Marillionboy

Without a doubt the gang fight in Just a Boy's Game in the Greenock shipyards. I've never seen such a clumsy, relaistic and frightening fight and to think this was made for the BBC in 1979 its amazing such a scene so full of slashings, killings and beatings was allowed through! Still think Just A Boy's Game is the finest Scottish film ever made. Where's the DVD release so that everyone else can see what I'm talking about!

Bugger! I'm off ta get the new album tomorrow....respect to a band who always do vinyl releases! New album as good as the reviews you reckon?

Is it me or is Black and White Town not the absolute business? (Not a bad video either!) I'll miss them playing at the Music Hall dammit.

Yes that town was so in need of a pub, its okay actually. I';ve nevre actually been in the ones at Portknockie, my haunts are The Three Kings in Cullen and The Shore Inn in Portsoy, and when I'm there The Red Lion in Fochabers. (Which has a poor jukebox but does serve IPA!)

I hate snow, looks nice from my parents living room on Christmas Night but if I'm walking anywhere it in whatever i do i slip over. Its well overrated. Hang on, I've just made the mistake of posting without looking beyond the first page, the weather now seems a bit off topic.

Will most definitely be going to Keith Chaos Live, no question! I never have a problem in Keith and like the sleazier hotels cos whenever I get the train back up I usually stop off for one in there while I'm waiting for a lift up the road. It's not as bad as Buckie! Even Fochabers is pretty friendly these days, although its a brave fella that dwells too long in Portgordon.

Aha, it's a small world (wouldn't wanna paint it) but whenever I go past that place in Keith I think of Marillion apparently playing there once or twice. When Fish lived in Fochabers he said Keith was where he discovered Rush and got a knife pulled on him at the Royal Hotel. That'll be Keith "the friendly town" then.

So...you're Mind Gone Blind boy...hi! I'm not about for the Speyside Fest which I'm a bit gutted about! Best Marillion DVD for my money is Recital of the Script, that's a top performance!

Ah, sorry about that! Actually I'm just not that familiar with Rush, like what I have, which is the first album, 2112, Grace Under Pressure and Moving Pictures (Tom Sawyer is very good) but that's about all I know. Marillion always had the edge for me for the seediness. Of course they ain't a prog band anymore so they keep claiming in between their ten minutes songs. (If prog was suddenly fashionable they'd probably issue a very different press statement.) Which DVD and Cds did you just get Mordred? (Currently listening ta Field of Crows by Fish!)

Not me ma man, I'm called Simon. Don't know any Donnies! Am naturally a Marillion fan but not that fond of Rush....

Hey all Elgin folk...I'm a Cullen loon but its close enough I guess. Would this be the same game as Murderball? A medicine ball in the centre of the gym and the two teams one at the each end have to bulldog their way to the opposite side of the gym with the ball, the effect being two walls of people kicking the shite out of each other as they clash to rob the ball from the other. Popular in Borstals for getting rid of all that aggression and immortalised in "Scum".

As for Tokyo, well by the same token ABerdeen residents absorb doses of all kinds of things every day because of the granite but endure it: fuck knows what that has to do with anything!

Quite, and comparing smoking with walking down a street is bloody ludicruous, it's one of those "I could get run over by a bus tomorrow" arguments. Its much more refreshing to just accept that "I'm addicted to a shitty drug that's killing me and because I'm addicted it means I can't think logically about this." Even heroin addicts will tell you they enjoy it, and that if they didn't they would do it, and that other alcohol and coffee are drugs too, all that tosh. Walking down a street is not an adquate comparison: if non-smokers had a habit of sucking fumes out of car exhausts and then complained it would be but they don't. People don't tend to die from street fumes.

The reason we all start smoking is because we think it looks cool...amazingly once you stop you immediately realise what a disckhead you looked: the way people pause mid-sentence to breathe smoke out is actually the most irritating and twatish looking thing onthe planet. Scary how much an addiction brainwashes you! Smoking can't be cool if it winds up with you wearing a colostomy bag really.

I'll have my two penneth here: I was on at least 20 a day for years and "didn#'t want to give up, enjoyed it" etc. Any smoker who tells you he enjoys it, "it calms his nerves" and so on is lying, even if they don't know it! Fags heighten your nervous tension for a start, and they"enjoy it" because they have started a chemical addiction in the body which needs to be satisfied, exactly the same way an alcoholic or a heroin addict does. I gave up in a flash by reading Allan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, no scare tactics or owt, they don't work! It just points out why you think you can't give up and removes all the doubts that keep you doing it. I never even considered smoking again and that was four years ago. When people are reduced to asking total strangers to buy a cigarette from them and so on, its time to make a change if you ask me. If you smoke and accept that if you keep going then you are pretty likely to die a fairly revolting death, read Allan Carr and no kidding, giving up is as easy as having a wank.

I used to work there and I got the job through Manpower. That was when Directory Enquiries was still operating from there. BT were absolute NAZIS to work for, it was an appaling job.

Anyone remember the schizophrenic lady who used to shout and swear in the street? Apparently she was a concert pianist whose husband left her and she took to the sauce: her flat in Torry has nothing in it but a grand piano now.

Apparently he only ended up doing it because the actor didn't turn up. And he ended up being incredible, he looks like Charkes Manson in a suit and all the while he's babling de Niro doesn't ever look round at him. "That you should see, that you should see!"

As long as this is on range...although I don't think Freddie wins that either. He left Taylor to do ther REALLY high stuff. (Okay that a bit of a generalisation, but I can't STAND Queen!_ Only Queen LP I like is Queen 2. And that is very good actually... I never undertsand why such a bombastic band that were the definition of pomp-rock and then 80s stadium rock have resisted the sneers most other bands like that have suffered...is it just because Mercury died I wonder? Whatever the events surrounding it, Inneuendo is an appaling record for a band supposedly so significant to dare to release. Cunningly bookended with two good songs: its the definition of a shit sandwich. What was the question again?

My suggestions: Three Imaginary Boys: The Cure Once/ Twice Upon A Time: Siouxsie And The Banshees Hot Fuss: The Killers Clutching at Straws: Marillion Field of Crows: Fish (before Jester says it!) Forever Changes: Love Psychocandy: Jesus and Mary Chain The Wake: IQ

'S a fantastically scary scene. Although I do prefer Taxi Driver! Scorcese's cameo in that is excellent. "Put the meter down...PUT the meter down! I'm not getting out."

Oh yes, and pass a driving test too. I've failed six, I must pass one sooner or later.

1. Finish ma current novel. 2. Move back to Aberdeen 3. Keep going to the gym at the rate I am doing 4. Go abroad, because, shockingly, I have NEVER been anywhere, even Wales. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. 5. Have a relationship that lasts longer than two days. That's enough to be going on with!

Hey Scorge Spike, I used to work at BT Aberdeen too. Blimey I hated it there. One other bit of advice if you can't trace the number: blow a whistle down the phone if they are being continually abusive. They will na do it again.

in ze mouth, in ze mouth... ...lezzogs!