HummerOfIntenseEvil

They're doing headline gigs in Liverpool, London and "Wulverhampton" (Ipecac's spelling, not mine) on the 25th, 26th and 27th of November. 16.50 a ticket. I considered going to London to see Fantomas 3 years ago, and the tickets were about 30 then. I only ended up not going since I was already committed to Leeds festival the next day. Reckon I'll go this time. Mind you, a return ticket for the train is 54.80...

So what they're saying is, students only listen to music you can buy in Asda or J. Sainsbury's Ltd? (I daresay they have compilations with the older songs on them available at 9.97). To be honest, that's like a playlist for Firewater or Garage, so they're (unfortunatley) probably not far off the mark.

I knew I should have kept that as "there's surely no risk..."

There's nothing wrong with a bit of discrimination with regards to musical tastes - it's such a personal thing that it really can be quite indicitive of a person's personality, and it's quite an important factor if music is a big part of your life. Although I wouldn't dream of stopping being friends with someone just because I found out they liked Dirty Pretty Things, I can tell from experience that if someone is into bands that I absolutely detest, I'm hardly going to be spending hours discussing music with them. If I tried, I'd probably end up being rather insulting since it's something I have strong views about, so it's best to keep my mouth closed in such situations, especially if the other person's life revolves around (shit) music. Fool: "What do you think of The Automatic then? I love them." Me: "Anyone who likes them should die because they're quite clearly a cunt. No offence, like." Fool: "Oh. Erm... Nice day, isn't it?" I get along best with people who have similar music taste, so it stands to reason that I'm going to shun someone I don't yet know who likes music that I consider to be appalling. Actually, my best mate John hates just about every band I like, so all of the above is possibly bollocks. Or it only applies to people who are really into their music. And it's all similarly true/false about peope's tastes in films and comedy. But now I'm just describing common interests really.

To be fair though' date=' there's no risk in booking someone like Morrissey or putting on a high-profile festival, and these are the kind of tickets that suddenly appear on eBay for 100% markup seconds after "selling out". I hope the man who said this doesn't HONESTLY believe his own bullshit. Touting football tickets in England and Wales is prohibited under criminal law. Surely there can be some law against reselling concert tickets over face value? I'm pretty sure touting is supposed to be illegal in Scotland already mind, and I've yet to see a policeman outside a concert making an easy arrest. What they should do is make it illegal to sell tickets for more than face value, then police this by going on eBay every now and again and winning the ticket auctions. Then instead of sending a cheque, send a bobby round to their door and nick them. They wouldn't fucking bother though. What I find hilarious, however, are the touts who say they are doing people a service, because they're "selling tickets to people who couldn't get originally". THEY COULDN'T GET THEM BECAUSE TWATS LIKE YOU BOUGHT THEM ALL UP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Has anyone ever heard a tout outside a gig who WASN'T English?

Ahh, if only the BBC would put Friday/Saturday Night Armistace on DVD. It was utterly fantastic, especially the time they broke into the Blue Peter Garden and filled the time capsule with porn mags and stuff, for a truer representation of 90s kids' lifestyles. They could do worse than put This Morning With Richard Not Judy on DVD too. I daresay neither will happen though. I just read on wikipedia that he produced The Mary Whitehouse Experience too! That's another programme they should put out on DVD. Fact: Iannuci has the only existing Alan Partridge Facemask in his possession.

I'm sure a couple of them could give Nigel Quashie a run for his money in that respect

Make sure you think of the kiddies if you do then - no one wants to see a fanny or cock. Me and my mate were sure we read last year that the throwing of coinage was banned - this wasn't the case then?

A few points: Whatever Norway have done, as well as concentrating more on our high-fat dietry issues perhaps (England couldn't give a fuck - they don't even HAVE macaroni pies). Everyone knows Gordon Brown already has Britain lending stupid amounts of money, and our education system is far superior to England's already, without ANY more money being spent on it. I dunno about that, but I DO know that without Scottish oil, England would be crying themselves to sleep. Probably.

To be fair, even Aberdeen would have gotten to at least the quarter finals of that particular World Cup... Well, maybe.

Ahem... I actually deleted several "fucking"s just before I pressed submit It brings back annoying images of people trying to get things for cheap for ridiculous reasons when I worked in a shop. People just like my mum in fact...

Why on earth would it be the shop assistant that's being unreasonable? No one was MAKING you buy it. I actually can't believe you asked for a pound off - are your resources so low that the difference between 7 and 6 has such an impact on your bank balance? Displays such as that just perpetuate the myth that Aberdonian's are tight-fisted bastards. If you're getting CDs for less than a pound per CD, you're already doing very fucking well. What was the box set anyway?

That's the kind of thing that's so obvious, it's ridiculous someone hasn't done it before. Lovely stuff.

Morrissey (Saturday): alright Morrissey (sunday, in Stirling): tons better for some reason Morrissey (thursday, Glasgow) Killing Joke (Glasgow, next sunday) That's all so far.

"Volvo Death Spell" look forward to hearing people's comments about our set... For anyone who turned up expecting to see a proper "StroZZZZZZZek" set, I hope you weren't put off. Especially not by that cheeky sod we had on keyboards/vocals "WE ARE THE FUTURE OF MUSIC!" indeed

When I worked in Lawries in Queens Road there was one old lady in particular who I looked upon as a sort of adopted granny since my last remaining grandparent died not long before. Some old people are ace, it's a shame their good name is tarnished by the cunts who try to push in front of people cos they think they have special rights, as well as the old "youth today!" clan. Oooh, that'll be my mum in a few years...

But I WAS on about Basic Instinct 2 (ahem...)

It was actually our Richey (oooh I sound like Cilla) that found them, but http://www.myspace.com/shewantsrevenge are rather funky.

It's certainly made me think 2006 is going to be considerably better for music than 2005 was. I essentially bought the album cos the girl is rather cute, but it's a fab album anyway. I was in Glasgow the night they were playing barfly, but ended up not getting to the gig Very good for an NME band anyway. I allowed myself to buy it as I read about them in uncut or something first AGES ago, thus I can say to myself "NME just copied them. honest." Not as good as Khoma or Killing Joke's 2006 albums though

Death Spell Doug? I'm using that for my ring name when I join the WWE.

I think you'll have to wait for the DVD release now (June 20th apparently), but it's a film that probably requires a couple of viewings to completely understand all the various strands, so it'd be well worth it!