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Aphrodisiacs @ the moorings - Staurday 14th October with Toro, The Holy Folks + Parity's Fall The Moorings, 2 Trinity Quay, off Market Street, 3 @ door Playing material which will be on our forthcoming third album which is being recorded as we speak. If you would like to hear some of our songs we have an abudence of free downloads of various recrdings we have done over the last four years, these can be found @ www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe thanks John www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs

tomorrow night non-stop between 9 - 12 . shuid be guid

live from the bongo club, live on the internet Wednesday 21st June 2006 from 8pm (Uk time) The Aphrodisiacs, Cobra Grande, Michael Rattrey Alllstars & Our Lunar Activities The all important link - www.nexusliveshow.com Its a 3 hour show with 4 bands doing a 45 min slot each and a wee interview (bout 3mins) There will be 2 presenters, a compare, our resident DJ Dolphin Boy and live VJing from 3D Gilles. Theres also a Net J, Bingo Pete who chats live to the online audience throughout the show Anyone can access the broadcast free wherever theres a broadband computer The gig is broadcast over the net and is 100% live Other gig this week: Friday 16th June - The Loft, Edinburgh. Live & direct night with The Aphrodisiacs & 96tears (Tailors Hall Hotel 139 Cowgate) 8pm www.myspace.com/liveampdirect cheers John www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk www.slrecords.net _________________ We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave

Hey, for today only you can download our first album "This is a Campaign" for free. We also have our first peel session up as a free downlaod and some other tracks too. Fill your stockings people, feast like kings. Just visit our dowload site @ www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe . As soon as the clock chimes 12 tonight though your chance has gone I'll take this opportunity to plug some of our upcoming gigs. We've been rehearsing new material which we'll be taking to the road at the start of next year. You can preview how we're gonna be sounding at the following upcoming gigs: ** Thursday 15th december SL Records Christams Party The Bongo Club, holyrood road, edinburgh doors 8pm 5 peanut 8:30 - 8:50 the aphrodisiacs 9:00 - 9:20 ( we'll be playing a 20minute set of totally new tracks) the starlets 9:30 - 9:50 the 55's 10:00 - 10:20 decoration 10:30 - 10:50 saint judes infirmary 11:00 - 11:20 dawn of the replicants 11:30 - 12:00 **Saturday 17th December The Electric Bar, Motherwell 3 ( charity event) The Festive 50 - The Daisy Park, Small green table, Emer, The Aphrodisiacs & Friends "A night dedicated to the memory of John Peel and the music he selected for his festive 50's. Each band shall play some of their fav tracks from the festive 50 lists **Saturday 14th January The Winchester Club @ the Woodside Social 329, North Woodside Rd, Glasgow, Lanarkshire , Glasgow, Scotland, G20 6ND,UK - TBA We're looking for an aberdeen date for next year, if your interested please get in touch. Cheers John www.slrecords.net www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs

If anyone would like to hear some of our songs please check out our purevolume site (www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe) where we have streams of new songs, older album tracks and other tunes too. We are now also making our first John Peel session availible as a free download @ www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe . The session was recorded in Maida Vale studio on Sunday 1st September 2002( read the "About" section on our website for story) and was broadcast on September 25th. The session was repeated later in the year on tuesday 10th December. The four tracks are Against the grain, this is a campaign, backbone of society & Sordid secrets. Also availible as a download is the introduction of the session by Mr Peel. Gig news : Next gig Sl records christams party the bongo club, holyrood road, edinburgh thursday 15th december doors 8pm 5 doors 8pm peanut 8:30 - 8:50 the aphrodisiacs 9:00 - 9:20 the starlets 9:30 - 9:50 the 55's 10:00 - 10:20 decoration 10:30 - 10:50 saint judes infirmary 11:00 - 11:20 dawn of the replicants 11:30 - 12:00 We're be playing a set of brand new, never been played (or heard) tracks so do come along if you are availible. Early start for us which means we'll be more than merry come the end of the night. We'll hopefully be up in aberdeen with the new set around January time. Cheers John www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs

