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now has a myspace site set up www.myspace.com/unplugthewar 2nd june at Kilau coffee shop, from 4pm till 11pm Unplugged sets from the little kicks lorenzo snow collective kathryn sawyers pete mconville welfare mothers fiona keenan and caroline kemp the holy folks amber the kitchen cynics the myspace site has songs from the bands, and info about the reason for the all day event. so please help us out if your able and feel inclined - support the myspace site, add it to your friends, and tell your friends about it. cheers

yeah he's sick of it. everyone is, you'd hope. just the fucking politicians who have the stomach for it.

Come see: lorenzo snow collective, holy folks, pete mconville, kathryn sawyers, fiona keenan and caroline kemp, kitchen cynics, welfare mothers, amber, little kicks (tbc, or Steven Milne solo) all confirmed, and probably some more too... At the Kilau Coffee Shop on friday 2nd june, we're all playing to support fund raising for local and national stop the war groups. events start in the late afternoon and will go on till around 10 or 11pm. More details to follow here, and also on a soon to be up and running myspace site that will have lots of background info on the issues, on the bands, with music etc etc etc. all the best!

hi all we've put a couple of live videos up on myspace, taken from our lemontree gig on the 22nd april. click on the link below to take you to the site. hope you enjoy. cheers

yeah i thought that might be possible once you got to know some other foreign bands. but do you know if there is any online way to set this up, or all word of mouth/mates kind of thing? cheers

cheers, ill check them out... edinburgh-music looks chaotic...

yeah maybe. i also might die before we ever get asked... i agree theres no point playing to a couple of people who are even less interested in your music than folks at home... tricky one, but i figured there might be some central belt venues that would be kind of suitable and its just a matter of finding them and speaking to them - just like it works here in aberdeen. cheers

hey all does anyone know of other scottish equivalents of aberdeen-music.com, useful for scouting around to get gigs and hear new bands? cheers kevin

welfare mothers @ the Lemon Tree Alan, and all good folks, we will be supporting iliketrains at the lemon tree next saturday (22nd april). So hope to see you there. cheers

welfare mothers hi andy welfare mothers would be up for supporting iliketrains next saturday. you can listen to us at www.myspace.com/welfaremothers Ill drop our CD off to you at the lemontree this afternoon. cheers kevin

ah yeah, twins. and just in case. if anyone else would like a physical copy of the CD (which is a better deal because it has an extra song, a cover of Beck's Pay No Mind, which we didnt put on the web archive), then just contact us on the blog, or the myspace site or PM me here. cheers

5 new welfare mothers songs, lo-fi home recordings less alt-country and more surf, are now on www.myspace.com/welfaremothers and if you like us, theres links to more alt-country songs on www.welfaremothers.blogspot.com cheers

welfare mothers myspace and finally we've just started a welfare mothers myspace site, with three yes 3 brand new songs on mp3, which we prematurely played at dirty hearts club, plus a cover of the jesus and mary chain's Just Like Honey. so see www.myspace.com/welfaremothers all the best

Welfare Mothers CD hi if you went along to the dirty hearts club gig last night and liked the welfare mothers, we've just made a CD which you can download for free from the link on www.welfaremothers.blogspot.com or you can contact us (leave a post on the blog) if you want us to send you a real copy of the CD (for just a couple of quid) which has an extra-bonus cover track of Beck's Pay No Mind. cheers

Welfare Mothers, with special guest Pete McConville on the motorised pan pipes, and Karl Alexander, playing tonight (9th March) at SNAFU's indie Dirty Hearts Club. Gig begins about 11pm, followed by DJs. see www.myspace.com/dirtyheartsclubsnafu and www.welfaremothers.blogspot.com

Kitchen Cynics Kathryn Sawers Fiona Keenan & Alison Lias Welfare Mothers Pete McConville Rapunzel Wizard + special guest slam! Poets & featuring Rose Gentle A benefit gig for Military Familiies Against the War http://www.mfaw.org.uk The Tunnels doors 8pm. 4.

try us at www.welfaremothers.blogspot.com we're certainly not overly upbeat

Welfare Mothers are playing alt-country classics tonight around 9pm in the bar downstairs at the Belmont Cinema.

hi iain i just read your last post. its weird, i was about to put one up asking FOR a drummer, but it soudns like you perfectly fit the bill. our band is called the great bears, our drummer is going to canada for a few months, she comes back in february, and we are looking for someone into neil young, pixies, beck, pavement, nirvana etc to play with us doing our own songs while lynn is away and possibly for longer if she comes back with no desire to be a drummer anymore. We've got a few 4trak demos as mp3 files that i could send you for a listen and if you like them then we could arrange to meet up at a practice room here in aberdeen at some point soon and let you hear us? the demos are of older songs, and arent as grungy as we sound live but you'll get an idea of what we are like i guess. we're all really busy with work and other things so we would be arranging practies specifically for gigs, as opposed to a weekly regular thing, but we're totally committed to putting a great set together and playing regularly in and around aberdeen. I sent these demos to dr drakes recently and they offered us a gig right away on the back of them, but we had to pull out. they've offered us another gig as soon as we get it together with another drummer though... so anyway, if your interested get back to me on k.allan@abdn.ac.uk, and ill send you the mp3 files, or arrange to get you a CD copy. cheers kevin