Page 1 of Tutty bye, lovely people

It is with considerable sadness that I have to report that from today I am disengaging from regular contact with DVD Reviewer, and in particular from moderating the message boards.

I`m involved in a couple of new exciting projects, the first one very dear to my heart, which will eat away at my spare time.

Firstly, I will be devoting a lot more time and energy to my favouritest band ever, The Fall, who are long overdue a massive break this year (viewers of Later with Jools Holland on 20 May 2005 were, I hope, severely tested by the band`s appearance :p). I already moderate on their message board, as well as attempting to run a nerdy cataloging site about everything they`ve released from 1977 to the present day (believe me - it`s a lot !). I will also be involved in a couple of other behind the scenes things, the details of which I won`t bore you with here.

Secondly, I will be returning to a hobby which I abandoned about 10 years ago, and that is reviewing gigs and records on a paid-by-the-article type arrangement (and not many beans, more`s the pity) for a monthly music mag. I used to edit the art and music section of the old Loughborough Uni student newspaper, and a chap I got onto the rocky road of rock journalism back in the early 90s has done very well for himself since meeting Clayts "Midas Touch" Hayward and is kindly repaying the favour, which is extremely generous of him...

I`ve been moderating here, I think, since early 2001 and boy have I seen some changes. It`s amazing the amount of people who`ve circulated through this forum, and come out still sane the other side (and those are just the ones that didn`t get banned by me !). So, special hugs to Andrew Bruce, Westy and to Jimbo, three old stalwarts who have been here virtually the same length of time as me. There`s probably a whole heap more I could thank but those three in particular have been excellent friends to me, in one way or another. Please don`t feel slighted if I`ve forgotten you - I love you all, dammit !

Also I`d very much like to thank Dan and Robert for their humour, their support and most of all for the harem of ladies supplied as part of the job of moderator (along with free entry to and complementary drinks in every sleazy dive bar in Soho going) - I shall miss these two geezers incredibly.

I like to think that in my time as mod, I have acted fairly and reasonably, although no doubt there have been times (usually when drunk) when I screw things up, delete posts I shouldn`t, ban everyone and send spam to every e-mail address in the database (the last two are lies, by the way).

I shall still drop in from time to time to say hello and catch up with the gossip, but now, the end is near, etc, etc, etc.

Thanks for having me - it`s been great fun :)



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Clayts, Moderator, DVD Reviewer
UK webmaster for Area 450 the independent Sampo/Maxent DVD site

This item was edited on Tuesday, 31st May 2005, 18:45

awww Clayts!! :(

You`ve been a pro!...as it were.

All the best with your next `career` mate!!

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Hope everything works out for you mate :) & i hope you manage to pop back in from time time to time :D

Good luck :)

This item was edited on Tuesday, 31st May 2005, 18:49

Clayts, hope everything goes well with your new (or is it old?) venture and these boards continue to function well without you.

Don`t be a stranger and, as the 42%er would say, all the best!


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:( Its been a great pleasure having on board. I must say you was a very professional man, straight to the point and kind in some ways. I think you banned me a few times (all my fault btw) with some super emails to follow that explaining why i was banned. Im sure you`ll hav a great time re-discovering ur hobbies etc... Take care m8. and don`t 4get us lot..!!! 8)

Good luck.
First person to get me region free.
So it`s all your fault and I`m citing you in any divorce proceedings.


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Also I`d very much like to thank Dan and Robert for their humour, their support and most of all for the harem of ladies supplied as part of the job of moderator (along with free entry to and complementary drinks in every sleazy dive bar in Soho going)

Where do I submit the CV and which palms do I grease.


Snaps

:D straight to the point and kind in some ways. :D

is that you`re way of saying "not a complete barstool" :D :D :D

All the best Clayts... :B


If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything BTTF

This item was edited on Tuesday, 31st May 2005, 19:10

Awwww. :(
You are gonna be missed, badly.
Good luck in your new venture.

All the best Clayts for the future. :D



I quite like the Helpdesk people in a benevolent (as opposed to malevolent) way as they do some valuable work in preventing us being inundated by every halfwit who can work a phone.