SONGS FOR CHANGE presents a week of music, poetry and theatre surrounding the G8 summit and the Make Poverty History march Below is a list of many of the diverse cultural events taking place in Edinburgh during this momentous week. Venue details are listed at the end. Music Political Theatre Poetry & Writing Film Music Thursday 30th June Out Front World Music Night (including Caper music with a Balkan influence - & Orkestra del Sol), The Roxy Art House, 9pm, 3 (free entry with your theatre ticket from earlier performance on the same evening see theatre section) Friday 1st July Out Front World Music Night (The Den Collective: Mosca, Gol, Steve Kettley, & more), The Roxy Art House, 9pm, 3 (free entry with your theatre ticket from earlier performance on the same evening see theatre section) Fairtrade Gathering: World Music Concert featuring music from Candido Fabre y su banda, Zuba, Poor Old Ben, The Ruffness and Orkestra del Sol, & fairtrade talks from coffee producers and Bianca Jagger, Usher Hall, 6-11.30pm, 15/12.50, www.newconsumer.org/shop Art for Poverty: 2 Stages of Live Music with big acts including Hobotalk, Karine Polwart, The Set Up, & Roddy Hart), The Left Bank, 1pm-3am, 10 (or 25 for a three-day pass) Cabar8 presents Rob Newman, General Skiptastic, G8 slam poetry, Julie Dawid, & MC Tickle and Hustle, The Bongo Club, 9pm-3am, tbc, www.sead.org.uk Celebration: An Evening of World Music featuring Ben Okafor, Ghandawi (Ghana), folk band Alting and Scots Asian fusion from Ronak Baaja, St Georges West, 7.30pm, 10 Saturday 2nd July Bands night featuring Private Jackson, Deadenstereo, Two Minutes Hate, Dystopia & Grace Emilys, The Canon's Gait Pub, 7.30pm, 4 NO2ID Music Night featuring Thee Comrades, Staccato Set, X-Vectors, Final Brass Rabbi, Pre, Wounded Knee, The Bongo Club, 7pm, 5/4, www.no2id-scotland.net Art for Poverty: 2 Stages of Live Music with big acts including Hobotalk, Karine Polwart, The Set Up, & Roddy Hart), The Left Bank, 1pm-3am, 10 (or 25 for a three-day pass) Mercy Corps Scotland G8 Benefit Gig, The Roxy Art House, 9pm, 7/5 G8Crasher featuring 17 DJs and live acts across 3 floors, Teviot Row House, 9-5am, 5 G8 Alternatives presents Grassroots Music For A Better World featuring Attila The Stockbroker, Maggie Holland, Leon Rosselson, Robb Johnson, Alistair Hulett, Phamie Gow, Clova, David Rovics, Queens Hall, 7pm, 10/5 Reson8: Bands & DJ Night (Ballboy, Sluts of Trust, We Rock Like Girls Dont, Uncle John & Whitelock, Degrassi, DJ Craig Jamieson, DJ Bobusan), Potterow, 8pm-3am, 5 Celebration: An Evening of World Music featuring The Bassa Beat Collective, Bhundu Boy, Friends from Zimbabwe, Ghandawi, and Alting. St Georges West, 7.30pm, 10 Xplicit featuring DJs including ENO, the General and Skye, B-raw, and Richie Meldrum, The Honeycomb, 10.30pm-3am, 5 Hunger For Justice: Martin John Nicholls heads a musical evening evoking the struggles of the Ghanaian people, St Andrews & St Georges, 7pm, Free Sunday 3rd July Art for Poverty: 2 Stages of Live Music with big acts including Hobotalk, Karine Polwart, The Set Up, & Roddy Hart), The Left Bank, 1pm-3am, 10 (or 25 for a three-day pass) Make Poverty History DJs Night featuring DJ sets from Idlewild, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Teenage Fanclub and others, Cabaret Voltaire, 9pm-3am, 5 minimum donation Live Free or Die presented by the Scottish Hobo Society with guest star Mystery Juice, The Bongo Club, 3pm-3am, 3/free Oxfam Music Launch Party with guest appearances by John MacLean from the Beta Band, and Resident DJ Beefy, Front Room @ Berlin, 8pm-late, Free (donations welcome) Monday 4th July Poetry Night: performances and readings from a stellar cast of Edinburgh's best writers, poets and storytellers including Ash Dickinson, Gavin Inglis, Steve Porter & songs from David Ferrard and Tommy Mackay, The Royal Oak, 7.30pm, 3, (only 30 seats!!!) Palestinian Poetry Evening with Najwan Darwish (Jerusalem), Salim Al Nafar (Gaza), Somaya Al Susi (Gaza), Ghazi Hussein (Palestinian