The PA Happy Birthday Thread

kosmischekurier joined our spaced out throng in March 2009, and stayed with us until the following August. His interests, as will soon be set out clearly, are space rock and Krautrock. When he joined, he gave us all notice of the website he was setting up, which did attract the attention of a number of our beloved brethren. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56694

And here is said website, dedicated to all things Kosmische Welt, or Cosmic World according to that lovely algorithm at Mr Googly. Kosmische Welt And what a feast of information he has here. I cannot see that it has been updated in a little while, but it does, heroically, include a link to our Hallowed Temple, and is just utterly fantastic, and well worth spending a little bit of time on if you are into this type of prog.

Matthew Wade celebrates his 45th birthday in Newcastle, that heroic bedrock of all things Geordie in Blightyland. Matthew is an environmental engineer, and is, in fact, a civil servant working at Department of Health and Social Care, and is a wee bit of an expert in wastewater (effluent to you and I) treatment, which surely must qualify him for a job at one of our many legendary waste management firms featured thus far on PABT if the call comes. Here he is, with an impressive list of research stuff Matthew WADE | Lead Analyst | Environmental & Ecological Engineering | Department of Health and Social Care 

And for those of you who are super fans of The Ozrics, as is our hero, you will be impressed by his music collection on Bandcramp cosmicspacepig's collection | Bandcamp

What a shame he didn’t stick with us, but it doesn’t stop us from wishing our dearly beloved brother a very happy birthday! Howay The Lads, as they are wont to say on Tyneside.

Elsewhere in Proggerland, we wish a very happy 23rd birthday to Larkstongue41. Hubert has been active on the site since July 2015. Happy birthday sir!

Firstly, let us pay musical homage to the film world https://youtu.be/vB08hqjJnPo Ah, hugging with your baby! That is an absolute classic, and, indeed, rejected for Symphonic Motown by Ivan following a truly historic suggestion by Svetonio. We do not always get it right, friends!

angelko1958 joined our cultural throng on 19th April 2009, and carried on visiting us until December 2010, but did not, I am afraid, delight us with any of his thoughts on the artistic merits of Prog videos, films starring our beloved heroes, or, indeed, anything. Angelo Sartore celebrates his 63rd birthday in that wonderful haven of descendants of British convicts, Melbourne, Australia. Before we consider the affairs of our lensman, let us discuss this city. Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria in Convictland, situated on the South East coast of that land. Melbourne is, you will be relieved to know, now open following an extended lurgy lockdown. Residents of this lovely city will, no doubt, be queuing up to apply for a Lord Mayor’s Commendation for their business as we speak, and, in an indication of just how far liberal society extends these days, the very first thing you can choose to do on the city’s ever so helpful website (“I Want To”) is to pay your parking fine, or view said fine should you be of a mind to consider paying it. Thankfully, you can also book a hard waste collection here, bearing in mind, though, that The City of Melbourne offers a hard waste collection for residents only. Individual households can book one collection service of one cubic metre per year. Never let it be said that this thread does not provide a public service. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Pages/home.aspx

So what of our dearly departed brother, Angelo? When he registered, he didn’t provide anything at all to allow us to take an interest in his persona. No occupation, no interests, no signature. Absolutely diddly squat.

Well, he is actually an interesting chap. He is a cameraman in that hotbed of popular culture, filmmaking, and has quite an impressive list of credits to his name as an Assistant Cameraman. That Bible of all things movies, IMDB, lists his credits Angelo Sartore - IMDb Amongst his credits is a short film starring Peter Hardy (no relation to Ollie), Chasing Rabbits, featuring as its co-stars those wonderful bunnies who make a delicious stew, and at 16 minutes in, a truly emotional breakdown on the part of the lead. Here it is, rated 9.3 on IMDB, albeit with only 9 ratings, including Bigwig and Hazel obviously, and a grand total of 110 views on GoggleTube https://youtu.be/ExmX6RqlGCo

As his day, job, Angelo is company principal of Precision Camera Service, specialising in the repair of Sachtler & Oconnor fluid heads & tripods, and I can wholly recommend these goods to all of you budding Stanley Kubrick’s out there in Proggerland. Here is his LinkedArms site https://au.linkedin.com/in/angelo-sartore-407b1399 and here is said firm’s SadBook page, where you can learn all sorts of vital issues such as a Grip's dolly monitor powering system, very handy if you are going out to film Shaun The Sheep as opposed to Mr Bunny. Precision Camera Service - Home | Facebook

Angelo also appears on that august institution, British Film Institute Angelo Sartore | BFI and if you wish to hire him, and why the devil would you not, get yourselves over to that hotbed of hiring, Yumpu ANGELO SARTORE - Freelancers Promotions

So! We say G’Day and Bonza Birthday to our bunny loving brother! Can we have Kylie’s autograph, please?

