Flash@TMB

You didn't need to learn the whole language... Of course it could have turned out that you were singing about being bummed or something. You'd never know.

Led Zepplin - dull and twee. Oasis - bunch of tossers/ Iron Maiden - singing about medieval shit and Greek mythology is irrelevant. And the drumming is boring. Alestrom - gets right on my tits.

I regret not cutting my all my fingers off on the 5th March 2005...

What planet was I on in 2005? Planet booze. Fucking painful to read. Sorry!!! Stayover gig? The fans would be like 23 now. Whatever happened to them? Lets do it. Invite Phillip back on sax too Gonna listen to the track now...

You don't get this quality or intensity of shit on Facebook. Oh no no no

The message I posted on facebook was intended for the staff group, not the public page, which is why I took it down ten minutes later after being made aware of the mis-post. Of the thousands of posts I've made on both pages this is the first time there's been a mix up, and easily the worst possible post to do that with The facts as I understand them are that something bad happened to someone. The incident occurred about a mile away from the bar. One party, the victim, had been in the bar earlier. The other party had not been in the bar, and had no connection with the bar whatsoever. Unable to elaborate any further on the incident itself, as it's an on-going police investigation. The police called me in for an intervention meeting. Previously a premises manager was only called in for an intervention meeting if the premises was in deep shit, hence my mis-posted message to the staff. However I have since learned that, subsequent to the merger of Scotland's police forces, this is now standard operating procedure for any incident. In this case they simply summoned me because The Moorings was the last premises the victim had been in that evening. In the event, CCTV shows that the bartenders did not do anything wrong, and we are not being penalised in any way. We have since made a few minor tweaks to the way we operate, which while they wouldn't have made any difference to the incident in question, will help safeguard our butt going forward. Ironically this was the first incident to occur since the police changed their policy. I've never been summoned to anything like this before, but it strikes me that some premises managers might want to consider moving their offices to Queen Street.

Oops doh lol

Best Venue does not appear on the voting slips. This is to prevent the vote from being unfairly skewed.

Just for the record that score was around 20 million, and it lasted one day. By the time the machine went back my score was still 20m but the high score was 640m. I shit you not. On the Tron machine my high score stayed in place for three weeks, but the serious players have 'discovered' the machine now...

Wow, just re-read my post 7 years later and for once didn't think "dick".

Are you the pished guys we dosed with chilli vodka?

New Tron pinball has been installed.

We now have an Ampeg 8x10" cab instead of the old 4x10" one. Can also suggest that your fx would work much better through the Ampeg's fx loop, they tend to be a bit sensitive about that!

