Yeah, I was pretty vexed at first. I really tried. But then I figured I’d seen them back in the day and they likely wouldn’t have been as good. Of course, it turns out that they were better than anyone expected and the atmosphere at the gigs was apparently unparalleled.

There’s a lot of musical snobbery around and I get that people might find them derivative - they’re not insanely talented musicians and they’re lyrics aren’t the best. But some of those tunes are timeless and to be there belting them out with thousands of people just loving it would have been great.

Next time I’m definitely getting a ticket.

I wouldn’t use my Amiga, ST, ZX Spectrum or Mega drive on anything other than my CRT. They were designed for that pixel blur and playing on a modern TV is just not the same. I hadn’t realised the difference it made until i tried it and now I can never go back to using an LCD for any of my 80s/90s devices.

However, beyond that somewhat niche use, CRTs are otherwise entirely pointless and basically a worse display experience in every concievable way when your source is anything produced after the advent of HDMI/Display Port.

Sadly we’ve created (or at least blindly complied with) a society that values consumerism over community. The larger family/tribe unit worked because everyone had someone. The young were looked after by the elderly, who in turn were nourished by feelings of worth and value, while younger adults would work or look after the household. Now we pay strangers to look after our kids and ourselves in old age. We work with colleagues we barely connect with for the best years of our lives, lives that we spend mostly buying stuff and things to fill the void we’ve created.

That… Yeah, that’s not going to help.