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http://www.wireviews.com/reviews/live_reviews/0404_uk_aberdeen_pf.html On a typically damp and dreary night in the Granite City, Wire's pulsating performance was greeted with painful indifference from the chin-stroking zombies who turned up to watch them rip through most of Send and Read and Burn. Unbelievably, Wire sound more exciting and fresh now than in their critical heyday of the late '70s. Shame no-one told the knuckle-draggers of the North-East. A slightly harsh review me thinks ? Or was everyone there, including myself a chin stroking zombie ? Dave

Anyone going to see the blues guy tonight @ Drummonds. He sounds quite interesting on his website blurb - old style delta blues etc http://www.kentduchaine.com/bio.html

Well at least Trojan have reduced the price of their reggae boxsets to seven squids recently... On another note I hear that Jah Wobble is releasing a best of box set sson, Dave

Has there ever been a Guided By Voices covers band ? OR has any Scottish / local band done any GBV covers ?

Greek electronica special on Radio 1 Tis damn good so far ! enjoy, Dave

Try the compilations Le Flow & Le Flow 2. French HH is nice and different and normally pretty decent as well !

What about the first Suicidal Tendancies album ? Or is that not strictly thrash...

That'll be one for the bootleggers...

I wish the GBVoices boxsets were this cheap ! Micah C. Harding reports: Low, the brooding forefathers and foremothers of the aptly titled "slowcore" movement, are set to release a box set of rarities, outtakes, demos, and B-sides, culled from the span of their decade-long career. Titled A Lifetime of Temporary Relief, the box includes one DVD and three audio discs that collect material from Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker's early 1993 bedroom tapes through the band's most recent vinyl-only tracks. Consisting of a just-insane 53 songs, the collection provides an extensive spectrum on the life of Low. The exclusive DVD contains a montage of short documentaries, 11 Low videos (we seriously didn't know they even had one), and live footage accompanied by a 32-page booklet with notes, provided by the band, detailing the origins of several songs. Released through their Chairkickers label, the box is scheduled for release this July 20th. Tracklist (and particulars): >> Disc One 01 Lullaby (demo) 02 Cut (demo) 03 Heartbeat 04 Peanut Butter Toast and American Bandstand 05 Tired 06 I Started a Joke 07 The Plan (demo) 08 Prisoner (demo) 09 Prisoner 10 Tomorrow One 11 Turning Over 12 Bright 13 Walk You Out 14 Tear Down 15 Standby 16 David & Jude 17 Cheek >> Disc Two 01 Venus 02 Boyfriends & Girlfriends 03 Surf 04 No Need (Version 1) 05 Be There 06 Lift 07 Joan of Arc 08 Long Long Long 09 Lion/Lamb (demo) 10 Will the Night (demo) 11 Last Breath 12 Joan of Arc (20 Below Mix) 13 Old Man Song 14 Try Try Try 15 Lord, Can You Hear Me 16 Venus (Time Stereo Dub mix) 17 Those Girls (song for Nico) >> Disc Three 01 I Remember 02 Kindly Blessed 03 Blue-Eyed Devil 04 Sleep at the Bottom 05 When You Walked 06 Back Home Again 07 Don't Drop the Baby 08 Surfer Girl 09 Blowin' in the Wind 10 Open Arms 11 I Love 12 Carnival Queen 13 Overhead 14 Don't Carry it All 15 Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me 16 Because You Stood Still 17 Fearless 18 Shots & Ladders >> DVD -- Documentaries (directed, edited, and filmed by Marc Gartman) 01 Closer Than That 02 In the Fishtank 03 Making of Trust -- Live Footage 01 I Remember (Paris) 02 Soon (Boston) 03 Two-Step (Bard College) -- Music Videos 01 Will the Night (Kirstin Grieve) 02 Weight of Water (Kirstin Grieve) 03 Don't Understand (Kirstin Grieve) 04 Immune, Home (Kirstin Grieve) 05 Dinosaur Act (Marc Gartman) 06 Words (Harder/Fuller) 07 Shame (Harder/Fuller) 08 Over The Ocean (Harder/Fuller) 09 Over The Ocean (Oosterschelde Version) (Phil Harder) 10 Looking Out For Hope (Harder/Fuller) 11 Canada (2 versions) Those people for whom this is not quite enough Low-- and we know there are at least five-- the band is presently at work on their ninth full-length, which is being produced by your friend and lover Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Steve Burns). The album doesn't currently have a title. In fact, no other information is available, other than the knowledge that it is indeed forthcoming, which for the time will just have to be good enough. We tried.

Knitting on stage is the new rock n roll thing to do... Is this a folk music tradition ? A interesting and great evening of folk and mild rock drones, PJ Harvey vocals, humour and lovely alt county/ made up your own sub genre, Dave

The V Femmes are great - a sort of folkier version of Devo.

What time do the bands start tonight roughly ?

Is Wild Man Fisher the ultimate in low fi alt folk ? Dave http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70402050837051228&sql=Byt5uak1k5m3v

The guy from Tiso's (nee One Up)- aye I just guessed his name. English, skinny, like cycling, mid to late 40s. Congrats on the 25 th of trading ! What would Adeen do without One Up - be as badly served for music as Dundee / Inverness are !

I totally agree but these are also quite decent IMHO... John Coltrane - A love supreme Manuel Gottsching - E2 E4 Mogwai - My Father My King Tortoise - Djed PiL - Theme (well tis almost 10 mins) Goldie - Timeless Faust - Faust Tapes (techincally a track ??) Ganger also have some decent long tracks

I only remember One Up on Diamond Street. Twas small, cold, dark and full of boxes on the floor of random sub sub genres. The staff were scary then, especially the one who was called "necro" and used to person the t shirt section. I cant remember them having many Cds in that shop ? BTW I see that of the original One Up owners Raymond (?) now works in Tiso's. When I worked in Halford on Union St. he was always getting bits for his bike. Dave PS James & Mike of the Cavern both like Kraftwerk so they should always have a shity or two in stock...

Try EBay for Kwerk t shirts, Ebay & Kwerk

Ah that explains the smell today then...

I see One Up have closed their downstairs section to get it "done up". Any major changes planned ? I hope they keep the second hand section sections (CD & vinyl) alive as well as increasing their reggae vinyl & general vinyl selection... Dave