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Thanks man! I kind of wish we were from Aberdeen because it's really shite in Edinburgh as far as any kind of 'scene' is concerned. That's why we're always so keen to haul ourselves up the road to play.

That's very kind of you

So, just to re-cap, this is TONIGHT at the Moorings! A kind soul has offered us a floor to kip on (no driving! yes!), so anything can happen...

Me too. Sorry.

Hehe, it's all straight up, honest guv! The lorry doors just fell open your honour...

Sorted Sorted. But not for ees and whizz, because that really would be illegal

I always enjoy "shaking like a dog shitting razor blades" from 'Radio' by Alkaline Trio. Also, "For sale, dumb cunts same dumb questions" from 'Yes' by the Manics.

Anyone who tells you Final Countdown isn't the most awesome song in the history of crimped hair and drummer cum faces is a liar

I hate strats. I HATE strats. They sound shit and funky ALL THE TIME. Which is unacceptable. For the record, I have a loverly Les Paul Studio, and I stuck a humbucker in my tele. So there.

Not a recorded mistake, but the horrid apostrophe in "ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart" makes me cry. Also, I reckon it was probably Dave Lovering who missed the snare

deadenstereo are supporting Domino Records signings Winterville at Bannermans in Edinburgh tonight. Doors 8.30, 4 www.deadenstereo.com

Argh, I'm in London that weekend... What you up to this weekend? We're playing Bannermans on Sat night (tomorrow) and doing some filming for the Storyteller vid on Sunday - you're more than welcome to come and laugh at us

Or you could be like the Demon Barber, removing fashionable hairdos at 30 paces... Hehe

Maxi, maybe they mean 'Forum King' as in the wee top shelf mag...

Is that the one we dedicated to Busted and the Brits? If so, it's terribly desirable, vinyl only, limited edition, released in Canada on a Wednesday, glitchcoretastic, indier-than-thou, bonafide rarity gold...

Strange I know, but if it's sold, I am selling the exact same digi 4 track, in the exact same nick, for the exact same price... Just in case someone else there wants onde too. I'm only selling cos I got an 8 track, and I should point out that the 4 track is in Edinburgh (although we've a few gigs in the Deen coming up, so I could bring it through).

Oooh, cool, put us down for that! "...Ray-DEEOH! Play that songs for me..." PS I know that's not a NL song, but I love it

Cheers man - we had a think about it, and the new stuff was (in our opinion) too good to bury

I'm pretty chuffed that Private Jackson got through, as I recorded their demo last month. Glory by association

Second hand (but it really is immaculate) Yamaha U1 upright piano for sale, black gloss finish, three pedals - 1800 It sounds seriously good and these went for over 6000 new, so if anyone is after a piano, this is a real bargain. If anyone's interested, give me a ring o 0131 555 9391. The piano is in Edinburgh.

We're nearly finished our video for Storyteller. Collage of live stuff and video footage with some marvellously obtuse lyrical references. Tragically the solo we filmed on the Crags (much to the concern of the watching tourists) won't make the cut as it is more G'N'R than a daffodil in a blunderbus. The rest of it is looking good though, very fitting. It all looks suitably melancholic if you ignore the fact that our drummer is having to ignore the fact that Craig is waving his balls at him off camera to try and put him off...

*slurp* The place was pretty stowed out ;P

Jesus, you know you've had a good gig/got totally steaming when you end up jamming blues with a toothless old guy on harmonica before falling over a bin.

Please come and save us from the vitriol of drunken old men... deadenstereo (yes, ghosts we are) The Central Bar bottom of Leith Walk Edinburgh 8.30 FREE and loads of cheapo booze. Come and see some inappropriately placed Rock and/or Roll this fine Edinburgh evening. If we can get enough people to dissuade the aged bottle throwers, I'll kiss everyone. PS True story - we went in for a pint the other day only to witness a paraplegic fling himself out of his wheelchair to attack the barman, whohad refused to serve him cos he was wasted. Now you *have* to come along...

