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Bloody lovely music!

I wonder who will win this one...

'Hercules Moments: Vol. 2', a free sampler celebrating local music, is out now. It can be downloaded from Facebook, Bandcamp and the Hercules Moments website. To celebrate the release, there will be a launch event at Cafe Drummonds on the 28th of October featuring Katerwaul, Outbox, The Deportees and Steven Milne (The Little Kicks), who all appear on the sampler.

This is tonight! It's going to be immense! You can download the sampler here: http://herculesmoments.bandcamp.com/album/hercules-moments-vol-2

In what is turning out to be the most-complex-to-arrange gig Hercules Moments has put on, we are announcing (what we hope to be the last) line-up change due to another cancellation. The line-up is now: Katerwaul, Outbox, The Deportees, Steven Milne (The Little Kicks)

Another line-up change, this time an unfortunatete pull-out. (That's what she said...) Carson Wells are no longer able to play, so the gig will now run as follows: Katerwaul, The Deportees, Mark Riley (Glassman)

Excited to announce that the fantastic Deportees have been added to the bill for this gig

Haha nice. By the way, to welcome new students to the city and to encourage them to check out the local music scene, you can get a pound off entry with a valid student card. Bargain!

This looks pretty damn awesome

Unfortunately I have just been informed that Glassman are currently on hiatus, however frontman Mark Riley will be opening the evening with a special acoustic set.

It's that time of the year again... On the 28th of October, Hercules Moments: Vol. 2 - a 12-track free downloadable sampler featuring some of the finest talent Aberdeen has to offer - will be released on www.herculesmoments.co.uk To celebrate the launch, we're holding a very special gig at Drummonds featuring Katerwaul, Glassman and Carson Wells. Doors 8pm. £4 entry. 18+

I, too, will probably be unable to make it along to the gig

By the way, the Moorings gig will be in my column in next week's EE

Just saw this thread. Do you still have any albums kicking around?

I bloody hope so. Last year's was a cracker!

And here's some more recent reviews... Hayseed Dixie Live at the Lemon Tree The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr Yeats (album) Atari Teenage Riot - Black Flags (single) Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy (album) James Morrison - The Awakening (album)

Yeah really quite disappointed about this. They were great last time they played Drummonds.

Thanks FOX

Hello folks, Just wanted to say that it's been about a year since I started writing my local music column for the Evening Express. I'd like to say thank you to all the musicians who have let me feature them, and who have taken the time to answer my questions and send me photos. I'd also like to say thank you to the people who regularly update the gig listings on this site and Facebook - they are a lifeline in what would otherwise be a very thankless task. If any bands have any gigs/releases/news coming up, please do not hesitate to contact me, as always. Here's to the next year! Eoin

eoin@herculesmoments.co.uk

Fantastic, congrats Son!

Love it. On SoundCloud it says it needs vocals, but I really like it as a post-rock-y instrumental.

Over the past couple of weeks we've posted some fun articles, and this forum's very own FOX has joined the review team. Here're some links Reviews http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/08/t-fest-200811.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/08/galleries-young-wounds.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/08/we-were-promised-jetpacks-medicine.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/09/young-knives-vision-in-rags.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/09/maydays-by-appointment-to.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/09/we-were-promised-jetpacks-in-pit-of.html Features http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/08/8track-fearless-vampire-killers.html http://www.herculesmoments.co.uk/2011/08/8track-attention-thieves.html

Having spoken to a few people before/after the event, I have gathered the following info which may answer some of your questions... Nominations For the industry awards, they invited people to email in their submissions. For the music awards, they initially asked people to fill in a convoluted form, send in CDs and PAY for the privilege of nominating their favourite band(/themselves). They payment part was quickly revoked when no-one nominated anyone. Of all the bands nominated, I've barely heard of any of them - a couple were decent bands who deserve recognition (in my opinion The Lorelei's album is superb, as is Steven Milne's and Meursault's) - however the rest was a bizarre mix of unknowns. Not sure who nominated, but it certainly wasn't the cream of Scotland's musical crop. (For the record, I received an email asking for nominations for the music awards (either self-released or on independent labels), as they weren't having much luck from the punters at that point. I nominated at least 20 Scottish bands - including Pensioner, Indian Red Lopez, Meursault, Sucioperro, Copy Haho amongst others - and only the 3 made it into the final shortlists. In all honesty, those three were pretty much the only ones I'd ever actually heard of.) Voting As for the voting, the industry awards were voted for with an online poll-type thingy. For this, you had to choose someone in each industry category - there were over 20. So instead of just being able to go on and vote for the person you wanted to vote for, you had to go through arbitrarily selecting people you'd never heard of in categories you couldn't care less about. I queried the organisers about the fairness of this system, but was met with a less than satisfactory response. The music awards were listened to by a panel of judges. Someone I know was invited to be a part of the panel, and said it was rather messy - some of the voters were very self-important. Say a category had 5 nominees: apparently the panel were played five tracks, not told who they were, and had to pick one to win. Bizarre to say the least. The Ceremony Was a bit of a shambles to be honest. Things didn't work, most of the winners weren't there, and the whole thing just dragged and dragged. The Pop Cop article mentioned above pretty acurately describes it, and there's another good bit on Radar (http://radar.scotsman.com/viewpost.aspx?id=513). Details changed without being publicised, too, which caused a major amount of confusion. HOWEVER, as much as we joke, jest, complain and generally bitch about the event, there are a couple of important things to note: Even if it was a bit of a shambles, and even if Aberdeen didn't win much, it was nice to see a fair few people north of the Central Belt actually nominated. The nominations were not only given by 'music industry professionals' but also by the general public, so it's nice to see Aberdeen folk being recognised for the hard work they do - admittedly not in the music awards, but the industry awards seemed to have an OK grasp of Scottish music behind the scenes.

Last night I headed down to the Scottish New Music Awards in Glasgow. The ceremony itself was a bit of a shambles, and some of the nominees a bit odd (I have to admit that there were quite a few bands and singers I'd never heard of). However there were something like 14 Aberdeen nominations for the Industry categories, and three for the Music ones, and it was a bit of a laugh. With around 20 nominations across almost as many categories, you'd think Aberdeen would be quite well represented but (perhaps obviously) the central belt seemed to rule the night. Only one man from the Granite City scooped an award, and that was Iain Macpherson of Bedford Records who has been crowned Producer of the Year. A well deserved win for Iain, I think, as his work always sounds superb. I think it should also be said that everyone who was nominated deserves a big well done, and I'd like to thank anyone who nominated/voted for Hercules Moments or my ASR show Mixtape. I know a good chunk of The Lorelei were there, as well as Iain and Steven Milne. Was anyone else from Aberdeen down? What did you guys think of the ceremony/winners?