Playback Magazine August 2022 No 551
Margaret and Brian – Airdrie & Coatbridge
bowling Club Sharon Moncrieff 07906 329188 Email ACVIBC2022@gmail.com New USB Recording Machine from Amazon
Brian with the details SHIDU SD278 amplifier, USB recorder
Information taken from Humanware website followed by comments from Margaret
www.humanware.com 0800 5872589 or 0133 415800
With thanks to Toby Davey from RNIB Connect Radio, we hear about new smart phone app
Toby talks to Clive Wood from Guide Dogs Association. For more information and to download app go to guide dogs website www.guidedogs.org.uk
From TNF Soundings Alasdair Hutton reads the story of Aldous Huxley
Margaret reads some of the highlights from the latest additions to RNIB
World Pipe Band Championships
This years championships take place 12/13 August at Glasgow Green. Back in 1993 Hugh Gray had a go on the big drum at one of the rehearsals with Glasgow Police Pipe Band, who, over the years have had a few championship wins, Hugh finds out more about the organisation of a pipe band and the technical know-how to produce a great sound.
Rab Noakes was born in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland,[1] and brought up in Cupar.[2] He has performed with Lindisfarne, who recorded his songs “Turn a Deaf Ear” on their first album, Nicely Out of Tune, and “Together Forever” on their second, Fog on the Tyne. Barbara Dickson also recorded “Turn a Deaf Ear” on her album Do Right Woman, on which Noakes also performed. Noakes also sang backing vocals and played guitar on the first solo album by Gerry Rafferty, Can I Have My Money Back,[1] most notably on “Mary Skeffington”, a song about Rafferty’s mother. After these sessions he became an early member of Stealers Wheel,[1] although he left them before they recorded their first album.[1] Noakes made his own debut solo recording Do You See The Lights in 1970,[1] with a line-up that included ex-partner Robin McKidd on electric guitar and Scottish jazz bassist Ronnie Rae. This recording included the songs “Too Old To Die”, “Together Forever” and “Somebody Counts On Me”.
Alan Russell from RNIB Connect Radio spoke recently to blind comedian Jamie McDonald who will be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
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