theghostofcain

please crawl back into the hole you came out of just to stirr it up in this thread.

It seems to me that's all you've been doing, calling me names Keep 'em coming, it doesn't hurt.

Why don't you crawl back to your hole until you can actually come up with a constructive argument?

do you like stand-up comedy? if so, name your favourite comedians.

do you like 'blues' music? some songs from the 50s had pretty dodgy lyrical content about dating young girls and how to 'treat' your wife!

if we shouldn't be allowed to say what we would like to in our songs, does that mean that there should be a set amount of topics that lyrics should deal with? should EVERY SONG EVER just talk about nice things like girls and how swell life is? we've moved on lyrically from the beach boys dude!

do you debate so ineptly in real life?

Q1 - Yes

- Eddie Izzard, Peter Kay

Q2 - No, I don't listen to the Blues

Q3 - Do you ask people stupid questions like this to their face? I very much doubt it

Q4 - See Q 3's answer

Thatcherite? Nice one!

They didn't split up just because of this. Gather facts before spouting shite.

Yeah, ok, whatever you say. Considering the poster said "we split up tonight. for various reasons, not just for this" after Jake had originally posted, and that all their myspace posts are deleted, I would say this is the reason, above all others. Certainly the deciding factor.

I thought Wifebeater were punk? Anyone remember the days when punk actually meant something, political action and all that? Instead of whiny little fucks making a noise for the sake of it, and spouting lyrics just to make themselves look hard or to offend people? If Wifebeater are so punk, how come all their blogs on myspace have been deleted and the band split up over a couple of labour politicians who may or may not try to get their gigs banned?

They've obviously got a lot of local fans to back them up, so why are they worried? And you all think you are so right about free speech, why don't they take it to the European Court of Human Rights? Fight it all the way instead of backing out even before the shit hits the fan?

You can't get beyond free speech, dickhead, thats the whole point.

I'm talking in the eyes of the law, it could be construed as incitement to hatred. And that's ok then, is it?

When your opinion is that free speech should be restricted, then of course we will. Cunt.

As my first post said, it's nothing to do with free speech, it's beyond that. Anyone's entitled to an opinion but I don't believe anyone should be coming out with this sort of bullshit. Where does it end? Beaten women? Yeah very funny subject huh? Foreigners? Well there's an easy target. While we're there, let's take the piss out of the disabled. Anyone who makes fun out of those less fortunate than themselves is a very sick, dispicable individual.

Oh now, this is hilarious.

You are all spouting on about Wifebeater being ill done by, they're entitled to their opinion etc etc. But then I dare to give a differing view to yours, I get jumped on. Very good, you've all done yourself proud and shown yourselves up to be nothing more than a bunch of small-minded bigots.

What a strange little town this is. At best a band like this should be ignored just for being pathetic and childish. But no, Aberdeen, the great city of music, welcomes them with open arms. And the rest of the country probably thinks this is the best we have to offer.

And you can blah on about free speach all you like but thankfully it becomes a different legal issue, as does racism etc

I may start up a racist band in the vein of Skrewdriver etc but the only difference will be the fact we'd be ironic. I bet we'd go down a fucking storm here, you'd love us but still be able to tell mummy it's ok, I'm not racist, it's just a bit of fun. We could have our black mates with us and they'd all see the funny side and we'd all have a good laugh. Yeah, right.

Good riddance to a load of shite.

So I take it we didn't get the gig?

It's not the bands that need to be aberdeen based, it's their fans.

If the bands are based in aberdeen then their fans will be as well.

sheesh, how hard is this. Are you my wife in disguise?

Thank you. None of us are morons. I fully understand the concept. BUT I was not told our fans would need to be in town, I was told we couldn't play (regardless of how many friends/gigs we have) because we were from out of town. As I said before, our local town for gigging would be Aberdeen, it makes no difference if we don't live there. Can you grasp that? Our fans will not be based in New Deer/Mintlaw or anywhere else, as it's highly unlikely we'd ever gig there.

(btw, he didn't ask the question "where are you from?

Yes he did. It was in a PM.

I think the point TGOF is trying to make is this: if you have a following who live in the city, regardless of where the band lives/rehearses, then that's good enough for fudge.

Anyway, there's plenty more gigs to be had to help bands build a following in the city so no stress.

Clearly not, as the first question I was asked was "where are you from?" as opposed to "can you pull a crowd?" It doesn't matter if we could pull a crowd, we aren't local enough to Aberdeen to be classed as local. I personally wouldn't class a band from Mintlaw/New Deer as 'on tour' when playing Aberdeen. And in a similar point to Pictishpunkgirl, is a band that rehearses in Aberdeen but doesn't actually live there, still classed as an Aberdeen band?

No, but then we haven't gigged yet. Our local town to gig will be Aberdeen. Give it a few months and we'll be absolutely no different from a band based in Aberdeen.

I understand that, but there's not much difference between Aberdeen & Mintlaw, if you're talking 'local', in the grand scheme of things is there?

And yeah, that's why we don't have a bass player :-)

sorry, should have said:

we're looking for aberdeen city based bands...

Out of interest, why is that? And does it apply to every gig?

None Of The Above are available on the 4th of August

MySpace.com - None Of The Above - Aberdeenshire, UK - Other - www.myspace.com/evobaehtfoenon

you are EXACTLY the type of person this band was created for. retard.

That is exactly the type of person that listens to them.

No arguments there

this raped so hard..

What a sad, distasteful little person you are.

But then hey, you are in a band called Wifebeater....

I have PM'd you

Guitarist & vocalist needed influenced by Killing Joke, New Model Army, The Jam, The Specials, Raveonettes, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Joy Division, The Beat, Public Image Ltd, The Levellers, many more.

I'm sort of going for a new wave, punk, folk, ska, reggae sound.

Must be original, ambitious, open-minded and dedicated.

For metal/emo/indie/thrash, look elsewhere.

i take it no-one is interested in singing for our band ?(

can anyone suggest a better place to advertise??

Yep, try posting in 'Trading Post'

Hmmm, 2 drummers could be interesting!

Still looking.......

Anyone ?