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1-2-X-U / BILE YER HEID!
Monday, 7 May 2012
VIDEO NASTIES: BILEYERHEID on yt
BILE YER HEID videos on Youtube:
as of tonight, UNIFORMS and THE DAUNTLESS ELITE.
to come: CLEAVERS, THE KIMBERLY STEAKS, BANDITO FLEETO, E2V, TOXIK EPHEX in Aberdeen, FOUND ON THE FLOOR in Elgin, and LEATHERFACE plus many others in Dundee.
Four hours of footage to wade through. busy arranging & organising gigs for June, July and the rest o' this summer, fuck off.
(just bide yer time min...)
Channel is here - feel free to subscribe, there's a heap of videos on their way soon enough...
as of tonight, UNIFORMS and THE DAUNTLESS ELITE.
to come: CLEAVERS, THE KIMBERLY STEAKS, BANDITO FLEETO, E2V, TOXIK EPHEX in Aberdeen, FOUND ON THE FLOOR in Elgin, and LEATHERFACE plus many others in Dundee.
Four hours of footage to wade through. busy arranging & organising gigs for June, July and the rest o' this summer, fuck off.
(just bide yer time min...)
Channel is here - feel free to subscribe, there's a heap of videos on their way soon enough...
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| THE DAUNTLESS ELITE, Aberdeen, 4 May 2012 |
Sunday, 19 February 2012
DEATHWANK
Push yer eyes back into yer heid.
"And rotate them 180 degrees in my favour... do it." onto the following web-page-site-profiles.
Bandcamp: http://deathwank.bandcamp.com/album/deathwank
Free EP download (**goes straight to 'Preparing Download'): http://deathwank.bandcamp.com/download_tralbum
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003519523451&ref=ts
"Deathwank was formed early 2012 by three disillusioned wankers with small minds and delusions of grandeur from small towns in Central Scotland as a reaction to this fucked up world full of fucked up people with inane trite concerns."
If you clicked on the 'Free EP download' link, you should by now have the EP in your computer. What do ye find?
10 BURSTS OF FEEDBACK & AGGRAVATION IN 100 SECONDS.
(Makes "Group Sex" sound like SLEEP's "Dopesmoker"!
If that sounds appalling to you, best get off this blog, it's all downhill fae here! It's not for the faint-hearted, or almost anyone at all for that matter.)
Great name - check
'Feat. members of a sterling Central Scotland band' - check
Feedback - check
Cannot turn speakers up any louder - let me open VLC player to hear it at 1.5 times the possible volume - check
Puts me only in mind of COMBATWOUNDEDVETERAN if they were called
ASPHYXIATIONWOUNDEDONANIST
Jeezo! More bands like this in Scottish hardcore please!
(PS: More Dead Conservatives)
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ADDITION: so I can make sure you ultra-lazy cunts (who can't simply click a button 3 times or so) get this masterpiece, I've uploaded it to the BILE YER HEID databank. Datawank?
Knock yersel' oot:
HERE
Thursday, 16 February 2012
THE HIJACKS
are playing their last Aberdeen gig ever in a week!
One of Scotland's foremost (and Abdn's only, as far as I'm aware) skardcore bands are playing their last gigs EVER ever next weekend across Scotland, in a A-G-E route (Aberdeen: Thursday, Glasgow: Friday, last gig ever in Edinburgh on Saturday)
Seeing as we are the famous Aberdeen, I say the Cellar 35 date should get packed right the fuck out, a full hoose and a bounce of a night to send them aff!
Finding themselves a special place in my heart for having the 'brass' neck to dare to have socio-politico lyrics, when, after a ska-receptive early-teens (I was one of these annoying kids who got into CAPDOWN through Kerrang! and THE PROPAGUMBIS through Fracture, and fuckin' loved 'em), by the time THE HIJACKS started playing, all I'd eventually expected from ska-punk was bratty suburbanite complaints in a woeful Caribbean affected-accent. The lyrics actually have meaning and more importantly, passion!
And the way the lyrics call things is often very close to my own worldview, so there's no way I could dislike the band; in fact, don't take my word for it, wrap yer peepers roun' these:
"Everybody’s running scared, panic and fear.
The markets are crashing, unemployment’s near.
The headlines and leaders, all follow the line
of the bankers and the CEO's commiting the crimes!
Live your life to work all day, sweat for the man, ‘cos we gotta plan:
Follow the rules just like a slave,
No protest, no stand, no things outta hand.
