Steve Temple

I am a lucky lady? Laxton's Superb? Em ok then' date=' I can live with that.[/quote']

No? It's usually lust at-first-sight when anyone sees him. And I'm not saying that in the ironic way people say it about Camie, or whoever.

No, obviously not, but what is this "Samuel Beckett at 100: A Festival" thing that's been on every night this week? Is it a dramatic performance? And do you have to pay for it? And how long does it last?

Hahahaha!! Thats kind of a shame is it not? Id want to be mani if I was a boy. He's cool in my eyes anyway' date=' and The Stone Roses were one of me and my sisters first loves. I used to wake up with his face ebery morning on my bedroom wall, and its done me no harm..... yet....

I think I may haev saw you, Narc. Today at uni in Edward Wright. Judging by you and the Lizard Kings photos anyway. None of you resemble Mani in any way at all. But if you have checkered Vans and a sweeping fringe, then I saw you.[/quote']

Sounds like you saw Laxton's Superb, you lucky lady.

Now stop this charade, NARC, we didn't "go for it" at all that weekend, so it wasn't us at Maximo Park or anything else

My current shortlist' date=' in no particular order, would have to be:

Bistro Verde

Cafe 52 (do a range of tapas in the afternoon?)

Cafe Panino

Carmines

Hungary Eater

Nargile

Rustico

and for a very, very special occasion

The Silver Darlings[/quote']

That's spookily EXACTLY the same as my shortlist. But you obviously haven't been to the Hungary Eater in a while, as it's now called Goulash.

You appear (from the above post) to only be at university to avoid the reality of growing up and entering "the real world" in which case

That's exactly what I'm doing. So many people want to grow-up too soon: going to pubs and clubs at 15, learning to drive as soon as they're 17, deciding what they're gonna "be" before they've left school...All being well, I've over 50 years to be an adult, so forgive me if I cling to pre-adulthood a little bit longer.

But, you say your parents booted you out, so I guess you had no option, and you've done well for yourself. I'd like to think ,in such a situation, I'd have taken to busking on the cobbled streets of Old Europe, but...I'm just a dreamer. Which makes the point as to who is more radical a moot one, as it's a state of mind. The alternative to bourgeois life is bohemian life, but since we don't have a Latin Quarter and crumbling mansions waiting to be squatted in, this is impossible. So my approach is summed up thus:

"He said "you want to turn it on its head by staying in bed", I said "I know I do"

Christ, Yousef, aren't you glad we didn't go?

The drummer from APB now works on the art floor of the RGU Garthdee library. Former grays Graduate and apparently he won Aberdeen Artists a few years ago. A painter I believe.

Hey, what did I say! But since you mention it, you're right, he works with my da', which is why I have the inside-track on all things APB

Stupid question probaby, but who is headlining?

frankly' date=' if any of my friends told me that, on the basis of me owning a car before the age of 20 or getting a mortgage, that they no longer wanted to be my friend. I would say good riddance to them.[/quote']

Happily, none of my friends are like you, else they wouldn't be my friends in the first place.

And Lester, I know further education's not for everyone. God knows, I'm finding out I'm not cut-out for academia. But I think spending 4 years scraping through a degree by whatever means is still the best option, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it myself. It's the best because it delays working and it means you don't have to consider "the future", security, a career, the cost of living, a home and all the adult things you've got your mind on, at least for a few years yet, before we settle into the safe, bourgeois mediocrity that will characterise most of the rest of our lives. That's not to mention the insight it gives you into art, literature and film (in my case) - ie, the stuff that makes life worth living.

Please send all your apb-related chatter this way: www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28027

I'll post some links to reviews of the re-release...sometime

Single: 808 State - In Yer Face (cracking tune)

Maximum respect. What a time to be alive.

My first album was Urban Hymns by the Verve, which I wasn't ashamed of at the time, but I am now, whereas my first single was Romeo by Bassment Jaxx, which I was ashamed of at the time, but I am not now. Fancy!

It's a crime that Dig wasn't even nominated for best documentary.

Don't worry, "Dig!" is so much more than just a documentary or a film: it's an ideal for living. Damn straight

I disagree entirely' date=' most people are finishing degrees at that age... surely they should have some idea what they want to do?

