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' date=' post: 428649"']amusement...
It never occurred to me the two incidents might be related. Damn I'm slow.
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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.
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someone was in my work asking about that album today.
is it any good?
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.
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Anyone picked this new album up yet?
If so, what do you think?
I got it a while back, and I really like it, like a crooner with a really dark edge.
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.
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I heard they played a gig at the Lemon Tree with a real drummer.
Is this true?
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.
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Ain't played a gig in a while I don't think but as far as I'm aware they're still writing stuff. I miss them too. In fact, we should all convince them to get off their arses and do another gig.
Agreed. Reckon 11th of October would be too short notice for them? Arf arf.
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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.
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Man, I miss them. I'm so out of touch - are they still playing under a different guise?
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Sweet! Must admit I was ignorant until Hen mentioned them to me a few months ago, but I will so be there
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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'.
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.myspace.com/deadonthelivewire
+ support TBC!
The Tunnels
Doors 8pm
5
Thursday the 11th of October
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Northeast Peripherals on George Street or Everest on Holburn Street. Both been good when I've used them and both seem to get mentioned a lot on threads like this here.
Gent and a scholar, cheers min.
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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?
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It'll be a hoot! I'll be showing off the 'other' dark side of my music collection at this one
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What are people's thoughts on Mythmaker?
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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
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From this week's Science:
A new study finds that monkeys prefer silence to music, suggesting that some of the acoustic preferences that underlie music are unique to humans.Cognitive scientists Joshua McDermott of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Marc Hauser of Harvard University put tamarins and marmosets in an apparatus with two chambers, each rigged to play music whenever an animal entered. In one experiment, the musical choices were a flute lullaby (65.26 beats per minute) and Alec Empire's electronic techno hit "Nobody Gets Out Alive" (369.23 beats per minute). The monkeys spent an average of about two-thirds of their time on the lullaby side, showing that they prefer slower tempos. But when given the choice of silence, lullabies, or a Mozart concerto, they spent most of their time avoiding music altogether. A similar experiment with eight humans showed a distinct preference for music--especially lullabies--over silence, the authors report in the September issue of Cognition."
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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
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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.
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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.
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That was my thinking too, i'm getting too old
We'll be taking blankets and chess boards along next...
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Glory be, a Friday would be wonderful. I could attend then, *and* get as drunk as I used to.
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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.
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Just to let everyone know,
I've just sent out a "first draft" to be checked by a select few, I hope to have the finalised version before the weekend...(I've been swotting up on making questionnaires, and "good practice" dictates that a small test group is a good idea to start off with)...
I guess thinking I could create a questionnaire of such "depth" in 3 days was a bit over ambitious! (or was I just lying?)....
I hope to have the finalised version before the weekend...
peep
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
Mick Harvey - Two Of Diamonds
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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.