Stop to think about this life
Is this what we want, ‘cos it’s what we got -
To continue in this system
and watch our dreams rot, ‘cos that's all we got!
Why don’t we work less and produce less?
If we consume less, we can forget this...
way of living that don’t make sense.
Dictatorship in disguise, democracy in demise.
It’s more, more than we need, to need’s not a crime,
the crime is the greed, the greed and the fear."
from Consuming Our Compassion, released 24 July 2009
Bolded lyrics my absolute favourite of any HIJACKS tune.
(Link goes to THE HIJACKS Bandcamp where you can listen to and name-your-price download both o' THE HIJACKS' EPs - strongly recommended you give them a blast if they're an unfamiliar name)
Seeing as we are the famous Aberdeen, I say the Cellar 35 date should get packed right the fuck out, a full hoose and a bounce of a night to send them aff!
Finding themselves a special place in my heart for having the 'brass' neck to dare to have socio-politico lyrics, when, after a ska-receptive early-teens (I was one of these annoying kids who got into CAPDOWN through Kerrang! and THE PROPAGUMBIS through Fracture, and fuckin' loved 'em), by the time THE HIJACKS started playing, all I'd eventually expected from ska-punk was bratty suburbanite complaints in a woeful Caribbean affected-accent. The lyrics actually have meaning and more importantly, passion!
And the way the lyrics call things is often very close to my own worldview, so there's no way I could dislike the band; in fact, don't take my word for it, wrap yer peepers roun' these:
"Everybody’s running scared, panic and fear.
The markets are crashing, unemployment’s near.
The headlines and leaders, all follow the line
of the bankers and the CEO's commiting the crimes!
Live your life to work all day, sweat for the man, ‘cos we gotta plan:
Follow the rules just like a slave,
No protest, no stand, no things outta hand.
Stop to think about this life
Is this what we want, ‘cos it’s what we got -
To continue in this system
and watch our dreams rot, ‘cos that's all we got!
Why don’t we work less and produce less?
If we consume less, we can forget this...
way of living that don’t make sense.
Dictatorship in disguise, democracy in demise.
It’s more, more than we need, to need’s not a crime,
the crime is the greed, the greed and the fear."
from Consuming Our Compassion, released 24 July 2009
Bolded lyrics my absolute favourite of any HIJACKS tune.
(Link goes to THE HIJACKS Bandcamp where you can listen to and name-your-price download both o' THE HIJACKS' EPs - strongly recommended you give them a blast if they're an unfamiliar name)
This is highly recommended for anyone that minds of the glory days of GFN? Promotions, with English, sometimes American, ska-punk and pop-punk bands coming to AB every other month - it was so good to have a solid, dependable gig promotin' collective here, most unlike these days..... - and of course if ye missed out on 'em the first time round and fancy a bit of Thursday skanking.
THURSDAY 23rd of FEBRUARY
CELLAR 35, Rosemount Viaduct
Doors 7.30pm - GET DOWN EARLY AS IT'S A SMALL VENUE!
(FIRST COME FIRST SERVED)
(although yer always able to hear the band even when standing outside, upstairs
it's not like there's a bouncer
or dickhead venue owner
to stop you from standing in the fuckin' cold with the smokers and hearing the bands' sets
if you were to turn up too late to get in.
Fuck, we've all had to do it at some point)
£4 tax
THE HIJACKS (last ever Aberdeen show) - political ska punk from Aberdeen (they're half-Elgin really but ssshhh!)
UNIFORMS - melodic hardcore that's rough and gruff enough!!! must-see DD&PH band, feat. ex-Joey T/PMX.
CRASHDOWN ("pop-tech-punk" from Brechin)
THE PEEPERS ("hard rock/ power pop", second gig - the verdict's out, never even heard the name so they must be brand new - will report back.
To reiterate in case you got lost in my unusually "beat" digression ^
TURN UP FUCKIN' EARLY, FOR HALF 7 OR EARLIER, OR YOU WON'T GET FUCKIN' IN!
CELLAR 35 IS A SQUEEZE EVEN FOR A SHITTILY-ATTENDED GIG, IT'S GONNA BE PURE FUCKIN' DEATH FOR A MAJOR ATTRACT LIKE THIS!
