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Coheadline Tour (crywank full band, 3-piece) w/ Johnny Foreigner Spring 25

[sounddetritus]

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It snowed last night; not too much, but enough. I got out the Zoom H6 with the built in XY mics set up and headed to the park to get some good crunchy snow walking sounds. It took me a couple of goes to lock everything down - an annoying tinging noise turned out to be my coat zip swinging about. There are still a few knocks from the wire of the in-ear earphones I was using (I didn't want to be too obvious about recording so I didn't use my over ear headphones). That's the trouble with holding the H6 with the XYs on - there's a lot to be knocked and tapped. Using the Manfrotto PIXI Tripod with the legs together as a pistol grip works really well for keeping the clicks and pull noises that I used to get from handling the H6 directly. On the recording we have me walking about on grass, pavement and over drifts of frosted up leaves. We can hear distant train horns, the rumble of the traffic on County Way, people passing by (a child complains that their tummy hurts) and a child in a pushchair crying while the parent's dog yaps (nice echo on that). I tried another recording without the wind protection, but even moving created some thrum and blow as the XY mics are quite prominent on the H6.

[49scream]

Lemmy & chopper Dursley Road, Trowbridge 1972.

[mostly-history]

Flood in Trowbridge (Wiltshire, July 1910):

Mortimer Street, with the Three Horseshoes pub on the left, Upper Mills across the bridge, and a large crowd gathered at Cradle Bridge.

The Bear Hotel on Stallard Street.

[englishcottagedreams]

(via Trowbridge Old Toll Cottage | Trowbridge, Wilts | Mark | Flickr)

[mostly-history]

Flood on Stallard Street in Trowbridge (Wiltshire, 1903 – 1914).

The lamp on the right is a Lucas incandescent intensifier gas lamp, installed by the gas company in February 1903, with the first six months' supply provided for free.  The lamp had 700 candlepower.  It originally had a plain mounting, but in October it was mounted on the ventilation shaft in the picture, with an ornamental bracket.  In 1914, the lamp was changed to an inverted cluster with 1000 candlepower.

In the background is the factory chimney of Innox Mill.  On the left is the pump wall (the pump has been removed) that used to stand in front of the Blind House, which was the village lock-up.  Across the bridge is the Bear Hotel, and a police constable sits in the cart travelling over the bridge.

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Flood in Trowbridge (Wiltshire, November 14th, 1894):

Messrs Clarks Loom Sheds

Town bridge from Stallard Street

Town bridge from Innox, with Bear Inn on the right

Messrs Webb from Parade, showing Bridge Mills

Stallard Street from Messrs Clark Offices, with Bear Inn on the left and Bridge House on the right

Cradle Bridge

[mostly-history]

Hill Street floods (Trowbridge, Wiltshire, April 1916).