Craig B

You just made me spit coffee all over my keyboard and monitor!

Is that actually open? I thought it was an abandoned building. It certainly looks closed down.

In the week where Napster reckons most of it;s customers don;t buy music on CD's anymore, I just wonder what's the point of having an entirely 'not real' record colection, or, in the case of Napster, no record collection at all? I mean, the sound quality is a bit worse, you miss out on the cover art and it's no cheaper. Maybe it's slightly more convenient as it means you don't need to leave you home to buy music, but most people like to leave their homes occasionaly. Also, it's probably harder to insure your i-tunes library, if your CD's get stolen you can get them back at least. Personally, I use i-tunes to listen to stuff I'm given to and downloaded from here, not whole albums, just a song here and there in order to see what people are like before I buy their albums on CD. I just wondered why downloads should be more desireable than a physical record collection.

My mates dad, Colin, knows Mike. Colind used to be in a band called The Squibs. I've listened to a couple of their singles and they were ace.

They surely could just move someplace else. You could say it wouldnt be the same, but after a couple of years it probably would be. The rent's so high because they want CBGBs out of the place, probably. And the city would e unlikely to buy it becasue it is almost bankrupt. Again.

Oh well. Babyshambles are playing now, so it;s not all bad. Where do you get tickets to The Forum from?

what does that mean? And can you just buy USB2.0 ports? I can;t actualy afford a new Walkman, but still, it'd be nice to know these things

I think they're fab, I got e-mailed a bunch of their stuff. They'll probably never play Aberdeen cos they're too big now Anyhoo, what does anyne else think about them? "I can see you want to be attended to, just count to twenty-nine and I'll attend to you, oh for sure"

I still use a MiniDisk player. Msotly because I can;t be bothered to work out how to install USB2.0 ports in my computer which I'm told I;d need. Also, if yor music is saved in i-tunes, can yous till transfer it to a Sony? Someone said that they'll only wrk on Apple things, and I-Pods are ugly. Though that bean thing is also ugly. Surely they are still going to do the proper Walman oines though?

Ha! Well, it's still an opinion! Unless your a physisist I guess. Doesn't Frank Black play a Squire though, cos he likes it's harsh sound? Yeah, live you;d prbably ned better stuff, the volume is so high I guess that those little flaws really stand out.

Or because they can't afford a better one? Although I'd probably spend more on a guitar if I had the money, I'd like an Epiphone Coronet, for some reason. For now though I'm saving for a better amp. Though considering I've only got a Roland Mini-cube at the moment it wouldn't take much to upgrade! I think partly also buying expensive gear shows you're commited, you're investing a lot of mony in somehting, which you wouldn;t do if you weren't serious. For instance, to buy a 2000 guitar, I'd need to work for 416 hours at my current job (Gap)!

tickets for Leeds and Reading are sold in batches, so the current batch may be sold out, but more coma along in April I think it is.

I like my cheap acoustic, and I prefer Epiphone to Gibson, just, because, well, I do. We saw a support band at Kef a while back, fucking awful, the first time I've left and gone to the bar to wait for the headliners to start. Whne we saw this 'band' pack up, they had massive amps, everything went back into flight-cases, etc, the boxes they had cost more than everything my band has put together. Why does a local band need heavy-duty flight cases? Jesus. Anyhoo, point is, they were a crap band with tens of thousands of pounds of equipment. Plenty of bands have 'shite' equipment but make good music with them. I'm conviced (and dependent) on the idea that it doesn't matter. As long as it dosn't fall apart on you , and you like the sound, your gear is good.

All the ones that keep supporting gigs recently, ike the first band supporting The Subways the other day, god, every song was like 10 minutes long,a nd felt longer. Someone told me that Alan Mcgee was interested in them! I weep

It's not quite finished yet... www.aunt-nita.co.uk Actually, at the moment it is just a picture, but a very nice one. SHould be more to it in a months time or so

Bob Dylan recorded his fourth album (Another Side of Bob Dylan) in one night. But there was just him on it. But even when he ahd a band with him, like on Blonde on Blonde, many of the songs were finished in one take in the studio. If you have everything well rehearsed and know exactly what you wnat, I guess that helps a lot.

If it is as big an event as it looks like the people organising it think it will be (gotta love the sentace structure just there!) then it may be a good thing for the city's 'music scene'. Whcih I'd say is geting better. Kind of. More bands are coming here.

I'll give them another try then, as I said, I only saw them the once and was not exactly blown away. But if it was a bad night... It was just em and my flatmates saw them, were dissapointed to say the least but noticed there wasaa lot of mentions about them here there and everywhere. The drummer was good.

When we saw tham, the guitars were out of tue with everything else, and each other .The saxaphone sounded like a startled bullfrog and the singer was shy, mumbling and had zero stage presence.

I'll try not to sound nasty or anything... We (me and my flatmates) saw them supporting The Delgados, at the Lemon Tree a couple of weeks ago. Anyhoo, we'd heard of them quite a few times, and so assumed they would be good. They were awful. But... Was that just a bad night, because we've seen interviews where people have said they are amazing and such like, so we were wondering whether maybe it was just a bad night for them.