That-tickles

I will be doing a radio interview for the Sunday Showcase on Original 106 on the 3rd to talk about our plans for my festival project, appeal for sponsors and to let people know how they can get involved. Tell your friends and tune in if you can. Check out the myspace and join the mailing list for regular updates. www.myspace.com/fringeaberdeen Or for more info and to get involved email: fringeaberdeen@hotmail.com Cheers, Chris Fringe Aberdeen

Zero the Fool Zero the Fool would love to come in for a double session as we are looking for a new demo. I am also directoring of a project called Fringe Aberdeen which is organising a new festival in the city which i would also like to get you involved with. MySpace.com - The Fringe Aberdeen Project - UK - Alternative - www.myspace.com/fringeaberdeen is the site or you can email me: fringeaberdeen@hotmail.com Thanks Chris.

The organisation I have formed to deal with the request for funding for the proposed festival is The Fringe Aberdeen Project and I have now set up a Myspace account (MySpace.com - The Fringe Aberdeen Project - UK - Alternative - www.myspace.com/fringeaberdeen) and a hotmail (fringeaberdeen@hotmail.com) to get things rolling an the net. So now if you want to get involved you can check out the myspace and give us an add. This should help get things rolling on the web. The feedback to far has been possitve and plentiful so keep it coming. Cheers. Chris.

As far as scale goes that depends entirely on the amount of funding and sponsorship we are able to secure and how much support we get from locals business, musicians, press etc. The aim primarily would be to present a med to large scale local event in conjuction with smaller events around the city. Featuring a well promoted program of quality local acts. There are also ideas being thrown around about trying to get northsound involved in some way, a possible compliation of the featured acts, a film of the event but again this depends on securing the funding and personel. It's very much a case of deciding what is feisable in the time scale and budget the first time round but i would hope to extend it to further years if it was a success. As far as our ability to make it happen is concerned, i personally have been involved in the aberdeen music scene for about 5 years both playing and promoting however we will be working closely with the council, creative culture scotland, the aberdeen international youth festival and the cultural enterprise office and others to both present proposal for funding and also to carry out planning for the event. My ultimate responsability will be to engage and co-ordinate as many local organisations and individuals as possible to lend their expertise towards the execution of the event. This is something I feel i'm more than cabable of doing with the help of a driven commitee which we are already putting into place. Again, I would make the appeal to anyone wishing to get involed in some capasity to get in touch via aberdeen music or preferably email: that-tickles@hotmail.co.uk Also, i would stress that things are at a very early stage so now is the time to speak up with regards to suggestions of a name for the overall event, where you would like to see events happen, what bands/artists you would like to see, where you think the main event should be held and the kinds of related merch you would be interested in (cd's,DVD, t'shirts etc). Anything will be lookied at an concidered carefully because I think we could really have something to be proud of here if we all try and make it work. What have we got to lose.....

What a useful comment stripey.... Thats the question i'm asking i've got my own ideas of what i'd like to see but this an oppertunity for you to shout loudly what you WOULD like to see as part of a new festival. I assume given your comment that you have got an opinion. We need an event like this to give the bands/musicians that want it an chance to do something bigger and music followers in aberdeen to have something to get excited about. The money for these things is sitting in coucil purses doing nothing because no one has stepped up to make it happen.

We are aiming for next summer.

I recenty attended a seminar by Aberdeen Council's officer for Culture and Leisure and discussed with him the possiblities of getting funding for a new festival in Aberdeen City championing some of the good new music being produced here. The basic idea would be a series of gigs at various venues around the city culminating in a larger outdoor show at somewhere like the castlegate/union street etc. He offered to help with the proposal for grant money and present the idea to the council if we could raise enough interest and i just wonder what everyone thought. He thinks there's a very good chance we'll get the funding and the council's support. Now that go north has all but deserted us for inverness i feel we need something like this but was interested in firstly what other people thought and secondly , the kind of things that people would like to see as part of such an event. I plan to get together a commitee once we get some funding so anyone that thinks they would like to get involved in any way be it website design, promo, bands, magazines, photographers, etc, etc. Then get in touch because we'll need you all to make this work. So yea... discuss please or pm or send me an email at that-tickles@hotmail.co.uk. Cheers.x

Hey our band needs a bass player. Influences look good. We all went to muse the other day aswell and we're currently trying to inncorporate some loops and samples into our stuff. It's quite a new gig but we're all from other bands and have gigged alot on our own. Anyway if fancy a bash pm me.

Looking forward to get the first one out of the way guys. So anyone looking for a support band towards the beginning of Dec onwards give us a shout. We've all gigged extensively individually and this new band is the fruit of about 6 months of jiggling and around and settling in. We're all really excited about the new sound. think.. Biffy/Rage/TBS/FFAF/Muse etc. Think Clowns on unicycles breathing fire and juggling teen princesses. Any offers?