I AM POSTROCK from the lips of many, but too good to be hidden I present, the Post Rock News...... Hi, I'm Gates McFadden. Welcome to post-rock news. This new section aims to keep you up to date with all the exciting developments in the world of vaguely experimental, mostly American twiddlecore. Oh yeah, and we stuck some electronica news in at the bottom, to make us seem more eclectic. ***** Michigan-based 27-piece arsecore collective EYE AND THE RAINING TELESCOPE are to play a series of low-key gigs across the UK. On this tour, they'll play songs from their last album "I Can Hear A Million Shatners" on upturned wheelie bins. New Jersey monotorockers GROO! have recorded a 3 day long song. The track, which consists of the same 2 really difficult guitar chords, which don't really go together, played over and over again, had to be recorded onto a special tape that the band built themselves. Bolivian nose-flute abusers WE ARE NEU KOLOMBINE ECHO RANGER! play at The 13th Note on December the 33rd in a bid to escape the fascism of dates. FLAMING GENERAL - featuring members of THE SEA AND CAKE and PLEXI will be releasing a limited edition 7" later in the year. Pressed on ice it can only be played by those cool enough to own it. BO! NONSELECTORTRON are playing a short tour of Red Cross Hostels in a bid to weed out non-fans and arseholes from their audience. Support comes from DEGRASSI. Back with The Sea And Cake - they are teaming up with THE DEAD C and NICK CAVE to form THE DEAD SEA AND BIRTHDAY CAKE, a band that will play nothing but King Crimson covers on planks of wood and maybe string. Finally, Mark Knopfler's DIRE STRAITS are to work with Steve Albini. Said Mark "There has always been a post rock element to our music. Well, people have said we are boring as shit". All the way from Toronto "!:::~###" will be playing at the Arches in Glasgow right now. The gig finished a few moments ago and the band have now returned to the Airport to leave the country. If you weren't there you obviously hate music. ALI G is to appear on the next TORTOISE album in a bid by John McEntire to give the band some 'street'. A band made up of only animals? Yup! VOSSY VOSSY VOSSY (FIST F*CK) are five dogs and a hamster playing angular noise rock. Sadly they are very derivative of Shellac and bassist Rover has rabies. BAGUETTE ADVENTURE are a new sound in our faces, known as the 'Irish Slint' by Felcher Fanzine. They will be deconstructing Boyzone songs for pennies and chocolate outside Fopp for a short period on Saturday. They might wear Christmas Steps to appeal to the kiddies. Go! NEU-RON are a fresh signing to Record Records. Spotted by Brad Smith at a primary school review they represent the new queercore sound. Interestingly, none of the members are gay though one of them was once happy. The movie "Plock!" is released next week at two terribly trendy art-house cinemas. The sound track was performed by THE MAGMA CORE 93, a sound force collective featuring members of PAPA M, UI, TRANS AM and MIDNIGHT OIL. The music is mostly triangular in nature, and grey. The Midnight Oil part of the line up will be touring schools in spring with support from LAETO. Self styled "God of You!" STEVE MALKMUS is vowing to kill all who stand against him. Australians COME UNDER NEATH TENTER will be bringing their unique brand of folkf*ck to the Barrowlands market on Friday morning, around 9.03am, near the man who sells second-hand trousers. Shit your head off with their brown sound. Finally, DANIEL JOHNSON, tone-deaf savant and hero to the late and very much not alive Kurt Cobain, is recording his new album with 80's pop gurner RICK ASTLEY. Rick said that he was "never going to run around and desert you". CLAM THRAP MISTER YEAH are the new Steve Albini-endorsed band. Playing a blend of hardcore, post rock, noise and gay disco, they were recorded by the man himself in his GOD OF NOISE studio just outside Chicago. This studio runs alongside his main one, but uses only pre-1910 recording equipment to get a "real" sound. They are signed to Epic. The THE COMPLETE CUNTS hail from Texas. Their live shows are supposed to be incredible, playing inside a concrete chamber, with all the music piped out into the venue. The drummer uses a kiddies drum kit mic'd through EIGHT Big Muff pedals, they have nine guitar players and one monkey on stylophone. The atmosphere inside the chamber is reported to be "close". They support NINE LITTLE MEN INSIDE ONE GUITAR throughout the UK soon. MERCURY TILT SWITCH are from Dundee. They have had members for two years. They play rock type music. The hottest tour of the fall, State-side, is from New Jersey-based ZINQ, playing a melange of metal, hardcore, free jazz, speed metal, grindcore, death metal and grunge. Brad Weener of the band said of their recent tour "It's like totally cool the vibe we're gettin', man. It's cool to get all that pain out. All the colleges we're playing at