn’t make it to this session but Thom gave a definitive ‘yes!’ when we cover our next power metal band.

Radiohead – THE BENDS

Episode 27 in which our valiant heroes professionally and intelligently debate the merits of one of the greatest-

Actually I can’t do it. I can’t say it with a straight face.

We talk about Worms. For a bit. Then, well, all I can say is I’m sorry. Really, really sorry.

The Pollyanna Cowgirl Records Podcast is a weekly music podcast featuring one hour of great “podsafe” tracks from indie artists worldwide.  Diggin’ for Music You’ll Dig!  Hosted by Tony Pucci

(song start time) – # – Artist (link to artist page) – Song

(01:30) 01 – DEASTRO – Vermillion Plaza

(05:18) 02 – THE FAINT – The Geeks Were Right

(08:10) 03 – THE NOTES AND SCRATCHES – The Hours

(10:33) 04 – THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – The Age

(13:41) 05 – A MELODIC DAYDREAM – Never Came Back

(19:51) 06 – THE LITTLE ONES – Morning Tide

(23:50) 07 – THE ROSEBUDS – Life Like

(27:01) 08 – DARLINGS – If This is Love

(30:44) 09 – GENTLEMAN REG – You Can’t Get It Back

(34:12) 10 – ERIC ADDINGTON – No You and I

(39:00) 11 – ZOMBIE GIRL – Creepy Crawler

(42:53) 12 – GOLDEN CITY – Diamond Suits

(45:46) 13 – STARFUCKER – Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

(48:39) 14 – THE TOXIC AVENGER – Escape

(53:17) 15 – JULIAN TAYLOR – Aerosol

(57:36) 16 – BUILDING THE STATE – Intent on Harm

Can we get a woot??

Not going to bore you with show notes, we are back, that’s all you need to know.

Another 2hr marathon (lets face it we were never gonna be able to keep this one short)

Enjoy

This week we get our biatch on, and vent our collective spleens over that which irks us most. Warning, we don’t watch our language on this one.

Craig Bevan needs your help, and now you can hear him tell you why in his own words…and his own music. I had a quick chat with Craig about his album, his music, and even got him to sing us a choon. Go to http://craigbevanmusic.com/ and find all things Bevan.

This Sunday we’ll be live at the Blue Point Brewery in Patchogue, NY for the Rhythm and Blues festival featuring the Rhythm Devils, featuring the drummers from the Grateful Dead.  If you’re in the area, come on out, otherwise we’re shooting for around a 1pm ESTstart (5pm GMT), with at least two shows planned (one’s a Poser’s Guide), both of which we won’t spoil here, as they’ll be coming out in Season 5.  We hope to have the video & audio going, as long as we can get online this time around.  Join us in the chatroom on the live page and watch the Twitter @mastersofnone for updates.  We look forward to talking to you guys in the chatroom, it’s been way too long…

Oh yes you good folk of FTATR, it’s IRON MAIDEN day. On this show we review the new, soon to be classic, album from one of the corner stones of British Metal. With your hosts Will Tristram, Joe Logan and Stu ‘Iron Maiden’ Perry, he likes them quite a bit.

Also please note a few garageband crashes, but I think we’ve covered them up expertly

The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier (Limited Edition)

We’re going to make you an offer you can’t refuse. Listen to the Nerd Hurdles podcast or swim with the fishes. Can Jakob and Mandi take down  The Godfather (and mobster movies in general), or is there no escape from the family?

Speaking of “Family”, that was a pretty good Spiner-heavy TNG episode.

Shownotes: The Hurdled Nerd

Thanks

Rich

In this week’s Best Of, it’s Gunaxin Show #20, with Mike & Art chatting with Erica from Gunaxin about her Top Oscar Snubs and the Streisand Effect, plus the boys chat it up with actor Walter Goggins from Predators.

The Pollyanna Cowgirl Records Podcast is a weekly music podcast featuring one hour of great “podsafe” tracks from indie artists worldwide.  Diggin’ for Music You’ll Dig!

Hosted by Tony Pucci

(song start time) – # – Artist (link to artist page) – Song

(00:24) 01 – GENE – I Love You, What are You?

