Uncle Mog

Expedia usually have really good rates on rooms. I went down to see kanye west at the theatre royal in feb and managed to get a room for 2 nights in the west india quay marriott (5* place the spurs players all got ill at!) plus return flight from glasgow to heathrow for £115!

I had him for computing years ago, he was really good. used to play one of his bands in class, tinderbox or something?

soul jazz is good too for old reissues of reggae, tropicalia, 70s funk etc.

I love the tesco finest maple bacon, has some kind of maple syrupy taste to it - its excellent. And I like it with brown sauce and runny fried eggs

Fence Chemikal Underground Rock Action Twisted Nerve Rough Trade Domino Kill Rock Stars

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat Howling Bells - s/t The Black Keys - Chulahoma Adem - Love and Other Planets

Haha, it is quite tough on the fingers! Basically its a normal bass (slightly wider fretboard) and it has 4 guitar strings as well like a 12 string guitar. Its very heavy cos of the extra machineheads but it sounds excellent, a really full sound - actually sounds tuneful (almost haha)

My dad bought a Rogue 8 string bass, its a really nice guitar. I hadn't heard of them before but it was one of only 2 8-string basses he could get sent across here so we were a bit dubious as to what the quality would be. Its a brilliant guitar though, couldn't fault it for the price. The manufacturers of all mainstream stuff all prevent sales outwith the US, same goes for a lot of things in america to be honest

They said the same about we are scientists on pitchfork and some other band I think despite saying the triptych festival in aberdeen/glasgow/edinburgh, scotland was the coolest festival in the world barely a week earlier

Can't wait for this! I've been thinking for a while that maybe lemon tree could get him up here so good to see its happening!

I got one off ebay about 8 months ago. gamecube, 7 games, memory card. got it all for about 60 quid - well worth it. I think the gamecube goes more for quality rather than quantity unlike the ps2. the original games for the gc are excellent i.e. mario games, zelda games

I thought the N64 controller was brilliant and the gamecube controller also I find better than ps2. never got away with the dual analogue controls but the n64 one was excellent - especially for games like goldeneye.

Check out silverscreen in the st nicholas centre cos they've got a closing down sale, fairly big world cinema selection and most of its 40% off. I managed to get Carandiru for fairly cheap and there were a few more I might go back in for

Run Lola Run Infernal Affairs trilogy Zatoichi Brother I'd highly recommend City of God as mentioned above, excellent film and the City Of Men TV series dvd you can get is also really good - not so brutal

I went to turkey last year and it was brilliant. I'm hoping to go to krakow this year - that looks good for stuff during the day and nightlife and its very cheap

Sounds good, I'll have to get that - but cullum doing buckley, oh dear...

Whiskeytown - Bar Lights Dead Prez - Hell Yeah (Pistol Pete remix) Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat Beck - Round The Bend Ben Folds Five - Brick

The second one does look like a bazouki yeah, are they known as a yute or something as well?

Aye, for one thing plenty of folk have paid good money to go and see it and secondly its totally disrespectful to the performer. I just hope it doesn't put these bands off coming back to aberdeen cos it really was that bad, I felt embarassed to be part of the audience

Was anyone else at the lemon tree on friday night for King Creosote, Akron/Family etc? The audience there was an embarassment, the worst audience I've had the misfortune of being in. Half the place would just not shut up, I was down near the front and I still had trouble hearing some of the gig. Both KC and akron/family seemed pretty pissed off about it and mentioned it. I've not heard akron/family before but it seemed like they tried to get rid of half the audience when noone would shut up which was quite amusing but the constant chatting by so many people really spoiled the night for me I'm afraid.

Something by someone like mogwai?

I've not heard the embrace song thankfully, I avoid listening to the radio at all possible times

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Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (if you like them I'd recommend Cee-lo Green is the Soul Machine for something with a bit more edge) Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia