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Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on home recording and the like. So far I've been mucking about with a Yamaha AW1600 digital workstation which is a standalone piece of kit, but I'm thinking of hooking it up to my computer so I can edit sounds on a more visual medium (the small viewing screen is the worst thing about it) but I really don't know anything about this sort of stuff. Does anyone have any ideas on what I should use? I can transfer files from my aw1600 to my computer without difficulty, but... erm... what now?

Does anyone know much about the synth/elctro pop sound Grandaddy created for the song that's used as the theme? It's really cool.

Written by the rather good Steven Moffat who came up with "Blink" and "The Girl in The Fireplace" I think this season could be rather decent. Also... She's ginger. She's lovely.

Who says chicks don't like metal heads eh? Now Phil gives the ladies two studs for the price of one with his cervix-smashing penile jewellery. Booya!

The boy's having a giraffe isn't he? 'Provocative' Wootton Bassett march planned by extremist - Scotsman.com News

I agree. ...but the Minister wanted the choirboy all to himself.

You guys seem to have a knack for writing decent pop melodies. Say What I Am sorta sounds like a Weezer-esque song, but sung in a snotty pop-punk fashion. Then. Now. Always? Has more of a British sound about it, somewhere between KIGH and the prevailing Scottish Indie-Pop sound. Both are a big improvement in recording terms, and the band seems to be headed in a positive direction. Where was this done?

Haha! Brilliant, I did that about 4 years ago. I just decided to sit this one out, wasn't feeling particularly inspired to party. We usually have a family meal on New Years - personally I've always considered this to be the BIG holiday up in Scotland, bigger than Xmas if you don't have kiddy-winks. So a few drinks later in the day should be in order. I wish everyone the best of health and fortune for 2010!

You're right, this is getting too involved for my liking. In trying to explain myself further I've just added confusion upon what I thought was a fairly simple initial statement.

I'm not sure what you mean

True, but many bands survive at their level for years and then suddenly go MASSIVE 'overnight' so it's maybe just a case of keeping up the good work.

I'm not criticising, I just mean that I'd expect the Xcerts to be continually receiving this sort of recognition; they're a quality band who work hard and deserve it. Also, national press is hardly new for them which is what I mean about treading water. It's just more of the same isn't it? Erm... isn't it? I'm maybe just being ridiculously casual about it all as that level of media attention is something I'm not familiar with but it just seems to me as though they've broke this barrier already.

It does. I think it makes a mention less prestigious, but then, the most useful thing about being on Vic Galloway's list is probably being able to tell people that you're on it.

Nice to see a few Aberdeen acts the Vic Galloway list...

It's nice, but I feel like this is just treading water for Xcerts

As a cure for mental illness.

That's how we used to do it in this Country.

I think a lot of what the British Government has done here has been solely for our benefit. Calling in the Chinese ambassador twice seemed more like theatre than anything else. There was a lot of huff, puff and bluster here in an attempt to save face with the British public, and not much attempt to ramp up the pressure on the Chinese. This just wasn't a fight we were too concerned about fighting, because I think it was decided a long time ago that we had the losing hand, and we didn't want to keep throwing more diplomatic chips into the pot. I think the main lesson learned here is that you'd have to mental to smuggle drugs into China.

The simple fact is that no one in China really cares what we think. In simple terms we've been told to go fuck ourselves.

Well stop telling them that.

Your phone is very wise.

Good advice. Hopefully she'll read this before acting rashly.

Wahey! Picture this if you can: Me on bass, Ryan Massie on guitar and Al Souter on drums. That was my introduction to playing live. We did three songs at The Malt Mill shouting "oooohs" and "aaaahs" through all the songs at Al's insistence who was already pretty well known from Nero. I can't remember how any of the songs went but one of them was called "War". I think that says it all. Point of Origin (2000-2005) Our first gig was on March 15th supporting Capdown @ Exodus, but of course, we were thrown off the stage before we finished our set. We weren't thrown off stage all that often, although we did get gigs banned from Oldmachar Academy "permanently" after playing Bring On The Sluts at a lunch time gig. It pretty much caused total pandemonium when the whole school started singing "Get your fucking pants off!" but I still maintain that some of the teachers liked it. Dan's missus Heather also reminded me the other day of a gig we played @ Dr Drakes where we'd agreed to book the support acts ourselves but didn't. After we'd played our set we had a break and played some acoustic numbers to fill in the time and then took the full band back on stage and played our whole set all over again. A true classic. Although the band has always had me and Ryan in it, we've gone through a few members: Our drummers: Graham "Tooms" Leigh, Ross McTaggert (Xcerts) and David Milne On Bass: Andrew Rogie, Sam Sutherland, Jamesy Bruce, Stephen Keith and Dan Mackintosh as well as stand in performances from Kai Sirius and Craig Quik Stayover (2005-2006) I always thought this band were pretty good. Ryan wanted to do a more rocky/emo thing with Lost at that time, but myself, Dan and Milner took some of the lessons we'd learned from PoO and applied it to stayover. The songs were decent and we had a pretty big following, an indie album deal on the table and interest from Parlophone. When we split up I didn't bother playing music for a while after that. Most memorable gigs - Moorings Residency, especially the one where we covered other local bands and had stand ins from Murray (Xcerts), Kai (Sirius), Steve (Alyssa's Wish) Gumpy and Philip James Johnston as well as other great local musicians. Loved it! Albyn School For Girls (2008) Declaring our love for all things schoolgirl related myself and Kai started this band in late 2007, early 2008 with Milner and Sean from Decipher on Bass. I really thought this band had something good going and I loved the lyrics me and Kai had come up with. The songs were a bit more technical and slightly heavier than what I'd done the past. Sadly, we never lasted long enough to be sued by the school. Point of Origin (Summer 2009-Present) New free for download EP early 2010. Nuff said.

Haha! You said Dead End.

Decent!!