Toby Atkin-Wright

I have twelve spare invitations to “Spotify Free”. Would anyone like one? (Valid in UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Netherlands.)

Comparison of Spotify plans at https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/overview/ — the invitation-based Spotify Free plan is like the basic Spotify Open plan, but isn’t limited to 20 hours of listening per month.



I’ll need to know an email address to send an invitation to.

Edited to add: all the invitations have gone now!

I have twelve spare invitations to “Spotify Free”. Would anyone like one? (Valid in UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Netherlands.)

Comparison of Spotify plans at https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/overview/ — the invitation-based Spotify Free plan is like the basic Spotify Open plan, but isn’t limited to 20 hours of listening per month.



I’ll need to know an email address to send an invitation to.

Edited to add: all the invitations have gone now!

The new Iron Maiden album, The Final Frontier, is out today. It’s their first album in four years, their longest gap between releases. Lots of fine listening. I grew up listening to Maiden, and it’s good to know they’re still rocking.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3CE0SB7URLI49lxJcykXUi

The new Iron Maiden album, The Final Frontier, is out today. It’s their first album in four years, their longest gap between releases. Lots of fine listening. I grew up listening to Maiden, and it’s good to know they’re still rocking.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3CE0SB7URLI49lxJcykXUi

I have four spare invitations to “Spotify Free”. Would anyone like one? (Valid in UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Netherlands.)

Comparison of Spotify plans at https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/overview/ — the Spotify Free plan is like the basic Spotify Open plan, but isn’t limited to 20 hours of listening per month.

I have four spare invitations to “Spotify Free”. Would anyone like one? (Valid in UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Netherlands.)

Comparison of Spotify plans at https://www.spotify.com/uk/get-spotify/overview/ — the Spotify Free plan is like the basic Spotify Open plan, but isn’t limited to 20 hours of listening per month.

I’ve been playing with the new social sharing features in the latest version of Spotify. (I got fed up with waiting for Spotify to update itself — they are staggering updates over a number of days — so I downloaded the latest version from their website.) It gives us more toys to play with; one can share playlists which others can play or subscribe to, and tracks can be sent to other users’ inboxes.

It automatically connects Spotify users according to their Facebook friendship, but one can find and “friend” a user by their Spotify username too. My profile is at spotify:user:tobyaw.

We’ve had blue sky and sunshine for much of today, with a heavy fall of rain this evening. I hope things pick up before the medieval fair — and our picnic — in the castle tomorrow.

Andrew worked from home today, and was therefore able to cook us dinner, which was a pleasant change. I bought a bottle of Cholula Hot Sauce today, a Mexican chilli sauce, which pepped up my dinner. Surprisingly, Beth was keen to try it (she doesn’t often like “hot” food), and asked for more. She might be developing a taste for spiciness.

I’ve been playing with the new social sharing features in the latest version of Spotify. (I got fed up with waiting for Spotify to update itself — they are staggering updates over a number of days — so I downloaded the latest version from their website.) It gives us more toys to play with; one can share playlists which others can play or subscribe to, and tracks can be sent to other users’ inboxes.

It automatically connects Spotify users according to their Facebook friendship, but one can find and “friend” a user by their Spotify username too. My profile is at spotify:user:tobyaw.

We’ve had blue sky and sunshine for much of today, with a heavy fall of rain this evening. I hope things pick up before the medieval fair — and our picnic — in the castle tomorrow.

Andrew worked from home today, and was therefore able to cook us dinner, which was a pleasant change. I bought a bottle of Cholula Hot Sauce today, a Mexican chilli sauce, which pepped up my dinner. Surprisingly, Beth was keen to try it (she doesn’t often like “hot” food), and asked for more. She might be developing a taste for spiciness.

For those who Spotify, you may wish to listen to Marty Feldman singing the French words from the side of an HP Sauce bottle, from his 1969 album "I Feel A Song Going Off."

http://open.spotify.com/track/21k9B0ilZqzpIQL5sBLbRS

Apparently the French text appeared on HP Sauce bottles from 1917 to 1984; when it was removed there were widespread protests. Or at least a letter or two to national newspapers. Perhaps the removal of the French text was the beginning of the end of HP as a British cultural institution, a process that culminated in production moving from Aston to the Netherlands in 2007.

For those who Spotify, you may wish to listen to Marty Feldman singing the French words from the side of an HP Sauce bottle, from his 1969 album "I Feel A Song Going Off."

http://open.spotify.com/track/21k9B0ilZqzpIQL5sBLbRS

Apparently the French text appeared on HP Sauce bottles from 1917 to 1984; when it was removed there were widespread protests. Or at least a letter or two to national newspapers. Perhaps the removal of the French text was the beginning of the end of HP as a British cultural institution, a process that culminated in production moving from Aston to the Netherlands in 2007.