mumu

Someone just took a scene point off me cos of my last post saying thus... We live in a DEMOCRACY you twunt ...and indeed we do. Hoever if the Nazi BNP were ever to gain power do you think we would live in a democracy for much longer? The Nazis use the cloak of democracy and their version of polital correctness to hide their real agenda which is fascist in the extreme. In October 1990, The British National Party was described by the European Parliament's committee on racism and xenophobia as an "openly Nazi party... whose leadership have serious criminal convictions". When asked if the BNP was racist, Richard Edmonds, deputy leader of the BNP, said, "We are 100 per cent racist, yes". In 2004 documentary-maker Jason Gwynne went undercover and joined the BNP for six months. His secret filming recorded party leader Nick Griffin calling Islam a "wicked, vicious faith"; party member Steve Barkham confessing to assulting an Asian man in the 2001 Bradford Riots; and party member Stewart Williams stating that he wanted to "blow up" Bradford's mosques with a rocket launcher and council candidate Dave Midgley confessing to pushing dog faeces through the letterbox of an Asian takeaway. Do you really think that these people have a democratic right to voice their sick, dangerous opinions? While I'm entirely in favour of someones freedom of expression when that results in other sections of the community living in fear of violence then the democratic right no longer stands. The Nazi BNP would have no hesitation in removing my "democratic rights" if, which they clearly do, my opinions did not match their fascistic ones. I have no problem with treating Nazis as pariahs, they should not be allowed to promote their hate in any way. Democracy or not.

Yes it is, the SNP are not Nazis, the BNP are. Having their logo as your avatar is no different from having a Nazi Swastika up there. The BNP are fascists just the same as Hitler's Nazi Party was in Germany. They are anti-semetic, racist, homophobic scum. Still, by demonstrating your ignorance in such a way you at least give the rest of us a chance to laugh at your stupidity. Do you have a skinhead and DMs?

I did, were it not called Lava at that point though? Really, really hope they do play here in October, Eamon has promised me several times they will return to Aberdeen, despite such a poor turn out last time. Though I owe about 6 different regular BSP gig goers a sleep on me sofa having blagged the same so many times, me flat definitely gonna be too small!!

Aah, British Sea Power, my favouritist band in the whole wide world. I was first turned onto them by a good friend from the Polyphonic Spree forum, we had met up with each other for three Spree gigs in the summer of 2003 and she had just seen BSP for the first time and was raving about them. As soon as I got home I d/led a couple of tracks and was much impressed, imagine my delight when I discovered they were actually playing a gig in Aberdeen. Myself and my usual Aberdeen gig partner enjoyed them for the first time on the 29th of May 2003 at Lava, along with about 20 other people. I was hooked. Bought "The Decline of..." on the day of release, joined the BSP forum and started liasing with my Spree buddy on a wee bout of stalking. A week away to see them play Dublin, Cork, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow followed in October, the first time I could get off from work. We met up again in November and saw them in Nottingham, Leeds, Lincoln and Cardiff. The next time I could make a gig was their 2003 New Year extravaganza in London, where they played along with The Brakes and The Pipettes and we were also entertained by the Club Sea Power DJs from Brighton. Alas my friendship with my Spree buddy floundered, as these things tend to do, and I ended up taking a year away from the BSP forum and their gigs also, but the power of the sea is strong and I was sucked back again this year. Drove through horrendous snow in February to Grasmere in the Lake District to see them play a tiny wee village hall, I was once again blown away by their live performance. Being unable to afford another tour of the UK to see them one had to make do with the Liquid Roooms gig in Edina for the next fix. However some jigerrypokery with my leave from work, and some sly selling of some rare records on ebay has resulted in me being able to do one or two more trips. May 27th in London, an evening of Sea Power delight, again including the Brakes and Club Sea Power Djs. Then my probable farewell to the magnificent world of BSP stalking will be in Dublin on the 7th of June, where they share the bill with Sons & Daughters. Stalking is addictive though, and one will be switching allegiance to the aforementioned Sons & Daughters!! Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee in quick succession, so Dublin seems like a nice kind of transition gig between the two bands! As for the thread topic, Open Season is indeed a top album, took a while for it to grow on me as it's not quite as intense as The Decline of..., and obviously having heard the earlier tracks live on so many occasions, with so many good friends, they kinda emote strongly with me. I just hope with this LP and their recent dalliance in the hit parade with Oily Stage that they finally start to get the recognition they trully deserve. Look out for the single release of Please Stand Up on the 23rd of May. That's me and Neil (bass) in my avatar btw, mumu friend of the stars <edit> forgot to say, I have a couple or three live gigs on mp3 if anyone wants them, PM me and we can so some soulseeking together

I only just found this forum, had to register just to say that I will be in attendance at tomorrow's 65daysofstatic gig. I will be there all on my lonesome as my usual gig partner has decided he's not coming with me. Basically he's thrown the rattle out of the pram 'cos I'm not going with him to see The Little Kicks this evening. Like, I've seen them heaps of times and I've got work at 4am tomorrow!! When the feck will we get another chance to see 65DoS?!? Anyway, I digress, like I say, I'll be Billy no mates at tomorrow's gig, feel free to talk to me if you like. I'll be the long hair in the British Sea Power T-shirt, or possibly Sons & Daughters, depending on what's clean! mumu.