Pickin' the nose

[hirez]

On the internet wireless right now: Tom Ravenscroft playing records at the wrong speed.

:D

Comments

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Is that a cynical ploy to tap into the subconscious of a certain populace or a genuine mistake?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

He did seem genuinely horrified and was at pains to explain that the BBC digitise (is there a modern word for 'run it all off HD'?) everything, so it was someone else who'd encoded the record at the wrong speed, and that he was getting quite a bit of Twitter traffic about it, too.

Whatever. He played some top records.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aye, that was rather good. As was his enthusiasm when someone managed to locate an actual turntable for him to use. Although, actually, I preferred the "wrong-speed ambient mix" ... [grin]

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

At least his father could flick a switch back to normal speed, some 'improvements' are not necessarily better. :)

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Didn't John Peel do the same thing (playing music at the wrong speed)? Maybe he was secretly hoping to become as famous as Peel. (A hard thing to do, mind.)