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That's the ones, and guess what, you can still kind of get them, along with Texans! From http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

For my money though the most dispicable case of bandwagoning was Phil Collins' story about Cher at Live Aid. She was on the same Concorde as him as he flew over to the US and she thought all the journalists were on the plane for her so she rushed off to put her wig on in the toilets. When she realised they weren't she asked Collins what was going on. He said it was Live AId. She had no idea what Live AId or the famine problem was. This is ON THE DAY OF THE CONCERT. "I'd love to be involved" she said. After Collins had done his set he was asked to sing a verse of We Are the World at the end with all the other main contributors but said he'd probably screw it up so declined. He went back to his hotel and watched, only to see Cher at the front of the stage taking a bow and singing. A couple of hours earlier she hadn't even heard of a famine in Africa.

I think easily its either Band Aid 2 or Doctor' In Distress. Actually Doctor' In Distress is without question the worst record ever! I remember on the 100 Worst Songs Tiffany was bemused as to why Band Aid 2 was on there, and someone chipped in that by 1989 everyone in Ethiopia probably knew it was Christmas, but not many people knew who the hell some of the people on that record were.

This was when I was not even into double figures, we're talking 77/78 here. I just always knew it as a venue the big boys used to go to, but only remember it myself from a car window as I munched Pacers!

Okay you can have a proper mention. Flash isn't mentioned by name but his grin is referred to. You can steal his thunder. We'll talk about what you want to be called and doing when I'm next in in a fortnight!

Does anyone remember a venue in Elgin called La Dolce Vita? I remember it from when I was a kid but can't think where the hell it was!

It's a deal Laura. It features the Moorings pretty heavily so you can have a cameo if you like!

So glad this thread has got such a response: I wanted to use Platform 19 in my novel but thought I ought to know what the hell it was first!

Mew are a fantastic band seen them live twice and its quite a show. And they've always been prog,. or neo-prog as people say now. Unlike Radiohead who use the label when it suits them. Some progs good, some's bad. Personally I don't like Yes but that doesn't make all prog bad!

Something that's bugged me for years. When you takle the horribly steep steps from the Trinity Centre to the train station you pass this door with the name Platform 19 on it. The walls around it used to be entirely covered in arty graffitti, but is/ was this place a club or soemthing? What is it? Never seen a sign of life there and it's a pretty weird place for a venue!

True story: honest. In 2001 I was going out with a girl and then was walking into work at the time (I worked at the BBC) and saw her in the corridor. I was a bit bemused but went up to say hi and then found it wasn't her but her absolute double. Turned out she was Meg White: I had never heard of The White Stripes at the time: they were in doing a session on Jools. As soon as they become big my girlfriend was getting stopped in the streets. True .

i Absolutely agree about OK Computer. Radiohead dick me off. That whole student angst self-harm shit does my head in. I am not convinced by any of it, he ain't Ian Curtis, he's a middle class kid from Oxford playing at being a fuck-up. They jump on and off the prog-rock bandwagon whenever it suits them too. For me the most overrated album in the world is Sgt Pepper and the White Album. I think they're both pretty rubbish,. the White Album is facetious, flippant rubbish from a band who were by then getting money for old rope, and the Sgt Pepper thing was indulgent and not what the Beatles were good at, which was simple effective pop. Who honestly likes the middle and climax of Day in the Life? It led to better things and the birth of prog but as a record on its own i think its a bit of a mess and horribly pompous and pretentious. Far more pretentious than anything Floyd, early Genesis or Marillion did and were branded sinners for doing.

Hold on, Ruby from EastEnders is 16 in real life and in the show...I checked...

Pretty shrewd shit from Swining Ryan and Alex. You can never persuade someone to go nout with yhou. It's all chemical brother so just leave her the fuck alone, in five years time she wouldn't mean shit to you, Its selfish to want to distort someone else's life to suit your own ends. If she wanted to be with you she'd chuck her bloke, and if she did, he'd come onm here saying my darling girlfriend has dumped me for some bloke who's been sniffing around her even though he knew she was attached and we'd all feel well sorry for him and think you were scum! Don't crap on your fellow man!

Did anyone see that Secret Life of the Office Cleaner on tv the other night? Fuck me that was depressing. Poor cunts form Ghana on barely the minimum wage working twelve hours a day (well, night) six days a week. Count your blessings folks.

I don't know if its still bad but I remember a few years back the jeans shop in the Trinity Centre had an appaling reputation as an employer and one afternoon all the staff walked out simultaneously. A friend of mine who's now a tv weathergirl was one of those that downed tools: who'd have thought a clothes shop could be so traumatic but that and Internacionale both have shit reputations! For a real education try the betting shops. Although 16 might be a bit too young to work in one, nay sure.

I'm with you on Kirstee Allsop. Also odd ones for me include Ruby from EastEnders and Shelley from Coronation Street. Go figure!

Virgin on Union Street: the keyboards are crap and everyone can see what you're typing!

Yeah yeah whatever. Life is way to short: the general rule is uif you don't like a band DON'T BUY THE RECORD! It's a no-brainer! I quite like Embrace personally, a couple of good tracks, I can't bear Coldplay but they ain't worth creating a thread to detest when half the music buying public clearly loves them and i don't want to deprive theose people of their enjoyment. Why is it some people just can't tolerate other people enjoying something they can't see any merit in? It's their loss!

Is Urban Pressure not just the fucking bollocks? Not that the rest of the album isn't awesome too but that is one incredible track.

Weird innit...i just could nae place it! As I posted in the "where in aberdeen..." thread i;m looking for locations for a film shoot and cribbed these from the councils website...but was mystifed by those two...

Talking of comics does anyone else remember Scream? It was awesome but stopped after about 12 issues!

I used to love Gios on Netherkirkgate, was sorry that went. I'd recommend La Lombarda or foir Indian The Light of Bengal.

Cheers everyone!

Can anyone tell me what this building is on the right of the picture? This must be screamingly obvious but I just can't get my bearings! http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acc/YourCity/PictureGallery/800x600/Tallships.jpg Also, anyone have a hunch where this picture was taken from? http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acc/YourCity/PictureGallery/800x600/accIWharbour1.jpg