Last night, Pink Talking Fish played the second of three nights at Nectar‘s, the beloved venue that Phish called home for many years in Burlington, VT. The band delivered two sets, one of their standard mix of Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, and Phish songs, and a second set that contained a full performance of Pink Floyd’s album Animals.Set one opened with “Frankenstein,” the high-energy track by Edgar Winter that has turned into a fan-favorite cover for Phish. PTF jammed out of the intense song and segued into “Young Lust” from The Wall, and then “Crosseyed And Painless.” “Rift” was a great choice to follow up the impressive opener segment. Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” came next, a good cool down in energy before the band picked it right back up again with “Making Flippy Floppy.” The band transitioned into TV On the Radio‘s “Golden Age”, another cover song from Phish’s cover catalog, before moving into “Mother”. “Found a Job,” and a mashup of “Tennessee Jed” by The Grateful Dead and “Ocelet finished things up for set one.Set two started with one of Phish’s most rarely performed songs, “Harpua.” In true Phish tradition, PTF would segue into Pink Floyd’s Animals, performing the album in its entirety, before finishing up the fan-favorite rarity. It was reminiscent of Phish’s famous Dark Side of the Moon show, which also took place in the middle of a “Harpua.” The band did switch things up of course, pairing Pink Floyd’s “Dogs” with Phish’s “The Dogs,” and putting the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” in the middle of Floyd’s “Sheep.” The band also included “Guyute” in the set, which appropriately sandwiched “Pigs.”For the encore, the band performed “Seamus”, and “Sleeping Monkey,” ending the night perfectly after the wild first and second sets.Thankfully, taper Keith Litzenberger was on hand, and he quickly uploaded the audio for your listening pleasure. The audio for both sets can be found below.Pink Talking Fish | Nectar’s | Burlington, VT | 3/3/2017Set 1: Frankenstein > Young Lust > Crosseyed And Painless, Rift, Fearless*> Making Flippy Floppy**> Golden Age> Mother, Found A Job, Tennessee Jed/Ocelot MashupSet 2: Harpua*** > Pigs On The Wing Part 1 > Wild Wild Life > Dogs > The Dog > Dogs > This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), Guyute> Pigs (3 Different Ones)> Guyute, Sheep> Psycho Killer> Sheep> Pigs On The Wing Part 2> HarpuaE: Seamus, Sleeping Monkey*w/ Bug tease**w/ First Tube tease***w/ Story about Jimmy living on a farm and flying pigs[Photo via Capacity Images] read more
Having failed to win since the opening day of the Barclays Premier League season, the Dutchman’s position at the helm was looking fragile heading into the clash at Craven Cottage. It had looked like their miserable run would continue as they stuttered against the Potters, but on-loan Darren Bent repaid Jol’s faith with a late goal to secure a narrow victory. Fulham manager Martin Jol acknowledged Saturday afternoon’s 1-0 victory over Stoke was not the most comfortable, but felt it was “unbelievably important” ahead of the international break. “Relieved is probably not the word you use,” Jol said. “You need results and you need to be in a good position. “You need to be without pressure because any team under pressure won’t perform as good as they are capable of. You saw that again. “Of course we were a bit lucky because if you look at Stoke, while they didn’t create a lot of chances, Robert Huth had clear headers from set-pieces. “You work on that the whole week but they still get the clear headers. We need to do better. We have conceded a lot of goals through set-pieces and that is the only thing that didn’t happen, but they could have. “So everything is good, but not for me. We have to improve on a lot of things but I am still a happy customer to get three points as that is what we needed. “It was unbelievably important because I can come up with all the stories and excuses and say that we have got a good spirit and that they are behind each other and me or whatever. “But if you don’t get the points, then everybody is in a big depression. “We are in the same depression now as many – seven, eight or nine – other teams, so that is good. That gives you relief and confidence again.” Jol revealed a stiff side was behind Brede Hangeland’s half-time substitution and Dimitar Berbatov came off due to getting a kick. The latter’s withdrawal in the 66th minute proved instrumental in deciding the result, with replacement Bent netting the winner. “I was very happy with Darren Bent coming on for Berbatov, because if he would have stayed fit I would have probably left him on the pitch,” Jol said. “That was coincidence and it was great to have somebody like Darren Bent on the bench. He could have scored two.” It was a result Stoke manager Mark Hughes found hard to take on his first return to Craven Cottage since leaving in 2011 citing a lack of ambition. The Welshman was infuriated by the failure to award first-half penalties for Philippe Senderos and Fernando Amorebieta challenges on Stephen Ireland and Jonathan Walters respectively. Hughes also felt Pajtim Kasami should have been sent off after flinging an arm out in the direction of Erik Pieters. “I thought we had