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Fascinating! So it was you that invented 'Derdle'. Don't remember you; did you know Dave Goodwin? Would be interested to know (briefly) what you did with your life. Did such timewasting prove to be an ongoing feature, or was creativity rewarded :-) Pete Skirrow

@@lindosland Hi Pete. To date me, I was in the upper 6th in 1963/4. I went on to get 2 A levels and a degree in Electronic Engineering and then spent over 40 years as a Broadcast Engineer working in Television, some 13 with the BBC and later as Director of Operations with Chrysalis's outside broadcast division. As for creativity, I'm a long time failed musician and songwriter but now spend my time recording people who can play and sing. See www.majoroakrecordings.co.uk

If Only, [Never to be said, with regret!] by far, my greatest gifts were in music, geography and creative writing / speaking with deep thought and humour - so I became a dental surgeon, somehow incorporating all the above. How come we never coincided at school - Thanks for your creation of Derdle and Bog - I bow to these !! and I've ended up in Blackpool

Thanks, good to know that oour efforts are still being enjoyed.

Hi Stephen - it's been a long time! I remember the name, and your face, though I don't remember much about you. I wonder if you are still in contact with any others from our year? Stupid question, but out of interest, what did you do in your life? :-) Glad you liked the video - I'm really glad I managed to capture what I did. I bet Goodwin remembers you. He has remained in contact with Martyn Smithers and Andy Gardner as well as myself, but the other member of our gang, John Varley, mysteriously disappeared long ago.

Interesting. Derby School moved from there soon after I left in 1965, so in what capacity did you teach French there? What took over between the school I knew and the teacher training? Yes, it is a shame it's no longer used for education of some sort, or even as a museum (as a fan of Erasmus Darwin and the Lunar Society I'd have it as a museum of the midlands scientific enlightenment). Housing accountants is not an appropriate use to my mind. Funny that it was deemed too dangerous for us to carry on there, because of the danger of falling masonry, yet it seems to have continued in occupation after we left!

@@lindosland I taught French students to speak English whilst doing my B.Ed at Bishop Lonsdale College. 1974-78. It was used in the 80s as a Teacher's Centre - a venue for various courses occasionally organised by teachers (when it was a proper profession). I have fond memories of my French students raising the tricolour, on Bastille Day, and singing the Marseilles ... Jim Regan, the Warden, raced our proclaiming that we don't even raise the Union Jack and helping us to lower it quickly.

Only when I'm ' Brahms and Liszt ' otherwise there are too many notes, mi duck !! x

David Goodwin I knew you hated it x

You Rang Sirr ? Like it but still can't play it ! However, still experience 'Love's Dream', More of an 'Amadeus' these days. Really enjoyed your work with Milligan, Scott and Potter. Fascinatingly furtive this - nobody will find us here down Drewry Lane Xx

David Goodwin xxx

C'est Moi ! My email: dkg6133@sky.com, a much better forum than this, it would seem. Peter [my camera-man] and my 'Orwellian' Big Brother [sorry Alan] already seem to be aware of this Drewry Lane conversation, and it's not Facebook !!! Would love to 'catch up' after half a century, M.H. XXxx

So pleased that you appreciated it! As you will have gathered, those science teachers, especially Allit and 'Bronco' Lane, inspired us. Looking back, we were there just at the time when science was able to stand its ground against the old attitudes of a classical education. I always knew I was going into electronics, but after ten years at BT Research and then another twenty or so founding Lindos Electronics I turned to trying to understand the big questions - evolution, genetics, psychology with fond memories of those days that inspired my curiosity. I believe Allitt died, but I'd be interested in stories of other masters - are any I knew still alive I wonder?

I suspect they are all gone now. (Except Arnott , and probably Rudge and Steggles). They were certainly a breed apart and I, too, feel privileged to have been taught by some of them at Moorway Lane. Allit tried to overturn my appointment to Grimes House Captain. He was not appreciative of long hair nor my out of school activities. Nevertheless I found his classes interesting ... even to a music and art orientated lad.

