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Im just picking you on one thing here. Some of the best record labels and management companies have started in bassments, bedrooms, garages etc. This ISNT what makes them a bad management company.

Ya see, you took it well. Im sure Tom's response about me in that thread made a few people chuckle. Word is that my post about the "cross section of people" on this site amused a few mods but they just knew that it had to closed due to the chaos i would've induced. I'm so mischevious..."I'M MAD ME!!!" *eats own poo to prove it*

Oh really? Almost all? Read it again recently have you? I cant really be arsed getting into this one again. Like I say, it doesn't affect us really. You're precious about stuff that I couldnt really care much less about and vice versa. This is an argument that will go on forever and the actions always end up speaking the loudest anyway.

"The way I see it is that God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"

We were happy, of course we were. Thing is, what's the point really in telling everyone on here. I know it comes back to that argument about "attitude towards aberdeen-music.com" and all that but the proof is all there. I bet you think we should've announced that we were playing Taste of Chaos again this year but there was just no point. It was someone else that announced it for us and even she didnt put our name in the thread because she knew the shitstorm that would follow. She doesnt even know us and hasn't seen us as a band and still knew what saying our name in a thread would cause! So you see, whats the point in trying to make people on here proud of you. It wont happen. People GENERALLY dont like to see their peers get on and do well. Sad but true.

I dont recall us telling people on here that we were in the paper though. I'm not agreeing that Estrella were acting smug or whatever...just making it clear that yes we have been in local press a few times but haven't mentioned on here. Not to the best of my knowledge anyway.

MODS...MOOOOODDDDSSSS!! Come on, there is perfectly good (if somewhat heated) debate in this thread. Need for that comment. If me, Dan, Tom etc had said that...we would be suspended for a week and the post deleted. Sort it out!!

Amen to that.

Yes, and that's why I do put that disclaimer in. Like you say, on this site,misunderstood. If you're all nice and sit on the fence with everything you dont get bothered but as soon as you say something that ruffles some feathers or you even dare to bring what experience you have had in a band that say has worked harder and experienced more than the majority on here, you get raped!

I actually agree with Tom if i'm honest. I don't agree on the stuff he has said about Estrella. I know who they are but I dont think I've ever seen or heard them. I do, however agree on what he has said about battle of the band contests. IN MY OPINION, they are a joke and are kind've seen by the majority of the industry that way. They tend to conjure up images of bands that are pretty desperate for recognition of the wrong kind and/or on the way out. Often I feel it's bands who are misguided that play these things. Before I get jumped on (who am I kidding, of course I will!) I would like to point out that I realise not all bands are in music with the intentions to try and get somewhere etc etc and do find these contests fun. Peace to that. Most bands that do win these things are generally never heard of again or never break out of their own comfortable surroundings.

Aww thanks man. Didn't have you down for an NME reader. Yeah Inverness is cool. Seem to be building a nice little fanbase there. They are all really cool up there and we sold quite a bit of merch. Good luck on making your next cassette recording and posting it to some far flung eastern european country...no, seriously. Good luck with that one.

ooohhh ousy...you're awesome...hahahha!!! a welcome addtion to this site...im sure everyone will agree!

Haha, nice. It wasn't backtracking, I just wanted to add that part because it was unfair otherwise.

Ooohhh, dont do that pet, you want to watch that blood pressure hmmm? Seriously though...when you dying?

hahaha...i love "fuck up" also. Im beyond hope huh?

Well played.

I think that use of the word jokes is awesome actually. Incorrect or not. It's incorrect to take smoke into the lungs but we still do it.

Nah, I think you'll find that that title belongs to this:-

Err...The bit you havent quoted me on kinda addresses what you have said in your reply. I wasn't sneering. I'm allowed my opinion on what it means to me and im also entitled to express that as I see fit to who I like. I also said that the site was better some time ago. Your post was kind of redundant, but hey, it was your opinion so...peace.

To be honest with you, I do believe it pretty much had nothing to do with this site. Ross gave us some awesome shows in earlier days and that made lots of people see us that wouldnt have normally so...coupled with our hard work and Jamesy's networking, it began to go from there. I dont actually think we ever REALLY found the site of that much use and perhaps tried to see if it was so I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to. To be honest, the creation of our myspace page was when things really statred motoring for us in an internet sense. To be fair, the main reason we post up here when we have any significant news is, if im straight with you, is a morbid curiosity to see what shit storm or deafening silence (its on or the other) greets said news! I will admit that it's a pretty cool site and the intent of it for the most part is good and i'm sure some people do get alot of use out of it. It did use to have better days quite a few years ago but now it doesnt seem to. Wether that's me or the site that's changed I'll never really know. Quite why you're so precious about it is beyond me.

haha...that was a pisstake by scholey! he thought he would chance his arm.

To be fair Munky...Ousy has hardly put his brain in gear before speaking. Don't worry. This Website will have VERY little if any bearing on the way your band develops musically and with a fanbase, especially if you work your myspace right. If you want my advice, which you have asked for in person before when we had a chance meeting, use this site as light entertainment, nothing else. Thats my t'uppenceworth. Take heed or not.

This made me almost PISS myself!!!! HAHAHAHA

wow...thats mental!

Same time? Early Sunday morning?