Michael MacLennan

Thanks all, much appreciated... been far too long since I've had a chance to enjoy the pubs and clubs of Aberdeen myself...

Hello there,

Some of you may remember me from back in the day - Subsistence! Errr... Popcorn Fiend! Errr... Hookers Green! Oh... - not been here in a few years. If not, never mind, I wasn't that cool anyway.

But that's besides the point. I'm now writing a couple of articles for stv on the best clubs and pubs in Aberdeen, and was hoping for a few suggestions? All shall be much appreciated.*

* Unless it's for The Pearl Lounge, which surely can't be as bad as it seems from the few minutes I spent on its website. Can it? Hopefully I'll never find out.

PS Just saw my profile's still as awesome as ever. Rock on.

They played with copy haho, on last tour, and they sucked like fuck, i hated them.

Oh, that'd be unfortunate as their album is perhaps my favourite rock album of the year. I actually prefer it to McLusky, who I loved, so I'm very biased... playing at the Barfly early next month, I'm looking forward to it muchly. Very muchly.

PS Half-assed McLusky could be bad as it's quite dependent on a sardonic vicious intent, so I imagine soundchecks (never the best time to catch a band in their element) are perhaps not the ideal time to catch them, as they'd be going through the motions.

Yo-ha! Still as awesome as ever, back when music was music and, err...

Sorry, a strange post, but much like a pregnant mother wants to eats mayonnaise or something kerrazy like that, I suddenly have a tremendous need to listen to Diesel by Maple, what a song! Don't suppose it's available on this here 'interweb', I don't have a copy in my poor pathetic flat...

Still, what a song! Err, discuss. Or something.

The thing is Cloud, you live in Essex.

God forgive me for saying this, but that's the funniest and therefore probably best comment of this entire thread. The closest I've ever seen to comic timing being channelled perfectly into a message board conversation. Goodness me, that was unexpected.

So why is it that since the banning of hand guns and semi auto weapons in the uk gun crime has gone through the roof....?

Uh, how? It's hardly as though you can't step outside in the street without some five-year-old shooting your balls off with grandpa's Beringer. The type of high-profile publicity given to any sort of shooting that occurs in Scotland is an indication of its relative rarity.

or band a sounds like band b on acid falling down a flight of stairs with band c ending up in a swimming pool full of jelly with bands d and e jerking off over band f.

Man, there's my journalistic technique exposed for the world to see...

That attempt at recreating the Les Dawson sketch was one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen - amazing...

This will appeal to

Neish and Eric Euan boys, James from WBL and Today we Fight and also Jim. Probably Neil and most deffinitely Mike. Lastly Kenny will be booking flights.

Pitchfork: Dismemberment Plan Add Second Reunion Show

If you don't know about the band then don't bother. The time has passed. Emergency & I was spellbounding.

nuff said..

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Huh-freaking-zah!

Yes!

I hope this isn't a one-off (well, two-off, you know what I mean). Argh! I know what I'm listening to on the way back home tonight...

Regina is nearly sold out already.

Arghhhh.

5. Hopefully go to Serbia and come back alive after staying in a fortress for a few days. :]

Are you going to EXIT then? I went on a press trip last year, probably my favourite ever festival experience...

What's the biggest cock-up you've had, or ever heard of, on stage? (ala Spinal Tap's Stonehenge monument)

Mmm, in short:

Have Popcorn Fiend gigging (hopefully by April/May)

Release more I Am Subsisty CDs (first release almost ready...)

Finish book I'm writing

Take my journalism career more in the direction I'm after

Do some more interviews with groovy bands (the Klaxons next, hopefully)

Maybe do some poster designs with a friend

Get SLR camera and start taking groovy photos

Try and keep fit...

hmm, I'm still hungover.

I think I only recovered today; it should have been a rubbish occasion given I was working nightshift, but I managed to turn it to my advantage and enjoy my first ever New Year outside the Highlands, huzzah! The aftermath was horrendous though, simply in terms of how bad I felt the next day - and the day after that...

the idea that science can solve everything

Strange, because for the 'Most widely disseminated lie ever' I can't think of one person who's said it.

Here's a link to their new video, rather lovely it is too:

Myspace.com

As bands on TV shows go, nothing will ever beat the Manics doing Faster on Top of the Pops, which got a record number of complaints on the BBC.

The Vines on Letterman is brilliant aswell, as it's basically watching a band (specifically the singer) get to a serious platform on US television, and then basically destroy any chance of serious mainstream success by howling through the song then almost killing the drummer with a guitar.

Also, Regina Spektor doing Fidelity on Conan O'Brien because it's brilliant.

Manics - YouTube - Manic Street Preachers - Faster (Live on TOTP)

Vines -

Regina Spektor YouTube - Regina Spektor - Fidelity

Oh Regina, Regina...

But if you're talking about destruction, this is one of my favourite performances that I've ever seen. Though it's not quite the same without seeing all the other dire acts that they were reacting to on that show that night...

That looks excellent! I'm delighted to see Steve Merchant in it aswell.

Plus Kevin Eldon, Olivia Colman from Peep Show, Steve Coogan, Adam Buxton, Bill Bailey, pretty much the British cream of comedy...

When somebody told me - before I saw the trailers - that this was the movie they were most looking forward to in 2007, I looked incredulous. Now the mere thought of it makes me weep like 10,000 babies (deprived of their mother's attention and placed in small cages). Except in a joyous manner.

I think that use of the word jokes is awesome actually. Incorrect or not. It's incorrect to take smoke into the lungs but we still do it.

I wouldn't say it's incorrect. It's not as though lights flash and a buzzer informs you of your shameful mistake. It's just that you're a fucking moron, and if you'd had any sense you'd have topped yourself and brought down anyone like yourself before you go. Easy!

PS I don't equate 'you' with bladeola, before anyone gets cranky, I mean it by the definitions bladeola gave...

Fuck knows why they're even bothering, it's hardly a big secret that Luminar are desperate to get rid of their Jumpin' Jaks chain.

Really? I thought it was doing well given the amount of fliers and promos I see for it in Glasgow. There's little else that sickens me as much on a night out, thank goodness I've never had to step foot inside the place, it was bad enough being present in the 'glory days' of Amadeus...

Cameron shouldn't have died. There was so much potential...

See i'm sort of torn between two options

1) just send out a leaflet and cd in the hope that the music will shine through (of course not in your opinion because we suck in your eyes )

2) Spend a little time and money, which i rarely have these days, on making the cd lookin snazzy and hope the music does the same job.

Personally speaking, as someone who gets sent a few local promos nowadays (not too many though, I'm not of very much importance...) I'd actually go for option (1), providing that you actually take some time in the leaflet to eloquently explain what you're about. I don't really think it matters if the CD labelling is all snazzy, once it's in the player - and most people won't prioritise demos unless they've had personaly recommendations from someone they trust, so it's not going to make too much difference before then - it doesn't really matter anyway...

There was a whole album they had that I reviewed when I wrote for the Gaudie. I'd be happy enough to pass the tape on that I got, were it not for the fact that I have no idea where it is...

The new musical entrepreneurs will increasingly include songwriters' date=' performers and their close advisers, liberated from the boom-or-bust economics of the current record business, and able to earn a reasonable living from their art. As George Clinton said, "Don't fight the system - create your own."

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I quite liked that paragraph, it is something I think may well happen - just a shame the rest of the article was about something else entirely. I do think there's a good argument to be made about retaining copyright, but trying to equate it in some sense to socialism is definitely not the way to go about it.