Hi There, Whilst I can't provide any input on remapping your sound, I can offer a detailed explanation of why things are the way they are. Bars and clubs are operating under incredibly tough conditions right now, and venues have it even worse. To the best of my knowledge there are only a handful of independent (non-chain) places left operating in the city centre... just walk through town and check out all the boarded up pubs. The reasons for this date back to when the breweries were broken up for price fixing in the early nineties, and all the problems afflicting the industry, including binge drinking, stem from that ill thought out piece of legislation. Given that it's hard enough to make money selling booze, in order to provide live music that music must at least cover it's own costs - it doesn't. There's a balancing act between admission price and number of attendees, and we have that sussed... unfortunately to cover costs we'd need the same number of attendees each paying £2 more at the door, which just isn't going to happen. We're lucky though, because we only really absorb the direct costs of the performance, the time that the musicians spend performing. If we had people swapping drum kits, cabs, and bass heads, then sound checking, our costs would increase dramatically. Not only would we be required to double up on the amount of engineer time, but we'd also lose our afternoon trade because really, nobody wants to sit through that. Instead we've been smart on several levels, we've invested heavily in building a plug in & play venue, and we've selected our equipment to provide a robust a reliable sound, with minimal effort, which most people appear to enjoy. As a result we almost never experience feedback through our monitors, and hardly ever fail to deliver ample vocal through them. The extra outlay up front is more than offset by the time we save each week not alienating our customers by exposing them to feedback drenched sound checks for hours at a time. Remember we're primarily a bar, and that's what pays the bills. There's one aspect of getting sound to work that many musicians fail to take into consideration, particularly with regard to speaker cabinets. Different cabinets produce different throws, and (generally) larger speakers produce longer throws. You can observe this with your laptop vs your HiFi. You can turn your laptop up, so that it's tiny internal speakers are producing a certain volume at a range of two feet, chances are you'd struggle to hear it from 10 feet away, and no chance you'd hear it from another room. Not the case with the larger HiFi speakers which throw the sound much further. That's because they're moving more air. In the venue we can exploit this to drive music at quiet jukebox levels throughout the entire room (we only really need the sound reinforcement when it's busy). This effect is most noticable with bass. If you stand right in front of our bass bins, or even stick your head in them, you'll struggle to hear any bass. That's because they use double 18" speakers. Those speakers can throw the bass to the far end of the room, but the wave takes some distance to develop, so you don't really hear it close up. The bass amp on stage is the actual source of the bass heard by people standing in the first few rows. For the sound to work, we need a bass speaker on stage that can develop bass in under 6 feet, and also for that sound to tail off as the bass bins at the front of house start to build, otherwise we'd end up with a bass heavy zone. The best fit for this job is a 4x10" cab with a horn. One option we have long considered is to use an 8x10" on stage. A couple of times people have brought these along, and by all accounts they work even better, so perhaps we'll get around to doing that at some point. The reason we went for an Ampeg head is simply because it's designed to work with 10" speakers and, being a high quality piece of kit, in most instances it's presence placates the bass player. However Ampegs aren't so good at handling bass effects pedals. If we were to get into swapping bass amps, then we'd have to swap bass cabs, then we'd get sucked into swapping guitar cabs, which would then open the door to just swapping everything. It's a vicious spiral. We'd be better off demolishing the stage altogether, and doubling the size of the dance floor, then we could service the masses playing RATM on a loop for 6 hours at a time and make a whole lot more money, but we're not about that. Seriously though, it's just that live music is only viable for us within the current parameters. Part of the attraction of The Moorings is that it's such a cushy gig. You're getting paid for about 1/3rd of the work you'd normally endure. Playing at The Moorings means, stepping out of the shower, getting dressed, picking up your instrument, walking on-stage, plugging it in, and hey presto we have lift off. Afterwards you put it back in it's case, walk offstage and hit the discounted drinks with not a care in the world. Ninety nine times out of a hundred it works really well. What about the times it doesn't? We'll there are some setups that simply aren't compatible with our MO. If we bent the rules in those instances then we'd be back to the doomsday/RATM scenario. Instead we feel it's better to discourage those who don't fit the plug in & play template, and just accept that some gigs are bettered suited to other venues. Recently we had a band who wanted to take an electronic drum kit on stage. We've done those in the past and they are a pain in the ass because it means packing up the house kit and shifting it off the stage. You may argue that's no big deal, but we're working to a strict 60 minute setup and performance window, and every second counts. The band might be perfectly good, and we have nothing (else) against the electronic kits, but it's just not a good fit for us, so we cancelled. That band has a choice of plenty of other venues to play. It's nothing personal. The furthest we'll push the envelope is to accommodate a left handed drummer... you know unless it has ginger hair or something [JOKE]. So to summarise, you're correct. We're setup to deal with fairly standard fare, and if you fall outside of that category, then it may be harder, or perhaps even impossible to get a working sound in the time frame allotted. In your instance, it's not a million miles from working, and if you could tame your effects slightly, and we were to mount an 8x10" then it would probably work just fine. No promises on the 8x10" but you never know... Walk in the Light Flash

If you drink your cats piss after is has eaten catnip can you get high?

Do you have something better to read?

Your piss pipe may contain bacteria. The first urine that passes through it kills the bacteria. The middle part of the piss is therefore completely sterile. The last part might contain gunk from the bottom of your bladder. Fresh piss remains sterile for 15 minutes. Roughly the time it takes to cool.

Everything you ingest affects the makeup of your urine. Urine is not waste but actually a blood product produced by your kidneys. It is the excess nutirition that has been extracted from your food, for which you have no immediate requirement. Your kidneys store it for a while to see if it's needed, but of course more is being produced all the time. Eventually this surplus is released as piss. This is why the body has a piss pipe and a poop chute, the former is an overflow, the later is the sewer. The composition of urine reads like a health tonic: Alanine, total ..... 38 mg/day Arginine, total ..... 32 mg/day Ascorbic acid ..... 30 mg/day Allantoin ..... 12 mg/day Amino acids, total ..... 2.1 g/day Bicarbonate ..... 140 mg/day Biotin ..... 35 mg/day Calcium ..... 23 mg/day Creatinine ..... 1.4 mg/day Cystine ..... 120 mg/day Dopamine ..... 0.40 mg/day Epinephrine ..... 0.01 mg/day Folic acid ..... 4 mg/day Glucose ..... 100 mg/day Glutamic acid ..... 308 mg/day Glycine ..... 455 mg/day Inositol ..... 14 mg/day Iodine ..... 0.25 mg/day Iron ..... 0.5 mg/day Lysine, total ..... 56 mg/day Magnesium ..... 100 mg/day Manganese ..... 0.5 mg/day Methionine, total ..... 10 mg/day Nitrogen, total ..... 15 g/day Ornithine ..... 10 mg/day Pantothenic acid ..... 3 mg/day Phenylalanine ..... 21 mg/day Phosphorus, organic ..... 9 mg/day Potassium ..... 2.5 mg/day Proteins, total ..... 5 mg/day Riboflavin ..... 0.9 mg/day Tryptophan, total ..... 28 mg/day Tyrosine, total ..... 50 mg/day Urea ..... 24.5 mg/day Vitamin B6 ..... 100 mg/day Vitamin B12 ..... 0.03 mg/day Zinc ..... 1.4 mg/day Trace levels of toxins can be detected but only in the same way that a bottle of spring water "may contain nuts". Second only to your blood, your urine offers the biggest possible clue to your state of health, which is why the doctor will often order a urine sample. Over 300 substances have been identified in urine. It also contains metabolites, hormones, antigens, and neurotransmitters. Fresh urine is completely sterile, and can even be used as an antiseptic. Apply it to a cut and the cut will heal faster with less chance of infection. Most people would do well to wash their hands BEFORE going to the toilet! Many prescription drugs are manufactured from urine. The companies that operate the portable toilets harvest the urine from them, process it, and extract certain substances from it (I'm not kidding). These drugs are used for a wide variety of conditions, and include: ureaphil, urofollitropin, pureaskin, amino-cerv, permarin, and panafil. Mare's urine is the active ingredient that the cosmetics uses in anti-aging products. TIP: Save money and use your own, it would be even more effective. Urine is a staple of ayurvedic medicine, and in the West it has been found to be extremely effective against many diseases, in particular cancer, autoimmune diseases, and allergies. However urine cannot be patented therefore this research has largely been suppressed by the pharmaceutical industry who prefer to concentrate on urine extracts. Again your own urine would be a more effective solution. Hope you found this interesting

