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Troajan, I don't remember that top so maybe your memory is better than mine - unless I wore it on 'Eggheads'...but I think I wore green that day. But I have been known to wrear tank tops, Troajan.

Love your name...

Crude...Trojan Blue is a favourite song of mine.

KTF, we can't change history so we have to move on.

What we can do is learn from that history & improve! Life lessons can be brutal & so can the AIM!

Crude..AIM - where anything goes & grifters, chiselers & charlatans can become CEOs with a license to virtially print money in a mob world where PIs are seen as marks or, in the UK, mugs!

KTF, my morals should not be in question. I invested in good faith & remained loyal to a dream of opening a new hydricarbon frontier in Morocco. I may be as gullible as many here but my morals are intact. We have had 3 major periods at Sound Energy & the one James Parsons presided over was by far the best!

Crude...none of it matters now.....

DrJenner, youv'e been in Sound a long time. The AIM, can be a dirty bussiness & people get shot down in flames, burned, disalutioned & angry. I always tried to be polite & reasonable but now I fear I am one of the above. Bitter in .y advancing age but mostly about how our country has been missmanaged, not little old Sound. I'm more concerned about my savings & future state pension...will there be anything left? I guess that is the bigger picture.

Crude...saying hi to all those investors that have been here years & years! I salute you all & wish you bon chance!

My point is we are essentually starting all over. Iv'e been here 16 years & all we have is a shell company with, admutedly no debt, but hardly any cash , no assets & a rock bottom valuation. But now our 'expert' hydrocarbon company are suddenly going to transition into solar whizkids. As has been previously stated by others, this will take much more cash with the very real prospect of drowning existing shareholders with a tzunami of shares. All very well for rinse & repeat with new shareholders as rhey get in at low value...meanwhilw we take the mother of all hair cuts resulting in decapitation! Not my idea of progress!

Crude...no debt, nearly no money & definitely no assets! Or am I being too bleak!

Soz, my interbet is not good but I will just finish by saying....maybe if we hold tight this time next year we will all be milluonaires! Net Stupid Zero here we come for some big fat profits!

Balancedviewer, with dye respect, is solar storage going to cut it with a company whose cash is far outstripped by its debt? What expertice do Sound have in this field? Is nad Ed Milliband involved...lol

Seriously Maybw Ed will be the next CEO or maybe Ed will propoise a huge exclusive grant to SOU. Maybe if we hols tight here m

BTW, who is this Laura person who feels the need to filter me? Is she some 'kind of Joanna comw lately' dude! I know I'm not here much but she is new to me. Maybw he/she/they & other personal pro nouns ought to grow a pair & stop filtering people. It's like sticki g your fingers in your ears when you were a child and screaming I can't hear you! Honestly, these people arre a danger to themselves when they are all cashed up in the AIMCasino!

Crude...I never filtered anybody.If you can't debate your possition then don't ignore people who can; you might learn something!

Gentlemen, I don't have any shame personally, it's just a shame how things panned out. Some of you are such conspiracy theorists. The truth is I was just as enthusiastic as many were back then. There was no luck or inside info involved when I sold a chunk. The SP was an all time high at £1.02 & started falling. My 25 year mortgauge term was due for final payment in 3 months time & I annouced that fact & said I was selling some to pay it off. At the time I couldn't cover the 66K I owed & always hoped I could somehow sell some shares. This is all public knowledge. I announced these details before I sold. Naievely I thought I was talking to fellow Sound investor friends & to a large degree I was. Nothing underhand happened. I sold 10% below the all time high because I could see the trend & the trades & thought it my last chance to pay the morgauge. But that doesn't mean I haven't lost money. My remaining shares are pennies on the dollar, just like many here. I feel as let down as you all. But I still have my memories of ascending an oil/gas rig in Morocco several times & the fun I had out there & in London & elsewhere with investors.

Crude

Pduk, there was no crying. I was proud to be at the lectern speaking about our company & it's prospects. James asked me if I would say a few words & I was pleased to do so. After, we all trooped off tp Borough Market for beers & cigars at the George Inn. I met some good folks at invedtor events & on trips to Morocco. It all seemwd possible back then.

Crude

Makes me nostalgic for those days when James Parsons ran the company. At least he generated a huge rise in the SP after some clever refinancing. Our prospects in Morocco seemed tangable & we had real hope for the future. We had some bad luck at times but we were grateful to be out of Indonesia & eventually, Italy too, under his leadership. Morocco was the promissed land, or so it seemed. Profits could be made in those days but ever since GL took over & the subsequent management restructuring thay have proven utyerly fruitless. Be careful what you wish for because the grass isn't always greener!

Crude...looney tunes got it right: "That's all folks"

Nice perversion of classic song lyrics but sadly true, St Mary! Others might prefer "The Only Way is Up" or that Blair election classic: "Things Can Only Get Better"...but as with the Blair & subsequent governments, things only got worse!

I still think Kylie is an embitteref ex Sound employeee with all his knowledge! There are quite a few that used to work for Sound...maybe it's Gerry Orbell...lol

Crude. The only thing to do is laugh at oir own mistaken belief & optomism on the AIM casino! "You Win Some, Lose Some its.all the Same to me" & gambelings for fools, but that's the way I like it etc & so on.........

Crude

I have to hand it to Kylie, he has been proved right all along. He seems to have an almost forensic knowledge of Sound Energy. I have always wondered who he is or if he has ever worked for Sound Energy.

I remember all the hype that attended the appointment of GL post JP & even then I thought 'be careful what you wish for'! I never had any real faith in him & decided to stop posting on this board, only turning up occasionally for the latest gossip. The glory days are gone & now Sound are insolvent...but let's not say 'Kylie' didn't give us plenty of warning! He seems to have known all along that GL was a charlatan snake oil salesman in the style of the likes of Pete Landau. Congrats Kylie...we were indeed the mugs & have been right royally mugged off!

Crude

Kylie, if that is the case there are no alternatives & we are all sunk. This lot are a bunch of dangerous clowns with a sinister agenda & the last lot lost the plot entirely!

Whilst we are here, how do Sound remain solvent with all that debt & no assets? Am I missing something?

Kylie, think what you like but like many here, I do have a life to live. I don't look at Sound very often because I thought news would only come in H2. I could say I resent your comments but I dont give a sh*t what you say. I have much bigger things on my plate & they concern getting our country back from the morons who run it. Oh, before you ask, yes I was at the Unite the Kingdom March a couple of weeks ago & I was present last September!Sound now means nothing to me but happy memories of the good people I met on the journey & in Morocco, which I presume you never visited with us!

The first time I have looked at Sound in ages only to find they sold out! Out of Morocco! What kind of scum run this company? The same sort of scum running our country, no doubt. Betrayed by everyone! This country needs revolution & the Sound board need to be shamed, named & sacked!

Anyway, I'm enthusisiastic for 2026.

Cheers....Crude

If I could be reasonably certain there wouldn't be a share raise I would be looking to increase my holding. That is the question we all must ask. But I do like the experience the new CEO brings !& probably like most here, I'm excit

Adam, I feel you are so right. People/investors always blame everything on anything but themselves. Ultimately, the decision is always theirs, but somehow, someone else always gets the blame for their mistakes.

Cheers...Crude

Caveat, I worked everyday during the Covid Eppedemic. I dont live in a terrace with South Downs prints on the wall. Next time you are down this way give me a heads up & I will be happy to show you around.. That goes for any genuine Sound investor who finds themselves in Sunny Sussex.

Cheers...Crude