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if you're not prepared do discuss your own reasons for making music then perhaps you shouldn't continually question other peoples? but i'll let it go. i don't really want to turn this into an argument about who's got the least ego or anything like that i dunno, maybe most bands are just about fulfilling adolescent fantasies. i guess that's why a lot of people pick up guitars in the first place but then they grow as musicians and people and their goals change. at the end of the day we all make music because it's something we're passionate about and we think we can create some good compositions be it using loops and computers or using guitars and drums. i know i don't perform live to massage my ego because quite frankly i'm not that good a guitarist to impress anyone. i think this thread's been interesting and been for the main quite a good discussion. to recap, can we all agree that it'd be nice if aberdeen journals were to run some kind of regular critical music column but perhaps bands and artists in aberdeen don't do enough to encourage that. and we can continue to disagree on whether there'd actually be any interest in such a thing or if we actually want the rest of aberdeen to be interested in our music in the first place.

I'm saddened to read that some people think that we have a shit scene up here. We have a very vibrant and broad music scene that needs people to invest their time and money into it. Time and money can be taken any way you want it to. Whether it be writing in the local rag, or making your own publication, promoters spending money and putting alot of time into putting gigs on, or the bands themselves getting off their arses and doing some work themselves. My last point is what really gets me frustrated alot of the time.This may start a whole new conversation and thread but I'm gonna say it here anyways. I think bands should invest more time and effort into promotiing themselves and getting crowds to their gigs and people interested in their music. Alot of bands rest on their laurels(sp) and just expect their friends to keep turning up listening to the same set in a different venue in town every other week. They leave all promotion to the promoter concerned and then moan if it's a shit turnout. The exception to this seems to be out-of-town bands who look to promote themselves. Speaking to Paige yesterday at my gig, they arrived in Aberdeen about 1pm and set about wandering around town, flyers in hand, speaking to people and trying to get them interested in going to the gig. Why can't local bands do this? It doesn't take more than each member spending maybe about an hour each one day and doing the same. Anyways, back to my original point. I think we have a very good scene up here and it would just take a bit of hard work from some bands to break through and get somewhere rather than playing round the same venues once a month.