Last time, Sharpie also said that we would look at the Lostprophets, the next week.  Realising that that post was made about 3 months ago, he looked back, paniced and then posted this one.

The Lostprophets are a Welsh band that were formed in 1997.  That makes them 11 years old! Wow.  If only Britney had lasted that long.  Anyway, they are the proud owners of 3 albums.

Their first album (thefakesoundofprogress) was made for under £4000 and was originally intended as a demo.  The lyrics and the songs on the first album denoted to ‘the prophets’ childhood.  For example, the song Shinobi vs Dragonninja is based on 2 popular video games from the prophet's childhood.

The second album (Start Something) was made for more that £4000 and is perceived as being the best one (by which I mean I like it the best).  It reached number 4 in the UK album chart but only reached 69 in the French Album Chart.  What? Is it like the French don't like the Welsh or something... come to think of it.

Their third and latest album (Liberation Transmission) is the best so far, not from my point of view, but the UK public as they voted it as their NUMBER ONE album.  The latin phrase on the cover of the album (nobis pro lemma vobis) translates as "For Us, For Them, For You" which is a line from their song, Burn Burn.

So, that was another interesting fun filled fact post from Sharpie.  Lol

All the updates took alot less time than I thought the station was only offline for about 10-15 minuites. The updates are in short:

Abulm covers down the side got an update now almost every track has a cover (maybe 5 don't).

Requests are working again and reflect the new playlist.

Changed the software to use a new database system, should be much faster and the huge 10 minute pauses that sometimes used to appear in between tracks should be gone. Should also allow some cool new features to be added like the 10 most requested songs to be played in their own 'show'.

Some playlist changes over the weekend to look out for.

Now the chances are that Random Rampage sounds better than your MP3 collection. I've just inseveted in a new server in Atlanta, Goriga (US east coast) which can take plenty of listeners at 160kbps and most MP3s you'll have at home will be at only 128kb. So now there is no excuse for not listening. Currently you'll need winamp to listen via: http://66.71.245.242:8010/listen.pls but links for other players will role out accross the site over the few days. It'll be up for a couple of months to see how it goes, and if there is a good uptake I'll keep it running. Unlike the current stream this one might not so stable as I'm manageing the server and if you some how you manage to rack up 500GB worth of listening between you then it'll be offline for the rest of the month but I don't see that happening. Not to worry if you can't the listen to the new one the old stream will be staying as well.

Some new upcoming ablums:

The Killers - Day And Age

You Me At Six - Take Off Your Colours

Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux

Funeral For A Friend - Memory And Humanity

All of that before the middile of November, obviously those will be making their way onto here. The podcast is closer than ever to getting done, should be ready by the start of November it'll be called impluse and as well as being available for download it will play on Random Rampage it's looking like it could have a slot on Thursday at 8PM (GMT). I don't want to give to much away but it'll take the basic format of a band interview with a few of their songs.