New Disorder

Manufactured-core?

My current faves: The Fight Back - ACE hardcore like Dag Nasty meets Bane from Falkirk. Check em out supporting Terror in Glasgow soon (the bastards). Atomgevitter - The most captivating frontman in Scotland? Shatterhand - Great street punk band. The guitarist is amazing - he plays a right-handed guitar upside down, without re-stringing it. The chords he uses are so good. The 44s - Such a fantastic blend of genres. I'm sure they'll fulfill they're potential. Quik - The best band in Aberdeen, especially with Contra on hiatus. Also worth a mention: Divide, Engage, Swellbellies.

It's quite likely that I'll be in California around the time of Warped Tour this year but it's highly unlikely that I'd go - there's about 5 bands I'd want to watch out of that huge big list. I'd definately be in Syracuse this summer if I could...

I think it came from Myspace

Do Me Bad Things - yikes. I'd definately go and see any band called The Edible 5ft Smiths. Bound to be amazing.

Contra Quik and The X-certs are all great. SEA are amazing but I'm unsure where they're "from" nowadays.

This sucks.

They're also playing Studio 24 in Edinburgh on June 3rd with Most Precious Blood.

This is gonna rock!

Go to this gig. They rocked the house in Edinburgh on Wednesday.

Yeah, lovin the new Boom Bip.

This is how Communist Russia started...

Some people are so fucking clueless...

I can't add shows to our page. It comes up with 'unexpected error'. I've tried in two different browsers but to no avail...

See Weezer. You probably won't get another chance for ages.

I shall pass on your regards. You can see us on June 5th with Sikth, MMW and others. If anyone is having trouble with purevolume, the track is also available here.

There'll be more once we overcome our technical hitches. Thanks.

We're still trapped in a fight to the death with technology but there is a rough demo version of the song 'Chemical' available here. Thank you.

Why WHY WHY must you sing with that ridiculous American accent? It totally ruined what I otherwise considered a good song. Nice guitar riff.

It's not all indie bands and shoe-gazers that go through. Last year Allergo played the T Break tent. It's definately worth a go - Contra played at the Aberdeen heat in 2002 (I think) and, if nothing else, it gives you the opportunity to work ina very slick and professional environment.

I'm not entirely sure. To be honest, I stole it from another message board. It made me laugh though, and seems to have had a similar effect on some of you guys...

Dee's camera has an atomic flash.

Hmmm, I think I changed my mind...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Below is a copy of a letter that won a competition in UK as complaint letter of the year...it's priceless. A real-life customer complaint letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept....) Dear Cretins, I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office: My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW? I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme. Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue. I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees. Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.