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  1. Even if it wasn't stated it was the guardian, you can easily work out it's from a paper that advertises for, hands on, inclusively orientated, gender neutral Ph balanced, organic outreach councilling support fiddler to facillitate the reintegration of gay, black lesbian daleks from their previous universe domination standpoint to a more civilly concious productive contributory wellbeing factor of a urban renewal nature.
  2. The metal/punk/hardcore "scene" is, relatively speaking, tiny in Aberdeen. That along with poor promotion will put off a lot of bands. There seems to be no problem with mainstream acts like Travis, elton john, or even lulu pulling a crowd. I was even dragged along by my wife to see edi reader at the beach ballroom some time ago. To my surprise it was mobbed and a very good gig indeed.
  3. This thread wins the prize for the most pointless subject ever in the history of the universe.
  4. Only 18 years? Time will tell on that one. If you follow a strict vegan diet, then you are causing yourself long term harm. Sorry. Again it's your choice. I've had to deal with the consequences of vegan diets. Atkins is just as bad of course. Joy is a human emotion and not felt by animals. Animals are not sentient. I don't defend the fur trade, I merely refuse to attack it on the basis of skewed morality. I see nothing wrong with properly farmed fur products. Animals are not used for cosmetic testing in this country. I oppose the unnecesary use of animals in medicine. As I said before it is a legal requirement to test drugs on animals before they go on to human testing. Where animal testing has to be used it should not be on a concsious animal. Protestors often quote so called animal testing failures and mostly they spout lies and half truths. A common one is thalidamide which was tested initially on mice. Some mice did show deformities in this study but not statistically significant ones, but the human trials showed no problems at all. So it was the human trial which was flawed and not the animal. Not every woman who took thalidamide had deformed babies, a proprtion with a certain genetic make up did with tragic results. You have to get the testing regime right in the first place. Even if you use humans. What would be the use of using caucasians in a drug trial for sickle cell aneamia when only afro-caribbeans contract it? It would skew the results totally. Protestors should get it together and stick to the truth. It's the government who demand animal testing, not the majority of scientists. They should target the government.
  5. Each to their own I say. Just remember, humans are as much part of nature as any other animal and as someone said we're omnivores designed to eat meat and some but not all fruit and veg. Try eating grass and see where it gets you if you don't believe me. It is of course unnacceptable to inflict unecesary cruelty on our prey. (I buy free range organic, fair trade meat) But humans have a habit of grafting sentimental, anthromorphic characteristics onto animals, who all eat each other without mercy. This just leads to terrorist wankers like those attacking that guinea pig farm and anyone who lives near it. Just for the record. The reason there are still in vivo (animal) experiments is because the law demands it for medical treatments. Cosmetic testing has been banned for years as have ape experiments. And don't tell me botox is cosmetic like the apologists for terror, botox is a medical treatment for nerve pain, it just happens to have a side effect on wrinkles. Leave the twisting the of the truth to those defending the indefensible. The activist/thugs should target the government who makes the law, but then it's all about hurting people and not saving animals. I believe it is quite possible to develop drugs without animal experiments but the law forbids it. Enviromentalists should also consider the negative effects of the production of faux fur products, made from petrochemicals,ie oil, a non renewable assett. Real fur, farmed non endangered, is natural, renewable and lasts for life and does no harm to the planet. Can't have it both ways, chaps. Save the planet or save the mink. Interestingly, I ride a motorbike and wear leather to do so. I'm a six foot, two rugby player and no activist/thug has ever tried to spray my leathers red, unlike what the brave eco warriors do to a size six woman.
  6. Mastering is the last stage before commiting your work to a glass master. Here you address things like final EQ, track order and overall volume of each track (so you don't have to keep adjusting the volume between each track). The object is to achieve a sonically balanced and pleasing mix of songs and to make your album a complete package. It's a specialist skill and mastering engineers compete to make the loudest tracks while still maintaining the dynamic range. You should never both mix your tracks and master them yourself-do one or the other.
  7. Doc

    Nuke the Neds

    Aye there was one in O'donaghue's annoying the band the other night. He was shouting that the singers were miming and not really playing the guitar and swearing a lot. He then climbed on stage and attempted to prise the mike from the girl singer's hands and was promptly nutted to the floor by the guitarist. I heard the nose crack from where I was. He was then flung out by the bouncers arriving late on the scene. Priceless. Ned....the word is from Glasgow in the 30's and is an acronym for ne'er do well.
  8. Who gives a flying fuck? I mean, really. Who the fuck really cares one single iota?? just wear what you want. Pretend you've been alive for a few more years, you know, at the age when you do your own thing and disregard peer pressure and don't give a shit what anybody thinks. You'll be much happier.
  9. What a wonderful minger statement that is. You must be one of those that Prince "Jug Ears" Charlie was on about.
  10. Owned my arse. Go and check and I think you'll find that looney tunes use the correct release forms.Barcoding is irrelevant if you're not interested in the charts or woolies, but no label with the output of looney tunes would dream of not protecting themselves or their artists. And relese forms was the issue, not barcodes. How is it you trendy scenie types put it? oh yes. Ha Ha, owned.
  11. Also once you commit a song to a mechanical media, even if you didn't write it, then the record company owns the rights to that particular recording. If you don't have a release form the the recording company can distribute the record and not pay the artist fuck all. It's a contract to protect both the artist and the company. It's not a legal requirement to use MCPS for original material, it's just another safety net. It is a legal requirment for MCPS fees for covers. As for barcodes, essential if you want a record in the charts and most big distributors and stores will not touch records with no barcodes. So if yo want your stuff in Woolies, barcode it. And while many indies don't bother with barcodes I bet they use PPL release forms, because they'd be fucking stupid if they didn't.
  12. Strictly speaking a label is not a label unless it is a member of PPL because it won't be using the appropriate release forms. It should also, idealy, barcode its products. It should also fill out MCPS forms, even for original material. If it doesn't do all that, I would avoid it.
  13. I caught the video when they played it on every channel on TV the other night. It was disturbing to see all these pampered, over paid egos trying to pretend they gave a shit.
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