Sinners Music Podcast 23 (Dexy's Midnight Runners)

Podcast 23  Podcast 23 A Podcast about music and art    Links for this episode  Chiharu Shiota https://youtu.be/jSyg5wrM-ck?si=ktCUiN-EenQKPmoJ Yin Xiuzhen https://youtu.be/z0ybUPb4Qy0?si=WZTcUijVkawv7XSn https://electronicmusicopenmic.com https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/hayward-gallery/  https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2854-don-mccullin/ https://holburne.org/ https://www.hauserwirth.com/locations/10068-hauser-wirth-somerset/ https://electronicmusicopenmic.com https://sinnersmusicuk.bandcamp.com https://chocolatemilk1.bandcamp.com   First of all thanks to all of the new listeners we’ve had over 800 on podcast downloads sites  YouTube is lagging behind but listener can view the little bits that are visual down below  And any questions can be asked via email or in the comments Hows the weeks been Fighting with HMRC - His Majesty's Revenue and Customs  about the sinners music end of year accounts As a limited company We have to submit end of year accounts  We also have to submit quarterly VAT accounts  And we use accounting software to help with this  So we use QuickFile for this so its free for businesses that have unto 1000 transactions per year  We fall into the 1001+ category so its £60+ VAT a year In comparison  Quickbooks goes from £16 to £123 a month  £192 to £1476 + VAT Xero £15 to £55 a month Sage is £18 to £59 a month   So as from the 1st April HMRC have implemented Make Tax Digital  For small businesses and sole traders  Now we’re VAT registered so for years we’ve been using QuickFile to submit our VAT returns    Now the downside of  QuickFile is that it isn’t compliant with submitting our end of year accounts so we’ve always used the HRMC software portal it was crap but functional same as their PAYE software Basic PAYE which is a very badly written piece of software    So I came to file my last years accounts to find out that I now can’t use HMRC’s online software I have to buy a 3rd party commercial software so I did some research and it seems their isn’t any free software But I did find  Tiny tax whereby for 1 company you can submit your accounts for £59+VAT    and while I’m ranting once a year we have to submit to Companies House a confirmation statement the fee for filing this statement use to be £13 its just a form saying nothing has changed in the year last it now costs £50 to submit online and £110 in paper    THe UK government are having a laugh no wonder there are so many people trying to avoid paying tax    Started working on the music for a dance production which is due in June Went to a couple of exhibitions at the Holborn Gallery a photo exhibition on Don McCullin and Sandra Rodes  Also when to the Haywood gallery at the south bank centre in london for 2 artists    Music & Arts News  Wireless Festival is an annual rap and hip-hop music festival, owned and managed by Live Nation, The company has faced various lawsuits alleging ticket price fixing, hidden fees and anti-competitive practices Wireless was due to takes place in London,and kanya West otherwise known as Ya was to headline all 3 nights Next Friday wells emom    Main Topic Book review of Kevin rowland  On the 15th March 1980 Dexy midnight runners released Geno I did got out an buy it and it took 2 months to get to no:1 and while it was climbing up the charts Dexy’s were on tour across the UK with the straight to the heart tour . I was in an 11 piece Funk /Soul band called Motel out of York when Pat the drummer rang me at work mid afternoon and said are you free tonight we’ve a gig supporting Dexy midnight runners can you be at Alcuin dinning hall for 6:30pm - Alcuin was one of the colleges at York University amazingly I would end up having my office in Alcuin college for 16 years when I was their as a lecturer. I got to the gig just as Dexy finished sound checking the road crew were great and was the band except Kevin Rowland who wander around with a scowl on his face   We play the crowd loved us and we did 2 encores after We’d moved our gear off the stage I was walking up to the shared dressing room and Kevin Rowland passed me on the stairs and muttered 2 fucking encores bunch of amateurs - I was speechless  Now that tour is covered in the book York isn’t mentioned  but let me read a small paragraph  So it wasn’t personal Kevin was being a dick to everyone and that comes across in the book its everyones fault not his faulty he went bankrupt thats his managers and accounts fault  You could say the writing was on the wall when 5 members of the original Dexys left because of him and the same happened with the 2nd version of Dexys  The book has left me not liking Kevin Rowland and it seems clear that he has mellowed over time but he has diminished my eyes and I not know if I want to keep all of the Dexy records I have maybe I’ll just keep the greatest hits and flog the rest    Recommendations  andor on Disney  Chocolatemilk on bandcamp 38 releases not Chocolate space milk the 1970s funk band it sort of electronica with retrowave  Ranzee albums now on sinners music