(05:17) 02 – SILVERPENNIES – Hello Schoolyard

(08:21) 03 – BRITISH INDIA – Vanilla

(12:12) 04 – CRAIG BEVAN – Tick

(19:28) 05 – RICK STACK TRIO – ####### (Live Excerpt)

(21:40) 06 – RICK STACK – Eight White Elephants

(28:07) 07 – TONY PUCCI with MAKARAS PEN – Twenty-Four Hours

(32:28) 08 – MAKARAS PEN – Falling Deeper

(37:06) 09 – THE BARNKICKERS – Clawfoot Tub

(40:40) 10 – GOLDFRAPP – Rocket

(44:26) 11 – NEW ROOTS DUO – Tandoori Hot Dish

(48:23) 12 – CHEWMYTONGUE – I Feel Fine

(51:13) 13 – ROGUE VALLEY – The Warming Moon

(57:27) 14 – ANNE HEATON – Jump

In which our heroes, a week late, gather in reenforced numbers to discuss the Sid Meier’s world-conquering epic that is Civilization. Will more people mean more insightful commentary? Or more off-topic banter? There’s only one way to know for certain.

Maybe this has happened to you: someone urges a popular book on you, insisting you’ll love it. And you read it, and you don’t love it. This week, Sarah and Elizabeth join me to talk about bestsellers, hot books and why we seek out currently popular books — or avoid them. Steven Nystrom is along for the ride. It’s almost like a book club, except we don’t like book clubs. Warning: This podcast contains mention of Eat Pray Love. Books You Should Read is sponsored by Audible.com.

It turns out that our store is using over 100GB per month of data. That’s far more than even simplysyndicated.com and this site runs all our RSS feeds! That uses a lot of data. After checking the logs it shows that the 100GB was used by under 1000 people. That means that our store system, Magento, uses an obscene amount of data to work.

There isn’t much I can do about the existing store hosting account. It really is over its limit and won’t come back on line until the end of this month. Obviously that’s not very good so I’ve set up a new hosting account with a different provider and am now in the process of moving things over. This can take time, as I write this I’m waiting for the domain name to change over to the new account before I can even start trying to transfer things.

With any luck I’ll be able to get things moved and back up and running as they were yesterday. If things go well all user accounts and purchases will be available.

The worst case senario is that I can’t transfer anything and I have to start again from scratch. If that’s the case please don’t worry about any files that you’ve bought but haven’t downloaded yet. I have complete records on who has bought what, so if you email me I’ll be able to link you to the files you’re missing. Hopefully we won’t have to do that.

Keep watching this space for updates on the situation. Sorry for the problems, it’s driving me nuts too.

UPDATE 1: Our existing host suggest that I buy a dedicated server for our store at a cost of $449 per month. To put things in perspective simplysyndicated.com costs $4.99 per month. I have already signed up for an account that will cost us £16 per month. I don’t think we’ll be getting the dedicated server.

UPDATE 2: I worked out that according to our stats, each visitor to our store is using over 100MB of data just by browsing the site. Obviously users can’t be using that much data, the site would be so slow to load that you just wouldn’t bother. The hosts are looking in to it.

UPDATE 3: It looks like an update that was performed in June is to blame for the problems. I hate updates. You get something working great and then somebody comes along and tells you they can make it work better. Then like an idiot I go and do the upgrade just to get rid of that “there’s an update available” thing that pops up every time I log in.

UPDATE 4: Couple of bits here, It’s looking more and more like the recent update is what caused the problems.When all is well, you click on a link to download a file. The store system then looks up that file in the database and connects you with it on AmazonS3. I think that the store was downloading the file, then delivering it to you instead, which would account for the sudden spurt in our bandwidth use. Our hosts have been good enough to increase our bandwidth so I can get in and have a poke around. Unfortunately I had already started rebuilding the site on another hosting account so the domain name had already been redirected. I’m now waiting for it to change back so I can get in to the old system and at least make a backup of the database so I can maybe restore it to a new install if necessary. I’m tired, cold and hungry. Please send Jaffa Cakes and Henderson’s.

UPDATE 5: I’m back in the old system and the domain name has propagated. As far as we know the store is back up and running for now. If you’ve bought files that you haven’t downloaded yet I very seriously recommend that you go download them right away. I don’t know how long things will be up and running for. Really, go do it NOW. If you only ever follow one piece of advice I ever give you, please let it be now when I tell you to go and download all the files that you’ve bought and haven’t downloaded yet. Is that clear enough? I want to make very sure that you’ve understood what I’m saying to you. If you have bought a downloadable show from musicalmousemat.com but you haven’t downloaded it yet, then you must go there now and download it. Right now, not in ten minutes, the site might not be there in ten minutes. Also if you want to buy something and download it right away you can do.

