A SAD LAMENT

Hopefully, a few of you might recognise where I've pinched the above image from.....

It's the masthead of one of the best and most informative blogs that has ever graced the internet. Oh and one of the liveliest in terms of the numbers of actual postings.

Acid Ted.

But it's my sad duty to inform everyone that as of yesterday, Acid Ted is no more.

Thankfully, it has not gone the way of the equally wonderful To Die By Your Side which was the victim of an outrageous takedown by blogger last week. Instead, the mighty ctel feels it is time to call it a day. It's only right that his final post be quoted in full:-

Two years, 1300 posts and the alphabet is over.
Hope you've enjoyed it. I have.
Thanks for dropping by and for all your comments.
All blogs have an end. This is mine.
So long and thanks for all the fish.

Now I cant claim to be a huge lover of the dance genre that was championed over at Acid Ted, but I made sure I went in on a very regular basis and read all that was said if only to learn a lot more about acts and music that was often alien to me.

It was actually almost impossible to keep up with ctel's prodigious output - sometimes he could produce six postings over a 24 hour period. He began his A-Z of the genre on Thursday 14th February 2008. Two years to the day afterwards, he completed his epic task and laid down his keyboard.

Ctel is a long time friend of TVV. He has posted here on a reasonably regular basis and not just when I've been away on holiday and given him the run of the place - I will always be in his debt for him stepping in to keep the blog going during a spell when I ran into some difficulties with my hardware crashing at home, all the while keeping Acid Ted ticking over as well.

So, I'm asking all of you to do me a wee favour. If you've ever visited Acid Ted over the past 2 years and taken advantage of his generosity by, ahem, borrowing one of the many thousands of mp3s he has made available, why not pop in for one last visit and say something nice? He more than deserves it...... Click here

Hopefully, it won't be the end of ctel's contributions to this interwebby blogging malarkey. He knows that he will always be welcome to do his thing in here at any time he chooses.

Thanks for everything amigo. Hope your self-imposed exile isn't an extended one.....

Here's some stuff I love that he has featured:-

mp3 : Kiss AMC - Rawside
mp3 : Pop Will Eat Itself - RSVP (Apollo 440 Mix)
mp3 : One Dove - Why Don't You Take Me (Weatherall Mix)
mp3 : The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - Disaster Fund Collection

Dance Motherfuckers Dance.