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Third last gig.....
Last Aberdeen Gig.
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ARAB STRAP
Vocalist Aidan Moffat (formerly of Bay) and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton grew up in Falkirk, Scotland and bonded over their mutual love for Drag City recording artists such as Smog and Will Oldham as well as their love of cheap booze. They began collaborating in 1995 and their debut album "The Week Never Starts Around Here" was released the following year.
Over the course of their 10 year existence Arab Strap have worked with a number of muscians including Jenny Reeve, Stacey Sievewright as well as Adele Bethel and David Gow who went on to form Sons and Daughters. Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian was featured on the album Philophobia but the album/song "The Boy with the Arab Strap" would later create something of a feud between the two singers.
Arab Strap's marked characteristics include sorid, personal, yet honest, lyrics -- described by the NME as "fly on the duvet vignettes"[1] At first essentially an electro-acoustic band with a brooding, spare sound later albums and gigs saw them develop a fuller sound which drew deeply on both indie and dance music.
In keeping with the theme of sexual allusion (see arab strap (sexual device)), Moffat records as a solo artist under the name Lucky Pierre - slang for the man in the middle of a gay threesome. This work is also characterised by brooding, spare sound but is instrumental in nature. Malcolm Middleton also has a solo career under his own name, and his music is released by Chemikal Underground.
On September 9, 2006 the band announced on their website that they are to split up. They plan to celebrate the 10 years since their first studio album with the release of a compilation record, entitled Ten Years Of Tears. This is one of the last chances to see Arab Strap live.
+ DE ROSA
Saturday 2nd November
The Tunnels
Carnegie's Brae
Aberdeen
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What is going on with this gig? ANy confirms of support or anything? I've seen fuck all promotion to do with it. My mate bought his ticket yesterday and its number fifty or something which is pretty pathetic. Just seems a shame with it being their last gig and everything. Are De Rosa the only support? Why is the gig not even on the gig calender?
JUst seems to be slipping under the radar for such an important gig.
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I'll be at this one.
When is the first band onstage ?
sometime between 8 30 and 9
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I loved the complete and utter distain they had for radio one's playlist, they had the balls to take the piss out of the station they were on, like when they played the Sugababes five times in a row just to see if anyone noticed.
Radio One's Djs are too safe, like Jo Whiley, whose opinions on her four music show were complete polar oposites to those on her show about tracks she was told to play. I swear shes getting worse.
Mark and Lard got me through the second half of highschool and weirdly enough i found out about the whole september eleventh thing and heard it unfold on their show, which led me to think at first that it was a pisstake.
They were ace. Weird sense of humour and format but they were really into their music. I found a fan site which had links selling the album once but that was about five years ago. Fuck I'm old.
Stop.........
.....Carry on!
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This film is fucking amazing. Daniel Craig shits over all bonds since Connery.
YES!
I loved it, there were loads of crap parts. The opening scenes were good but I really dont like the new theme, just sounds a bit bland and doesnt really have much kick, although the title sequence was amazing, but were ruined by the song. I loved the stripped down bond beginning enough to suspend my belief conceraning Judi Dench's M which fucks up the continuity of the series. I lked the realism of it, the lack of gadgets or overblown schemes for world domination. There is no Meglamaniac bad guy, Le Chiffre is interesting as he comes quite far down the criminal food chain, is a sadistic fucked up bad guy but hes also a fuckup and trying to cover his tracks rather than orchestrate a crazy diabolical scheme involving the moon's gravitational pull or something.
I thought Le Ciffres comment about elaborate tortures was a nice touch as this film managed to brush away a lot of crazy bond-cliche's and still make a decent Bond film.
As for Craig, he was good, he manages to portray the complex brooding Bond of the books with still the dry sense of humour of Connery's bond, rather than the moody fuck that was Dalton or the Roger Moore's smug glib-ridden clown.
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what do you think of this
It's Shit.
Actually havent even looked at it, so cant really say.
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i was wonderin does anyone think it is a good idea to get the crowd to start a wall of death playing your first gig? wb
Not if you're Aberfeldy.
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I sytatrted it yesterday. Classic Rebus, It feels good to have a it set in the middle of the G8, I love that the fictional characters are reacting to actual events, its cool. I'm onlyquarter o the way through though
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I'm quite enjoying Ellis' Nextwave, although i'm not sure how often it comes out and seem to keep missing issues. its still good though, really funny. Hooked on Wheden's Astonishing X Men, just when I thought it was getting shit it completelly turned around and every issue recently has had a "what the fuck is going on now?" factor. Whedon is definatelly a quality successor to Morrison's great work on New X Men.
I'd recommend We3 as a short, the sheer power of Frank Quitelly's art is mindblowing and Morrison's brutal story manages to be really sincere as well as ultra-violent to the max. Also All-Star superman is pretty good, I'v only had one issue so far but it seems good, trying to track down the back issues, which is proving quite difficult.
Mucho Kudos for putting this thread on the books section
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The old "newsprint" NME would surely be better for this purpose, the glossy NME of today wouldn't be much use at all.
Isnt that why the changed, to dusuade people from thinking it was toilet paper.
