oxbow lake

bump - that goes for those that applied time before, sorry lost all my emails. going into studio soon but for time being its getting new live set sorted, cheers

http://www.festivalnumber6.com/ Going to this for location as much as bands. last year was spititulaized, primal's and new order plus king cresote types (you always get in wales!), that kind of thing. No idea what it'll be like. but looks good! http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/ then hopefully play belladrum again (cracking atmosphere) - best fest i've been too. And gotta get into Eden this year, http://www.edenfestival.co.uk/ And looopallu again, what a spot! er......I'm realising that I only go to festivals for the location/craic and not the bands................. oh well.

looking at bringing together a band to do classic nothern soul covers, on a commercial basis (playing all nighters, scooter rallies etc) all thats needed is an organist. If you can play organ (hammond, rhodes) and love soul, then give us a shout! oxbow.lake@btinternet.com

We're looking for a bass player we're also happy to have that person write tunes (if they want) and sing (if they want to), but also happy just to have a bass player. usual gigging activity (1 or 2 a month) mostly round the north of scotland and weekly rehearsals in aberdeen. comittment etc can be discussed. live shows are full on from funk blues soul ska latin reggae rock type thing. album about to be recorded has some chilled tunes too. band comprises:- drummer, vocal/guitar, organ/vocal/mouth, trombone, flute/pipes etc and backing vocalist. so you'd be no 7! tunes on website www.theoxbowlake.co.uk new tunes writing recorded on iphone on soundcloud page. some melancholy lots of soul/blues any responses to email oxbow.lake@btinternet.com all will be considered, age not an issue cheers andy

this looks cracking, bump.

we need a creative soul and/or song writer/arranger be great if you can play bass even better if you also sing even even better if you can dance. self confident artist and performer we're going to be writing and arranging new album songs for a while. be great to have another songwriter on board the partnership. Eclectic anything goes type of thing. age/sex/religion not an issue. email: oxbow.lake@btinternet.com www.theoxbowlake.co.uk

Free tibet music posts always caught my eye. An example of the eclectic mix below. cracking. Lipps Inc ~ Funkytown 7" Funkadelic ~ One Nation Under a Groove Pts 1&2 7" Meri Wilson ~ The Telephone Man 7" Blancmange ~ Living On The Ceiling 7" The Vapors ~ Turning Japanese 7" Sex Pistols ~ No One Is Innocent/My Way 7" Errors ~ Have Some Faith In Magic 2LP

Cd's? What about 45's:- 1) 5th Dimension: sunshine of your love. Liberty LBF 15243 2) Brook Benton & Dinah Wasington: Baby, Mercury AMT 1083. 3) Cream: Tales of brave ulysees: Reaction 591015. 4) The Animals: The house of the rising sun: Columbia DB 7301. 5) The Bar-Kays Soul Finger B/W knuckle Head: Atlantic K10082. 6) Althia & Donna: Uptown Top Ranking: Lightning Records LIG506. 7) Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh: DB 7428. 8)Dave & Ansil Collins: Double Barrel: Techniques TE901. 9)Dave & Ansill Collins: Monkey Spanner: Techniques TE914 10) Curtis Mayfield: Move on up: Buddah Records Maxi single 2011-080. 11) Len Barry: 1-2-3: Brunswick 05942. 12)David & the Giants: Ten Miles High, B/W Super love: Capitol CL15915 13) Frankie Valli: The Night: Mowest MW3024. 14)Booker t. & the MGs: Green Onions: Atlantic K10109. 15) The Ojays: I Love Music:Philadelphia Records: S PIR6093 16) Chairmen Of The Board: give Me Just A Little More Time: Invictus INV501 17) Upsetters: Return Of The Django: Upsetter US-301. 18) The Who: 5:15: Track Records; 2094115 19) The velvelettes: He Was Reall Saying Smething: Tamla Motown: TMG 595. 20) Martha & Vandellas: Jimmy Mack: Tamla Motown: TMG 599 21) Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston: It Takes Two:Tamla Motownn: TMG 590 ( Two copies) 22) Marv Johnson: I miss you Baby: Tamla Motown: TMG 713 23) Jnr Walker: Road Runner: Tamla Motown: TMG 691 24) Jnr Walker: I Aint going Nowhere: Tamla Motown: TMG 894 25)Smokey Robinson& The Miracles B/W The Tears Of a Clown: Tamla Motown: TMG 1048 ( Three copies) 26) Mary Wells:My Guy: Tamla Motown: TMG 1100. 27) Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Two Can Have a Party: Tamla Motown: TMG 668 28) Earl Van Dyke: 6X6: Tamla Motown: TMG 759 29) Isley Brothers: I Guess I'll always Love You: Tamla Motown: TMG 683 30) San Remo Strings: Festival Time: TMG 795 31)R.dean Taylor: There's a Ghost In My House: Tamla Motown: TMG 896 ( Two copies) 32) Isley Brothers: This Old heart Of Mine: Tamla Motown: TMG 1050 33)Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: going To A Go Go: Tamla Motown TMG 853

