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I will add aswell, flashing lights and prancing about on stage like a cock with a stupid haircut, allegedly fashionable clothes and more makeup than your sister does not equate to good music. Perhaps if more people learned to divorce the performance aspect from their idea of what a musician is, and concentrated on writing there would be less useless redundant music being shat out by the unimaginative kids of aberdeen.

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come on just admit it, most of the bands in aberdeen are just some adolescent kids MTV wetdream fantasy, they only exist because of the sad venues which tolerate them and their sad mates, none of them have anything of any proper musical value to offer to the wider world.

I've always said it was a good thing when drakes closed, because it was the worst enabler of all that lameness.

stripey the music pundit strikes again

"i'm right, you's are all wrong and theres nothing anyone can say to change my mind. I'm arrogant and stuck up and i love that about me."

there was a gig we played with element and (i think it was aftertaste) the other week. totally dead. there was NO promotion whatsoever. it was just bands/girlfriends/mates. thats the first time thats happened at a gig i've been to and it was great fun. it was like a private gig party. who's to say thats wrong? metal is dying out but we still love it and will continue to play it. of course its better if there is a great crowd but i still had fun at the tunnels that night when it was empty. fuck it.

fuck the scene. we made our own that night. :up:

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I will add aswell, flashing lights and prancing about on stage like a cock with a stupid haircut, allegedly fashionable clothes and more makeup than your sister does not equate to good music. Perhaps if more people learned to divorce the performance aspect from their idea of what a musician is, and concentrated on writing there would be less useless redundant music being shat out by the unimaginative kids of aberdeen.

i thought you were anti vinyl??

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so what is this debate about again?

what is punk?

metal sucks. discuss.

your band is rubbish! you know nothing about music

nobody likes stripey's electro bull-honkey

super

just like old times

good work Bob

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this ain't a scene

its a god damn..

bunchoffolkwithnothingbettertodothanargueonaforum

maybe if everyone spent more time telling people about their music and promoting gigs things would be better

maybe we should start a website... it could promote all kinds of bands/artists/musicians from aberdeen... we'lll have a big list of them... what to call it... hmmm..

let me get back to you on that..

i think the question on everyone's lips is..

what does Zombie Munch have to say about all this

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maybe if everyone spent more time telling people about their music and promoting gigs things would be better

Maybe if there were far less gigs then things would be better. There's about 5 or 6 gigs on every night, it's reached saturation point. Couple that with the fact there's far too many ding-as-fuck bands round here and the only way is downhill.

Maybe the answer would be to have less gigs. "Going to a gig" would be more of an occasion and something to look forward to, it's just overkill at the moment.

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Flash@TMB is a great example of the pathetically ignorant, inward looking attitudes of people up here. Anyone genuinely interested in writing music who doesn't recognise the creative flexibility of modern, low cost digital home studios is a fucking clueless moron living in the dark ages, end of story.

Yes, hicks like flash@tmb may not understand the workflow of a digital production environment, may not know how to program a synth or use a sampler properly, but that's no reason to fear the technology or ridicule people that know how to use it effectively.

All of which is accurate... aside from the small oversight that we installed one of these 2 years ago:

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Which is classed as a "modern, low cost digital home [or bar] studio", although it can also be scaled up way beyond that.

Some of the most interesting and thoughtprovoking music of the last 10 years has come primarily from people working at home using a computer as the core of their production environment.

As has most of the worst, including your own excruciatingly dull output.

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You lot are all shit and you dont understand my super fucking ace ways of making music in my bedroom cos you're too busy socialising with people and any music thats played on stage is by people with fashionable clothes and haircuts and i know this cos i read it online and i know everything. london is so much better than this drivel' date=' cos they understand me.[/quote']blah blah moan moan whinge whinge
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Go back to polishing your motorbike flash, if you can't discuss things in an intelligent manner without resorting to pathetic insults against me and my music just don't bother.

So are you claiming that anyone who finds your music dull is unintelligent??? Learn to take criticism and live with other people's opinions. Just because someone does not like your music, does not make them in any way inferior to you.

FYI in the car I'm currently listening to a CD of Jan Hammer's greatest soundtracks from Miami Vice. It cost 3 from the supermarket.

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So are you claiming that anyone who finds your music dull is unintelligent??? Learn to take criticism and live with other people's opinions. Just because someone does not like your music, does not make them in any way inferior to you.

No, I'm saying that not being able to stick to the topic and discuss the issues I brought up, but instead insulting me because you have no intelligent reply, is pathetic. Learn to read.

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No, I'm saying that not being able to stick to the topic and discuss the issues I brought up, but instead insulting me because you have no intelligent reply, is pathetic. Learn to read.

*COUGH* Bob brought the issue up. I'm dissapointed that you feel insulted because your music is not to my taste. Learn to love.

Just out of interest - do you speak with a robotic voice? Cos that's how you read. Like a cross between Metal Mickey and Davros. But it could just be me.

EXXXXTERRRMMINNAAAATE!!!

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*COUGH* Bob brought the issue up. I'm dissapointed that you feel insulted because your music is not to my taste. Learn to love.

Just out of interest - do you speak with a robotic voice? Cos that's how you read. Like a cross between Metal Mickey and Davros. But it could just be me.

EXXXXTERRRMMINNAAAATE!!!

No, I'm talking about the issues I brought up within this thread which you obviously have no intelligent response to, other than the pathetic child like impulse to personally insult me, and for what it's worth I don't give 2 hoots about your opinion of me or the music I produce. What are you trying to acheive exactly other than derailing anotherwise interesting thread? Seriously, just grow up or fuck off.

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Only thing I don't like now is that gigs are too categorised and there is no mix of styles in gigs anymore.

while not wishing to argue that the fudge awards seemed a little below par this year, at least i'd say we put on varied nights. a mix of styles is always best, though some bands refuse to play with acts they consider too heavy, etc

i haven't read the whole thread yet though.

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Not true, you walk past Drummonds or Kef some nights and it's just as busy as it was 5 years ago. As folk have already said, there's different scenes, and the one that lots of people here wank over has ran it's course. Most folk from this 'golden age' have grown up and turned to the 'mainstream', or simply left town. It's no big deal because there's a new one already, full of younger folk who are doing it all again.

moorings audiences have increased on saturday nights, as i understand it, to their highest levels yet. and most weeks we have two out of town bands playing, so that's not bad going (this saturday there's four outta town bands playing, that'll sort the scenesters from the music fans)

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