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The nominations for these were released last week, and Aberdeen has nominees in no less than 14 categories! A great sign that we must be doing something right! The local nominations are below. Voting starts on the 2nd of May at scottish music awards, set up to recognise the music scene in Scotland

Booking Agent - Ross Calder (AGP)

Booking Agent - Brian Youngson (Fudge)

Event Photographer - David Lovie (Hercules Moments)

Instrument Retailer - R&B Music

Live Club - The Lemon Tree

Live Sound Engineer - Stephen Podlesny (Snafu)

Major Concert Venue - Music Hall

Music Retailer - One Up Records

Producer - Iain Macpherson

Radio Show - Mixtape with Eoin and Emma (Aberdeen Student Radio)

Radio Station - Aberdeen Student Radio

Record Label - Bedford Records

Rehearsal Studio - Captain Tom's

Sound Engineer - Iain Macpherson

Website - Hercules Moments

Went to this on a bit of a whim last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Had never seen The Daytonas live before, but I thought their Holloways/Arctic Monkeys-style sound was catchy and radio-friendly. Some good riffs in there too.

Despite having a ridiculously spelled name, Acrylic Iqon were good fun - decent quality tunes, pretty singer. Kinda like Paramore with a synth.

And yeah, it's a shame that was Still Searching's last ever gig - they played some cracking songs, and always refreshing to see a drummer taking on lead vocal duties.

As Ross said, "not bad indeed - only 4". Even with Ideals calling off, this was well worth it.

I only just saw this now, but that sounds cooool. Is it on iPlayer?

Atlases is indeed a good album. I may have purchased it at the aforementioned gig by Mr Turner

external hard drive?

Yes, and in fact my iTunes is backed up to one, however these too can be attacked by viruses or simply stop working.

Someone called Rick Martin (probably not the gay popster) at the NME website wrote this:

Why I Don't Care About Record Store Day - Talking Heads - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win

Then Alexei from Johnny Foreigner wrote this:

bloggy foreigner: my main objective is to be more effective

I find myself on the side of Alexei here. I love buying CDs: I like having a physical piece of music that I myself own. Yes, I listen to a lot of music in my iPod, but I also love browsing through, and listening to, my CD collection. (And, for the record, I also massively enjoy listening to vinyl, but have very little and currently no turntable.)

I know that physical releases are dying out - and I think that's a real shame - but there is no reason why physical and digital can't co-exist; this NME bloke is just being massively ignorant.

Plus, if all you do is download, what happens if your computer crashes? I know iTunes saves your music purchase history in case of this, but what if you bought it from a band's own online webstore? You have lost that music forever. Say goodbye to your hard-earned cash.

I also don't understand why he started off writing about Record Store Day, got bored of that after a sentence, and then ranted about download vs physical.

I suppose the comforting thing here is that almost everyone who has commented on the NME article - and on the JoFo blog - seems to be in agreement that that said NME writer is up his own arse.

Mini-rant over. Thoughts?

Nice one. I might try and come along to this - saw Jim supporting Frank Turner and thought him and the band had some decent tunes.

Once again another excellent compilation

That picture is bloody brilliant. But yes, get Foxhunting

That's really cool; really interesting. It has a bit of a Ratatat vibe going on... nice one, well done

Really enjoyed this. A good mix of great bands

I was wondering that too. Because I read something online somewhere that they are under new management.

This isn't usually my preferred style of music, but that's a bloody good EP

Any idea what time the gig will finish? Also, I'm assuming there will still be tickets to pay at the door?

Got my tickets

Ooh cool The day after The National in Edinburgh too! Gonna be a sweet couple of days!

Thank you thank you thank you!

Hope every who came had a great night, we certainly did.

Approx set times:

8.00-8.30 Amber Wilson

8.50-9.20 Min Diesel

9.40-10.10 Stanley

Hope to see you there. Please do stop and say hi if you make it.

This is tomorrow night guys, hope you can make it

If anyone's interested, I wrote a wee review of this

Hercules Moments: Weather Barn - The Boat Ride

Quite a big fan of The Darkness - good, fun music. I even liked the second album! I remember my parents took me out of school for an afternoon so we could go on a roadtrip to see them live in Glasgow: Justin Hawkins made his appearance by flying over the crowd in a huge pair of tits with flashing nipples. 'Twas Hilarious.

And as for the re-forming, I say good on them. Stone Gods were OK, and Hot Leg were barmy (perhaps a bit like The Darkness on steroids), but you can't beat the original. According to their new website, they're working on a new album. Wonder what it'll sound like...?

Fantastic gig last night - 2 bands at the top of their game

Hey folks, we'll be appearing on Michael Gordon's Sunday Session on Northsound 1 tonight at 8pm to talk about this gig, and musical goings on in Aberdeen over the next month.

I'll also be appearing on national DAB radio station Amazing Radio tomorrow between 6&7pm to talk a bit about Aberdeen music and, again, the gig

Sounds intriguing

any word on the support? Was hoping it would be Found but they seem to be doing all the tour except for Scotland strangely

Yeah, I also found that a bit weird...