Steve Fenton

@fentonsteve.bsky.social

Music, Electronics, Crohn's, Cambridge.

There was a little record fair in St Ives this afternoon. It was very quiet and half the stalls were packing up at lunchtime. I spent a tenner on 8 twelves and two LPs. Nick Heyward 12 and Linda Rondstat comp from Woodgreen.

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Colonoscopy report summary says "Uneventful". I beg to differ: I spent 24 hours drinking laxatives and turning myself inside out, someone injected me with Fentanyl, and someone else shoved a camera up my bum. I'd call that a fairly lively day out!

Day 3. St Liz Hospice, Halesworth, came up trumps. Everything a quid apart from minty Isleys a fiver from Halesworth Music Emporium (the shop of the Southwold record fair man) and Andy Williams £1 from Southwold Break for Mr AV. The Walkabouts is a US release on Sub Pop, what's it doing in Suffolk?

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There is no finer sound on a summer's evening than a child having a tantrum in a back garden... when it is someone else's problem, because yours are now in their twenties, and won't get in a paddling pool in the first place.

I was going to spend this afternoon recording links for my next CSC, but Microsoft have decided that my 2013 Avid USB audio interface will no longer connect to Windows 11. I met Bill Gates once, I should have kicked him in the balls.

A question for the vinyl/hi-fi buffs. My Audio-Technica AT-OC9XSL (MC cartridge) has died. It could sound a bit 'edgy' with less-than-mint vinyl (I buy a lot), could that be due to the Line Contact stylus? The AT-OC9XSH (Shibata tip) is £80 cheaper. I'd sacrifice a bit of performance for robustness.

Spent yesterday evening with Mrs F, looking for holiday flats on the Suffolk coast. My first thought: "I can go to the A shop in Beccles and buy a load of chazza vinyl." I'm a lost cause, aren't I?