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Somebody had their camera pointed at their crotch during a game of uno, i gave the appropriate response: "feeler" etc... and they left me bad feedback!

"an unsportmansly attitude"

rodger waters....sick

you might even get yer dinner

hahaha.

does this happen regularly? i mean, gigs at kilau?

is, "is she a dancer" going to be on it? i liked that one too

Morgan Freeman is far too old to be playing BA.

hahaha, suppose his neck would snap under the bling eh.

Cuba Goodling JR?...sap

Hannibal: Harrison Ford

BA: Morgan Freeman

Murdoch: Johnny Knoxville

Face: James McAvoy

i have a set of pearl export shells, but no stands etc with them, so thats probaly no use to you?

aye, ta' very much.

Mark did a great job, we're going back to record our newer material with him soon, the mix of 138 on the exile complation is even better than the one on the internet

New recording for the next Fat Hippy Sampler (volume 3) which shall be released in september:

"You There With the Haircut"

MySpace.com - The Marionettes - Aberdeen, UK - Alternative / Indie / Melodramatic Popular Song - www.myspace.com/themarionettes

Thousands of neds storm pendulum "performance", how unsurprising.

aye just one or two

was there any coverage of pendulum? they played a blinder, had king tuts packed out, then towards the end everyone that was left outside that couldnt get in stormed the sequrity guards and broke through the barrier. you would have expected that sort of thing to happen at rage

Was it just me or did anyone think the campsite was abit mair dodgy than usual? Folk getting stabbed on the sat night, heaps of resuscitations, defib etc and I'm absolutely adamet I saw someone dead on the sunday (policemen standing about writing, some lad in foil not moving and tape around him).

Maybe I'm just getting older?

aye, felt way more sinister on the sunday night than usual. i seen a bunch of neds jumping and looting folks tents during kings of leon, so i packed up my stuff and left on the sunday

i thought the missions were better than san andreas though the story was still a little on the long side. the main advantage gta4 has over the earlier ones is the character of nico, he's more likeable P

but nico and cj were given reasons for being bad, tommy vercetti did all that crazy shit in vice city simply because he wanted to

i was watching her at glasto the other day, its just sad to watch, with her now being diognosed with emphysema, she is struggling to sing her own songs. i hope she cleans up, as although not a big fan myself, when her first album came out she really did have a spark of talent.

this album is fucking great. Best thing they have done since 1989's "Dr. Feelgood".

If you are/were a fan, I urge you to pick it up. I was totally surprised when I put it on after buying it as a blind purchase.

Well you keep yours in "mint condition" for a start, it must be good!

i bagged a marshall guv'nor pedal for 7.83 and sold it to a mate for a slight profit of 17 pence

Keith Moon would definitely be top for me, he was not just an amazing drummer but also a showman. Seen the Who at T in the Park a few years ago and they are just not the same band without him.

does anybody know if there is anywhere with live footage of him playing, there isn't much on youtube and stuff.

Finding messageboards which cover music similar to your own is a good way of spreading your soundz about, as is simply emailing people you're already interested in and opening up a dialogue, LIKE A UN CONVENTION!

ta' very much didn't think of that one! now im going to stop before i piss you people off.

Signing up to myspace and printing a few hundered flyers for a gig is not promoting yourself!

But surely its a start, i know the internet contributes to 1% of homes worldwide, but i think its useful to make local connections. To set up a street team you have to have at least a small following of REALLY dedicated fans, i can't see much folk that come to see my band, even though they enjoy the music, being arsed handing out stuff on Belmont street. i guess we could do it ourselves?

Undoubtably the live performence is the biggest way to promote yourself, its just hard to get people out to gigs, because we can't get our music out to people. All im saying is that i think as well as the complation promoting Exile Studios, it also promotes the bands on it to an extent.

What about the novel idea of bands promoting themselves instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them?

take myspace for example: i don't know if you've got it, however, if you log on and see "new friend requests" and then find out they're bands. How many of them do you actually listen to, nevermind accept? I know for a fact its very few in my book.

Without going off topic, i was just stating that i felt the complation idea, which has proven controversial to some of the more experienced bands on it, has proven beneficial to newer, less experienced bands in raising awareness to our existence.

Pretty easily! Play shows in other places. Use the internets. The whole build up a fanbase a city-at-a-time is pretty stupid.

thats a bit easier said than done though, it can be a bit demoralising i feel for bands who have been playing the same places time after time and the venues are still dead, not nessicerily because they're a poor band, but because nobody's heard of them.

Im not suggesting that having fan-bases in each city are crucial, but to land a decent gig here you have to either know somebody, or be pulling in a decent crowd to your gigs.

Just got a hold of the complation itself, i must say im very impressed, Mark's obviously worked hard on it, i know for a fact he is constantly reworking our track to see if he can improve it.

Does anybody feel that it is important for people like Mark to produce such complations, which REALLY gives an insight to the Aberdeen music scene? I feel that there simply isn't enough of this kind of local exposure available to, especially newer local bands, in the North East, how can a band expect to break out of Aberdeen if they can't even get noticed in Aberdeen.

cheers Jayne,

will try and make it

whos playing in this weeks showcase, do you know yet?

I love the old man's face when he's wanking the kid off.

that will be "Mr Mac" i assume