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If you sold me the Russian Circles album and are called 'Scott', it most definitely was. Isn't it wonderful how often we forget we're using anonymous usernames on a website. Alun.

It never occurred to me the two incidents might be related. Damn I'm slow.

To answer ZeromiserY's query on the RSVP slip - If you like Mad Capsule Markets then you'll like some of Psydoll's sound, but they are undoubtedly different - Probably more in line with a crunchy, DHR sound that bursts into frantic electronic mayhem with space-rock guitar! Unmistakably Japanese, though. Funnily enough.

I want to know too. Popped in to One Up to try and pick it up today but they'd sold out. Coals is a pretty decent album, although I always get stuck in a loop playing the opener - 'Sex and Mayhem' - because, quite frankly, it's a fookin' great track.

Caught him live at the Dirty Three curated ATP earlier this year, and I must admit I wasn't that impressed. He did play a few tracks off 'Two Of Diamonds', and they did sound substantially better than anything off 'One Man's Treasure', but they still left me underwhelmed. To give him the benefit of the doubt, he did seem a bit narky that evening so he might not have been on the best of forms, but other bands playing (such as Devestations) blew him clean out of the water.

I also heard that they had a real drummer in the pipeline, did not know if this had happened or not though. I'm going to get on the case, we need to know.

Agreed. Reckon 11th of October would be too short notice for them? Arf arf.

New Firewater album due out later this year - "Golden Hour". Samples and such to listen to on their myspace page - MySpace.com - Firewater - Istanbul, TURKEY - Brooklyn, USA - Punk / Folk / Indie - www.myspace.com/realfirewater Sweet.

Man, I miss them. I'm so out of touch - are they still playing under a different guise?

Also, see - MySpace.com - PSYDOLL UK tour 07 - 98 - Female - Tokyo, JP - www.myspace.com/psyberheadroom

Sweet! Must admit I was ignorant until Hen mentioned them to me a few months ago, but I will so be there

Straight from Tokyo to Aberdeen to kick off their latest UK tour, PSYDOLL are back once more! Digital percussionist Uenoyama and guitar-robot Ucchi join forces with keytar-wielding vocalist Nekoi to create punked-up industrial rock wizzed through an industrial blender. Post-apocalyptic call to arms and cautionary fairytales, all through the eyes of a confused half-organic, half-robotic bunch of crazies. Magic stuff. Like Bladerunner gone a bit 'wrong'. www.psydoll.com www.myspace.com/psyberdoll Also playing are Edinburgh's DEAD ON THE LIVE WIRE, playing their Aberdeen debut. "Menacing quirks and distorted hooks and a vicious male/female vocal dynamic" along with "worst machines ever devised in the 80's as back-up." Nice. www.deadonthelivewire.com www.myspace.com/deadonthelivewire + support TBC! The Tunnels Doors 8pm 5 Thursday the 11th of October

Gent and a scholar, cheers min.

A lass from my work needs to get her laptop repaired but, like I, she is ignorant of reputable local places to get such items 'done'. Anyone got any recommendations?

It'll be a hoot! I'll be showing off the 'other' dark side of my music collection at this one

What are people's thoughts on Mythmaker?

A human experiment involving one room with loud, abrasive music and a second with chilled, laid-back sounds you say? My first thought was Moshulu on a Friday

From this week's Science:

Sweet! Getting so close. Those that caught Piney's full band show at Dr Drakes or her solo gig at Snafu will be glad to know a fair few of your electropop favourites get the country treatment with her current band

Strangely enough, it's reckoned that differences in one gene (IGF1) can determine dog size. Small, yappy-type dogs have what's called a 'single nucleotide polymorphism', or SNP, in their IGF1 gene.

It's a myostatin deficient doggie, naturally occurring but probably selectively bred. Apparently heterozygous greyhounds with one mutated allele are much better runners than the normal homozygotes. The one pictured is a homozygote 'mutant', presumably shit at running but once the fucker's up to speed nothing is going to stand in it's way. It's also the same mutation that makes the Belgium Blue cattle so damn beefy, again through selective breeding. Heard they taste kinda crap, though.

We'll be taking blankets and chess boards along next...

Glory be, a Friday would be wonderful. I could attend then, *and* get as drunk as I used to.

Saw them play with Micah P Hinson at the Tunnels a few years back, great gig. I like 'em, but the track that got me hooked was Morning Wonder.

I work amongst a clutch of people used to posing medical questionnaires, highly-trained in the ways of nit-picking every nuance of a question. If you want a draft flicked through, I'm sure we could make a focus group here, too