Djibouti?
Hereās a quandry, DiS.
Someone in my bike club died a couple of weeks ago. I never met him properly but he was very inspirational. The club has been asked to the funeral, and weāve specifically been asked to wear Penge kit and cycle behind the hearse from the church to the crematorium. Obvs I donāt particularly want to go to a funeral (because who the hell wants that) but I almost feel I should go to this. However there are loads more folk in the club who were proper pals with him and Iām sure there will be enough folk there to give him a decent send off. Weāre also organising a memorial ride in a few weeks so thereās other ways to pay respects.
Iām quite worried about his arse stench yes.
morning
Very tired today , after a latish night bike riding and pubbing
I didnāt close the spout on my coffee flask thing and got coffee all over my bag and me. Luckily I noticed before I left home proper, but quite the pain in the arse. I had to do a bag swap and a shirt swap and everything.
No right answer here I think Nickers. Just do whatever feels right for you personally - thereāll no doubt be plenty of other people who will get involved with the funeral if you donāt want to.
^this.
Plus is it possible to get a gauge as to how many people will be there from the club ahead of the day?
I think itās a personal thing for the individual involved - if you found them inspirational and feel that youād like to pay your respects at the funeral then you should. However, I donāt think you should feel duty-bound to if you feel that taking part in other memorial events would satisfactorally honour their memory for you then do it that way.
Iāve been asked if I want a ticket to see Nick Cave in Glasgow next week should I go? Itās 40 quid and Iām not a HUGE fanā¦ help!
- Go
- Nah
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depends how flush you are but he is amazing live and you will very likely become a convert. i havenāt really enjoyed his last 3 or 4 albums very much but iām sure i would still absolutely love seeing him live.
Ugh I canāt quite phrase this properly, but I donāt think you should feel like you shouldnāt go because you didnāt know him as well as other people. Like, donāt disqualify yourself. Iām sure itād be good for the family to know that he was valued by a large number of people.
Likewise, you shouldnāt feel obliged to go, of course.
Yeah, this is a good point.
SIGH.
does anyone here work in music publishing or distribution or anything similar? @profk would you be able to answer a general question about it?
books or actual music (records and that?)
well more actual music distribution. basically itās like this: a musician i really like has retired from music and has disappeared off the face of the earth and their best album isnāt available hardly anywhere online. i have it on cd so was thinking of setting up a bandcamp page for it (i know their paypal address) or paying for one of those online distribution things to get it on spotify, etc. but it seems a bit dodgy and i donāt know that i would have all the information needed to do it.
donāt have a clue, sorry m8.
Youād be infringing copyright by redistributing the music without the rights holderās permission, even if youāre not financially benefiting from it yourself.
but if they get the profits from it, surely they arenāt gonna complain
case closed your honour.
Dunno, couldnāt speak to their motivations, but legally youād be in the wrong.
I might be able to give some advice actually - this comes up quite a lot when it comes to negotiating digital rights for books (publishing old texts online). People sometimes get funny about this, and it might be that they donāt even want their work to appear online regardless of any set up where they receive royalties. Its frustrating, but you need written permission from the owner.