Also, I'm 20... Didn't do a degree (obv) and I'd like to think I've taken my first step on the career ladder, I work full-time and at the moment I work away on projects, would this be classed at growing up too fast? I am only curious to your opinion... I support myself entirely so imho I thought it best to try and get on the career ladder as fast as I could and hopefully get en route to doing things like getting a car and perhaps a mortage.[/quote']

You're the same age as me and most of my friends, and if any of them were even considering things such as getting a car and a mortgage, then they wouldn't be my friends any more. It's nothing personal, but I find that kind of career-orientated, long-term, bourgeois thinking to be repugant, especially in a young (and supposedly counter-culture?) person.

It's a fair point that most people are finishing degrees at that age, but unless they've taken a vocational course which will see them progress immediately from uni to workplace, then there's no reason why they should have an idea of what they want to do. The best argument for a university education is that it delays what Jake calls the necessary evil of work, but it should also enhance your ability to appreciate the world around you

I've never wanted to "be" anything in terms of career. Work is a necessary evil' date=' nobody "wants" to do it. I'm 30 and still can't think of a job I actively want to do, I'd happily retire tomorrow with a clear conscience. We're work-obsessed nowadays. You're ill? Pop a Beechams, get on with it, don't take the day off, keep going at all costs. Fuck that! Still, I'm lucky enough to be doing something I'm damn good at, and which is relatively rewarding and pro-society.[/quote']

Sometimes...just sometimes, you nail it. I was always more ashamed of my peers who took Business Management, and went to see the careers guidance wifie, and had adulthood all mapped out, than those who persisited with petty acts of rebellion. If you know what you want to be by the time you're 23, then you've grown up too fast

I knew when I read the title of this thread, it would make me say something stupid like: an un-unionised worker is worse than a paedophile. The 6 people I saw outside Schoolhill are not to be mocked, they are heroes, Well, no, actually, they're just doing what every person with any sense of community should be doing. Just like those few folk who will demonstrate against our troops being kept in Iraq at uni next week. I don't agree with their cause, but they are still far greater human beings than the maker of this thread and those which will inevitably mock them, by default.

Is this still going ahead tonight?

Christy, you'll have to set-up a booth on campus...tomorrow. How else are we to get from you?

That's one of the stupidest things I've heard on this thread (until Rune popped up)' date=' even more so given that the criticism of St Anger earlier on focused on more than just the production. The main problems seem to be song length, strength of tunes and lack of guitar solos.

PS If anyone has the gall to say those are production issues, then only as much so as it would be to replace all vocals on Sgt Peppers with morbidly obese builders breaking wind into the microphone, and substitute the guitars for the sound of blackboards being scraped. In that case all albums hinge on the production.[/quote']

I could quote all the criticism based on production...but I'm so ashamed that I posted on a Metallica thread in the 1st place, that I'm away to self-flagellate

This is perfect. ALL bands should release 3 singles and then split, but they're more of a post-modern prank than a band, so it's even more essential that they split just as they're getting huge.

Metallica are indeed one of the greatest bands ever.

Au contraire. I think it tells you all you need to know about a band when the question of whether they're good or not hinges on the PRODUCTION, and even the bloody snare sound, on their albums. That goes for the likes of PiL and the Cocteau Twins, too.

The Tunnels' date=' Thursday 16th March w/ Copy Ha Ho and Colonopenbracket.

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That's about the best local line-up possible. I hope your command to "dance, y'all" goes heeded this time

doesn't it already have several places?

Yes, several, but a "hive" isn't a..complex, it's one place. Which place stands out above the rest?

for crying out loud' date=' if coldplay split then life is not worth living anymore. they created the soundtrack to my life. if you cannot listen to 'in my place' without reducing yourself to a shed of tears then you are not a human being.[/quote']

Nah, "In My Place" is gash . But I'm having "Speed Of Sound" every day of the week. And "Shiver". And...no, that's it

And Dedalus are probably playing there next month so you can always go and listen to that song you liked!

Oh yeah, you're the drummer now, aren't you? That means you get the credit for bringing da funk

you obviously havent been to drummonds recently then steve.

its becoming the hive of the music scene again. it has a shit hot sound and you have the great possibility of bringing music to new people. from what i have also noticed' date=' bands sell a lot of merch in there [/quote']

You're right, the last time I was there was before Dedalus split and reformed. On that occassion, a woman at least 10 years my senior offered to make a man of me, so that scared me off the place. I'll give it another try, now, tho. The scene needs a hive