Dan Smith, your favourite history teacher?

(Yes I did that, maybe we can have a full school staff soon 😁)

As I‘m listening a podcast about McCarthyism recommended by a friend, I’m just thinking about the past few years and Dan’s side projects and all the things I’ve learned from that.

Between & and now that new project being revealed in full very soon (I presume), I’ve been reading and listening and watching things about so many subjects i wouldn‘t even have thought about before. And I’m grateful for all this knowledge.

I think his way of approaching his work, and mostly using events and people to write songs makes for a very interesting experience and I do hope people also get curious about the things he writes about (if they are not already familiar with them).

The Muses podcast was such a great way to lean on that aspect of & and to get us engaged.

I do hope he keeps on taking us on journeys like this. Cause I really really enjoy it.

I do like listening to good music and feeling like I’m getting a bit smarter by doing it.

Is anybody else also enjoying that as much as I do? 😁

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u/ThatMisterPomme — 6 days ago

The Misfits Together - What’s your America? (Dan & Ralph)

https://www.instagram.com/themisfitstogether

So yesterday, after that IG account that appeared a few days ago posted yet a new reel, I spent a while perusing the content they posted , reading the captions and stuff and trying to think about what all that means.

I do think The Misfits Together is either the name of the project or the name of a band/collective/group of people that Dan & Ralph created for this (no confusing Bastille presents this time. And no need to use their name directly).
The lyrics/song they have “promoted” for now also heavily lean on this two words.
There is a website at the URL themisfitstogether.com that has been “created” around April. Right now, there is nothing but a page about the company who’s in charge of the domain, Safename.
Safename is a company helping brands securing their stuff on the internet.
Turns out EMI.com use the same company (currently redirect towards the universalmusic website).
So EMI being the label Dan/Bastille works with that would make sense that they use the same tools.
If they went into the trouble of securing that, surely it’s important, right?
Also points towards the IG account being legit and Dan’s involvement cause I don’t think Ralph is signed anywhere so EMI being involved would be weird.
The IG account was created in December last year, they have been planning that for a while!

As for “What’s Your America?”, I wonder if this points to the name of the song used on that page. It’s the same of the sound on both TikTok (they are also in there) and IG.
Also could work based on the lyrics.
Or maybe once again, it’s the name of the whole thing. Or both.
I was also wondering if each video/caption points at some lyrics from the whole track.

I could see this as an introduction for a project on American history/evolution (how did we get here type of stuff?), but maybe each song being like a portrait or a significant event?
Not clear on this one!

Dan & Ralph did say it was different from anything they have done until, I’m really curious and pretty excited for the big reveal 😁

What do you think?

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u/ThatMisterPomme — 11 days ago

Change of lineup for the Margate show

For anyone going to the Margate show, if you hadn’t seen, they changed one of the support acts.
Used to be Orla Gartland & Alfie Templeman but they swapped Alfie Templeman for Only The Poets.
I don’t think this was announced anywhere, but one of my friend follow Only The Poet on IG and that’s where she noticed it 🙂

If you go to the other shows and are interested in one of the support, maybe it’s worth checking if anything has changed too!

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u/ThatMisterPomme — 12 days ago
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My most cherished vinyl record

Do you have a record you cherished more than the others?

Mine is this one The Heart Of The Home by Charlie Barnes, a small artist I follow and probably have never heard of.
But it’s a very special one to me.
It’s a test pressing from the album, totally personalised for me.
And there’s a small story behind it..
I’m a member of his Patreon and when he finished recording it two years ago, he sent it to us immediately in digital form.
So there was a 6 month period where we had access to it but public release had not yet happened.
During this time he did a little livestream show, singing songs from the album and I noticed the lyrics he sang for one of the songs were a little bit different from the one on the album.
Lyrics he provided were matching what he sang though.
So I asked about that, and that’s when he realised he made a mistake after a long recording session, sang the wrong part and used that.
So he went and was able to fix it before he got the record pressed and before he had released it on streaming and he was very grateful for that!
So I guess I feel like I’ve got some real impact on that release and that version of the album is a reminder of that.

The actual record also looks really good (2nd pic).

u/ThatMisterPomme — 13 days ago

Is there a reason there isn’t a standard way do disclose posting/requirements restrictions on subs?

Very new to Reddit and I only created this account to join one specific community. Turns out I can’t cause of restrictions in place and I have to say I feel a bit discouraged.
I don’t really like the idea of going and commenting on random sub just so I can meet the requirements, it feels a bit wrong.
I’ve read about it and I totally understand the reason and how it work but it can feel a bit discouraging when you don’t know what you’re working towards.
I’ve seen some subs that gives you a clear list of requirement and even tell you were you’re out, other that send you a DM with the requirements if you don’t meet them… but other there’s nothing. Post and comments are juste filtered without a word.
I really appreciated seeing those and I was wondering why this wasn’t a standard practice ? At the very least it would be great if Reddit could inform us what actions are restricted in the sub we are looking at.
Is the only other solution to contact the mods of this sub to see if they would share the specific requirements?

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u/ThatMisterPomme — 14 days ago

An option to choose between “light” and “dark” mode in the App

I really liked the fact the feature they introduced of matching the background colour of an album page with the dominant colour of the cover.

I even installed the beta to have it early when it was introduced!

With the new iOS version they have tweaked it to use a darker colour if dark mode is uses at a system leveI.

I totally understand why they introduced a way to tone down this feature for people who prefer it that way.

But as a dark mode user and as someone who think Liquid Glass looks better in dark mode, I’m kinda disappointed that there is no other option for me to get back to the more “colourful“ version of it cause I truly loved it and I did think it looks good and the darker version of it is less satisfying.

I did send feedback to Apple but I’m curious… what do you think?

Do you think Apple should give us an option to choose between the two without having to chose between light and dark mode at a system level?

Would you like having that option?

u/ThatMisterPomme — 14 days ago