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Are Open Colon Racket even eligable for this award? Last Id heard they were based in London not Aberdeen.

You never know.... I was at the LCD Soundsystem and the Streets Snafu aftershows. Mike Skinner was in there queueing up like a regular punter at the bar and the LCD sat with us lot and made us feel artistically inadequate. So aye. Maybe Brandon will surprise us! I wont be there this time like. Couldnae get tix for the gig cos of the masses.

Hope you were all wearing helmets and donned your breathing apparatus. I trust you didnt drink the water either. Anyone going to Sunderland should be payed Danger Money

Geordies are nice audiences too.

Id give Sunderland a miss. Imagine Tillydrone but 10 times bigger with higher unemployment and more crime. It also smells. You can actually smell it from Newcastle. Newcastle is fine and so is the Boro. But both lack many venues for anything other than ''big name'' acts at least (certainly compared to Aberdeen for example).The promoters are quite picky given neither town has a regular default live music following. If you dont mind travelling 300 miles to potentially only play to 30 to 50 people then its ok. Leeds is better for gigs and a better selection of venues and has more chance of you getting a crowd and/or sharing the bill with better a known act..... although if you are openly Scottish you are likely to get your heads kicked in on the way out for Pizza.

Nout wrong with that at all. But very hard work and inevitably unrewarding in a lot of cases. Ideally though you would get onboard with a booking agency before embarking on any grand touring plans however to actually make it worthwhile. DIY touring kills most bands. But going back to the original point you are against, any new way of making it easy for industry people to access new material from bands is good..... go on admit it....its good! Work smarter not harder. (I nicked that)

I agree with you. I just cant see any of the promoters or industy people we know, spending ages on Myspace searching for random bands in the hope they discover something worth following up, when in fact they are already well informed, know exactly what they want and already have the contacts and info sources they need in terms of whats hot and whats not. The fact that they also have lives to live is a reason that trawling Myspace and reading a zillion promo packs is unlikely to be top of their ''to do'' lists.

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Your experience of promoters looks a bit limited. There are promoters who may be looking for exactly a certain type of band but dont actually want to be stalked by bands and then bombarded with a thousand promo packs with myspace adresses written on them. Never mind then having to trawl Myspace. Anything that streamlines band selection by promoters is a good thing imo, having worked on both sides of the band/promoter fence. Good for bands too. Myspace is more or less saturated with useless cack now anyway. Any decent (or busy) promoter is unlikely to have the time on his hands to give it much attention.

erm, more exposure.... just add 30 quid to your next gig fee problem solved, new promotional angle achieved

Press packs? usually filed in bins. The only ones Ive seen are cringe material. Waste of time. Like suicide notes really. Bands if anything need to learn to use initive rather than follow some dreary mass protocol - As well as primarily concentrating on getting good at music. Any new system that gets the right material to the ears of the right people very quickly is a good move.

....considering we have completely decimated the original and any subsequent line up / abandoned all of our instruments and replaced them with machines / written a new set of songs in a completely different style to anything we've ever done before / changed our name (again) / sound nothing like any band either of us have been part of / gone for a totally different image etc ....will hopefully contribute to the application credentials required for GN and anything else along the same lines but the real reasoning is to not bore the shit out of ourselves or audiences or (hopefully) also known as: progress/fun PS For clarification, our band in its previous formats only ever played ONE official Go North showcase gig. Blagging a few unofficials in the same week was just inititive/cheek Its a great opportunity and everyone doing new music should have a crack at it. The nu application thing seems cool like. Better than shoving a cd in the post.

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Go North was great for Aberdeen and will be great for Inverness no doubt. Any year we participitated, we met nice people and some handy contacts and did pretty well from it. Any year of non parcipitation it was still a good laugh/piss up and a chance to catch some impressive bands that would not normally be up for playing an outpost like Aberdeen. Ok the selection process always involved controversy but it always will so long as some local-favorite bands are rejected. It will definately be missed by a load of people despite the moaners. Whens Triptych this year?

Indeed, I suspect there are hoards of Blink 182 and McFly tribute bands rehearsing at this very moment The circle of shit Like the Circle of Life out of Lion King but more realistic

normally we go for a 4-5-1 formation, but can change things around at half time if we go in a goal down

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Tickets were 6.50 in advance but it was supposed to be a tenner on the door. I think however after 12.30 it became free on the door as the place fulled up with some right random f_cking neds and @rseholes, who would never have payed money to get in surely?! Im not being a snob here, Snafu is great bolthole away from cuntsville but cuntsville got in on saturday it seems Dodgy door policy IMO....place got way too busy and the cool atmosphere went downhill post 1am due to no one being able to move / people staring each other out / people getting pissed off cos they couldnt move or get served at the bar / pissed women going woo ah woo ah and then lying on the floor screaming/crying......etc Atmosphere on the dancefloor was good but later on the rest of the clud started to resemble Drummonds on a cheap lager promotion night. I almost got in a fight after two tatooed skin heads thought it would be a good idea to ''push me around'' while I was carrying drinks from the bar...still I never spilt any and rose above the provocation despite being rather fuelled up myself. Inspired DJ set (despite technical glitches) from COS though and an excellent night up to when the rabble arrived.

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I only watch Live Football, and Dexters Laboratory. So I need Sky, and prefer paying them than the Governmant for the rubbish BBC channels. Could easily live without it, Id just have to go to actual live games instead and substitute Dexters Lab with more band rehearsals which are very similar to said cartoon. Dexters sister having an identical personality to one of our band. All other programs are shit I agree. Its fake. Actors are not real people. The news is all made up, and Holby City isnt a real place. I checked on a map. If Ren and Stimpy came back on Id probably watch that.

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