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Friends of Union Terrace Gardens in conjunction with Interesting Music Promotions are delighted to announce a fantastic event & the first in a series of benefit shows. All proceeds from the evening go to the Friends of Union Terrace Gardens fund which is the focal point of retaining our BEAUTIFUL but needing investment, Union Terrace Gardens. Go check whats going on & sign-up Friends of Union Terrace Gardens Friends of Union Terrace Gardens - what can YOU do to help? | Facebook interesting music promotions on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads Frid 25th June 2010 Doors 8pm Cafe Drummonds Belmont Street Entrance Tax 5 or more* If you pay more than 5 you will get free an iconic I ? UTG badge that you will see people wearing about our city. MC Alan Davidson artists appearing in no particular order Min Diesel Myke Black Flaxman Drummin Aboot (djembe drummers extraordinaire) Simon Gall + Steve Crawford Hoshimoto Jones Steven Milne & his solo possee plus a couple of surprises............

Friends of Union Terrace Gardens in conjunction with Interesting Music Promotions are delighted to announce a fantastic event & the first in a series of benefit shows. All proceeds from the evening go to the Friends of Union Terrace Gardens fund which is the focal point of retaining our BEAUTIFUL but needing investment, Union Terrace Gardens. Go check whats going on & sign-up Friends of Union Terrace Gardens Friends of Union Terrace Gardens - what can YOU do to help? | Facebook interesting music promotions on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads Frid 25th June 2010 Doors 8pm Drummonds Belmont Street Entrance Tax 5 or more* If you pay more than 5 you will get free an iconic I ? UTG badge that you will see people wearing about our city. MC Alan Davidson artists appearing in no particular order Min Diesel Myke Black Flaxman Drummin Aboot (djembe drummers extraordinaire) Simon Gall + Steve Crawford Hoshimoto Jones Steven Milne & his solo possee plus a couple of surprises............

Looking forward to seeing this Aberdeen debut of UH

Katerwaul doing some kind of anti Wood tirade tomorrow.................

Am I right in thinking this could be rather SPECIAL (I hear 1UP has less than 20tickets left today) Cash on the door an option

we will talk to you no probs This is TONIGHT will be great as always

Hey, what's that sound: Thomas Truax's homemade instrumentsMeet Mother Superior, Cadillac Beatspinner and the Hornicator the strange and amazing children of Thomas Truax (24)Tweet this (9)David McNamee guardian.co.uk, Monday 22 March 2010 17.05 GMT Article history 'It really wanted to be born' ... Thomas Truax and his Hornicator. What are they? Thomas Truax is a London-based troubadour, inventor and animator, whose origins lie in the New York antifolk scene. His gigs around the capital are legendary for the eccentricities of Truax's erratic "bandmates": homemade, noise-making machines with fabulous names and their own strange personalities and mythologies. How do they work? Mother Superior, Sister Spinster and the Cadillac Beatspinner are the drummers made out of hub caps, motors, built-in microphones and mixers, with various mallets hitting drum skins, trumpet horns and cymbals as they rotate on a bicycle wheel. A portable rhythm machine comes in the form of the back-mounted Backbeater. The Stringaling is a bongo drum and a length of tumble dryer tubing that can be sang into or stretched, and is fitted with various pull-string gadgets from children's toys, a slide whistle and parts from music boxes. Perhaps the most famous, the Hornicator is a junk-shop gramophone horn, fitted with microphones, springs, guitar strings and kazoos, that acts both as a deep, reverby microphone and a sort of surreal, absurdist harp. "The Hornicator seemed like it really wanted to be born," says Thomas. "I just had to help it along." Where do they come from? "I had a lot of frustration trying to get people together for rehearsals, and when it came to tour planning on zero budget, it became a nightmare," says Truax. "At one point, I thought, 'Screw this if I can't depend on anybody, I'll do it myself. I'll build my own drummer.' Mother Superior is like some of the drummers I've worked with: demanding and hungry. Still, we get along all right. She doesn't snore, or fart in the car." Why are they classic? Truax designs and builds the machines himself some of which struggle to play any part the same way twice giving his live shows and records a totally unique charm and a sound that is physically impossible to imitate. "I do feel that if something comes from you from the beginning, if you give birth to it with your own hands, then it can't help but be more true to your own personality than something someone else made. Like your own child, even if it's defective or stupid you're still going to love and care for it and try and help it succeed more than anyone else would, and I think that shows." What's the best Thomas Truax song? Why Dogs Howl at the Moon is a perennial live favourite, and makes good use of his beautiful Caractacus Potts-esque contraptions. Five facts and things: a chat with Thomas Truax Thomas refuses to name a favourite or least favourite invention: "They're like my children, and we have to work together, so it wouldn't be wise of me to choose a favourite and risk resentment from the others. A sad case, though, was Mary Poppins, another percussion contraption that had arms that would lift when she spun by centrifugal force (in the blur appearing somewhat like an expanded umbrella thus the name) and then play a rhythm against a motorcycle headlamp and a playing card. I was proud of it, but, unfortunately, a wobbly stage or even a breeze could throw off her rhythm and screw up the song. That happened every other night, so eventually I had to put her away." Thomas has no previous engineering experience: "I went to film school in New York and I worked as a set builder and then a stop-frame animator for MTV. That had an impact, thinking about motion and rhythm and the mechanics of creating those illusions. Aside from that, it's trial and error, mostly, and if you could see all the failed experiments I started on, you'd have a good laugh." The next addition to the family? The soon-to-be-complete Scary Aerial: "It's built out of one of those old TV aerials. I was looking out at the rooftops one night and I suddenly thought: 'Look at all those frets! They should have strings on 'em!'" He doesn't build his instruments with any particular idea about musical theory in mind: "The Hornicator, for example, has some frets, but the scale that resulted is not only much more limited than an average instrument (it's got about four notes) but it's not 'correct' as far as a western 12-note scale would be. So it's not likely that I'm going to consciously or unconsciously rip off a riff from a Beatles tune, for example. It makes it easier to be original. A lot of both the instruments and the songs I develop from them are based on limitations and happy accidents. The sounds are often lo-fi and ugly but that keeps it kinda punk." Thomas' favourite instrument that he didn't invent himself? "Human voice. So much easier to transport and keep properly lubricated."