a lot of control of the game,” he said. “We are trying to create opportunities for ourselves. “We did that, had clear opportunities from corners and set-plays and had good opportunities to pick the right pass, but never quite did it. “But, in terms of the team most likely to win the game, I thought it was totally us. “I think if everybody at Fulham was honest with themselves, I think they will agree they maybe got a bit fortunate to take three points out of that game. “We should have two penalties and the boy Kasami should have been sent off, in my view, because he raised his hands. If you do that, then the boy has to go. “They were key moments that shape the game and the outcome of the game. They are the ones you want the referee and officials to get right. “Unfortunately, it affected us in a negative way because, given the time of those incidents early in the first half, it would have obviously swung the game totally in our direction. “As it was, we were still trying to force the issue when they got a break through a misplaced pass from ourselves. They were able to play the ball in the box, a couple of ricochets and it lands at Darren Bent’s feet – the one guy you don’t want in those situations. I think that was their one shot on target in the whole game.” Press Association read more
Ghanaian international, Kwabena Owusu has revealed that his colleagues and himself took $20,000 as appearance fee at the recently ended Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.This follows the budget reading by the Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah some days ago.The minister recorded that the Black Stars spent a total of $4.5 million out of the budgeted $6.3 million presented before the start of the competition.A further breakdown suggests that the players walked away with $965,405 as winning bonuses for beating Guinea Bissau and $187,050 as per diem.All this, among others which amassed to the gross total of the presented $4.5 million by the ministry for youth and sports.However, Kwabena Owusu, who made his AFCON debut in Egypt, has debunked the figures which have been trending that he and colleagues walked away with $80,000.Speaking to GHone TV, Kwabena Owusu highlighted the figures were exaggerated and the players took less of what is been circulated in the media.“I was shocked when I heard the rumour that we received $80,000 as an appearance fee. We did not get $80,000 as appearance fee, our appearance fee was $20,000” he said.The Leganes striker featured in three games of the matches played by the Black Stars in the AFCON including the game against Tunisia where the team lost on penalty shootouts. read more
LOOKING GOOD Jason McKay, CEO of McKay Security, says the electricity bill at Caymanas Park has been lowered by more than $4 million over the last few years, helped largely by a continued effort to control illegal connections from neighbouring communities to the plant’s power source. McKay Security, the racetrack’s security firm, has worked closely with the police in conducting regular raids on the illegal connections since 2011. He says the horse racing facility has seen great improvement in its energy costs since then. In 2014, CTL’s bill was reported to be over $8 million, and that was improved to $6.7 million by February 2015. The expense was further reduced to $4.2 million by March of that same year, but since the officials started morning checks for illegal connections and persecuting the offenders, the trend has droped drastically. “It’s (electricity bill) running at approximately 25 per cent of what it was at it’s highest level, so things are looking good. We are sure as of this morning that there are no illegal connections. We do a morning inspection because it’s usually nights that they do it, so early morning, we do a sweep and look for it,” said McKay. “Now, we arrest them when they do it. We take them into custody and charge them, so they have to get bail and all of that, Once that was brought to the table, it toned down,” McKay noted The security chief informed that there was a flare-up of illegal connection activity during the recent staging of the Diamond Mile, but shared that the quick reaction from the security mechanism corrected the problem, while noting that things have returned to normal since. “There was not really a spike, but we got information that they (illegal lines) were back up and we went for them. Because of the excitement of the Diamond Mile, they thought they could do it and we wouldn’t see, but we managed to keep that in check,” he said. McKay said they have seen the result from the first time they raided in 2011 and they have maintained a strong presence since. “The decrease started about two years ago when we started arresting them. Recently, it has been stable and it (bill) has not passed three million in most cases,” McKay said before noting that they have been receiving greater co-operation from members of the neighbouring communities, which have for years, been at the centre of the issue. The divestment of Caymanas Park was recently made official by the signing of documents between the Government of Jamaica and new owners Supreme Ventures Limited after lengthy discussions. The actual handing over of the track will take place on March 7, 2017. read more