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Can't wait, gonna be awesome!

gfn? zine issue no.4 on sale at this show. i've been told it's not as crap as the other ones so you need to get a hold of one of these bad boys.

Despite their spamming of my bands myspace, which infuriates me to no end...

haha, sorry!

apparently there's gonna be a vegan cake - if that doesn't pull a crowd i don't know what will

we should have the first hijacks tshirts for the gig

i'm taking requests for the party disco magical mp3 player of tunes. so far there are some classics on there: Spaceman by Babylon zoo and Miami by Will Smith to name a few

For reasons of a percussive nature Los Homos set has now turned into a solo performance by their guitarist Danny Crombie which i'm sure will be grand.

The gig should be in Tunnel 1 now as well.

TOMORROW NIGHT!

I also want rid of my gfn? zines issue no.4 so i can start a new one. it's got interviews with the Fractions, JB Conspiracy, a founder of Brewdog beer, and No Sweat. also some *great* new features like the dot-to-dot and nerdsearch (3 minutes of your life you'll never see again), and old favourite Rapunzel's Crusty Corner! And all on recyled paper for the eco-friendly among you. All for just 50p! cheers

well kirk...

THE MURDERBURGERS - awesome, fast, shouty pop punk from Glasgow - influences like Screeching Weasel, The Lillingtons and The Ramones.

THE LIE DETECTORS - pop punk 3-piece from Glasgow setting out on their first touring dates - soundin like Teenage Bottlerocket.

LOS HOMOS - their first ever gig! featuring former members of A Gayboy Scene. Somewhere between thrashy pop punk and good old-fashioned rock'n'roll.

AVOID THE MORNING - promising newly-formed local band playing their second gig. on the poppier side of the pop punk spectrum.

myspace.com/themurderburgers

myspace.com/theliedetectors

myspace.com/vivaloshomos

myspace.com/avoidthemorning

the magic has sort-of left

Kind of ironic as they did that crap film about magicians. i haven't seen it but i can just tell it was crap. plus mark kermode said so.

I thought the new episode was pretty good. the first and last 5 minutes seemed a bit rubbish to me, not funny at the start, and a bit too ridiculous at the end.

I don't like Big Suze. Seems to be a common theme of all the female characters being really annoying. no doubt some freudian thing, vagina envy or something. ok, clearly i dont study psychology.

the last series wasn't as good but still better than most things on TV. Maybe should have gone down the Fawlty Towers/Office etc route and stuck to 2 or 3 series, i guess this one will decide if it was a mistake.

Ye I read David Mitchell's piece in the guardian the other day. Maybe not the best written but funnier than some of the other people in that column (the make-a-deep-but-funny-observation-about-life column in G2). It mentioned the new series at the end of it so maybe just done to promote it.

First episode of series 5 airs on Friday May 2nd. Anyone heard anything about it? Any predictions? I'm hoping it doesn't get a bit crap and spoil all the awesome stuff before it.

i was gonna come to this anyway cos i decided not to pay 8 to see johnny foreigner support forward russia the other week. Just checked out the others bands though and they sound ace too, especially The Mae Shi - can imagine they might sound quite different live though.

how can they be best band - they only have 95 friends

it seems like the categories that don't have nominations give results that reflect where most of the voting is done - at moorings. I know Johnny Skyscraper are a covers band and its probably a moorings in joke to vote for them, but i've seen a lot worse bands. And Bloodnut have only played a couple gigs i think - same as Panda Eyes last year. Why not just nominate like in the other categories (which seem to give reasonable results) and avoid everyone voting for their friends. I know its just a fun thing but wouldn't the whole thing have a bit more credabiity if the winner of best band was someone like PVH or Copy Haho? That said, i caught the last half hour of the show on friday and everyone seemed to be having a really good time and the guy from bloodnut i met seemed like a really nice guy so maybe i'm wrong...

This'll be the first chance to buy Good for Nothing? zine, issue 4. This one features interviews with the JB Conspiracy, The Fractions, Brewdog, and No Sweat UK, as well as such exciting new features as a dot-to-dot (OK, not hugely original), and the Nerdsearch. In case you can't figure it out, thats a wordsearch but the words your searching for are 'famous' nerds, such as Screech from Saved by the Bell and 14 others. You know you want a copy now..

put together the first 3 issues of GFN? zine (with the help of many others like Kirk and David.) Issue 4 is finally ready, it took about 9 months to do, partly because lots of people who said they'd send me stuff didn't, but mainly because i got too busy with other things which is probably why most zines dissapear after a couple of issues.

If anyone's interested the first 3 issues are online at Good For Nothing? Records website

Issue 4 will be available at Tunnels on Sunday night (http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/gigs-event-announcements/48389-%5Bgig%5D-climate-change-benefit-hijacks-more-%40-tunnels.html) and all upcoming GFN? gigs. Same goes for the zine yearbook too.

1 week today, should be really good!

but what IS punk?

punk:

a - A type of rock 'n' roll with loud, energetic music and often harsh lyrics criticizing traditional society and culture.

b - Slang - A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man.

c - Archaic - A prostitute

(American Heritage Dictionary)

didn't the upstarts WIN this last year?

perhaps i made that up. you'd think i'd know, eh?

ye, think we did. we've only played one gig in the last year as our guitarist now has a baby and lives in Elgin, and maybe people just don't like us anymore. But the rest of us are now in the Hijacks, and 2 members of Contra are also in Hijacks. There's also some family rivalry as there is a Thain in Onion Terror (Paul) and The Hijacks (Amy). As if this poll wasn't exciting enough...

i heard that the east neuk had been refurbished and now it's the 'Hilton' of Aberdeen venues. is this just a malicious rumour?

i'm so excited. can't wait to see contra for the first time in ages and it'll be ace playing with upstarts again

awesome! i've never seen them and it should be just after exams as well. schweet