Steve Temple

Emperor was the best, but it wouldn't have been very hard for anyone else to beat him if they had even the merest comprehension of what rock is about. But most people on this site couldn't have beat him

Yeah, and the thing about the Contemporary Music Festival events, 1 or 2 of which I'll be attended. His wife/date wasn't as chuffed with the action as he was

Well, they look thin enough to pass Nah, i've never seen them, but I've heard "Nine" and it's a lot of fun. And it's a great band name

Speaking of Nazi chicks, has anyone seen Downfall? The girl "Inge" that mans an anti-tank gun is a goddess. When she begs a fellow kid-soldier to shoot her, it's the most gruesomely beautiful thing ever So yeah, her

No, but I've seen them satirised in the comic strip "The Pitchers" in the Guardian's Friday Review. They look like a lot of fun. Tho perhaps a bit heavier on the "info" than they are on the "tainment"

Excellent stuff

"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is admittedly splendid, because it's so cynical, but still honest and touching. Not all love songs should be odes. Instead, it is a parting shot

Unfortunately, i'm 20. And after a week with no sleep, i'm not as pretty as I was

3 or 4 people with variations on a side parting. Looking round shiftily at all the post-rockers in attendance

Can't believe I'm going to a gig that both french_disko and bluesxman are going to. I expect Betamax and Steve Irwin to join the party But yeah, this will bang hard

Not for the fun of it, but I've often walked into the wrong lecture room, and been too scared to leave I recommend Film Studies lectures for anyone seeking infotainment

No More Exclusives - Stroszek Yeah You - Les Yeux One Track Lover- Garth Marengi Your Diary - Franz Ferdinand (at last! a band who understands b-sides are more important than album tracks) The New Romance - Pretty Girls Make Graves (I know it's old, but it's new to me)

Mine too! I had my appointment with him today. He offered a firm, manly handshake. It's been said he looks like Ross from Friends, but I don't think Ross has oriental eyes

I will remember 2005 as the year I learnt what it means to be young. And the following nights helped me do it: 1, Editors at TITP - an impossibly intense set in an impossibly hot tent. How smug those who made their way there felt about being amongst the select few to see this band. Never has being right down the front been so necessary, firstly to be hit with the full force of the sound, but also to see spontaneous outbursts of homoerotic passion, and spectacular bambi-esque falls, close-up 2, We Are Scientists at Kef - Only a venue that is literally underground could be fit for a new band from New York to play a 40 minute set of 3 minute songs. THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. With two singles released, they were well known enough to fill the venue, but small enough to still man their own merchandise stall 3, Sons & Daughters at The Lemon Tree - darker than any metal band could hope to be, and probably louder too. The Coolest Man In The World and Scotland's Sexiest Woman on the same stage. Adele made everyone feel like she was looking at them. In my case, she probably was 4, The Faint at TITP - a band more suited to playing midnight gigs in the clubs of sprawling, decadent cities, this midday gig in a field only worked because of their determination to have fun. To see them slamming and spinning around on stage was inspirational. I'm sure the crowd had just as much fun, though it didn't look like it 5, Bikini Atoll at The Tunnels - a sound so dirty it could only have come from Dundee. Some of the tightest electro-funk ever heard. Some of the tightest jeans ever seen. This was spoiled slightly by their inclusion of some token slow numbers, and by support from loathsome beauty merchants Picastro. Still produced probably the best crowd reaction to a gig at The Tunnels Missed opportunities: Bloc Party at LT, The Departure at Moshulu, Editors at Kef, Battle at Moshulu Still to come: Bikini Atoll at The Tunnels again; Ladytron at The Tunnels; Franz Ferdinand, Editors and The Rakes at AECC (so wrong in such an aircraft hanger of a venue, so right in many other ways); Maximo Park in Glasgow (relulctant as I am to watch a band anywhere but in my hometown, I'm not sure this young pretender can pass up a chance to see The Most Important Man In The World show how a star-jump should be thrown)

So what, such devotion to a local band can only be a good thing I don't think their style will go down in the bam haven that is Drummonds. The Tunnels gig might be a shout

No, no, your girly voice will fall on deaf ears Ross, surely they are ripe for a Moshulu appearance, yes? SO BOOK THEM NOW Thanking you in advance, popTart

Agreed. Mine paid dividends on Saturday. Midgeski knows what i'm talking about