it will be & Thomas Truax has a new toy to show off "go-crazy-in-the-studio creations that I wouldn't even try to replicate live. It features special guests and a new instrument called the Scary Aerial that will be making it's touring debut this month in the UK" :up:

Celebrate May Day (this Saturday, 1st) in Union Terrace Gardens with a mass picnic, music and good humour. Bring some lovely food, a blanket, a musical instument of any description, some dancing shoes, your poetry book, your friends, family, kids and lets celebrate OUR wonderful Union Terrace Gardens. Kick off 1.30pm. If you know anybody who wants to play some music, sing, play the theremin, the spoons, get them to come along. Please pass the word....we are determined to have good fun and support OUR historic gardens against mass destruction. Again please pass the word and of course bring a camera..................... Mike Tyers | Facebook ::up::up::up::up:8-)8-)8-)

fantastic pictures & yes what an awe inspiring place Iceland is. Only had a week but hopefully going back sometime when things settle down

menu looks great & if you are vegetarian quite a lot of choice...looking forward to our first visit...place looks lovely reservations Tel 566002

this will be a fabulous night, do not miss KIILA

This has been received from a well kent 6music d'jay.If you want to help save this amazingly eclectic radio station, please spend 10-15 minutes of your valuable time filling in the consultation. New/ecelectic music will be massively poorer in the UK should we not fight for this amazing radio station. thanks Mike Since the details of the BBC Strategy Review were announced officially I've started to receive many emails from listeners about the proposed closure of 6 Music. I am not in a position to respond to you all individually but, if you wish, you can have your say going forward. Following the BBC's official announcement of their plans we have now entered into a process of public consultation which will be managed independently by the BBC Trust. So if you have any comments on the recent announcement or any part of the BBC Strategy Review then you should go to https://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/departments/bbc/bbc-strategy-review/consultation/consult_view Here you will find the full details of the Strategy Review and how to respond to the Trust with your views on 6 Music and the review in general. You can also email the BBC Trust about the Strategy Review at srconsultation@bbc.co.uk Or write to them by post: Strategy Review Consultation BBC Trust 180 Great Portland Street London W1 5QZ

Also information & live music by the contributors in UTG today from 1pm

This is tonight & the petition has this afternoon hit the dizzy heights of 5,500 Game on

Its now over 4500 & gathering between 80 & 100 signatories every day go check out the link on the petition to find how passionate people are about saving Union Terrace Gardens from Woods Folly

It should be said this will be an excellent opportunity to hear some great music BUT also sign the petition which is very very important. Its amazing the positive response to saving a vital city centre green space resource as valuabled and loved by the people on Aberdeen. Much more coming...all good :up:

A massive thanks to all that came out & made this event a stupendous evening. Fred, Raymond & myself are indebted to all those artists /dj's & all those who attended who made the event so very special. Bouquets of flowers to Alan Davidson who made a great job of MC'ing & the same to Michael Chang of IRL & Jenny IMP who made this all possible. Finally it was soo much appreciated to those who came up to me to thank me for making this event a special Tribute to One UP. :up:

tix WILL be available @ the door Tunnels the only place to be in Scotland tonight per The Skinny NO 1 attraction in Monday's EE going to be a GREAT night

We are delighted by the presale but as this is a two tunnel show tix WILL be available @ the door Tunnels the only place to be in Scotland tonight per The Skinny & NO 1 attraction in Monday's EE

okay so the weather today is the best its been for a week so come along & help Fred Raymond & all the current One Up staff & quite a few well-kent ones from the past celebtrate in STYLE. It promises to be an awesome night & a few surprises along the way. Doors 8pm don't be late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope as many of you posting here are coming along to The Tunnels tomorrow night. Irs going to be a rather fine & warm evening & a few surprises as well 8-)

For me probably Live @ The Counter Eurovision by Misty in Roots its been downhill ever since Oh & i bought Secret of the I Ching as well but probably after the above

Congratulations on a really great cd. Most impressed I got a wonderful Crimbo dinner thanks

If you are reading this you must be semi interested in the One Up 30 on 30th Dec, this is just a weee message to say Very Merry Christmas & hope you have a wonderful Festive Season. Hope to see you on the 30th Dec @ The Tunnels for what will be a very special night celebrating One Up Records 30th Anniversary. :up: