Ollie

Dear All,

Anyone heard frightened rabbit. I stumbled across them on Ross P's bebo page. Pretty decent like; they have that whole dreich, dour scottish thing going on.

Think they are playin this city soon,

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ollie

You're still here though?

ha ha

Hi guys,

I have not had a chance to read all the posts on this thread but I hope that people are not being too unfair.

I have lived in Aberdeen for all of my life (basically). However, the amount of foriegn and Scottish musical talent that we have had over here is immense. Of particular mention is the great work done by Sharon (Drakes) and all the other people involved with Drakes.

Mike and all the other Folk at Interesting Music Productions, Graham etc, and countless other people including Stuart Maxwell, also deserve a mention. In addition, many Aberdonian bands have pushed our music scene, perhaps unwittingly, and for that I think that the city will benefit, greatly.

Personally speaking I spent a lot of time with Mark Nicol at Exile. He did his job well - he was a Producer. It happened that he took an active interest in local bands (Perhaps local has a new meaning nowadays, embracing all of Scotland as opposed to only Aberdeen), and, notably, individual musicians.

It says a lot for our scene that Mark produced bands that are still talked about in Scotland and elsewhere.

Aberdeen has a strong collectivity. I remember that someboday earlier on in the week posted a thread which criticized the lack of collectivity between the varoius artists in Aberdeen. They were wrong.

There are people here who want to push the art and academic scene. In fact, there are plans in place to integrate the work of artists at RGU and Social Scientis and Aberdeen University.

Anyway.

ciao.

Ollie

Does anyone have something good to say about Aberdeen?

Many things; the music, people, friendliness, music, Scottishness, drink...

the worst thing about aberdeen is the aberdonians themselves. No amount of nice restaurants, art centers, shift in the quality of the nightlife etc is going to change the fact that aberdonians are largely ignorant racist smallminded uneducated materialistic shallow barely human scumbags, most of whom have practicaly given up language and reverted to communicating with each other through animalistic grunts and violence, and none of whom can actually think for themselves to any extent that might differentiate them from any of the other mindless plebs that live here. The funny thing is a lot of these worthless homunculi actually believe they are middle class, because they live in a semi detached house and drive a modestly expensive car.

I'm moving away in the near future, and it will be the best thing I've ever done.

I tihink you're correct but not because people are uneducated.

I think most people in the world, regardless of location or class, are very smart and very recpetive.

As for the Aberdonian dialect, it's cool.

anyway, im returning to the thread, the girl from glasgow is very very good.

P.S - Kimy f knows what you're on about but I checked out your music on myspace and it isn't half bad.

Ollie

Yeah, with over 40s. I mean my friends / peers etc.

How old are you? Kate Bush is still very popular, as idlolwild suggests, with a broad range of age groups.

it's very very good. intelligent song writing. A young voice which could develop well

grains in first. pour water half way. stir. as the waters whirlin around after you've stirred it fill the rest of the cup with milk.

additionally, add sugar to tase

I am due to leave this city in the near future and was reflective of its future, both as a major scottish city and major scottish city for currents in music.

Do people think that Aberdeen will grow in comparison to Edin and Glas or fade away?

Ollie

orwell were good at what they did

has anyone been listening to the cd? All the songs are brilliant. It captures a pretty diverse range of musical talent.

The song by 'for my next miracle' is cracking.

Ill ask Neil to make it unavailable to stream or download from here.

I don't mind people downloading it Mark. It's not a bad song at all...

If the views of a bassist count that is..

We are doing fine but its suffered a bit recently as I'm getting married on Friday then I'm going on holiday. We will pick it up later on after I'm back and will be busy later on in the year when the EP is released. We are desperate to get our new tracks up as they are much, much better and the ones up there are very old. Its not going to be up till I come back now though.

The only thing I will say about that Valentine band is that I don't like it, its not a personal thing, I just don't like the music at all. Former Minister were great though I still have that 8 minute track on my MP3 player! Whens the reunion?

haha former minister? Dunno if there will be a reunion. I wouldn't mind a copy that track if you could email it perhaps?

Ollie

valentines track is pretty decent, you should check it out. Hope stroszek are doing good. I haven't had a chance to see them lately but I'll keep an eye out for future gigs.

Ollie

is it really that bad les?

Yeah, I bought it for 2 pounds last week. Pretty good value and some decent songs too.

Ollie

I like the way Mini moves onstage. It makes me feel alive.

haha.

copy haho/GOFONES/kitchen Cynics

I don't think it's a bad thing. It's good that the good bands in Aberdeen had/have a place to go to record and practice, in an environment that takes an interest in your music.

I am not sure, just saw it for 2 pound on the promotional stands at the entrance of one up.

hi,

I just bought the 'This is the exile recording studio' compilation CD from OneUP.

Some quality bands on it. I really liked Patterns in pavements. Was good to hear AKA the Fox, Deadalus, Fiction/Action and Valentine.

Ollie

one of the best bands

Crevecoeur were absolutely brilliant. Such great music. Good perfomance by The Lows Lows.

I am listening to the first Crevecoeur CD just now and I have a feeling I will be for a long time.

Thanks for taking these two great bands and many others to Aberdeen.

Ollie