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Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the people that have contributed to this particular thread - or attended the gig - felt that way but I did stumble upon another thread about a previous shutter gig, where some very out of line personal comments were made about them, which is of course completely uncalled for regardless of their musical preference. Nice guitars indeed. I wanted one of those aerodyne jazz basses, but they don't do left handed versions. I'll show everybody when I get a solid gold one.

Yeah, it was a really good night. I thought everyone was top bananna and dare I say it, shutter were superb. I don't know the history of the hatred, but I personally think they are top blokes and I've always had a hoot with them. For me it wasn't so much of a gig as a test-gig-experiment, as it's the first time I've taken it out the house. There were plenty of mistakes, plus feeding back from the mics, buttons being pesky and so forth. I missed out a song because I thought it was going rather badly, but I wish I just played it. It was a nice upbeat jaunty twin-bass number too but as I said, it didn't really bother me as it was something new for me. Thanks again to Ben for digging it enough to invite me up Spit

Remind me Northern brethren, what's the name of that main road with Top Shop, McDonalds etc on it, before you turn off to come under to the Tunnels? I don't trust my 'generic touchscreen telephone with built-in GPS'. The map doesn't match my memory of the last time i was there Spit

Yeah, get back to my flied lice you plick! :O I must admit, i'm not *that* into post-rock (even though there's several sub-divisions within the 'post-rock' thing itself but that's another thread. Maybe i'm too old and not down with the kids?), but that last gig in the Tunnels with Esperi, i thought your new stuff was fecking awesome! another thing, i love the irony of post-rock now being a standard form of rock

yeah gerronwithit! ya bums!

hope that's my cock in hand you have there

yeah, what happened? that was at Dexters wasn't it? Come to Drouthies. Phil likes it there, doesn't he? Dundee isn't as bad as you believe. Like the first time eye played Aberdeen, you had us in some funny old mans pub, with no-one there! Then we were shown the Tunnels. All better.

I would like one. Come to the Tunnels on the 19th and give me one. Can i have a CD too? Oh the hilarity. Did you see what i did there? You didn't? Neither did I.

Wow! i thought it was nearer 800SOBS for some reason. Cheers for that! No no no, must fix the suspension on the van first....

Yummmy!, where did you get the Ground Control?! Couldn't find any in the UK!

Bass- Fender Mex Jazz Bass, (LH of course!), John East onboard preamp, Seymour Duncan pickups, Leo Quan Badass Bass Bridge II (terrible name) Laney R4H, 1x15, 4x12 Status Energy 5 string fretless Guitar- Fender Jap 72 LH Tele white ash, maple neck Blackstar 5 Watt valve amp, Boss Tuner Modified (Monte Allums) Boss Blues Driver Fender Phaser T-Rex Tremster TC Electronic Vintage Delay TC Electronic Nova Reverb, RFX MIDIBuddy (for Ableton LIve) Boss RC-20XL (FOR SALE) E-Bow Diago Pedalboard Diago Powerstation "Studio" (room with stuff)- 2 x ElectroVoice N/D767 Dynamic mics AKG C1000s Condenser Sontronics STC-2 Large Diaphragm Condenser Sontronics STC-1s Small Diaphragm stereo pair Mackie 400f 10 I/O Firewire Preamp Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O Firewire Preamp Samson Patchbay Carillon Control 49 MIDI Controller Faderfox LV2 MIDI Controller (specially designed for Ableton) Tapco S5 Monitors Beyerdynamic DT100 Headphones Akai 4000DS MKII Reel to reel (awesome equivalent to a tape echo) Imac 2.4Ghz, 4Gb RAM Macbook 2.4Ghz, 4Gb RAM Ableton Live 7 Logic Pro 8 MOTU Electric Keys REAPER MIDIStroke Glock Melodica Autoharp Recorder

Fuck the gig, I've got a date with Helen Daniels, Billy Kennedy, and um, Cody Willis?....right ok, gig it is. Lousy Aussies with their prison heriatige, leathery skin and poisonous spiders/snakes/frogs/plants/dust/tongue. So yeah, gig. I'll probably be there about 6:30-7:00.

No that's quite alright. I agree that it can be backgroundy (hopefully not in a 'muzak' way) and I guess to an extent I subconsciously don't want it to progress or 'do anything'. Kind of like watching Neighbours, where you can drift in an out over a course of many years, and Lou Carpenter is still coming up with get rich quick schemes and Bouncer is still dead.....

Hey everyone, I'm looking forward to this night. Ah, t'will be fun for sure. Thanks for above comments, both good and bad. I do hope you enjoy it in real life. Alkaline, I appreciate your honesty. Any thoughts on anything specific that you feel is lacking? and i don't want to sound confrontational when I say that as I am genuinely interested in others opinions, as i am of course only one man (woe is me!) and although I primarily do it for my own enjoyment, it obviously makes sense to let others enjoy it too! PM me if anyone wishes. I hate 'laptop sets' as much as the next 'muso'- Katerwaul/Bench will remember the event in which [eye] and they played alongside a sea of pretentious scene queens checking their emails live on stage! We were the ones scoffed at for having these primitive amplimicators and guitarimaphones. So, I will be doing my best to play as much as i can live, and leaving the Solitaire until later. In conclusion, Beatles bad, Wings good. Discuss. Spit x

aw shucks, it is indeed true. I joined a while back whilst doing a spot of recording for them (us?), did a show or so playing glock and other bits. Kev will be on the 'album', bar a couple on new ones, which is all still roughly mixed and un-re-recorded, as per current Myspace songs, but it's coming together. Last night in Glasgow was my first gig on bass on a pokey little stage which was oddly fun. i had to sit on my cab, and kicked Jon [drummer] in the shins when i moved. Also had a nice view of the back of Chris' head. From what i remember, everyone stands at the back during gigs at the Tunnels? Maybe we should set up by the bar?