refugee, Edinburgh), Jim Aitken (Edinburgh), Scottish Poetry Library, 7pm, 5/3 (limited places: reserve at reception@spl.org.uk) Tuesday 5th July Foakies, Edinburgh's best songwriters and bands present a night of acoustic music (Jim, Jamie & Fiona of Flowers For Algernon, The Sidekicks, Jocks Auld Jaekit, David Ferrard, Mark Barnett, & Tom Clelland,), The Canons Gait Pub, 7pm, 3 Giant Tank Music Night featuring Incite, Axiomatic Integration, Gradcom, Usurper vs. Found, The Subway, 7.30pm, 3, www.gianttank.com Wednesday 6th July Bands & DJ Night, with The Rezillos, Aberfeldy, Saint Judes Infirmary, Peanut, the 55's plus DJs from The Egg and Hobo, Bongo Club, 8pm-3am, Free. Donations Welcome Edinburgh Sound Collective, The Left Bank, 9pm, 4 Live8: The Long Walk To Justice with too many celebrities to mention!!!, Murrayfield Stadium Thursday 7th July Bands & DJ Night, with The Magnificents, The Aphrodisiacs plus DJs from Headspin Messenger, Satyr and more TBC., Bongo Club, 9pm-3am, Free. Donations Welcome Venue Details The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 0131 558 7604 Cabaret Voltaire, 36-38 Clair Street, 0131 220 6176 Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicholson Street, 0131 529 6000, www.eft.co.uk The Canon's Gait Pub, 232 Canongate, 0131 556 4481 The Left Bank, Guthrie Street, 0131 225 8675 Potterow, Bristo Square, Queens Hall, Clerk Street, 0131 668 2019, www.thequeenshall.net The Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, 0871 750 0077, www.roxyarthouse.com Royal Oak, 1 Infirmary Street, 0131 557 2976, www.royal-oak-folk.com Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crighton's Close, Canongate, 0131 557 2876, www.spl.org.uk The Subway, 69 Cowgate, 0131 225 6766, www.subwayclubs.co.uk Teviot Row House, 13 Bristo Square Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 0131 228 1155, www.usherhall.co.uk Berlin, 3 Queensferry Street Lane, 0131 467 7215 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, 0131 228 2688 The Honeycomb, 15-17 Niddry Street, 0131 530 5540 Playfair Library, Edinburgh University Old College, South Bridge Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street, 0131 248 4848 St Andrews & St Georges, 13 George Street St Georges West, 58 Shandwick Place, 0131 225 7001 If you are holding an event or know of an event you'd like publicised here, click the link below to send an email: songsforchange@hotmail.com For a list of marches, workshops and special events visit: www.g8alternatives.org.uk

i'm hoping we'll beable to come up to aberdeen in july, should sort a date out in couple of weeks. i'll post a date up here if we get a confirmed date. also on our website www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk

We've now got some new songs availible for people to listen too this week on our pure volume site. Only takes ten minutes to listen too them so check them out if yer doing hee haw today. In May we're gonna do something a bit more interesting with the pure volume site, for that month only we should have some cool streams online for ye too listen too for free, think Peel session recordings, Remixes, rare demo's, the first play of this is a campaign including introductions & other album tracks etc. it should be pretty dam tasty! On a gig front we're not playing anywhere around scotland untill July, just keep checkin our website as aye should have dates sorted in the next week or so. www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe 1. In the Name of the Father 2. If forces Conspire 3. Nothing or something We've just set up a yahoo group so if you would like to keep up to date with any gig news/ future releases etc. please join @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Aphrodisiacs . Visit Our weird & wonderful world @ www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk , free mp3 @ www.slrecords.net/music_downloads/ifuwantme.mp3 more mp3's found @ www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe & www.myspace.com/the aphrodisiacs