Swingin' Ryan

The majority of my family are from Ayr and it's not that bad, there's a lot worse places to end up. My knowledge of Ayr's nightlife is pretty slim as most of the time I'm there I'm visiting family. The town centre is bigger and more cosmopolitain than you'd expect for a city many people have no idea exists. Have a scan of the Knowhere website, it's got a fair run-down of what's in Ayr Knowhere: Ayr, South Ayrshire, Inside Information, Hookup Spots and Stuff Only Locals Know. Overall, there's a lot of worse mid-size cities in Scotland, Ayr's pretty tolerable. As for music venues, you'd have to travel to see big bands but they've got a pretty good scene for small bands as far as I'm aware. The two big plus sides to Ayr are you are less than an hour and a ten quid return to Glasgow, and you can join me in supporting the beautiful Ayr Utd!

Glasgow is a city I love and I'm there for a few days every three weeks or so and I feel pretty at home there, but I still get a deep sense of satisfaction coming back to Aberdeen. I think Aberdeen is probably one of the least 'Londonised' cities in Britain, which means a lot of people find it backward and boring, but I find it pretty blissful.

Can I use this as a band name? I'll pay you money for it's use as soon as I headline T4 On the Beach 2011 hosted by Alexa Chung and George Lamb.

Aberdeen's self-awareness in being an utterly shit and dying city is exactly what makes me love it.

Yeh I normally prefer instrumental guitars or just lyrics. Combining the two is mental.

Regina Spektor - On The Radio

4OD is actually the best thing in the world, they've pretty much got everything good that's ever been on channel 4.

Mark Lawrenson is becoming the most angry man in the world. The young lad who presents on ITV said something about how Switzerland should be better because of their placing between France and Italy and he turned round and half barked 'What's that got to do with football?'. I thought he was going to nut him. To be fair he was right though, why the fuck would Switzerland be a great team because they're beside France and Italy?

Why does Villa seem completely set on fucking up my life?

Yay sexism...Nuts magazine...beer...tits etc.

You are aware Bridget Jones is not an academic work on the psychology of the female condition?

I've been absolutely done by the bookie over the last two days. The last few scrapings in my William Hill account have gone on Sweden winning with Ibrahimovic scoring first, pretty fucking unlikely but it was pointless putting it on Spain for the pennies I'd get back. If Sweden win, I'm going to find every player and kiss them on their beautiful Swede heads.

The Czech game was a bit of a stinger for me. Had Czech down to win 2-1, I was pretty optimistic at half time, thought their defence was solid for most of the game. Also had a few optimistic pounds on either Sverkos, Fenin or Nani to score, none of which made it on to the fucking pitch. I've gone for a bit of a gamble this evening and put the Swiss to win 3-1 with Derdiyok to score first.

Those lovely Swedes won me twenty five quid, put an extra bet on them to win last night. There's nothing better than the added bonus of the team your supporting winning the match and winning you money.

Those are great, I think there's a lot of editorial fashion people that would be interested in that kind of work. Particularly the first and the last ones, reminded me of a lot of stuff that was in The Face in it's latter years.

Won myself thirteen quid out of Holland today, made up for France failing to give me a 2-1 win. I'm looking forward to Sweden v Greece tomorrow, I'm following Sweden in the tournament and I've also got a bet on them to win 1-0 so I might be very happy tomorrow.

I'm all about Sweden, I think they'll be the fairly comfortable runner-up in their group and they can be a pretty dangerous side when they're on form. I'm going to be in Paris during the semi's which could be pretty fun if France do well.

I think that's pretty much the casting strategy of Endemol, so you should be alright.

This season has been pretty much some of the best television ever. The guy who plays Ben has been absolutely amazing.

I don't think the BBC teen culture web site is capable of that level of irony. If it is a piss take, then that girl is the best human being on the fucking planet. Hahahaha! I wish more people on these boards remembered that particular period in history.

I agree with Toy, Sean might have one of the best voices I have heard in Aberdeen. Edgar Prais are brilliant and write some utterly incredible songs, also the lyrics to Jamie might be some of the best, if not the best, I've heard from an Aberdeen band. Copy Haho are also fantastic, Coal Mine is one of the best songs I've heard in recent times, local or otherwise.

Haha, I've seen this one before, some of it is utterly horrific. The Amy girl is deeply cringe inducing but she's quite sweet in a way I suppose, it's nice to see someone young and excited about music, she just presents it in an awful way. I'm glad they used someone awkward and nerdy though instead of some pretty popular girl or boy turned 'indie'. The girl who claims to be a 'scene kid' is much worse, she looks like a total dick, I could probably manage a 15 minute cup of tea with Amy, but I'd smack the other one round the skull with a mug instantly.

Three points. 1) Does anyone else find the use of emo as a noun the most cringeworthy thing ever? 2) Why do they always ask people who have literaly no knowledge of a subculture to explain it and thus embarass everyone involved? 3) Emo is just following the Ska principle of Three Waves. We're on the third wave of Emo, it's reached it's most cartoonised level. It'll be dead in a year.

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Hahaha, that's always got to be worth a mention.