That would have been Stella Irving our only female teacher and wife of Lynden Irving, famous OD and lawyer in the town. She famously castigated my Biology set colleagues for not knowing Debussy's 'Prelude de l'apres midi d'un faune during a general studies period although I could play and analyse the piece for her later. She also very publicly turned up her nose at my career choice of dentistry and even more so at my university of Newcastle upon Tyne. What would she have made of Blackpool !?

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+My video Clips What year? What sec mod? We were 1960 to 65 from Rykneld. I remember being impressed on hearing the organ in the chapel from time to time. Great that Dave G was able to play the original grand piano - and despite dodgy notes it still matched pretty well in pitch with the orchestral version I overlaid!

1961 to 63 ,I came from Allenton Sec Mod and joint the T Class as it was then! Yes the Chapel organ was very good and I knew it like the back of my hand!

Trying to get the old brain cells working, other people in my class I remember were,Maurice Cass,Andy Polkey,Pete Thomas, John Sparre, Richard Hagues, Geoff Carpenter, I left in June 1964 Ken

***** How nice! Glad to be able to show you something of the old place, which has great significance to me and my schoolfriends.

MrKlatschhand No, Sweet Like Chocolate is by the duo Shanks and Bigfoot, for whom it was a huge success, going to number one in 1999 for two weeks when it was the UK's eighth biggest selling single. The vocals were sung for them by Sharon Woolf, but they wrote it, and following the success they were in demand as song writers by the likes of Britney Spears. See Wikipedia and many other sites.

I'm glad it's liked. One reason it hasn't got more views is simply that it's not obvious. To the extent that Jade has fans then they tend to look at her site first. You will notice that although my recording of her 'passionate lover' has a lot of hits on her YT site, it has a lot less on mine - she takes priority. For some reason she has chosen not to put up this track on her site, but I can because I own the copyright on the recordings (and she gets to use them free). We used to be able to put up 'video responses links' on other channels, so I could have got a lot more views back then by linking this to the original etc, but Google killed that off because it wasn't bringing them any money! Great pity, it used to work well. If you like this, just tell your friends, on Facebook etc and get more traffic to my channel !

I agree, but this was an early experiment with omnis, and we only used two channels direct to camcorder. Have you looked at the more recent 'spaced omnis' drum video, which I much prefer, or our latest recordings of singer Jade Peters with band. In these we use an eight channel Tascam recorder which gives more possibilities. While a livelier room can give a nice sound (I've heard a good example on YT), it makes all recordings sound the same. A dead room is more versatile if you are prepared to add reverb, and this one has 7 inch thick glass-fibre panels to absorb down to a few hundred herz. The room is also used for speaker and mic measurements. I actually think that stereo has severe limitations - reverb coming from the same source as the main sound is quite unnatural, as is the need to sit in a specific 'sweet spot', and so ideally I would add reverb mostly to surround channels - if I knew how to create an MKS or similar multi channel file easily on my Avid!

+WunderBread I don't sell things; you should look at the Lindos Electronics site where mics, preamp, leads, and mic stands are all listed and can be ordered online.

lindosland I would like to order one in Finland.. but dont see a distributor, well they have one place but this mic isnt on the list.. and only the 2 mic kit is available from the UK. sounds great... if they were more easily available they would really give the competition a run for their money

+Aei Ou My son runs Lindos Electronics and will be happy to help if you e-mail the factory (just google Lindos Electronics) and I'm sure will ship them to you direct. All the items are listed online on the shop page and can be ordered online. You don't have to order the kit, you can order preamps and mics as you want - including high level version of the mic for kick drum use. Make sure you order the leads you need including long ones Unison to Unison.

+Aei Ou I see in the list of agents online that Studiotec in Espoo are listed as agents for Finland. Not sure if this is up to date, but just ask Chris by e-mail if in doubt.

+lindosland Thanks for your messages... they didnt have any at the time.. I got something else now but thanks for answering

No it's not Benj Britten, you can get your fix of him and see Snape Maltings when you visit on Mon - we have broad tastes here don't you know :-) It's by Shanks and Bigfoot, which means about as much to me as it does to you! 'Passionate Lover', the first of the three songs is an original.