UPDATE 6: It’s definitely doing that thing where the server downloads the file then delivers it to you. I got a chart off our stats that shows a list of different file sizes and what percentage of total downloads those files made up. Seeing as the store is just a normal website you should expect to see file sizes around the 1MB and less getting most of the requests. Things like text and small images. However on our stats a whopping 63% of files requested are over 100MB. Strangely most of the files we sell are around 110MB in size. Funny that isn’t it. I’m still not sure what has caused this problem, but it looks like the easiest thing to do would be to reinstall the store system and restore a backup of the database. In my mind it makes sense, it’s just that it’s a bit like when they try to reboot Jurassic Park and I’m the daft idiot that has to go out with the Raptors and turn the power back on. Still at least that’s better than being stuck with the kid who thinks she can work the computer because it’s running UNIX. Yeah, all the UNIX machines are the same.

Hey guys. First of all let me tell you that the latest episode of SHaFT is available to buy from our store as normal. If you’re one of the people who buy SHaFT every week we thank your for your support. If you’ve no idea what SHaFT is because you’ve never heard an episode, then here’s one for free. The latest one. We very much appreciate your support and if you enjoy our show it would be great if you could click on the tip jar below, or visit our store and purchase the episode or an older show.

Making SHaFT a pay only show hasn’t been working out too badly, but it does kind of enforce something that we feel should be voluntary. If you’d like to leave a tip then that would mean a lot to us.

This is what it has all been leading up to.

Movies You Should See is sponsored by Audible. For a free audio book visit audiblepodcast.com/movies.

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In this episode we talk about one event each, both of which happen to be semi finals so we also discuss semi finals in general.

I (Jonathan) choose the greatest rugby match ever played (to my knowledge) Leeds Rhinos Vs St Helens Challenge Cup Semi Final 2003

Here is the link to the highlights on the BBC archives (sorry but can only be viewed by Brits)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7982355.stm

Shane talks about the the 2006 World Cup semi between Germany and Italy

Email – sportshistoryshow@googlemail.com

Blog  – http://sportshistoryshow.blogspot.com/

To celebrate our 66th show we look back on our namesake and the ways that Star Trek has influenced Science Fiction, Science fact, and the world in general.

Have you ever found an original Han Solo figure still in the card for $2 at a thrift store or a yard sale? Probably not. But it’s the dream. The reality (and nightmare) of thrifting is you’re in danger of ending up with a house full of broken-down, kitschy junk. This week Jakob and Mandi trade-in their second-hand stories and you walk away with a great bargain.

And as an added bonus, the best audio comment we’ve ever received.

Shownotes: The Hurdled Nerd (Including “Baby Secret” videos)

Oooooo listeners, 2002, what a year for us all. Get out your Warlock cloaks and your little pots of paints. We’re getting this bad boy on!

Crimson Thunder

The Pollyanna Cowgirl Records Podcast is a weekly music podcast featuring one hour of great “podsafe” tracks from indie artists worldwide.  Diggin’ for Music You’ll Dig!

Hosted by Tony Pucci

(song start time) – # – Artist (link to artist page)

(00:44) 01 – WHIP BUFFLEY – Walking with Summer

(03:48) 02 – DRAKES HOTEL – Soft Collisions

(07:48) 03 – MGMT – Flash Delirium

(12:02) 04 – SIA – You’ve Changed

(16:06) 05 – THE DAYLIGHT TITANS – Mynah Bird

(18:54) 06 – SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – Bye Bye Bye

(23:07) 07 – TIGA – Shoes

(26:54) 08 – DUEL – Letting Go

(32:23) 09 – WARP FACTOR 9 – Time Gentlemen Time

(36:21) 10 – TIARE HELBERG – Tattooed Cards

(41:00) 11 – SONNY COMBS and KITTY KAT RODEO – You Said

(44:01) 12 – NOELLE HANNIBAL – Drowning

(50:19) 13 – THE SYNCOPE THRESHOLD – A Faceless Enemy

(55:18) 14 – HALLOWEEN, ALASKA – In Order

In today’s episode, Nigel and Allison have a NSFW (not safe for work) talk about contraception. They discuss the different choices available, via a potted history of contraception, kinky sex, what not to use as contraception and what to do if you want to get pregnant. Talking about sexual health and contraception is best done with honesty and humour, and so this show is somewhat rude and a smidgen crude and bundled with lots of laughs. Enjoy.

We’re 5! Join in the celebrations with this special birthday episode.

Seeing as we couldn’t do a normal SHaFT on friday night, Boz, Rick and Casey we kind enough to give everyone this fantastic show.