jumping over to italy by way of er... turkey.. the kebab and pizze place on victoria road in torry do the best pizza's ive come across. especially if you get happy (as opposed to his brother grumpy) as he loads the cheese on and it kind of ends up a bit flan like. top class.

I like me 45's. so 2 questions:- 1 - Have any bands released a 7" ep (say 4 tracks) and if so what experieince in getting it mastered/template and production etc have they found. who's the best on cost/quality and how did it sell? Also i'm building up a DJ stock in the hope of one day playing nothing but. 2 - Where can you buy it locally. Has anyone came across specialists? Even working from their home etc? I mostly buy northern/motown soul, ska, funk, jazz rnb type stuff. And unforunately the rare stuff i'm after I can only usually find on the net. Shops I'm ok with - i'm going to one up tonight to go downstairs and see what they have. Is hen's vinyl shoppy still open next door (dont get into town much)? I got some cracking albums there. Also Their used to be a vinyl shop in inverness but appears to have closed??? cheers/thanks

our organ grinders tall skinny cannie dance or sing well and can play the moothie. he's available!

salt part 2 one of my all time favourite tracks. hope the new album has dropped the drum machine? I'll away and check.

Can I be reverend james brown?

This is free entry so you can spend all your money on booze and jump about. the weekend starts on er.... thursday, yes thursday.

I like it when music takes you somewhere and this was like a soundtrack to a film driving through a big city at night.

Apologies if sound cloud nah working it is now fully including download. So fill yer boots !!

Lots of good views. Doc and gord from Dundee points about genre scenes being elitist and competition in music being unhealthy etc. ive noticed how Inverness are doing something right, which was shit for live music when I lived there. They now have Top class venues and festivals etc and theyre packed with folk who wanna have a good time. May be that's the simple key folk go out to have a good time. They appear to like original innovative passionate music but they wanna have a good time. Venues packed, folk up dancing etc. Good times. So they've created this eclectic busy music scene which I notice is so well supported by local folk. Little in fighting or negativity. So it can be done. They need entertainment and tourism more than we do when we have oil (?) Not interested in scenes but Ive heard folk talk about an encompassing record company that focuses on good tunes that could sell outwith the town and Create a brand and thus promote the music scene say like postcard or belle and Sebastian did for Glasgow (creating a new/false reality!!) but I think That's just one part (if at all relevant), getting late night venues free entry good band fee, packed with folk is what breeds the scene (?). Aberdeen has sorted the bigger venues like music hall etc fine Great city lots of money to spend should be a doddle!

acid jazz records are still alive and kicking janice graham band and men of north country top sounds

be seeing you too!

the most eccentric i've come across recently is the last bus www.lastbus.org vegan cafe where they put on solo artists etc and the bus depot (double decker buses on either side of stage). also an even more ececntric recording studio we're playing sat 28th july and maybe fri 27th july also. depot takes 80 people max each night £5 tickets cant go wrong. i think cafe about 30???? I'd go just for a visit to the cafe and a look around. cracking spot.

this place is full of local talent best aberdeen bands i've seen live would be devil train lorelei gerry jablonski's aka ska paddy rasta omar bin mohammad afif's and others i'm sure i've missed best songwriters would be the deportees, never seen them live though...............

be a cracking night. pity I'm aff on me holidays....

aye we look the best from behind ....

i can't be bothered reading all this techno stuff as i wont understand it. all i can say is dare i use a hippydom 'the vibe' is the best in any bar i've played. that's whats important. oh that and the beer. having a good ol' time!

i've got into itunes (old and new alike):- angie collection bert jansch bleecker and mcdougal fred neil brilliant trees david sylvian martin stephenson (a few solo albums) diane cluck's song a week inflammable material SLF colman brothers the crossing big country i feel like i'm fixing to die - country joe and the fish journey in satchidana alice coltrane low david bowie mod jazz os mutantes paebiru - lula cortez and ze ramalho paris 1919 - john cale spirit of eden talk talk (a lot) totally wired 21 acid jazz records take a heart the sorrows