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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!!!

so are you're hoping that any music playing aberdeen fans will respond or you reckon they'll be put off slighty by your username(regardless of whether it's an unfortunate coincidence!) ?

just a thought.

anyone phoned up Bassment to ask?

Is there any way of buying one ticket without adding on 7.20 to a "17.00" ticket?

the music industry needs a few odd-ball dodgy characters living the crazy lifestyle as opposed to ott wannabe Rock Star Peace Amassadors of the world, who have the cheek to complain about poverty then charge you 70 to see them perform...

anyway i dont know much about Pete's life but (correct me if i'm wrong), if you have to steal from your friends to feed your habit then you're pretty f-cked up & lacking some ethics / morales.

still i've never walked in his shoes so who am i to judge.

i dont think he is completely raking it in' date=' .... so end of the day hes probs not making that much compared to what they potentially could do if they were just in it for the money[/quote']

why not make the gigs free or only charge enough to break even?

is it perhaps cos hard drugs, booze, fags & cost of his chosen lifestyle aint free?

think of the potential earnings if he actually sorted himself out & turned up for gigs, etc.

I'm going on Sunday night to see J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr.

Perhaps something like:

Prices start from 8.33* per hour

*when booking 3 hour blocks

would have been less offending?

although saying that, i dont know what happens when you book 6 hours, 50 or perhaps the price is negotiable?!

Do you realise that this makes no sense?

book two hours then it'll cost 20 = (10 per hour x 2 hours)

book three hours then it'll cost 25 = (25 / 3 hours = 8.33 per hour)

Next week' date=' adding & subtracting.

i'm quoting the website here:

Prices start at just 8 an hour.

Rehearsal time at The Lok-Up is charged at 10 per hour or three hours for 25

For further information call (01224) 575084 or email [email']info@the-lok-up.com

So what exactly doesnt make sense?

Do you think the website should say "Prices start from 8.33 per hour" ?

Prices start from 8 per hour.

If you book 3 hours it costs 25, so effectively 8.33 per hour.

Otherwise price per hour is 10.

what do yous think?

www.righthandleft.co.uk

it does need more tweaking but I had to put something online to get some feedback...

if you cant make it to the Liquid rooms you should tag along with their "superfan" to another gig in the tour, i know a girl that goes to every BSP gig on all their tours, including America, is that dedication or just plain crazy?!

just bought the Open Season album today!

think it'll be either

The X-Certs + Myopia + Right Hand Left + Turning 13

or

Turning 13 + Myopia + Right Hand Left + The X-Certs

if its between 8pm & 11pm then start times will be roughly 8.15pm, 9pm, 9.45pm and last band on at 10.30pm.

Right Hand Left + Myopia + The X-Certs + Turning 13

The Tunnels, Aberdeen

Wed 6th April 2005

8pm doors open.

2 entry.

I was really looking forward to watching "Right Hand Left" and was not disappointed.

Hard to believe its their first gig & the first time the frontman hasnt been on stage playing the drums, nice transition to guitar & vox!

Friday 04 March 2005 - Caf

Tickets 5 (3.25 concessions & regulars)

Doors Open: 9pm

Show Starts: 9.30pm

Close: 1am

With Radio Lucifer