In article <ua5n7f$2ulrb$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 14:05:51 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 30/07/2023 13:09, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> A fiend was a member of a side, but they wore white shirts with lace
>> cuffs and collars, Lancashire clogs, red socks, knickerbockers, grey top
>> hats with fresh flowers around and danced to the sound of the
>> Northumbrian pipes and the English Concertina.
>
>Huh!
>
>https://flic.kr/p/2oSBSd9
>
>Tone
Simla but that looks like a bowler not a top hat. Nessy pa?
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On 30/07/2023 19:23, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <ua5n7f$2ulrb$1@dont-email.me>, Tone <tone@email.com> on
> Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 14:05:51 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>> On 30/07/2023 13:09, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>> A fiend was a member of a side, but they wore white shirts with lace
>>> cuffs and collars, Lancashire clogs, red socks, knickerbockers, grey top
>>> hats with fresh flowers around and danced to the sound of the
>>> Northumbrian pipes and the English Concertina.
>>
>> Huh!
>>
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oSBSd9
>>
>> Tone
> Simla but that looks like a bowler not a top hat. Nessy pa?

True. But I was actually better with the bat (not the old bat).

Tone

On 28/07/2023 13:45, soup wrote:
> On 28/07/2023 13:13, John Williamson wrote:
>> On 28/07/2023 12:50, soup wrote:
>>> These Koreans are crazy.
>
>> Point of order. The band are Japanese.
>
> OK then.
> These Japanese are crazy
>
> <commits seppuku,for being wrong and disgracing all my ancestors>.

I couldn't stop watching till the end even though I'm not a death metal
fan. And it turns out it's kawaii metal, which is not a new model of car
after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babymetal

On 30/07/2023 00:39, soup wrote:
> On 30/07/2023 00:16, soup wrote:
>> On 29/07/2023 21:42, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume they are miming to a recording[1], so splicing everything
>>> together would be much easier.
>>>
>>> [1] Yet can't dance around like that and still sing, proper-like, for
>>> ages.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HttQqjC9z4&
>>
>> This was the closest I could find (in two minutes of looking.  This
>> really isn't my style), to a full concert .
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HttQqjC9z4&.
>>
>> It doesn't strike me that they are miming .
>
> Strike that, at 14:18 the drummer can be seen doing nothing apart from
> waving his sticks at the crowd yet a very definite drum beat can be heard .

He's playing a double kick drum kit. That drumming you hear is his feet
doing the work. Double kick is an absolute requisite for various types
of metal (death, doom, thrash).

I don't think there's any miming going on.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:01:07 +0100, Mike Fleming <mike@tauzero.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 30/07/2023 00:39, soup wrote:
>> On 30/07/2023 00:16, soup wrote:
>>> On 29/07/2023 21:42, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I assume they are miming to a recording[1], so splicing everything
>>>> together would be much easier.
>>>>
>>>> [1] Yet can't dance around like that and still sing, proper-like, for
>>>> ages.
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HttQqjC9z4&
>>>
>>> This was the closest I could find (in two minutes of looking.  This
>>> really isn't my style), to a full concert .
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HttQqjC9z4&.
>>>
>>> It doesn't strike me that they are miming .
>>
>> Strike that, at 14:18 the drummer can be seen doing nothing apart from
>> waving his sticks at the crowd yet a very definite drum beat can be
>> heard .
>
> He's playing a double kick drum kit. That drumming you hear is his feet
> doing the work. Double kick is an absolute requisite for various types
> of metal (death, doom, thrash).
>
> I don't think there's any miming going on.

That's some fancy foot work going on!

Avpx
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