Michael MacLennan

But you CAN say any band suck. The worst bands I've seen have all been technically proficient, but the songs themselves were diabolical, going on and on and on... I'd far rather see a band that aren't as musically fluent, at least it makes it more interesting. It's like those bastard porcelain dogs that pensioners rabidly collect, they may be really well made, but they still make me want to vomit up my own intestines.

Just thinking about it still makes me want to vomit gin. But it was great, and yet so horrible, mostly in an alcoholic way. Gav, Al, etc deserve all the credit in the world, even though I'm back in Nebraska, memories of that day will haunt me forever more...

No, but I'll play your body as Keane is burned

Why do they? They have to write 300-500 words, or something similar, about a band's record for the purpose of a magazine article. It's their job. They're being paid to give an opinion, how can you assume from that they think it's superior? If 10EW sent a CD to rocksound then they obviously wanted an opinion in there, superior or otherwise.

I have lots of questions, mostly about why my neck feels so stiff right now.

I'll batter you. Though I may be breaching my Gavfest contract if I do, I feel like Prince in the 90s when he wrote 'sloth' in pen on his face, and developed a beer-belly of pure funk. Don't worry, I'll probably be too busy ruing my decision to play to actually find the festival site.

Last time I did that I found myself making pancakes at a youth hostel in El Salvador. Not this time, whatever mind tricks you use.

I'm playing, and I still don't know how to get there. I don't even have details of my rider, lousy scumbags. Consider the party cancelled, I'm off to Achiltibuie where they know how to do it right.

You diddd

Take them to Dingwall, and I'm there! Take them to Aberdeen, and I'd still be interested... they were very good at the SOIA gig at King Tuts earlier this year...

you're all wrong and you're all wanks

Yay! A rock band in Inverness! I'm so excited that I wouldn't even care if they did suck. Oh, I remember the good old days, months ago when i lived in a place called Glasgow, when this wouldn't have interested me at all...

It wasn't interesting, it was a badly written piece of junk. I felt like I wasted 10 min of my life reading his 'review', and if he really thinks slagging off Metallica and St Anger is 'controversial' nowadays, he's even dumber than he looks. PS What's the problem with Lars saying they wouldn't know if Cliff Burton fits into the band nowadays? It's hardly offensive, just an indication that Metallica have changed a lot since his death (which Robinson himself rants on about), and that the person Cliff Burton may have been possibly not have fitted in if he was still alive. Big deal.

Hmm, and just a day before Popcorn Fiend makes his comeback at the Gavfest near Stonehaven. I love it when a plan comes together...

Yeah, what's the date again?

I hope Popcorn Fiend gets it. Now there's an act that deserves some fucking recognition.

Jesus, that's the replacement for David Bowie? Guess I'll have to take an extra bottle of whisky to compensate...

And when are people going down? The people I was going with are still working on the Friday, which buggers things up for me, because I wanted to get there as soon as possible after the campsite opens...

Popcorn Fiend did. I heard Pap's audience was getting 'more selective'...

I was at that gig, but I left during GYBE because they were (to me) an anticlimax after how amazing Sigur Ros were. Oh, how enchanting it was...