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Im Cammy apparently Which is spooky cos Im her in real life (well, when I play SF)

the retro shit is down to money > its cheaper and theres more profit to be had, for the media in all its forms, to bombard us with stuff that requires no new investment, thought or creativity - than to actually do anything new - that would take time, talent and cost money bombard us with enough old shite untill we get numb to it and then some of us (seemingly most of us) will start to think its ok, when its patently dog shit and always was dog shit Im with Gridlock and would rather embrace a 'future' than watch Worzal Gummage reruns, play asteroids and listen to Deep Purple - if there was a future that is But there isnt one apparently.

Antony and the Johnsons, the newest one Jeeesus!

phew, Hot Chip cancelled! amazing night, LCDSS are even better live than on CD which is f*cking incredible really aftershow @ Snafu was also good bad head today

i thought Hot Chip were appalling contrived cheese (reminded me of Black Lace) last time, the night was saved by the optimo DJs but it wont put me off going to see LCDSS tooooonite! *twitching with anticipation*

forgot my favorite one Lux Interior out of the Cramps vomitted on my arm after eating a bar of soap what an honour!

John Peel (RIP) phoned me from a hotel payphone in Berlin once Ive kissed Pete Shelley on the head My cousin Vikki is a professional dancer and worked at the Moulin Rouge for a while but now shes on at Blackpool Tower My other cousin Janice sleeps with lots of famous premier league footballers (oh dear) Ive told Billy Bragg to ''fuck off and stop moaning you commie twat'' My cousin Paul has played stand in Drums for Stiff Little Fingers Ive been alone in an empty room with Sharin Foo (I was too frightened to tell her I love her and will regret this forever) Ive made food for the Royal Family (and watched a colleage from Glasgow add his own bogeys to the recipe - they must get that a lot, yuk) My Dad is a mate of Uri Geller so theoretically Im kinda a friend of a friend of Wackson Jackson (quite worried about that really) Ive hung out with two of the Suicide Girls (suicidegirls.com) but forgot to have sex with them Vic Galloway called me a ''sick bastard''

dunno why theres resentment towards the oil industry, any other city would feel lucky to have it, and remember its a business not a public service, so cut throat it may be, but they owe us nothing. If people here can benefit from the business and employment the oil brings then thats good, but it cant possibly benefit everyone, I kinda think thats naive and asking too much given we stupidly voted in a capitalist government again unlike Norway where they use their oil revenue to make everyones standard of living very high .....a form of communism that works! (so long as theres a supply of oil) opposing the oil industry is like being in edinburgh and resenting all the tourists (which I know some people in Edin do) ......but without them the city would be kinda fooked and back to the AECC - its just a useless shed run by the clueless attended by the soulless if it burns down I hope it takes out Bridge of Don with it and all of the CD collections of its dull residents (coldplay/travis etc)

If I was the council Id set fire to it and claim on the insurance

Im so there Im actually there now fantastico!

aye indeed

At the moment I cant actually think of a a more shit cover version Surely he is taking the piss?

4 standing Tickets for sale Any reasonable offer really - they were onsale at 25 and are sold out Im told Just PM me Ta

Dunno how in touch with the modern world you can be ....i use a pc for loads of stuff sequencing, sampliing, programming synthesesisers, making films. The least useful thing a PC is for is actually finding out whats on in aberdeen. Theres nothing comprehensive, and to get a vague idea of whats on it means constantly checking lots of different sites and compiling your own summary database (if I were that fucking geeky) Im just making the point that a lot people like me dont want to waste time fannying about searching on websites just find out where to go for beers/a gig, Id rather have something in the back pocket of me jeans that I could quickly scan whenever Im out....I think youll find theres heaps of people in the same boat, who while perfectly computor literate, are just too busy to sit in a boxroom looking at a screen all nite another point often made by the local promoters and bands, is that despite the endless cyber banter on websites like this, not many of the people who contribute actually bother turning up to see gigs - so its fake really - hence my reference to real people as the general public who are certainly not represented by some kids who never go to gigs cos they are way to busy making new freinds on the internet to me, overstating the power of certain websites is a sign you are out of touch already

in think you should make the focus on a handout gig guide ''magadeen'' thingy first, and a website second you are more likely to engage the interest of the general public (real people) not just a bunch of wanks who sit at PCs pretending its the real world or something im only interested in buying some regular propaganda/advertising space as Im sure the journalistic content will be scenefully dire and people will just look at the pictures and stuff good luck with it, its about fecking about time cos I always go out when theres nout on deliberatley and want to keep it that way ''The Aberdeen Gig Guide'' is quite a novel approach for a name though....punters might even get it, which might be useful if the idea is for it to actually get across whats on to people who want to know whats on, yus? the AUBL guide is rubbish btw and how many people outside the microcosm of this nerd commune actually know about it?

if its poppier its probably even better ill get it anyway and no doubt love it with a huge bias just cos its them is that allowed?

no I mean they should split up when they run out of ideas instead of flogging a dead horse

to who exactly? and when? despite being massively influential they split when they ran out of new ideas as all good bands should i dont know if this maybe puts this debate into context, but in an era when chart success was much more difficult, less contrived and almost hype free, the Banshees were regularly assaulting the top 20 for over 2 years with a range of non commercial sounding singles that sounded like the band was perpetually in a state of re-inventing itself > quite a fucking acheivment really that is unlikely to be repeated and now in an era when fickle hype and a playground fad can chart a band, Interpol et all the other surrogate copy bands struggle to appear in the top 80 singles chart and their albums regularly bomb out of the album chart after only 2 weeks (basically as soon as someone else is on the front cover of the NME and all the lazy spoonfed suckers are lapping that up instead) im not even a huge Banshees fan, but I know whats the real deal and whats cheap rip off The Killers (who have popped up in the thread a couple of times) dont fall into the surrogate lazy copy band / business man craze of 2005. They actually have something pretty good going on ala other contempory bands White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, KOL etc and might last a good bit longer because of that. Fuck conveyor belts. Spoonfeeding the dumb sheep.