Never used practise rooms regulary in aberdeen before August 2002 when we moved to manchester, but there as you can imagine we had choice & price on our side. we ended up using the same practise place as Elbow, Longview, etc. prices start from 20 for four hours, and there were plenty of rooms to get a regular slot sorted. first of all well done to captain toms for realising that aberdeen had no facilities to offer the numerous bands that probably had to make do with garages & bedrooms. but coming back to his prices was a shock, four hours for 56 is certainly a massive difference even if you are only practising one night a week (but we could practise for twice that in mcr & still have 16 leftover!). anyway it's good to see that there are a few alternatives opened up since i came back to aberdeen, prices still not great but if you can get away with charging 14 per hour & still get the same number of bands through the door then why change? I think it says a lot that in theory if aberdeen became over-ran with hundreds of drummers without noise proof bedrooms/garages then toms would only be charging them 7 per hour to practise, I'd like to see that happen, they can obviously live off of 7 per hour but it's easy to charge bands double. suppose it encourages a 3-piece band to get an extra guitarist & back-up singer & keyboard player,etc, not to add to the quality of the music, but to reduce the cost for each band member to practise!!!