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andyfowles

Reply to techie:

Thank you for your response to my comment concerning errors in the coding on the http://www.taffys-travels.com website, which I posted onto your forum.

Let me start by saying that I liked the overall look of the site, found the content interesting and I appreciate that the website is only recently ‘released’.

I appreciate and understand your comments fully, concerning the reason validation of the webpage failed under the DOCTYPE XHTML 1.0 Strict and see that you have today changed this to XHTML 1.0 Transitional which is the correct DOCTYPE to use when you are integrating features not available under Strict.

Whether or not the Strict DOCTYPE should or should not contain elements such as the A tag TARGET parameter (target='_blank) was not in question, the fact is that it doesn’t and as such your page did not adhere to the standards laid out under the DOCTYPE which you had used.

Tenerife Seagull

Tenerife most certainly does have talent - but there's a problem, it is paid appallingly.

Good luck Bard. My experience of similar provincial contests is that the result is rigged. I do hope that it is not the case with this one.
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I hope it is not rigged, as that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you see it a lot in local talent contests, but as you say Bard it will be good publicity for you and your never know who is watching / listening. GOOD LUCK Very Happy

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Helena and Shiel

Bard good luck for Sunday, Shiel and I did a gig each in that very venue last week when we were over on our hols! It's a lovely venue and the sound system is excellent! We have been at Tenerifes got talent the last two Sundays with our friend Tony Capaldi, who owns Shenanigans in the patch, but we are home now, such a pity you were not on either of those weeks, we would have loved to have met and heard you! I,m sure we will meet you one day though! Anyway the very best of british to you!

H x

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So how did you get on?
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Helena and Shiel

Hi Bard a mini disc player is around £150 - £200 new, in the uk, but you can get them, for about £60, on e bay, and there are always some on there, we have bought a couple of spares off there recently, if you decide to go down that route, dont buy the small walk man type they are useless for gigging, as they are too small and fiddley although, they are handy for recording set lists down from one disc to another. We found that all the venues we went to had mini disc players, so you probably wouldn't need one other than for making your sets up.
If you decide to go down that route, I can let you know where we get our backing tracks (online), and they are not that expensive anymore.
Another option for you would be perhaps to get a hold of some midii file backing tracks, and remove the guitar part, allowing you to play it.
I have a Roland sound canvas midi file player and hundreds of backing tracks on midi file that I dont use anymore, I used it 13 years ago before mini discs became popular!! ....I can bring it over with me when we move over and I would be happy to give it to you......it would really just allow you to edit the tracks (take the guitar out) then you would copy the track onto mini disc......this is what I did when i changed to mini disc, copied all the floppys onto mini disc, it sounds like a hassle but its not really and would maybe be worth it. Dont know if any of the tracks would be of use to you, I dont imagine we play the same sort of sets!! Laughing

Anyway, you can let me know!

H x

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Helena and Shiel

Hi again Bard, You could try SBI.com (sound back international) theirs are pretty good, I will find out from Shiel the other ones when he comes home.
I totally get where you are coming from with the live versus trax....when I started out, 18 years ago, I had dots for my set and only ever worked with the resident bands in the social clubs, some were awful but the buzz of not knowing what they were going to be like kept me on my toes, and made me perform better!
The sad thing is the club bands are a dying breed, so in order to work I have to work with backing tracks, I still do quite a bit of work with bands, on a sunday night, which is more due to a shortage of acts able to work with dots than an abundance of bands, so I find myself in the same venues with the same bands on a regualr basis, but its something I dont want to lose, so I am glad of the work, its a refreshing change from backing tracks all the time.
H x

bardofely

Thanks, Helena! I will have a look at that site.
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