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Just wanted to say, this bloody works!!! my bank (smile) charged me 45 quid in april for being over my overdraft limit by just over a tenner, for six days, in march. i wrote them a message telling them how i wasn't pleased, how it wasn't representative of the true cost to them for me being overdrawn, especially considering they'd given me a temporary extension only 6 months before, free of charge. they sent me a message back, saying go shove it, and to read the T&C's. i then sent them the first letter from that bank charges website, with a little blurb about my personal case, and lo and behold they have now agreed to refund the charges!! thanks to all the people who suggested those websites and did the work!

i was just thinking today, moshulu is the new liquid. loads of people wearing the same brands, drinking the same thing, dancing to the same cheesy hits. aberdeen needs a new underground club for the masses, and i'm not talking sub-terranean.

good thread. i think there is a difference obviously, between the mood created by music, and the lyrical content/vocal delivery on a track. for example, in much rock/metal music, there is a pairing between heavy/angry/agressive musical style and vocals, and dark/introspective/pitious lyrics. it's not all like that obviously, but you could say a lot of it was. in contrast, much crossover dance/chart/pop music has an upbeat and optimistic feel. although the content of the lyrics may sometimes be equally introspective, or deal with common love issues, the overall feeling that the listener is left with is optimistic. also there is the contrast of the "use" of the music. compare dance clubs with rock clubs and the varying styles of dance, of alcohol and drug use, of culture, even of class in some cases. perhaps a more interesting question is, does music generate the culture surrounding it, or does culture generate the music associated with it?

eureka can method? fill a container to the brim with water, and enclose it in a bigger container. then dunk your head in the container, and measure the weight of the water you have displaced.

i like scarling's sweet heart dealer, it's pretty cool. my mate told me they were pretty pish live though.

not to mention the domain name of the website which is thehole.co.uk, not the news.bbc.co.uk one

sound engineers will turn down or even mute guitars when the muppet onstage playing the instrument decides to turn his amp up way too loud. at this point the volume of the guitar is beyond the sound engineer's control and hence there is no point having it in the mix. rather than stuck in their ways the bar owners/sound engineers are trying to do a job - make bands sound good to the punters that come in to see them, and by the way you are talking I know that ian has a lot more real world experience than you do. if you're going to the trouble of having 18 tracks, go to a studio, not a live venue. what's the point in having some muppet in the background heckling over 18 mics. i've seen a few people record gigs at drummonds, usually they tend to have a stereo setup with what i would guess are omni-directional mikes, though ian would no more, as i think he knows the gadgie that keeps doing it. i can imagine a lot of people would be interested in your service, if it was easy, and cheap or free - but i can think of few bands in aberdeen that would actually put in a performance worth recording in the first place.

it is illegal for them to call it a "Compact Disc" though. Philips owns the trademark and forbade any of the labels distributing copy protected albums with any mention of "Compact Disc" on them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc#Copy_protection

depending on where you bought it, you could ask for a non-copy protected version - if that's what the problem is. i did that when a perfect circle released thirteenth step - the one i bought from 1UP was copy protected, and was of no use to me considering i don't own a hifi. i took it back and they gave me a non copy-protected one.

Perhaps you could start be giving your thoughts. That's how these feedback things really get started!

i think i picked one up from bruce miller for cheapness

what a pretty picture.

haha well i never used the original. the ATR1-A is pretty good and has some neat bypass features as well, the workflow was just different from how i managed. was thinking of checking out tc helicon's voiceworks instead someday.

haha, classic. i'll update the listing myself. any info on supports? Red Dawg were billed to play that night at drummonds, supposedly with Sucioperro too - any idea if they will be playing the gig at Kef too? If i get the online listing correct before 15th April it means the printed copies will have the correct information, better for all involved!

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Interesting. On the gcguide there is a band listed as "Socialpearl" for the 20th April at Drummonds. It sounds like like a phonetic fuck up of Sucioperro. I'll ask Ian to check the listing! http://gcguide.co.uk/listing.php?id=1285

this is why they never pay me for helping out sound engineers

does this help at all?

i'm sure that'd be of great comfort to the relatives of the 1200 people who died from resistant MRSA in 2004.

well to be fair, we do pay for our healthcare, through the nose, in fact - we just happen to have a more practicable system of free healthcare at the point of service, that means a basic level of healthcare is available to all from the richest to the very poorest. some of the problems for example are the people in the middle who are suffering from non life-threatening conditions that have to wait months to receive treatment, which really reduces their quality of life. take my granny, for example. before she died a couple of years back, she needed a hip replacement. she was told she would have to wait 18 months on the NHS for the operation. that would have been 18 months of walking with two walking sticks, of having to sleep in your living room downstairs because of not being able to climb the stairs unaided. she decided to spend her savings on going private, which meant for the last year of her life, she still had some sort of independence. something that (in hindsight) the NHS wouldn't have been able to provide. sadly most people don't have the luxury of going private. a lot of my family (including me at one stage) do or have worked for the NHS. there's no doubting the dedication of the majority of staff - despite the continual uphill struggle they face from bad press, underfunding, below market salary rates, a merry-go-round of management changes. but the system, from a top down point of view, is broken. there's no escaping that fact.