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[Ian_Brown]

I like to consider my music tastes to be pretty varied but rarely does anything announced interest me. Whenever decent bands come to Scotland they generally seem to bypass Aberdeen, at least ones I like.

I think I've been to about 2 gigs in the last year if being perfectly honest. I know glasgow and Edinburgh are much bigger but I could probably find a decent band to see pretty much every week there. Even Inverness, Dundee and Motherwell have been getting some quality acts in the past 12 months. 65daysofstatic for example are playing in Inverness soon, I know for a fact they'd get plenty tickets sold in Aberdeen.

[Giles Walker]

I don't really see how these sort of posts help anything.

If you really feel that passionately about this problem then you could start your own night somewhere, play the music you like and book the bands you want to see.

I can understand where you are coming from though.

[RF Scott]

65daysofstatic have played in Aberdeen in the last year, is that one of your two gigs?

[Graeme]

Originally Posted by RF Scott

65daysofstatic have played in Aberdeen in the last year, is that one of your two gigs?

Almost exactly one year ago. And it did sell tickets.

[stuartmaxwell]

65 have only played aberdeen about 7 times like

dundee more touring acts than aberdeen??!?!? hmmmmm

[idol_wild]

Originally Posted by Giles Walker

I don't really see how these sort of posts help anything.

If you really feel that passionately about this problem then you could start your own night somewhere, play the music you like and book the bands you want to see.

I can understand where you are coming from though.

Giles, you are well and truly on the money here. Bravo.

Positive musical action is where it's at.

[Swingin' Ryan]

The reason I assume big bands just tend to do Glasgow and Edinburgh is that Scotland is simply that they generally don't have the time/funds/backing to play more than a couple of gigs in Scotland and they're obviously going to go for the two biggest cities. It could be much worse, we could live on the Western Isles or something. At least it's only like 2 hours on a train to Glasgow.

[Elizabeth]

The 'bands going to Inverness' thing seems weird to me, but that's only 'cause I live here.
I guess it makes more sense in the grand scheme of things, really.
I have no qualms with the gigs Aberdeen gets, but it might be different if I couldn't get to Glasgow/Edinburgh so easily.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Ian_Brown

I think I've been to about 2 gigs in the last year if being perfectly honest.

You're not perfectly honest. A quick search of your posts since october indicates you've been to many more than 2.

I dunno, I've been thinking that we're actually doing much better now for touring bands than we have at any point in the last 10 years. You're never going to get every tour by every band but we're getting a shitload of stuff that would never have came this way in the past.

Just look at the acts the AECC has had in the last year or so, it's never been as good as it is now for big acts. The Tunnels and Moshulu have been booking their socks of for a couple of years now as well and I can only assume that now the booking power of Barfly is at Moshulu it will only get more acts, not less. Then there's the Music Hall and Lemon Tree (once it re-opens) as well which always get a few solid acts.

[Jarvis]

True. Aberdeen's never had it so good for touring bands.

Take a look at the old (and current!) threads in 'Gig & Event Announcements' and dare try to say Aberdeen never has a diverse selection of bands playing.