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Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell - Ballad of the Broken Seas

Is All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit by Half Man Half Biscuit too old for you?

Morrissey - Music Hall The Research - Lemon Tree Camera Obscura - Tunnels Maybe Arab Strap in there?

Soup is rubbish.

I hate to be the pedantic cunt, but/// I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, and at a lot of gigs there may be younger folk doing moshpits or whatever, but I don't think that being in a mosh means you are a moron. If people want to enjoy their music by doing that, its fine, as lnog as it doesn't affect those who may want to just stand with a pint enjoying the bands. I'm sure bands deliberately have supports that you may think are 'shite' Its not their fault.... Aren't we all!

Mega gig. Long live the Strap!

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I've been known to perform with catastrophic results after having a few. I've also been known, however, to perform with catastrophic results without having a few. Six and half a dozen I reckon. I tend to have a couple of drinks before playing, sometimes have a pint on stage but usually its just water so my throat's not too bad.

People who post on 'pet hate' threads. As if I care about what you don't like, moron.

I swear you have a PC-related rant every week on this board. Do you have one already typed-up and saved on the computer?

That is indeed mega

Well a complete withdrawal of troops might be nice... Thats blatantly rubbish. Without theory, there is no socialism. I don't see how anything that Marx has said is now 'outdated', especially with regards to workers rights and the like, in an increasingly neoliberal age. Without any guidance then there i nothing - from the October revolution to the Venezuelan revolution. Its not like there is even a textbook format set out in Marxist literature, I mean look at the Venezuelan example. So you're working solely on presumption? So why did Jack McConnell speak out against Gordon Brown on the devolution issue? See? You're banknig on what you think might happen, which I would say is obviously not gonig to work. What is the first thing that an indepedence-enforced capitalist Scottish government would look for? Foreign investment. Well, you mean 'you'.

Yes. Self determination of ethnic groups. Socialism is entirely irrelevant without theory. The left-wing attitude of Scottish Labour that has been closing health facilities, creating the ridiculous Anti-Social Behaviour (Scotland) Bill, the party that didn't show Solidarity with striking nursery nurses or local government workers?

Actually quite a good band! http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/vincentvincentandthevillains/

I love how they're 'trying' to be a bit more 'alternative' by putting people in other than guitar-waving Borrel-lites with floppy hair and tight trousers. She is cool as fuck btw.

I completely see you point and I think its a good one, but personally I don't think we can say that Scotland is more 'left wing' per se than down south. The massive amount of class consciousness and trade union awareness, especially in the north of England (for example, the docker's strike in Liverpool), and coupled withthe increasing successes of leftist parties to get councillorship and/or amass a fair proportion of votes, shows this to not specifically be true. Examples of this being the Socialist Party, RESPECT, and to a lesser extend Worker's Liberty. Thus I think that we shouldn't push for independence solely for a more proportional system of government (although the Scottish Parliament's system is fairer it still allows the mainstream parties to amass large amonuts of FPTP seats). The debate here should be about reforming our so-called democraticm structures, not why we should split off from the nationwide steruggle!

My, what a mightily convincing line. I wouldn't say I was specifically a unionist, for example I support Irish republicanism, and that I wouldn't shed a tear for the break up of the imperialist British state. However, it seems like it would be a drastic tactical error to push for Scottish independance, from the perspective of the isolationism of workers down south and the traditionally strong links of the labour movement nationwide. An independant Scotland would also make fuck-all change to the everyday lives of working people - it will still be an independant capitalist country, run by the cpaitalist class. There is no change here.

The Scottish people have a right to self-determination like any group, but that doesn't mean that I support it being exercised.

Yes (eight characters). Though I wouldn't cry over its breakup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9L7JpK-0NI Tremendous skills from Thierry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJWukMD8BI Danish bacon Danish bacon yummiyummiyummiyummiyummiyummiyum

Is that something that can be backed up, or is it just sourceless presumption? Go on, 'wow me'.

I didn't know people still cared about bourgeois nationalist pish

Little Barrie are ace.

I'm annoyed that I didn't go.