Tibetan Dave s third online!

there's only 3 punk acts on that poll sheesh!

why aren't the Amorettes on this poll?

Another thing that I miss is the AUBL webpage which listed well over 100 local bands in alphabetical order with a small bio about each of them. Are there even 100 bands on the go now? I doubt it. And I also miss a lot of the people that were banned from this website, even the assholes. Whatever happened to Stripey, Zombie Much, All Systems Fail and their ilk. It got dull round here after they got kicked off. A lot of good people left after that because it got dull. Facebook caters to 'safe' and 'nice', this place used to be more ragged. I remember sweating bullets at 4am replying to flames hah hah. Almost everyone in the scene used to post here, that was a big plus point.

I've been around for a long time. The period from around 2002-2005 was a great one, then it went a bit downhill. Drakes closing was the biggest blow. Countless bands got their start at Drakes and honed their craft there. It was the perfect size for those types of gigs. It would have been nice if a deal could have been wrought whereby the council subsidised it, along the lines of a min-Lemon Tree. After it shut the number of local bands proficient enough to play in a 150-200 (or 300-400 *COUGH*) capacity venue went into slow decline. There is not longer the same depth of talent available and line-ups have suffered as a result. That's the main reason that attendances have fallen in some of the other venues. There are bands headlining today who wouldn't made it as 1st support on a 4 band bill back in 2004. Who wants to pay to see that? There's also been changes in the licensing laws that make it harder for venues to admit people under 18. We saw this coming and curtailed those admissions ahead of time, in order that we could build up an older crowd before the effects of the forthcoming legislation kicked in. So back in the early 00s there was a small capacity venue, fully kitted out, and catering for novice acts, that could happily admit people aged 14-18. Losing that was an enormous blow to the city. And the only way to viably replace it now would be with some public funded workshop like there used to be back before my time. Moshulu was another loss. In Moshulu we had a large nightclub catering to a particular scene, which hosted the bigger gigs, and was a place where everyone could congregate after midnight. Unfortunately Moshulu was a little too big, a little too cost hungry, and ultimately structurally unsuitable, and it died a long slow death. Nowadays the remaining venues are all open late so everything has become fragmented. The clubs don't do gigs, so there's less incentive for musicians to hang out in those places. What exists these days, rather than one big scene, are several smaller scenes specific to particular clubs and venues, with far less crossover. It's not so much fun but it is what it is. Closer to home... there's been some mention on this thread of The Moorings being rock and metal focused. While the balance of the acts we showcase are indeed rock and metal bands, this situation is far from exclusive. Consistently the biggest drawing performer at the bar for a number of years has been the blues artist Son Henry. It just happens that most of the bands that approach us about slots are rock and metal acts. We also have a policy against booking bands that will drag a tanked up crowd numbering into the hundreds and consisting entirely of their extended mouth-breathing family, ignorant tone deaf neighbours, and (for some unknown reason) a couple of sworn enemies, along to their gigs, effortlessly displacing the local fauna. While that approach may reap dividends on a pay to play basis where the band are responsible for selling tickets to their own gig, it's more appropriate for the local community hall than an established venue like The Moorings, which already comes pre-packed with a mostly receptive (and occasionally cynical) audience. Walk in the Light

Someone told me yesterday that Mike Wilson/Epic Group had bought it? anyone know about this? If so then the Priory analogy could become a reality.

the only thing worse than cunts is cunted cunts who've had a cuntful.