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The Facebook page still definitely mentions the singer/songwriter North East thing - that's where I saw it. And a band playing someone else's songs isn't unique - they're on a Krakatoa/Drummonds most weekends. There are loads of local bands that could play support to these bigger bands - that would have covered both bases, and it would have justified Aberdeen City Council sponsoring it. Anyway, some people are happy with the line-up and supports, i'm not - each to their own.

This True North festival nonsense, another year with minimal Aberdeen representation - still banging on about celebrating the singer songwriter tradition of the North East though...

If you're there on a Sunday, you can go to this - http://coldwarsites.net/country/germany/museum-apartment-berlin - and then sneak into West Berlin, that's reasonably close.

Second vote for Ramones museum. Das Gift is a nice boozer owned by one of Mogwai. Holocaust memorial is worth seeing (apart from all the cunts taking selfies on it). Radisson Blu has a seventy foot tall aquarium in the middle of it, its a decent place to have a drink and watch fish if you need a relax. This is touristy but also pretty cool - underground tour of bomb shelters and secret tunnels - http://berliner-unterwelten.de/#

They make pretty good ones a couple of hours west of you - http://tregroeswaffles.co.uk/

Kinda both - the overall rates increase was brought in by the Scottish Government, but the local councils do have the ability to change those rates by way of tax relief schemes - all revenue from rates goes back tot he local councils so it's theirs to do with as they want (sort of). As always in Aberdeen, the local council have decided to do less helping local businesses and more making a lot of noise about the bad government raising taxes, while also voting against tax relief schemes and chasing the Scottish government for their share of the money. Short version - the Scottish Government raised the rates, Aberdeen Council kinda made it worse. Everyone's a bastard.

Move back to Aberdeen from Poland - it's been fucking grey and awful for a fortnight...Sunglasses not required.

Looking for something with more of a story innit - Arkham Horror is supposed to be good?

Splice and MusicRadar will do regular lists with links. I don't really use any except Addictive Drums/Keys and the Focusrite Compressor, the ones that come with Ableton work fine for me.

Might be worth going really old school and use a whammy or pitch shifter?

Suggestions for decent 2 player board games?

Do you actually want to do a "proper" autotune or have an autotune effect on vox? For an autotune effect just use the vocoder on ableton, it's really good and pretty flexible. If you're trying to make it sound like you can sing, go get singing lessons xx https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/harmonic-sound-design-lives-vocoder/

Longer scale length?

Those wikipedia pages will be saying they're both alive as long as I have editing privileges...

I'd have thought that the lower voltages in American power supplies would make boiling water in an electric kettle take a long time?

Right guys, everyone's a bastard and please stop this senseless bullying of poor Broonbreed. #wontsomeonethinkofthebroonbreed

Wagon - we're not in the 19th century any more, you peasant...

It's really straightforward. 1. Throw your mac in the bin - theyr'e rubbish. 2. Buy a PC and start from scratch, think of the satisfaction when you build a list of bookmarks you'll never use all on your ownsome.

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These don't have isolated outputs - so you're going to open yourself up to noise issues cos it's basically just a big ol daisy chain in a box. The smaller harley benton one does have isolated outputs though, so if you've only got 5 9v 120ma or less pedals you'd be ok with that - or if you love ground hum and noise get the big one..

Strong and Stable - it's the future.

I've never met an actual openly admitting to it Aberdeen based Tory voter in the ten years i've lived up here - where do they all hang out? Asking for a friend.

Get a Falcon or an Eagle.

Thunderbolt will have a lot less latency than standard USB - and if you're going mac you'd be as well cos you'll end up needing the usb's for keyboards and triggers/sample launchers. I'm not great at the recording but i do ok for samples beats to play live over, biggest things for me: 1. get really good drum samples, I don't think free samples and lops that come with DAW's aren't great - Addictive Drummer or EZDrummer as a minimum for me. 2. external hard drive, your DAW will break down and you will get read/write errors that'll wreck your projects, keep a backup, and back up at least once a week. 3. piano keyboard, you'll end up piano rolling so much stuff that having a wee keyboard will save you tons of time. That's what i'd be looking at anyway.