@Iwrats This one? https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hair-original-broadway-off-broadway-cast-recordings/259886516
tempted to buy it. currently listening to manhattan transfer. i think the 70s have caught with me.
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Overlander - Launch Event
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@SRD
Not quite - the original off-Broadway version. Tempted to put it up myself if anyone has a gramophone to MP3 apparatus?
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I was wondering if some of the tunes on the iTunes version were from that one?
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There is mention of a Gaelic scholar in Overlander. This is he;
Rest in peace Iain MacAonghuis.
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First review on Amazon. Five stars, back of the net.
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Definitely not one of the proliferation of fake reviews?
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If I was paying I'd want a bit more gushing praise.
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Second review on Amazon. Not a happy puppy. Suspect Scr0fty may be more literal than lateral.
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@IWRATS are you going to mention this: EdFoC extravaganza ?
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Mr fimm has now read our copy and enjoyed it. It has got him looking at bikepacking routes like the Gaick Pass and wondering about the potential of the Minigaig... (I'm not sure if the whole route appeals to him...)
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The Minigaig goes on and on and on. And on. And on. Very indistinct on the high tops these days.
Glad he enjoyed it mind - pass on my regards!
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Suspect Scr0fty may be more literal than lateral.
What an a**e. It's like The Hidden Ways by Alistair Moffat except done on a bike continuously, not in a Land Rover with occasional forays on foot. Chris Townsend's Along the Divide is similar but suffers from his awful choice of route (the Scottish watershed). And it has some of Ellie Bennett's willingness to engage with the locals although she did it by stopping at every pub she could find to sample the beer.
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awful choice of route (the Scottish watershed)
I wondered about that. Must be utterly intractable. 500 miles of confused bog and barren cliffs.
I like your account of Ellie Bennet's style and have thoughts about that. (I've never heard of her though.)
EDIT Ah yes Mud, Sweat and Gears.
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Vaguely interesting
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IWRATS - as well as the lovingly signed copy of your book I bought at the launch event, I also ordered a copy for my FiL via a large rainforest company.
This does give me the opportunity to add a review. What should I say...
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@HankChief
Whatever is honest and truthful. People spot honest reviews easily.
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Scr0fty also fluffed his review by describing the tome as a But Rather than a book. He also gives Bothy Tales two stars but actually gives it a very positive review. Some spelling mistakes in that review too, (I find critical reviews should be word perfect). He does also appear to have a spectacular beard.
Is it wrong of me to say my favourite bit is where IWRATS falls off? So very well written
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@gembo
There is a sub-Nabokovian twist in that bit that no one has yet spotted. I feel confident that you....will not fail me.
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I once recommended his own book to him on a forum. He seemed quite pleased!
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Nabokov Pale Fire or Nabokov Lolita?
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@gembo
Pale Fire is the better book in my humble, but the twist is a vertical nod to the horizontal denouement of Lolita. In my mind.
Humbert Humbert and Charles Kinbote are the most awful characters ever invented?
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A man called Dave Hewitt
Edited the Angry Corrie hill-zine iirc. I loved that. I still have an almost complete set somewhere.
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Overlander bundled with The Call of the Mountains in Wanderlust magazine's top twenty of 2019. That fixes yesterday's bad review in my mind.
It'd be great if anyone can make this - now that folk have read it I'd be delighted to take deep and pointed questions at Blackwell's on the 11th of June.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overlander-with-alan-brown-tickets-61582004433?
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many congratulations @IWRATS - well deserved. I have to say I have some sympathy for the critical review - he was clearly looking for a crime thriller and frankly Overlander is thin on plot intrigue.
The 11th of June is also the date of the 20mph demo at the parliament.
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Aha! What time is the demo and by what means is it organised?
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think lunch time
byPOP?
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1pm. Being organised via Slack. I can procure you an invite if you want?
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@Frenchy New channel? Aye go on.
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@IWRATS - help being sought to take chairs from the BS to parliament by bike trailer and bungee cords/prayers...
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