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.

My mate beat her at pool recently. "Rehab" is pretty decent. Couldn't stand anything off her last album, but that was because Island went into overkill with their paid-for plays on Virgin Megastores Radio. She got played at pretty much exactly the same time every Saturday and Sunday for several months.

Must be the first time i can recall the "limited" version of an album actually being that! Surely Domino would have realised this would happen? Does anyone know how many copies there actually are? I have it on back order from Virgin too, but as an ex-employee i have little faith i'll ever get it. I once tried to order a Four Tet 7" that we apparently had 100 copies of in the warehouse...and never got it.

Why? or Sufjan would be awesome, though it's a long way from Perth! Would love to come up for Sparklehorse but doubt i can get the following day off work.

Should be Richard Hawley, if there's any justice. Or sense. Ladytron's "Destroy Everything You Touch" for the Popjustice 20 Quid Music Prize!

The reason that it's out again is that he's changed record labels, and because of the David Gray tour. I like "Trouble" but haven't heard anything else.

I've been meaning to get into circuit bending and diy effects units/synths for ages, but never seen to get round to it. I've got a postgrad in electronics, so in theory i should be able to despite how little practical work i ever did!

iLiKETRAiNS - Progress-Reform Semifinalists - s/t The Lilac Time - s/t (Remastered) The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional (Remastered) Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You Gravenhurst - Black Holes In The Sand Movietone - Sand & the Stars Slowdive - Just For A Day (Remastered)

Not only would i go, you could have The A Forest as a support band too!

4AD Postcard Creation (pre-Oasis) Rough Trade Too Pure

Grandaddy - ...Fambly Cat Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (also going to the Tuts gig. the last 'Singers show there in 2004 was awesome) Bill Wells - Also In White (not arrived from eBay yet) Bjork - Debut Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives Trashcan Sinatras - A Happy Pocket Plus a load of stuff that was now reduced to £1.99 in Virgin - Magnetic Fields, Trans Am, Hot Hot Heat, Le Tigre, Ed Harcourt and more.