SuperMike!

VM was great the time I put him on (was touring with Jana Hunter). He disappeared off before his set, only to return wearing what can only be described as a loin cloth. Two older guys in the venue walked out in bemusement halfway through the first song. Nice bloke too. Would come up for this but I'm pretty sure I'm on nights.

Yeah, apparently it's in Mucky Mulligans with the French Quarter (from Stirling, sound good on myspace). I've only ever seen covers bands in Mucky's though, so no idea what that show will be like on a Saturday night - maybe it's an early one? Only ever used to go in there as it had a late licence. Not really many other places to play in Perth now, so maybe it's picked up a bit. Hard to tell what's going on in Perth these days as I only work there. Sorry to derail.

Copies in Grouchos/Dundee gig plz.

The My Kappa Roots album (The House of St Colme Burnt Down) is lovely. "The Dour Festival" is pretty awesome to these ears. Would come up for this, but working too late. Nevermind, i can see Glissando go down like a lead balloon (sadly) in a pub in Perth on the Saturday night after work. Hurrah!

Archives were the best i've seen them on the Friday night in Dundee. Was indifferent to Maths, though.

Oh, and "Bleeding You Dry" by Lift was a "choon" back in the day.

Copy Haho, Kitchen Cynics, No Pasaran and, if they were still going, Hookers Green. Are they still going? Will the second album ever see the light of day?

Who did you get to master them?

I finally got around to buying the TV On The Radio album today. It's fucking brilliant! Much better than the first one imho - that's what had put me off for so long!

I knew he'd done something like that! Thanks for reminding me. Thankfully i haven't seen his willy.

It's Anthony Genn who is mates with Jarvis Cocker and may have been in Pulp at some point. Pretty sure he was involved with Robbie Williams solo career pretty early on and was generally a Britpop scenester type.

Should probably add Twilight Singers to my list too.

Waiting on my copy of the Sparklehorse arriving - for some reason i've held of on buying it, though what i've heard would imply it will be straight on my list. Camera Obscura album was good, but with the exception of "Lloyd..." i think i prefer 'Underachievers...". Guillemots album was good, but i'd have to put it on my disappointments list - i'd been hoping for an out-and-out pop! album (ie a whole load of "Made Up Love Song" and "Trains To Brazil"), so it wasn't quite what i hoped for. Not got Jarvis yet, but will. Almost agree on Arab Strap but i kind of wish they'd gone for a more comprehensive double CD of EP/single/compilation tracks. The Broadcast compilation is also ace. The Pulp re-issues look good, i'm waiting on 'This Is Hardcore' arriving. My re-issue of the year would, however, have to be Pavement's "Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition".

Top 10 as of right now, roughly in order: Adem - Love & Other Planets Hot Chip - The Warning James Yorkston - Year Of The Leopard The Research - Breaking Up (was that this year?) Micah P. Hinson - & The Opera Circuit Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family - Tell Me How The Sceptres Dance Wolf Parade - Appologies To The Queen Mary (again, may have been 2005) Peter, bjorn and john - Writer's Block Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette Roddy Woomble - My Secret Is My Silence With honourable mentions for: Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye Uncle Fritz - Field Reports Cat Power - The Greatest Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad... Captain - This Is Hazelville Beirut - Gulag Orkestar Subtle - For Hero: For Fool Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You... The Russian Futurists - Me, Myself & Rye: An Introduction to... I'm from Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain Lambchop - Damaged Triosk - The Headlight Serenade The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes Thom Yorke - The Eraser Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit Alamos - Alamos Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (UK release was this January) I bought a lot of albums this year.

We played with them a year ago and i thought they were pretty good.