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No. I'm at work so I googled "bald cat".

A well mantained lawn, not an overgrown jungle, or a patio.

Just ordered my bottle of SINK THE BISMARK, with the 20% shareholders discount Quite liking the video as well. Sink the Bismarck! Just waiting to watch the free advertising come in from the likes of the Portman Group/Daily Record/Scottish Sun/Scotsman/BBC/Channel 4

There's really no rhyme nor reason to this it seems. I've put on a few gigs with bands that are really really good from out of town, but it's very difficult to get people to come down to say The Tunnels on a Tuesday night to see a band they've never heard of, no matter how good you tell them the band is. There are so many other factors to take into account as well. For example, I put on Kid Canaveral, Kartta and Stanley (3 brilliant bands) at Snafu last year on a Saturday early evening gig last year. I was banking on it being very busy as Scotland were playing Holland that day. However, it transpired that the football kicked off at 7.30pm and clashed with the gig (Saturday games are NEVER at that time, so I just hadn't even considered there being a clash), and it totally killed the crowd. Still a decent number of folk there, but not for a Saturday gig, that cost a bit of cash. Steven Milne once gave me a piece of sound advice. If you walk out on stage and there's hardly anyone there, you have to play better, and work harder to get the people there on your side. It's difficult, because it's much easier to get up for a gig when there's a decent, responsive crowd to bounce off, but he speaks the truth. No matter how many people are at a gig, what you have to do if you're going to build up any sort of fanbase is play really fucking well. That goes for gigs in your hometown or out of town. We built up a small fanbase when we gigged and gigged and gigged in 2007 - some gigs didn't feel massively worth it because you'd be playing at the Tunnels on a Wednesday night to about 20 people, but it's one of these things - when you start out, you need to play a lot of gigs for the practice (i.e. practice at playing live shows, not just practising and getting your songs right - being onstage is a whole different ball game to the comfort of a practice studio) - the more you play, the better / tighter you get. By early 2008 our crowd started to dwindle though - I think the main reason was lack of new material. We'd played so many gigs, to probably the same 150-200 people (not all at once mind you!), with roughly the same set, that they just stopped coming. No matter how well you play the songs, if there's nothing different, why would they bother giving up their midweek evenings to rock up at the Tunnels etc etc. So - yeah - as pretty much everyone else has said - hard work is a major factor. I don't think you need to move away from Aberdeen to succeed. On the grand scale of things, what proportion of bands in Glasgow "make it"? Not many in comparison to the number of bands there are in Glasgow. Same goes for London (/any other city in the UK). You may think there are loads of bands coming out of Glasgow / London / Manchester etc all the time, but when you think of how big these places are in comparison to Aberdeen, it's not surprising. Admittedly nobody in Aberdeen has really "made it" for as long as I can remember, but that's no different to other smaller cities. It doesn't mean that you can't make it - if you go about your business the right way, and keep plugging away, you'll have as much chance as if you moved to Glasgow.