EARLY, MIND!
|Obligatory mention of "THE UPSTARTS and how happy they made a lot of Moravian and Elginer kids last decade" to go in here|
((In case anyone is wondering how 'e Heid Biler's life restructuring/re-prioritising, and re-focusing in to pursuit of life liberty and ALL! is happening.... nah, you were right not to ask... just don't ask.
However, the house move is going OK!
The Thursday of the above gig is the day I'll be getting the last of my shitty belongings - the scratched platters, the unwound tapes in cracked cases, and the US hardcore/UK punk/anarcho/metal/Lemmy books collection, out of what was Bile Yer Heid Towers 2008-12, and into the excellent, at-the-feckin-water's-edge flat which may or may not get assigned the monicker THE LOFT OF CRUST. (It's too easy, is it!)
Lot of stuff still to move in, then unpack, then lose, then try to find again; so consider yersel' warned -
there may not be new blogs shat out, or songs or videos uploaded, for a fair while after w/c 20th Feb.
So if you see me at the above gig, given that I'll have been lugging yet more shite up and down stairs, expect a harassed and exhausted outlook - well, more so than normal - yet relieved and pleased and in the mood for a skank!))
(By that I mean, silly prancing, not macho dancing)
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| Excellent version of Shawn Kerri's "Skank Man" by ~Frankentrina, DeviantArt (2008) |
Monday, 9 January 2012
PHOTO: Gig in Parasite's Lair featuring UK DEATH CHARGE, AGS,
THE VOID and OI POLLOI (in order of confirmation for this,
THE VOID
OI POLLOI
The night before on the Friday, AGS went to see THE DICKIES with OI POLLOI and GIN GOBLINS. At that gig, either Danny or Stu asked POLLOI if they'd come and play the flat gig I'd been planning. Danny had got THE VOID to play, I think he may have asked UKDC as well. It was essentially Danny's gig... The important thing is, they said "Tha!", we said "Ròcamaid!!!!", and they came to the kitchen/living room bringing more or less everyone to the gig.
I don't remember too much of the gig; specifically AGS' set, I have no idea how we sounded. Stottered aboot in a kind of blind panic
But we had a drink (dunno if they doled oot the free uisge beatha though), we were rocked, gig was successful.
The following night, the Sunday, POLLOI were playing again at Studio 24, with ZEGOTA and FILTHPACT.
That weekend had three gigs on three nights in Edinburgh. Weekends like that should be every weekend...
(I didn't get thrown outta halls for the fire extinguisher getting emptied and thrown away by somebody. (never discovered whom. does it matter?) Nah, I went to Sighthill to speak to the accommodation folks, they were probably so charmed they were won over and I got a warning, w/ a bill I never had to pay... It was the first and last hoose gig I needed to put on, really. That said.... I would do it again.)
that occasion that I put on a gig in the student halls flat kitchen/living room, invited barely anybody, then OI POLLOI agreed to not only play but bring folks along. Then I got fucked for the fire extinguisher being emptied and chucked...
PARASITE'S LAIR, RIEGO STREET, TOLLCROSS, EDINBURGH.
PARASITE'S LAIR, RIEGO STREET, TOLLCROSS, EDINBURGH.
SAT 26TH NOVEMBER 2005.
UK DEATH CHARGE
UK DEATH CHARGE
THE VOID
OI POLLOI
The night before on the Friday, AGS went to see THE DICKIES with OI POLLOI and GIN GOBLINS. At that gig, either Danny or Stu asked POLLOI if they'd come and play the flat gig I'd been planning. Danny had got THE VOID to play, I think he may have asked UKDC as well. It was essentially Danny's gig... The important thing is, they said "Tha!", we said "Ròcamaid!!!!", and they came to the kitchen/living room bringing more or less everyone to the gig. I don't remember too much of the gig; specifically AGS' set, I have no idea how we sounded. Stottered aboot in a kind of blind panic
But we had a drink (dunno if they doled oot the free uisge beatha though), we were rocked, gig was successful.
The following night, the Sunday, POLLOI were playing again at Studio 24, with ZEGOTA and FILTHPACT.
That weekend had three gigs on three nights in Edinburgh. Weekends like that should be every weekend...
(I didn't get thrown outta halls for the fire extinguisher getting emptied and thrown away by somebody. (never discovered whom. does it matter?) Nah, I went to Sighthill to speak to the accommodation folks, they were probably so charmed they were won over and I got a warning, w/ a bill I never had to pay... It was the first and last hoose gig I needed to put on, really. That said.... I would do it again.)
