pete_inthehills

And Pete, it was me who pointed you in the direction of Murakami

thought so, the offer stands, but you'll never recognise me. I look nothing like my avatar!

Just finished A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Yeah, it was ok.

pete

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Has anybody been?

Is it any good?

Is it easy to find and park near?

The Rezillos are playing there in October and I want to go.

pete

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we had this problem recently, they said that it was because they were doing some changes to paypal and could we prove who we said we are by responding to the letter they sent us. Unfortunately the letter never arrived, so after much email correspondence, I faxed paypal a utility bill and the next day they reset the password so I could use it.

I think this happened to a lot of folk.

Maybe its not you, but paypal.

pete

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I'm just reading anything by Haruki Murakami. I think it was KarmaTsunami who pointed me in this direction, its just absolutely brilliant. If it was you and you manage to identify me at the back of a gig one day, I'll buy you a pint or two in thanks.

Just finished south of the border, west of the sun. Gentle and brilliant as always.

pete

I did a masters at Newcastle and it was damn hard work. Mine was in environmental biogeochemistry and it was in the subjects that I wasn't used to that I struggled the most.

It is hard work, but its worth it. I couldn't even get an interview with just a BSc(hons), but with an MSc I got a job within a couple of weeks.

Pete

Two ways to summarise this book for me would be "Underwhelming" and "Deus Ex Machina". It just came across as rushed and contrived in places

I have to agree. The ending seemed a bit flat. I was expecting more death really and more folk closer to HP kicking the bucket.

The books had "grown up" as the series progressed, but then I guess so had the readers. (no jokes, please). The ending worked but I still say it was contrived.

Pete

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great gig last night. The place was jumping. My I also congratulate the brass section on their sartorial elegance. Especially the sequins.

Pete

I don't think so. They didn't do any tracks from the Anything album. There was a couple from phastamagoria, but it was mostly early stuff from machine gun ettiquette.

I was hoping for a 17minute curtain call epic to finish with, especially with their new prog rock leanings. That'd have been cool.

pete

It's been like a chore to read

like, you are a Goddess to me 'cos, like, you type like you speak, like, y'know what I mean.

I'm looking forward to reading it but I'm not paying the 17 its going to cost. I'll wait a couple of weeks until Asda/Tesco has it for a tenner and get it then.

Pete

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i really enjoyed the gig too.

the support Karloff were brilliant. Even if most of the crowd hid behind the mixing desk.

The Damned have added to their speed and energy with some almost psycodelic bits. In the middle of neat neat neat they went it to a swirly doors-esque section and then brought it back with a bang for the last verse in their normal noisey excess. I was impressed.

I had seen them a couple of times in the 80's when they were still young and goth/punk. I had hoped not to see a bunch of sad old folks this time and I didn't.

Although, what was that nutter on the keyboards drinking? But then if I got to play with the Damned, I guess I'd be leaping around like a looney too.

pete

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Pete

I'm clutching a ticket in my sweaty paw.

Does anyone know who is supporting them?

And what time does the gig start/finish and what's going on afterwards?

I understand that this moshulu place is usually inhabitited by young folk dressed in black with dyed black hair, black make-up and black tattoos on a normal saturday night. Will it revert to this after the gig?

Pete

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Did ye ride it?

does the pope shit in the woods?

Are bears catholic?

any excuse to add another notch to the bedpost.

heheh

Pete

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is this still on?

Pete

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When I was a student there was two skinny, long haired, glasses wearing goths in the same class. Me and my mate Dave. Although I couldn't see the similarity, no one could tell us apart.

Dave had spent one saturday night chatting up this lassy and getting no where, but obviously she had a change of mind during the week and the following saturday she grabbed me, told me that she'd been thinking of me all week and snogged my head off.

I didn't have the heart to tell her she had the wrong goth. Or tell Dave that I'd profited from his hard work.

hahaha

happy days, sigh.

Pete

I hate to come across like some kind of vulture, but do you think they'll be selling off their stock cheap?

pete

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Are you still reading these Isla, or do you wish you'd never started this thread?

Pete

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three words

New

Model

Army

As for bands I want to see in Aberdeen...well...

Regina Spektor

Duke Spirit

Nick Cave

The Bees

CSS

Ash

Clap your hands say yeah

the go! team

gorkys zygotic mynci

green day

the hives

interpol

mew

mudhoney

pj harvey

polyphonic spree

rancid

the rezillos

rilo kiley

oh the list goes on....

pete

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err.... wot?

I've just finished Already Dead by Charlie Huston. Its actually a good vampire book. Not as pretencious as Anne Rice but much much better than that Poppy Z Brite shite.

pete

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most of the good ceilidh bands will be booked up for years to come. We tried to find one for our wedding a few years back, and although we wanted them for 6 months in the future we couldn't find anyone. In the end we had to pull strings with some friends.

But you might want to try :-

Gaelic Bread

Iron broo

Dark Island - (don't know if these are still going)

I'm fairly sure the first two have websites. Google 'em.

pete

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Anything by Robin Hobb is good, if you like fantasy that is, check out the "Live Ship Traders" trilogy.

yeah, I liked the Robin Hobb books, the other ones you might like are JV Jones Master and Fool series, and any Mercedes Lackey books.

Pete

Wordfringe: A new writers' festival for Aberdeen and North-East Scotland

Have any of you checked out any of the wordfringe stuff? Or aren't there enough famous people doing readings?

If like me, you missed "loads of dreads, but no fears" due to its clash with Julian Cope then we all missed a brilliant performance. The next time Rapunzel Wizard is on, I'll nag you all about it. He's excellent.

hope to see some of you at Confessions and Rants at the Arts centre next Monday. That's the next one on my list. But make sure you check out something before the end of the month.

Pete

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it's the place for the 30-somethings to clutch their pints and get misty eyed about their days in the mosh pit....

well, it is for me anyway.

Next time we should all wear name tags.

oh man, that's me! yeah..... Mosh pits....sigh

I have a strict policy of non-disclosure of ID to other aberdeen-music folk. But we should have a wee badge with an A-M logo and a special handshake. That way you'd know other aberdeen-music folk even if you didn't know who they were.

pete

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Compared to Julian Cope, the Lemonheads were meerly average. A bit too much faffing around for my liking, although they definitely got better as the set went on.

The Icarus Line were a bunch of twats. What was all that "fix the amp or we leave" shite? You are the support! Get a grip. The only good song of their set wasn't even their own.

Worryingly I was also stood behind the mixing desk. I was very amused when it all went dead just before the Lemonheads. Perhaps that's the official standing location for aberdeen-music folk at the Lemontree.

Pete

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Julian Cope was abso-fucking-lutely brilliant.

I didn't know that much stuff by him before I went, but now I'm going to find his back catalogue.

His rambling monologues were ace and he dealt with the crowd really well. The two drunks with the hat were a bit annoying in the middle of the set.

And the support was funny. Do you have any normal ancestors Kitchen Cynic? You know, lived, worked, died. Rather than fell off a roof while shooting rats or sent to a mental hospital or killed by a truck or murdered his Dad.

Brilliant night.

Pete

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