Gig tipoff: Oxbow Lake Band, Woodland Roots Orchestra, Omar Bin Mohamed Afif

When: Friday 2nd December 2011
Where: Cafe Drummond, Belmont Street, Aberdeen
Doors: 8pm
Tax: £5

Hey folks, it's yet another edition of Shameless Plug for my band.  It's the launch of our album "Away From The Mainstream" and I'm really looking forward to it.  We've been playing a few small, out of town gigs which have been highly enjoyable but it'll be good to come back to play in one of the established live music venues in town.  We'll have support from Omar Bin Mohamed Afif who plays his amazing box guitar (genbre?) and the Woodland Roots Orchestra.  DJs after the show, the party goes on until 3am!

Hope to see some of you there!

Proactive ISP support?

Well, I hit my first trouble with BE late last night, the connection went down but because I was about to go to bed anyway I just left it.  Two things happened.

1) It was working again in the morning
2) I received a text and an email from BE alerting me to the outage.

I have never seen the like before in all my life.  This is quite a shock to my system, having recently moved from Orange, where you had to virtually wring someone's neck before they'll A) admit there's a problem with their stuff instead of walking you through pointless diagnostics on your computer and B) actually get around to fixing the damn problem.

Have I mentioned before how utterly woeful and bereft of any technical nous Orange were in my 18 months with them?  I might have, but they pissed me off so much that I'll happily ward people off their broadband until the day I die.

To end on a positive note - yay for BE!