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I love her prosthetic bronze Swiss army knife finger. She can stir soup or wire up a plug with it... not at the same time though.

Ooh, are they good? I do their merchandise... I'd not heard them, not having access to nu fangled technologies like staellite TV or FM radio...

Has anyone seen this band? They played Aberdeen recently apparently. They are signed to Independiente. What are they like?

The best thing on TV by a country mile, and a godsend for people like myself who only have normal TV and don't get chance to watch music on it anymore. I love pop videos, I really do, but it seems you have to buy them these days just to watch them. Pah.

Nasty things happening to nice people a lot lately... Edwyn had recently moved to our neck of the woods (well, a wee bit South East, Helmsdale) and it was odd seeing him in The Northern Times presenting a haggis on Burns Night in full regalia... get well soon feller...

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Do you have a video of that!?? The 'Three Colours' trilogy is just a wondrous thing - best viewed all in one sitting to get all the nuances and threads running through them. I saw them all one hot afternoon in an old porno cinema in South London with a beautiful girl in a baby doll nightie - it was one of the best afternoons of my life!

I loved it - as I loved 'Before Sunrise'. Ms Delpy is wonderful in everything - 'Three Colours : White' is one of my all-time faves.

Ringo's High at Liverpool Uni in 1994. The venue had these posh metal shutters that rolled up when they were needed, revealing the stage - very clever - and they were used to full effect on this club night. WE were all dancing around oblivious when the shutters came up - the band had already started playing - to reveal the oddest, most bewitching menagerie of freaks I've ever seen. The lead singer was a space pixie in a white afghan coat, and stood next to him was a seven foot middle-aged bass player dressed as a city gent, bowler hat and all. The keyboard player was the oldest man in the world and had long white hair and a white beard. All about the stage were those strange charity things that used to be outside shops in the seventies, like the little boy with the crutch and a jolly fisherman, but all motorized, so they bobbed about to the music. They sang this woozy psychedelic anthem that went "We're so weird, so there"... It was like everyone's drinks had been spiked! Wondrous - they should have been huge!

Ah, I just stick it in reverse! Et voila!

As we live right at the top of the country it's all downhill, so I can slip it into neutral and cruise down to Inverness....

They used to turn up for my club nites when they were mere kiddiewinkles in Lincoln. The drummer played a few times at Planet Boo with a band called The Universal. Martin used to play all the old men's blues nights and they thought he was great. I thought he would grow out of playing dull old mens blues and do something really exciting... but you can't be right every time, can you?

...You're right of course. I've not been anywhere for a good eight weeks though and I'm yearning for my fix of lead in my lungs that keeps me going until next time. As for the illusion, hallucination, mirage of the soul, well, a big bag of mushrooms will take care of that side later on...

...Never works like that. Were I to buy 6 packets of crisps in advance, I'd still have eaten them when I didn't really need them, then when I needed them I'd still be in the same situation, only fatter.

Pah. It's always at this time it hits. On my own, staring into the screen, needing a break from work... Being two hours from the nearest all night garage is shite when all you can think about is a bag of bacon flavour crisps... Oh ignore me - why did I put that, you more than likely are already...

...I concur with the fact much accidental ambient noise is actually quite good and useable... My band wanted a track to have a nine minute industrial drone in the background, so we stuck a stereo mic to an accordian and strapped it to someone who went out into the street and played the note 'E' for 10 minutes. It was fantastic! Lorries, birdsong, snatches of car stereos as they passed, even converstaions from the street could all be messed with and had shiteloads of effects put on. Top hole! Depends what you want to actually record, I suppose. I've often found you can get old sound effects LPs with just the right thing on them, and they've already done the hard work for you.

Until about two weeks ago you could see loads of stills from 'Doom Generation' on the Planet Boo website in the 'Rose McGowan corner'. It's been replaced by the 'Laura Fraser corner' now, but if you have, or if you can lay hands on a copy of 'Affection?' by Real Shocks, there's a pic of Rose in said film on the sleeve. Top fillum, and Rose is tres scrumptious in it, only looks better in 'Monkeybone' as a pussycat... another film that was on TV recently. ...And I agree, film students, a bunch of nungers - I was one myself, but worked like a dog and got a three year course out of the way in two so I didn't have to spend another minute with them!

I've just had the bizarrest conversation with the old bloke that owns the local shop. He said, "Aren't you involved with that group, Eskimo Patrol? I hear they're as big as Jimmy Shand was back in the day. They tell me that real bands are coming back... Who are that band Green Mile? Are they a proper band? And who is that fellow Frank Skinner? I hear he's a one-man band! Is he? Isn't that amazing, a one-man band getting back in the charts. Of course my daughter knew that Kapranos fellow, her friend shared a flat with him in Glasgow. He always knew he was going to make it. What do you think of Prince Charles?" Don't you just love local shops?

The answers are on the Boo forum right now, if anyone is interested...

If you look on the Planet Boo forum now there is a fantastic prize quiz - answer as many questions as possible from the devillishly difficult teasers and the winner will get a Boo goodie bag containing CDs, t-shirts, badges and a few other bits and bobs. Top score just now is a paltry 3.5 out of 12, so there's every chance. Bonus points are given for creative answers and don't forget the bonus Girls Aloud question. Have at ye!

Wilson Pickett did a cover which was sampled by St Etienne on 'Foxbase Alpha'. Not sure if it's the one you want though.

The Kodak Theatre only has 58 seats, so they can't nominate too many people. I know it looks big - the walls are all mirrored. Good to see Sophie Okonedo nominated - another great British actress who has come through the tried and tested training scheme of 'The Bill' and 'Casualty'.

Munt. I'm not sure what that is out of ten. I don't recognise the decimal system. That's so last week. I've just given myself a really high forehead and a bronze finger to stir soup. That's how now I am. Full stops. They're very now.

Unfortunately this is often the way - you see places that are pure of vision, ideologically sound, places that you feel at home... they always struggle. The free market has no respect for creative ideologies, unfortunately. Hearty thanks to Dr Drakes for the best two nights out I've had this past two years - actually, the only two nights out I've had! Planet Boo feels your pain. Mwah.

With the duelling of the A46 no shortcuts are needed anymore, thank jimminy.

Ohhh, sneaky, two threads on the go here! Well, no harm in a bit of trumpeting with such a sterling line-up, I say...