I'll shut up and stop being so negative
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Seems mildly like needless anger to me.
think I'm just getting old and bitter...
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Is it not the case that whoever condemns the NME cool list for being vacuous and 'style over substance' is missing the point? It's supposed to be frivolous and entertaining!
I am actually condemning the NME for having a "cool" list.
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If memory serves, that's the cheat from Sonic The Hedgehog...
The Sky at Night add on for the Dreamcast.
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they probably didn't think his haircut was cool enough.
or that his entire wardrobe didnt come from topshop
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Do you like a lot, if any of the music featured in the NME out of interest?
Yeah theres a lot of music I like which has been featured in NME, I just dont like the magazine very much.
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Man, I just realised I've not been to the cinema that much this year and can onl think of three that I've seen
Children of Men
V For Vendetta
A Scanner Darkly.
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THis is a list of celebrities for fuck sake. I thought it was the new Musical Express, but its just heat with backcolmed hair, wearing an old Army Uniform and converse all-stars, skinny jeans and weilding a Gibson Les Paul that it doesnt know how to play, but its ok cause its the same guitar that Jimi Page uses.
What this is is a list for people who are into music cause its "cool" at the moment and they cant be fucked actually going out there listening to music and making their own opinions up. Why bother when NME provides them for two quid or whatever it costs a week.
Fucks.
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NME angers me to the point of increased blood pressure.
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And I, but not nearly as much as the fucking braindead sheep who take it as their style bible because it's contents are trendy at the moment, who lap up its every word and listen to the bands it tells them to, dresses the way they tell them to.
Fucking shite rag.
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I fucking hate the NME.
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*Cough* Support *Cough*
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I am downhearted, due to my living room having become rubble and brick, and the wifey in the Spar opposite saying I shouldn't be staying in my flat while dry-rot treatment is being done (could explain why the downstairs neighbours have moved out!!), so if anyone discovers any habitable underground places, let me know!!!
I'm fascinated by this subject though.....I knew about the streets which went under the Union St arches, and can see how this might be the case on Bridge St too, but had no idea there were similar things in Crown Street. Any more detail on exactly where your works building is, TOEE??
I'm proud that 'Cynicitis' is spreading to you young folk, but I was worried when I first read it that soundian might have cistitis!!!!
I DO remember that the old shops on Broad Street (where St Nicholas House is), had bassments, as I have a vague memory of being dragged into one every so often by my mum in the late 50s/early 60s (that's 1950s/60s, Dusty!!!) to buy sheet music.
Maybe there's a whole different race (a la H G Wells) living down there, and only popping out to mug a passer by (or am I getting confused with Dundee?)
Its the Vicky Wine on crown street near the top. Was thinking about it again tonight in respect to the right hon. Solution_devices, there are viewable bassments most of the way down crown street, i'm now wondering if they were covered up at the top of the street to widen the road or something or if Crown street was just built up a level.
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Virtually the whole city centre is built-up on arches, to take it across the Denburn Valley & lift it out of the old medieval centre-route from the Castlegate to The Green, Windmill Brae, Justice Mill Lane & eventually the Hardgate. Centered on Union St, from a bit before Crown St to nearly the Castlegate, including Bridge St & Union Terace. The Arches that make-up Carnegies Brae & the Tunnels is one, whilst a bit of another is visible by the Steps to the Green from Virgin whilst another used to be Visible around Marischal St but may now be obscured. Many have housed stores & workshops over the years & in WW2, many were appointed as air-raid shelters - I understand a couple may still remain virtually untouched from this period. There will also be plenty of subsidiary arching to merge levels between all the old streets that link to the new ones.
Try Googling the "Aberdeen New Streets Act" or checking-out some of city histories.
It was Millennium Dome of its day, one of the biggest construction projects in Victorian Britain & the whole project bankrupted the City for years on end. Indeed, the initial concept was traffic-only, with wide & clear classically-appointed streets & elevated promenades, allowing easy movement between the various parts of the city centre.
In order to get out of the mess, the council of the day (nothing really changes, does it?), who were dominated by builders & granite merchants, sanctioned the development of property along the arches to save their arses & give us the city centre we know today.
I also remember a series of medeval tunnels & underground rooms were discovered in the area occupied by the old Co-op headquarters & the church beside it. Roughly in the space today bounded by the Blue Lamp, Aberdeen College, John Lewis & the Bon Accord Centre Car park.
The area under the Academy & Marischal College also has an interesting series of basements so I'd assume there are plenty more. Also a long disused Cold-War emergency control centre accessable from a building off Albyn Place. The large ROC command bunker from the same period in Northfield was demolished some years ago.
Yup, you may assume that I'm a bit of a troglodite!
Cool info man, cheers. Tried Googling but not much info. Do you know of any sites i could read more into it with>
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isn't it just the basement windows?
most of the buildings on crown street have basements with windows
with a gap between the pavement and the wall to let light in
Naw its at the top of crown street, right under the pavement, before you get to the buildings with the wee basement bits.
I'd really like to know the extent of what is underneath the city centre, just find it really fascinating.
Last orders for Arab Strap!
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I got mine from One Up.