Ollie

the kills for sure, king creosote with jose gonzales, delicate awol, idlewild, picastro

they need to sort it out long term. Lemon tree is an important aspect of the arts and music scene

My thoughts:

It's a real shame that the Lemon Tree has closed.

It's location didn't help. If it was located on Belmont Street then it would probably still be here.

Those that claim there are are shortage of venues in this city need a reality check... if there genuinely was a shortage then the LT would have been packed every night and making money. That's basic economics. If anything there is clearly a shortage of gig go-ers otherwise venues wouldn't keep going bust (that's umm 3 in the past 3 years). We'd do much better to promote our local music scene as a whole.

Drakes was a bigger loss IMO, and if we are to have a venue that is provided with financial assistance then something along those lines would be enormously beneficial to the local musicians... and would be deserving of financial assistance.

Musa caters for some of the performing arts type stuff that you used to find in the Lemon Tree, has a more appropriate capacity, and is more centrally accessible.

wise comment. Drakes was a massive loss. There are a lot of talented musicians in this city. Drakes was a focal point for many years. Although I think that the Moorings is becoming central.

This is a travesty. I heard rumours that it wasn't doing so well but this is still a shock. Some fond memories from seeing idlewild, playing there with my band, king creosote and the many IMP gigs.

Anyone else going to this? its gonna be amazing!

Portishead's first live show in 10 years

Aphex Twin

Fuzz Against Junk

Kling Klang

Sparklehorse

The Horrors

GZA/Genius

Malcolm Middleton

A Hawk & A Hacksaw

Seasick Steve

Polar Bear

Boris

Sunn o)))

Damo Suzuki

Atavist

.....lots more!!!

yippeeeee!

looks interesting

aye. Iam struggling for cash majorly. But I booked the flights when they were cheap(ish) and thought sod it.

looks cool, I'm heading to New York in a couple of weeks.

picastro

absolutely brilliant night guys. I thought every single act were beautiful. Picastro blew me away and I thought that Damon and Naomi abosultely stunned the lemon tree. Fantastic.

rents pricey these days, christ

what you going to london for?

There was some little fucker who let off the most rancid fart next to the bar before leaving with his drink. It was awful. I got served relatively quickly last time I was in though

to be fair, i was pished pretty badly.

Just stab them then! and be done with it

hahaha..

It's true in most cases. Certainly most of the people who complain about their treatment on here miss certain vital facts out of their story. Yours was one of the few cases of someone actually having a genuine grievance.

It's one of the few perks of the job. Give the staff a break, they work bloody hard and the last thing they need when they finish their shift is to stand in a queue for an hour to get into their own club.

no i meant folk who skip the bar queues. Some folk stand at the bar for ages. if yer face dont fit....and all that jazz

+ bar staff/folk who skip queues

Dave you were on fine form. Shame about the skipping. I still think you could have played raveonettes - quite 60ish. NEW YORK, NEW YORK!

Heya,

We're looking for bands for a possible acoustic night to play at RGU Union (that's the one on Schoolhill).

Also looking for DJs to play monthly nights as part of my own personal push to increase the range of music (and thus students catered for) played in the Union... I mean yeah cheesy pop is good but not every night

Please get in touch! Send demos info etc to union@rguunion.co.uk or phone 01224 262295.

George

hmm, dj dave?

thought they split, says in nme like that they are playing drummonds

what do you think. were nirvana over rated? would they have been as popular had cobain not shot himself? (not a conspiracy discussion....he did it himself for the purposes of this topic)

No they are not over rated

god they were great.

16/11/2007: The Pictish Trail with the Fence Collective + Jo Foster @ The Tunnels

nice!!!

I really like that song the traveller. Quite Mull Historical Societyish.

That's a top recording. Your sound also reminds me of hard-fi a bit.

What was up with the atmosphere though? It was horribly tense, when Eliza from Magik Markers was rawking out it felt like someone's grandchild was playing metal at an old folk's home! Awkward to the max. The sound was pretty rubbish, too, guitars needed to be way louder!

AND two people fucking wolf whistled as Eliza came back on for the encore!

That aside, was good to see Six Organs in Aberdeen, long may shows like this happen, etc (only next time downstairs hopefully?)...

The sound was crap, which is a shame as six organs are quality. The seating thing was far too tense. I still enjoyed it though

my mate met sonic youth in nice and sleazys

i had all my pedals knicked from exodus one night. Tobe fair if should not have taken them. I checked cash converters the next and had to buy it all back. gutted.