Jim Stax

Bri....STACCATO SET Buy a dictionary... It's a book with words!

Comedy genius... It's all in the... timing! NME LOVES ITSELF AND ONLY ITSELF... Should rename it the 'Docherty Express'

Yeah But did anyone notice Alan sneaking in there....? Cheesh, He's like a Anti-Folk version of the drummers outside M&S! (Not really)

I'll take that one... I would say a band that has played Aberdeen several times, only in Drake's. Bands that love (d) the wee place and had no great ambition to play elsewhere until they had filled our l'il old building... Took the sign down today

And There are another four acts being confirmed as I t...y...p...e! 7 acts all together plus multi-media visuals and god knows what else!!! Jim

Nae need adding the 'art virgin' J

GOING TO WORK ON A SECOND SHIFT AT ABERDEENS CASTLEGATE! Live music and visual arts on Easter Saturday A second Shift is to be held at Aberdeens Castlegate by popular demand following the highly successful launch of the live music and visual arts event in October. Shift 2 is scheduled for Saturday 26 March when it will add to the citys attractions during the Easter weekend and again coincide with the change in the clocks, as did the first event. Councillor Jim Hunter, Chairman of organisers, the Wider Castlegate Group, said: Weve been encouraged by the very positive response to the initial Shift and by requests that others be staged. The next will also be another important step forward in developing the Castlegate as a cultural quarter and as a venue for a wide variety of events. Well over a thousand people of all ages, including families, attended the first Shift afternoon-and-evening of free entertainment and creativity. It was supported by Aberdeen City Centre Partnership and Aberdeen City Council, with funding from the Scottish Executives City Growth Fund as part of the Energising Aberdeen initiative, as Shift 2 will be. There is clearly tremendous potential to build on the success of the first event, said Lindsay Gordon, of Peacock Visual Arts. Shift 2 will be a variation on the multi-media theme to ensure that it continues to evolve and its appeal grows, to the benefit of the city as a whole. There will also be free entry to Shift 2 and the focus will again be a marquee specially erected in the square. Plans are being made to increase the number of bands which will appear between 2pm and 9pm. The headline act will be 65daysofstatic from Sheffield, on their first appearance in Scotland. An instrumental alternative rock band who use computers, samplers and electronics to create a melodic, beautiful and furious sound, they were number 25 in DJ John Peel's Festive 50 2004 favourites. Also lined up are DRAT, an Irish 4-piece group, with simple melodic guitar lines, looped by lo-fi gems and delicate vocals, laced with dirty keyboards and sharp lyrics; and Glasgow-based Aberdeen duo, Le Reno Amps, who rely on vocals and guitars alone and are rooted in the blues with a punk aesthetic, while veering boldly into country. Further details of the programme, including additional bands performing, will be announced soon. / -2- The Wider Castlegate Group represents businesses, organisations and the local community, with La Lombarda Restaurant, Peacock Visual Arts and Drake's Productions, the Aberdeen-based alternative music and arts promoters, among those involved in organising the event. /Ends 17 February 2005 Note to Newsdesks: more information on the bands booked to date can be found on their websites: 65daysofstatic -www.65daysofstatic.com Drat - www.doubledrat.net Le Reno Amps - www.lerenoamps.com

... Staccato Set... OH!

Fuck yeah! Oh how we came sooooo close to Drakes being the new Rollerland! God bless having a giant bar in yer flat!

Yeah but I was thinking a little Sax action from mr 'Lips Johnstone' (not named after his ability with reed based instruments) woulda made it better.

Oh G U MEDICINE lifting the roof of the place to not enough people! Mighty noise! Other memories include (many that I can't speak about, mmmmmmmmm) all the times when we closed the doors didn't kick anyone out and all got pished to our own choices of music. And then the few public stragglers that were left looking happily bemused as we told them that we have been closed for two hours! God damn I miss my bar But everyone that came in

Just one of mine from one particular week! OPAQUE! Terrifyingly wonderous! Can only be described as... Not sure what actually.

Thats the one I was going for. Still can't find the info but I can stop looking now. Good and cheap! J

Yup I'll get one for you. PM you with the details. Just got to find the invoice... erk! Jim

Mystery Lounge I don't suppose it ever really died, it just went a big conceptual and philosophical space in the sky... You never know though! Was great musical carnage! Loved it... The more fucked up the better! It was like inviting my mates back to my flat just to bombard them with a sonic onslaught! Oh the times, the times...

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Watch... The Sidca boys took my son. They have him in a barn somewhere and are forcing me to play with them or else they will make him listen to their cd for 40minuntes solid... What can I do? I have to! A gig soon... Jim

Was gonna quote Mr Spellchecker... Quite long so I won't.. Just would have added... AYEEE... Can I be in your gang? Top message young man! Jim

A note empirical knowledge! Bare with me, there is a point! As an artist living in Aberdeen first hand experience of contemporary art tends to be very limited, getting better though. On the occasions when I have travelled around the country, and farther afield, to see exhibitions I am very rarely anything but uninspired.... My creative energies are alway envigorated by direct contact and stimulation. No amount of books, magazines tv and video are any substitute for direct physical and psychological stimulation... If you want to make music your life then go see it in all it's shapes and forms, learn and be inspred by watching and listening. This will support the local scene and may lead to fat heap of new and improved great bands! Jim