Elsewhere, we have no current collabs to report, but they will be back! 

How did this come about? 

Today’s hero first registered with the site as schroedingerscat in December 2009, out of work, and out of ideas to share with the masses.

He then registered on the site as IainHawk in December 2010, when he described himself again as a bit of a loafer, i.e. unemployed, and made reference to his Hawkwind affections.

Then, on Christmas Day 2019, obviously with nothing better to do on that holy day, LordHawk joined our Christmas Pudding Throng, for the third time of asking. He stayed for just short of three months, without, I am afraid, sharing any of his thoughts with the masses. 

All of this is a little bit of a shame, because Iain Hawk, who celebrates his 55th birthday in Krautland today, is obviously a man of culture and talent.

When he registered for the third time, his signature was suitably academic and philosophical for a creature of Rhineland, it being the following; “Ars Longa Vita Brevis”. Now this translates into Anglespeak as life is short, and is in itself a translation of the original Greek, and quotes the original two lines of The Aphorismi by that wonderful Doctor Quack, Dr Hippocrates. Yes indeedy folks, culture does exist beyond the swamps of Germany, you know! Those philistines among you might be shouting at Mr Laz by now to tell me that our wonderfully clever brother was, in fact, quoting the title of the second album by those progressive pioneers, The Nice, but that would, in my opinion, be to denigrate our brother. 

Anyhoo, how does Svetonio come into this story? Well, take a look see at number 2,522 of the 20,445 band addition suggestions that our glorious Tito loving brother (TIT for short) made all the way back in 2014; Schroedinger's Cat (Germany) for Psych / Space - Progressive Rock Music Forum Now, our very wise and prolific collab, Uwe “Rivertree”, was ever so slightly sceptical of this suggestion, and why would he not be? However! The artistic outlet of our dearly departed brother Iain was indicted into the Pantheon of Prog. Here is his page SCHROEDINGER'S CAT discography and reviews

By the way, this thread does also provide you with quantum learning as well as culture, and I know that all of you are extremely eager to learn why Mr Schroedinger was so fond of his pussy. Well, it is not, I am afraid, a reference to Ms Shroedinger’s foo foo, but is explained here extremely satisfactorily in the WikiOrgasm page Schrödinger's cat - Wikipedia There are people who get very excited by interpretations of quantum mechanics. I am not one of them, sadly.

Mr Hawk’s real name is, in fact, Sebastian Khan, not nearly as exciting or academic as Iain Hawk, so one can forgive the pseudonym I suppose. Or, of course, this extrapolation of different names could be what is commonly referred to by scientific pointy heads as a quark measurement problem. But, is his psych/space rock, which so excited our Serbian friend, any good? Well, you will have noted by now that his ten million albums have attracted a veritable vacuum of ratings, let alone reviews. This really must be addressed, so let us have a visit in real space time continuum to his Bandycramp page; Music | Schroedinger's Cat I have had a listen to a couple of tracks from Dark Matter. Flying around Yraal weighs in at over 40 minutes, which rather makes IQ look like a bunch of lazy slackers. It really isn’t that bad at all, and certainly should attract a little bit more interest from the prog masses than it has. He has been going for 30 years now, which is a long time, and his SadSpace page is included here for completeness Schroedinger's Cat - Posts | Facebook

So! We wish a very spaced out birthday to our glorious hero! Don’t let that pussy suffer, sir! Keep it medically moist!

Elsewhere in Proggerland, it is another day of heroic excitement, for we wish our exceptional SC, TCat, or Mike as his parents named him 60 years ago today in Canadaland, a very happy birthday.  Mike is prolific and extremely wise in these parts, so have a great day sir!