Alkaline

Since then I've recorded a full kit in my living room with All Stations Go, sounds pretty good actually. I'm a fan of whatever fits the sound or circumstances and I think it can work all digital if the mix is handled well. If you want it to sound a bit less digital there's ways to do that with plug-ins and stuff and they work quite well to a fashion.

I thought you'd gone all sophistigent. Oh well. I know dick about shoes this much is true.

Nah, his post wasn't that bad. He was making some valid points.

Who was getting het up about it? Haven't seen much hate on facebook etc, mostly agreement in places.

I saw the Officer twin crossing the road next to Ibis/Pure Gym at the end of Shiprow this morning at 8:06am. He had some crazy ass light brown/black well polished shoes on. They looked wing-tipped.

That's your Sherwood gone, bit of a shame but he was on a hiding to nothing at Villa. Awful team, hope they go down.

That was a really big deal back in the early 90s when she was on the board at Birmingham and he was a player there at the same time.

This forum is dead on its arse, that much is true. The Fudge zine was good back in the day but there's nothing like that in Internet form up here that might reach a wider audience and help raise bands profiles. Just getting local releases reviewed seems to be an unessecary chore these days too.

I agree with some elements of what was said in that blog for sure. In my opinion, the city's music scene isn't big enough to support the number of gigs that have been going on over the last few years. Audiences are spread far too thin across several gigs on the same night competing against each other. It just kind of ends up in promoters and outsiders getting a poor perspective of what a good quality audience in Aberdeen can actually be like and then not putting on gigs or not coming back. I don't know if this would be helped by promoters working together to galvanise scenes or avoid date clashes (I'm sure some promoters/venues do that)? There used to be loads, and I mean loads of mid-level, International, radio friendly and audience pulling bands/solo artists coming through Aberdeen from mid 90s through to the latter part of the 2000s. This seems to have nose-dived for some reason. It might be the way taxes have affected international revenues for bands coming to the UK, it might be the mid-sized venue vacuum that we seem to have in Aberdeen at the moment, it might be both together and many other factors, but we just don't seem to have that "gig/venue to aspire to" vibe in Aberdeen at the moment, which is a shame. As it stands the majority of local acts end up playing on all local band bills and get the odd support slot with decent UK based touring bands but don't get anywhere near the bigger support slots for whatever reason (commercial more likely) and most of the bigger acts end up playing the Music Hall (how many local musicians have played there recently) or the AECC (good luck getting on a bill there). This ends up with bands either getting bored of playing the same venues, with the same 3 other bands to the same 20-odd people and ultimately fizzling out over the space of a couple of years. Either that or they end up moving away completely. I agree with the fact that it's hard to tour outside Aberdeen if you're an Aberdeen based band (note I said hard, not impossible). It takes very careful planning if you can even string 4 or 5 dates together and coordinating 4 or so people when you have a high chance of at least one of the band being an offshore oil and gas worker is a nightmare. It also seems to be a struggle convincing promoters outside Aberdeen to take a gamble on Aberdonian bands as we tend not to be overly well known outside of the local area and if we are it tends to be very niche. The costs/overheads for an Aberdonian band touring or even playing the odd date outside of Aberdeen can be very prohibitive even spreading it over 3 or 4 people, but in my opinion it's worth the outlay the first couple of times just to get the word out, but you really need to be punting something (CDs, T-shirts etc.) to bump up the money coming in to cover costs. Aberdonian bands seem to be less willing to play around the area these days as well. When I was playing more regularly at my most active in the Aberdeen scene you could get gigs in Elgin, Arbroath, Montrose, Inverness, Fraserburgh at small venues easily and there were usually anywhere from 20-50 folks turning up at those gigs (I remember playing a cracker of a gig at Oceans in Elgin with Right Hand Left when I was in Genevieve and it was unbelievable how appreciative the local kids were to have bands from Aberdeen making the effort to come to them). I don't know if these things happen anymore or if bands from Aberdeen are less willing to take a gamble or not? It's that sort of effort that gets a buzz going and when the kids in those towns go to Uni in Glasgow/Edinburgh/Aberdeen they're aware of who you are and go to gigs when you're down there too. I don't know what the answer is here, there's definitely some great stuff and pockets/bubbles of mini-scenes in Aberdeen but I don't feel that there's any sort of cohesion any more and a lot of the good stuff definitely goes unnoticed by people outside Aberdeen. I know tl;dr and I think I'm on the person who started the threads "ignore list" but that's my tuppence.

I'm sure I read somewhere that he'd sacked 32 managers in 22 years at Calgiari! Guy's a mentalist.

Dumps like a truck, truck, truck.

WTF is WTF?

I'm currently reading Embassytown by China Mieville, it's a bit of a mindfuck (like most of his other stuff) but once you get further in and learn more about the world he's constructed it's got a really absorbing, politically charged storyline. He's an underrated writer for sure.

Mixed emotions today, passed a kidney stone during the Spurs vs Man City game which somewhat soured the experience for me. Then Jackie Mac/ Dundee Utd managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against 10 man St Johnstone and has been given the dunt as a result.

Kidney stones.

I think it's a bit hypocritical to have that view and technically be a migrant worker but it's still ok for him to not want anything to do with UKIP. Also, being against immigration does not make you a racist.

He's distanced himself from UKIP on numerous occasions.

I think you're getting ex-footballer and actor Vinnie Jones confused with Vinnie Reece-Jones, UKIP candidate.

Get that beer in the fridge. All the fly bitches be drankin' Patron or Tanqueray. This is not fly.

Yeah, having read that reddit thread this whole thing is unreal. Nobody should have to read that sort of stuff about themselves. The video is a weird step though and I can't help but wonder if it wasn't specifically aimed to cause this reaction to prove a point and continue the discussion.

Must've been start of June? It was whenever Ian Cathro left. This is what happens when you live in a country where football isn't the major sport. You've changed man, you've changed!!!!

Same.

I'm currently listening to: How To Dress Well - What is this Heart? The Weeknd - Trilogy The Weeknd - Kissland Sigur Ros - Takk

Sounds a bit like Grails (but a bit cleaner). The discordant opening works well in contrast to the more open and spacious parts. Not a fan of the singing at all (Sorry Claire ). It may sound better recorded in a studio environment rather than live. Get it recorded.