Leaderboard

Still no mention of stagetimes? And don't call Maxi a twat. He's done more good deeds for the Aberdeen scene than you've had sweetcorn-ridden craps! Maybe we should all just read the Radar pages of NME and book the bands therein. If not, then I'm sure Ross Morrison will help us out!

Ok, here goes, im either going to get ignored as usual or jumped on, but frankly I dont care any more. I think there are plenty of decent bands in aberdeen, Copy Haho, The Holy Folks, Kenetic, Stanley, Rescue Party, Kitchen Cynics, Edgar Prais and Hookers Green to name but a few. I'm not from Aberdeen, but I love music and thats what got me into Djing which eventually got me into promoting. But it seems to me that there is just one giant chip on the shoulder of this town. But it has a fucking brilliant music scene, considering the size of the place, there are plenty of decent venues and shitloads of bands. Admittedly there are a lot of absolute shite but there are decent bands in equal measure, and quite frankly this continual "oh theres no decent bands" pish which bounded around these forums on a regular basis are starting to really piss me off. Aberdeen is a small city, it is miles away from the "hub" of the central belt but still I am constantly amazed with the new, inventive and exciting bands which are based here. As for Promotion, i dont get this anti-promoter feel which I have seen, all promoters do is provide a new and interesting slant on the whole idea of viewing and listening to music. With Underflow, what Callum and I are doing is trying to introduce bands which are big in other places to aberdeen audiences and hope the effect works both ways in giving people the chance to see bands they dont usually see and allow the bands to experience an Aberdeen audience and local line ups which will hopefully allow the local bands to be talked about once the touring bands go home. There is a thriving music scene up here, being held back by its own attetude, stop moaning about how you think things are shit up here and take an interest.