seem, like, totally, totally level, y'know?" Support came from BUSH. HAIL MY RUPTURED RETICULE, the hotly-tipped 10-piece frondle-core outfit from Squirreltrap, Kentucky, will be standing in a room, naked except for diapers and straw hats, staring at you...thin threads of saliva hanging from their half-open mouths. Support from THE SUPERNATURALS. Experimental post-ironic pop group WESTLIFE will be creating a group performance this week with a participation audience of media savvy eight year olds, who will wave and scream throughout the performance in imitation of sad boyband fans. THE FOR CARNATION's next album will only be available on Betamax - a Sony-devised home video cassette format which went out of use almost two decades ago. When asked for a quote, David Pajo ran around in circles flapping his arms and squawking like a bird. For two weeks. It looks like speed-math-rockers IT'S A HUGE FLAMING HORSE'S ASS have the post-rock hit of the summer on their hands, with their interpretation of the theme tune to popular TV drama "Minder". The band have confessed to us that the catchy counter riffs during the 11/4 section were actually played on two tennis racquets. It turns out that side one of pre-ironic beard-wearer MIKE OLDFIELD's "Tubular Bells" is better than SLINT'S genre-defining, ripped-off to buggery, post-rock watershed album "Spiderland". I heard a guy say so in the pub. "We're gay, we're bald, we like experimental ambient rock, and writing in medieval English". That's the slogan of new Chicago outfit THE GAYE BALDYE EXPERYMENTALLE AM'BYENTE ROCKE BANDE. ZZSCHNIT hit the UK for the first time later this month. As part of a bizarre situationist art stunt, the controversial Kentucky-based 19-piece will be playing as part of a Britpop revival tour. Support comes from TINY MONROE and MENSWEAR. Brian Eno has denied rumours he's set to join MOGWAI as gimp. "I deny the rumours that I'm going to join Mogwai as gimp," said the bald dwarf. His role in the band will be as rhythm ambient noises, in a supporting role for Barry Burns who's been in the band for two years on lead ambient noises. PAPA M's Dave Pajo has described his rejoining of the FOR CARNATION, reuniting him with former Slint partner Brian McMahon, as "excellent". He said, "It's excellent. Brian had all these lovely spacey atmospheric songs on tape, and then I decided to play lots of weird chords and arpeggios over it. We then decided to release it on Betamax because, y'know, we want to stay true to our obscure roots. I thought the Carnation, as I like to call them, were getting too mainstream. They had tunes, for God's sake!". When quizzed on why he released an EP of shit country tunes, he ran away. He was later seen eating curly wurlies in a rabbit hutch. KRAFTWERK's post-rock remix album is out next week. "The Modal" features reworkings by TORTOISE, DAVE PAJO, PAPA M, KEVIN SHIELDS, UNGABANGABUGGABUMnow!, SCRAPE ELEPHANT and THURSTON MOORE'S DAD PATRICK'S BIG GREY COCK. All of the bands reworked "The Model" and came up with exactly the same tune, despite the fact that they were working in isolation. Kraftwerk are said to be "delighted" with the results. RAMSAY STREET'S MADGE is the new Australian band making waves down there. They have yet to record these sonic oscillations, but Steve Albini is interested. Richard Branson's V2 records have signed MIKE OLDFIELD. Tubular Bells 4 and 5 are being recorded and will be released back to back, like the last two Back to the Future films. Volume 4 features a collaboration with David Pajo. Volume 5 is jungle. Yick. ARS SNIP SNIP SNIP YAHOOLIGANMEGADEATHCRIMESQUAD are touring Dundee next Spring. Support from ASUKA, they play 13 times in the small city at various Ned pubs, and a night at the Westie. GEORGE GARFIELD THAT USED TO BE IN THE BILL BUT IS NOW IN EASTENDERS played their first gig at London Zoo, yesterday. Featuring members of bass trio ROTHKO and BILLY MAHONIE, they were said to "have frightened the polar bears". All members played bass. Electronica News Don't miss MY EEL IS PRESIDENT JOHNSON when they hit your town as part of their forthcoming UK tour. The obscure German avant-garde composers make electronic music by rubbing toy telephones together. One of them plays a theremin as well, but only at the soundcheck. Modern day Krautrockers CYLINDERICAL ARCSECOND TOROID play experimental music using their own decimal scale, with it's controversial "H" and "I" notes. Putting the 'mmmm' into 'microtonality'. Support comes from PRO-FORMA. Digital noise mayhem with experimental art-noise combo GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG MAHATMA - FAREWELL! YOU DARK LOCOMOTIVE. All they actually do is play old Foghat records on a really cheap stereo with the speakers wrapped in tracing paper and human excrement. I think it's supposed to be ironic or something - their sampler rack has a picture of a nude Japanese schoolgirl suggestively holding a cucumber on it.