Click HERE to donate to The Midnight Cafe.
I started this blog on May 29, 2004, which means I’m approaching twenty years as a blogger. I think most of you know the basics of my blogging history – started out as a journal for my year in France, turned into a pop culture site, which then morphed into solely a live music station, and for the last year I’ve added back in some pop cultural musings.
I’ve made something like 10,666 posts. I’ve shared some 8,000 shows, written about movies over 500 times. I’ve talked about music and books, and I’ve shared videos and interesting links. I’ve shared personal pictures and talked a lot about my life. I’ve traveled all over the world and shared my adventures.
I don’t know how much this means to anybody but myself. I like to think I’ve made something of my little corner in cyberspace. I know most of you come for the music, but I hope at least a few of you enjoy the other stuff.
On a few occasions now I’ve asked for donations to help cover the cost of the Cloud Drives. You all have given generously to that cause, and I thank you sincerely. In previous donation requests, I’ve capped the donations to the actual cost of the Cloud Drives. In my last begging session, I noted that since I was providing more content than just music downloads I thought I’d leave the Paypal link up so that you could donate at will.
This is a continuation of that. I’m going to pin this to the top of the page so it is easily viewable by everyone. I may periodically post reminders or what you might call mini-begging posts, kind of like they do on Substack and similar operations.
The Midnight Cafe is a labor of love. I do this because I enjoy it. I’ve put a lot more time and money into it than I’ll ever get out of it. But if you think it is worth a little of your money I would greatly appreciate any donation you’d like to give. If you are unable to give, that’s okay too. This site will always be free.
You may send donations to my PayPal account.
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As always Mat, I don’t mind sending a few dollars by post. I know the US post is worse than ours in the UK, but I will risk it.
I sent you an e-mail. Thank you.
Done, rock on Mat, thanks!
Thank you very much.
Donated as ever, cause I love your work for so many years.
I appreciate it greatly.
Done! I tried to give my donation number a little music theme.
Thanks a ton for all you do here Mat – you so generously share amazing music with all of us and I truly appreciate it.
Don’t be shy to ask for donations again as needed – maybe every 6 months or something?
Thanks so much. What was the theme?
I hadn’t really expected donations on this one. I had been meaning to write something I could pin to the top of the blog just as a gentle reminder for those who want to give a little. The next time I have to upgrade the Google Drive they will make me pay them on a monthy basis (right now I’m on an annual system) so I figure I’ll have to ask for donations more often then. Maybe.
Cool – the musical theme was an RPM number, like for a vinyl album :)
why did you remove guitars 101 from your recommended sites? just wonderin
It wasn’t intentional. WordPress made some change recently and apparently disappeared my original list of links. I can actually view it in my dashboard but I can’t figure out how to make it appear on the site anymore. So I made a new one. And I just forgot to include G101.
Although I actually had a bit of drama with them recently which makes me not want to put them back up 🙂
Good afternoon my friend.
Do you need another link for a year. Let me know.
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I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you are asking. If you are asking if I need some money for my Google Drive then my answer is no. I’m paid up for a while and have plenty of space. But if you would like to donate to the site just to say thanks then you can click on the paypal link up above.
Or if it is something else just let me know.
Wow, you’re almost up to exactly 20 years! Thanks so much Mat!
Oh wow. I had forgotten. Geez I’m old
Hi,
I’m new to this so please forgive my ignorance.
How do I download files from your site? I have a File Factory account so it would be good to know how to do that.
I have an amazon prime account so it would be great to know how to do it that way and also how do I wouk it with the Google links?
All the best,
David
File Factory deleted all the files I had stored on their services. Amazon Drive discontinued their service a couple of years ago. So if you find a show with links to either of those you won’t be able to download. Feel free to leave a comment on those shows and politely ask for a reup. I’ll do my best to fill those requests.
For Google Drive click on the link from my site and you’ll be taken to Google. From there you should be able to hover your mouse over the file (or folder) you want to download. That should bring up a download link over on the right side of the screen. Click it and wait. Google will automatically zip the files and then it will download.
There is also a link at the top right corner that says “donwload all” you can click that to download everything. Though be warned they have a limit on how big a file you can download so if you are trying to doownload multiple sources you may hit that limit. I recommend just downloading one source at at time. Hope that helpls
Thank you very much for you tips and the speedy response. Very much appreciated. I’ll give it a go.
Let me know if you still have difficulties.
Thank you so much for your help. I downloaded an amazing set of Van Morrison’s from the Albert Hall today. It was magnificent. He is one of my favourites and an artist of astounding complexity. More power to you and what you do. I will be donating soon.
Awesome. I’m glad it worked. I’ve got a lot of Van shows up and I’m regularly adding more!
Hi Matt, I’ve finally gotten around to sending you a small amount that I hope helps in some way. I have gathered up some amazing Van Morrison shows over the years (well, I am from Northern Ireland!), and can’t wait until the Van by year post are re-upped onto the new site (any idea when?).
Good luck for the future mate.
Thank you so much for the donation. I appreciate it greatly. I’m working hard on getting all my shows imported to the new site. I hope to start inviting people to view it next week. Rest assured all my Van posts are already there.
It will probably take me several more weeks before I get the remaining artists imported and then I’ll work on getting the artists pages back up and running.
Also you will be happy to know that a friend of the site has been sending me a huge amount of Van shows and I will be posting them over the next several weeks/months. It is a great bounty!
Ohhhhh, stop it…. what a tease you are Matt! My lips are smacking in anticipation!!!