Oedo 808

Fucking brilliant.

Ally, I'm not sure where you're coming from pal. Are you aiming to do stuff for yourself or are you looking to set yourself up as an agent?

Not strictly true, i know people in Aberdeen who play in bands rather than work, not everyone is in it for the art.

At the end of the day playing covers can be great fun and is a perfectly valid form of musical expression.

Oh yeah, but that's only the start of the story. Lucky Rathen knows the end: it involves a third girl upstairs and how I stirred her two shots of flavoured vodka.

I never remember how I met people or if I've even met them.

That is fucking GENIUS. I LOVE IT!

1st of April.

Oh yes, this shall be watched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzXsqoJhtE

Cheers

Can you remove my signature? I'm getting a bit bored looking at it. Cheers.

Better than Oasis?

I was wondering why I couldn't change my signature. This change is disappointing, especially since I previously explained why everyone should have a signature and the mod team seemingly agreed with this only to change their minds again at a later date.

I like the tune and arrangement a lot but I'm not 100% sure about the vocal mix. Still... there's a lot of awesomely fun stuff in there. Well done.

Without any irony I genuinely like some of the songs suggested so far....

Now THESE... these make me laugh...

Coal Chamber, Machine Head, Type O Negative. Anyone got an old Drilling the Vein video collection and a VHS to play it on?

That reminds me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8-J4hL7iDM

Don't like her voice that much. Don't like her face. Hate the contrived image and the retro associations picked all too perfectly. The Video Games tune isn't too tragic though. Love the fact that the 'authentic' fetishists and muso wankers have had a nice big smack in the puss over the whole thing. So on the whole she's a force for good.

Yep, only moved here in December.

This calls for a pint at the Mains.

dont worry jake i have a shoe addiction (buying them)

Don't worry Little Green, Jake has a shoe addiction too (sniffing them)

I shall no longer be using aberdeen-music.com for promotion of my website and the bands I represent - which is ALL bands in Aberdeen and the Northeast. Contrary to various rumours about me, I do not favour my band or my mates bands. I make it quite public that anyone can email me and contribute to my site.

These accusations you're defending yourself from are news to me. I don't even know what band you're in. I presume this statement about you representing all bands in the North-East is simply a deceleration of your impartiality. Otherwise it sounds a bit odd.

It's a shame because I think we should all be working together and I'm more than happy to have a weekly article on AberdeenBands.com with the top trending topics from aberdeen-music.com linking my readers to aberdeen-music.com on a regular basis. I have no beef against aberdeen-music.com, I don't want to compete with them, I don't want to take any of the a-m.com users ... all I want to do is promote local music.

Did you discuss all this with the guys who run ab-music? (Whoever that is, I'm not entirely sure. Who is 'the boss'?)

I think you should take a deep breath, chill out, have a wee think about things, re-open a dialogue and start afresh.

I use aberdeen-music.com as a platform to spread my message to music fans in Aberdeen because I feel aberdeen-music.com have a great place in the music scene and a massive following...

It would be nice if ab-music could harness this sort of enthusiasm, and as a community start to feel the same way about itself as you do.

it's the thinly veiled promotion for AberdeenBands.com (across numerous posts in different threads) that I was objecting to

I see your point, although I don't object to this thread as a means of promoting ab-bands. The complaint would be more about the slightly lazy, verging into off-topic intrusions into other threads. See Moshulu/ice cream for quo threads.

Change the forum descriptions to something a bit less wordy. The existing descriptions sound as though they should be read in a mid-atlantic radio voice of the sort you used to find on Northsound adverts.

eg. Gigs and Events Announcements is currently described this way:

The forum for announcements and discussion regarding past and upcoming gigs, workshops and other events related to the local music scene.

Why not just say?: Promote your local gigs, workshops and events here.

Networking is described like this:

Are you a band looking for a gig or offering a gig swap? Are you a promoter looking for bands to book? Then make the connection in this forum.

Why not just say?: Organise gig swaps; make connections with promoters and bands.

Instead of separating threads into 'music discussion' and 'feedback' forums split them by interest/location instead.

Have an aberdeen music discussion forum (all discussion and feedback relating to the local music scene in one forum)

Make

Musicians' Corner (change name of this forum to something a bit more descriptive)

Networking

News & Announcements

Trading Post

as sub forums of the main local music forum. This creates a local music 'hub'.

Archive/close/delete the generally unused local band forums which (to an outside observer) make the scene look dead.

Have a more general music discussion forum for music discussion not related to the music scene. (Favourite albums, Pop Music, new Green Day single etc etc... mildly off-topic music stuff)

I've sent you a PM explaining what I meant.

Why the need for privacy?

At one point Lucky Rathen lived in the BOD. True story.

Living Well is the Best Revenge rocks so hard. Somehow Fall Out Boy got huge from writing similar over-produced pop/punk tunes, but Midtown were just better.

"Like A Movie" is one of my favourite pop punk songs. The problem with Midtown is that they had a massive fall out with Drive-Thru shortly after Drive-Thru sold their souls to Geffen. The bitter Richard and Stefanie Reines did their utmost to damage the credibility of Midtown after that. Fall Out Boy "Take This To Your Grave/From Under the Cork Tree" era had the gimmick of shouty bits in their songs which Midtown did not. FOB were a pop punk band who were deliberately marketed to emo kids, whereas only a year or two before that Finch were still being marketed by Drive-Thru as "a dark pop punk band". Fashions change.