Fish out of water

More miss than hit; the animated sketch drawn on the school jotter was excellent but most of it was gash, and obvious gash at that.

Kind of wondered how he would make the transition as, for me anyway, his strike rate was equally as low on the net. I thought a bit of quality control would've worked wonders. I see it didn't.

Stereo. That is all.

rhianna's got plenty choooons min! but she has some serious cleve despite having little to no breast tissue

The wonders of the push up bra...

grammatically/spelling wise its pretty shoddy but the points (most of them) are valid. well done.

What he said.

Haud the bus. You're a Glasgow band and you're playing Rockers?

OK, there's a few problems for you to consider - 5866 views of your myspace since you registered toward the end of 2008 suggests you don't have an audience or any sort of profile outside your circle of mates - that is not going to attract someone into booking you.

One of my bands hasn't got a much bigger profile than you and we also send the obligatory email to Fudge every few months. Same response "booked up". I'm too dumb for euphemisms so until he actually says he doesn't like us or gives us a date, we'll just crack on with this approach.

All that said, if you check one of the other threads he has put a link to your myspace and I assume he is letting the forum be the ultimate yay or nay.

I would also maybe consider checking out a few of the bands up the road and perhaps trying to get a gig swap organised.

The other problem is the promotors/venue owners as a whole have a truckload of local bands to consider. Also, no matter how much they like a band, no venue owner wants the place to be empty. Venues are there for the sake of it, they need to sell beer. Don't let it stop you trying to book gigs but think about it on the other side of the fence. Anyway, if you think Aberdeen is hard to get a gig, try Dundee.

Oh, and if you're looking to get a gig in Stirling, try this guy:

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Good Luck and God Speed.

I was listening to Superunknown the other day for the first time in years, I had forgotten how fucking amazing that album is.

Same here, although it was the 7" of Black Hole Sun I found. Happy days.

Don't remember the first record but I do remember buying tickets for Swervedriver at the Pelican from the shop in Diamond St. Probably about 1993 I would think.

IFor me, the most hideously awful band doing the rounds these days must be Keane, as they sort of pretend to be a real band and do proper gigs and even seem to have convinced one or two music fans that they are acceptable.

Completely agree with you. Except for "Bad Dream". I have to admit I have a soft spot for that. In a maudlin two-and-a-half-bottles-of-red-wine way.

I'm a rather depressive drunk you see.

Ah, I forgot about them! I hope they bored themselves to death.

Me too! Really appreciate being reminded of them now'd I actually forgot about them.

Has anyone mentioned The View yet? they're awful...

Libertines, Glasvegas, Razorlight, Stereophonics, Camera Obscura, Carter USM, We Were Promised Jetpacks.

Think its an Optometrist you need rather than a Trick Cyclist.

Bell-end and Sebastian - have a deep seated loathing of them. Twee, smug, clever clever bollocks.

I'd be staggered if my mate was earning 100k+, but I don't really know for sure. The flat he just sold in Glasgow was a rather modest two bedroom one in Glasgow, if he'd been on that kind of dough I would have thought he would have been somewhere a bit more prestigious.

Really? I would have thought that, given your mate's former occupation, he wasn't living in springburn or bridgeton - dumps like that are the only place you'll pick up a modest 2 bedroom in Glasgow.

Still, a schneider of a day though. Think BA are next by the look of it if these strikes go ahead.

Should be simple enough to replicate with a pedal then.

4 pedals. Yes.

Not sure...

Just use a tremelo pedal and set the timing to go with the speed of the beat.

I do agree that some widdly stuff can be a pile of shite (although Dimebag did it with feeling and style IMHO)

IIRC How Soon Is Now' tremelo start was four Fender Twin Reverbs, one set up in each corner of the room with the tremelo speeds manually controlled and adjusted on the amps.

I won't get into my thoughts on Dimebag.

Still, she's managed to generate a 3 page discussion on here.

Don't think she'd be hugely happy about it though.

Analogous fail

Well spotted. Always worth a try though.

Anything better to offer?

You cynic

Think she ended up going out with Alex Parks - the Fame Academy winner that did a Coldplay cover that was about as awful as the original. Or have I just made that up?

So what exactly did Tiger Woods do?

Putted his balls in courses that were considered out of bounds.

I dunno, MM is a bit higher up the pecking order than ST. She's on the five thirty show or whatever it's called these days on STV.

True. Got a radio show too IIRC. So a bit nearer to the bird from Paisley out of Speedway who charted with a cover of "Genie in a Bottle" then many moons ago?

100 a night? Is she really still that popular?

I'd have thought she'd be lucky to have a hundred over the course of a week turning up to her gigs.

The Evening Times in Glasgow has Michelle McManus as its worthless celebrity when its short of any news. I guess the EE has Sandi Thom.

Sounded like a mid-table Eurovision entry to me.

Nail on the head.

She looked RAF on X factor the other day. The girls at my work thought it was an old woman.

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