Friday, 6 January 2012
Thu 26th January '12 - 8pm - The Tunnels, Aberdeen - BILE YER HEID gig #1 of 2012!
(that's #1 of the year twenty-twelve, nae gig #1 of 2,012 gigs ..... jeez...)
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| with, er, thanks to Pushead for original artwork... |
+ rant:
“BR1! SO WHY YOU NOT PUT ON PUNK ROCK SHOWS MORE SO WE CAN SLAM AND DRINK AN MOSH!!!!!!1”
Well. (In the spirit of DIY and all) ……why me?
Anyone that kens me kens that even kennin’ I am about to play in a band in front of people, and can’t balls it up, is a big ask. despite everything I still seem to be reserved, timid and extremely suspicious of large crowds of people.
Within reason – people are dumb.
So yer question really is, “Here! Why are you, a near-asocial, distrusting, nervous, lone human, raised with Doric dry wit coming across as flippant, severe impatience and poor people skills instilled, brought up with absolutely no type of pub culture [local watering holes = shitholes, grandparents teetotal, only cairry-oots in our household], biding in the back of beyond, seeming so distant from the rest of humanity [a blessing and a curse, if you ask me] – why are you not putting on more gigs in Aberdeen I can go to, drink way too much at and act the tit at?” Hmmm.
So yer question really is, “Here! Why are you, a near-asocial, distrusting, nervous, lone human, raised with Doric dry wit coming across as flippant, severe impatience and poor people skills instilled, brought up with absolutely no type of pub culture [local watering holes = shitholes, grandparents teetotal, only cairry-oots in our household], biding in the back of beyond, seeming so distant from the rest of humanity [a blessing and a curse, if you ask me] – why are you not putting on more gigs in Aberdeen I can go to, drink way too much at and act the tit at?” Hmmm.
If I agree to put on a gig, I am then tasked with the logistics of running a gig, which includes:
- keeping in contact with bands [hard enough for me to update le blog regularly, never mind keep in contact, with anybody!]
- keeping in contact with bands [hard enough for me to update le blog regularly, never mind keep in contact, with anybody!]
- getting promotion sorted – posters/flyers/business cards/web flyers* designed (well, in my case, existing art ‘adapted’ – puNnc raWk!) on Paint, pasted onto Word and whole-page printed, cut up neatly, and handed out or pinned to noticeboards or glued up in public or stuck onto a corner of corporate graffiti (i.e. billboards).
(* I put web promotion last for a reason, it’s the least important move – remember that, kids)
(* I put web promotion last for a reason, it’s the least important move – remember that, kids)
- getting bands on stage on time for their allotted time slot [ask Greg Chaos if you want horror stories…]
- keeping the venue sweet [without putting too much in their tills with the constant pints to kill nerves, ha ha]
- ensuring nothing or no-one gets broken [and that my mind doesn’t get broken]
- keeping the venue sweet [without putting too much in their tills with the constant pints to kill nerves, ha ha]
- ensuring nothing or no-one gets broken [and that my mind doesn’t get broken]
- lastly, putting up, and often cooking grub for, oot-o’-toun bands, showing them my shitty vinyl record or Megadrive game collections, having a laugh, annoying the neighbours with loud noises into the night and washing-line Y-fronts-theft (I’m looking at no-one… THE TRY-HARDS… :P)
(actually this last point is the most fun, nae even a chore!!)
Plus… there’s the fear of the end of the night coming round and being a large amount of money off being able to meet everyone’s costs. “Son… I am disappoint.” And having to eat baked beans on toast for weeks on end after (which, er, I’m now doing by choice – now I have again found my Vedge Edge) (inside joke…)
(actually this last point is the most fun, nae even a chore!!)
Plus… there’s the fear of the end of the night coming round and being a large amount of money off being able to meet everyone’s costs. “Son… I am disappoint.” And having to eat baked beans on toast for weeks on end after (which, er, I’m now doing by choice – now I have again found my Vedge Edge) (inside joke…)
I am no money-grabbin’, band-fuckin’-over rip-off and I’d fuckin’ hate to have to be one!
You ready for that much shitwork, hassle, stress?*
Go on ‘en, B.Y.O.F.G.!
Go on ‘en, B.Y.O.F.G.!
-o-
…So, I’m wondering, how have Aberdeen DIY-gig-enablers managed, for so many gigs, for so long? The efforts of:
Kirk/Good For Nothing, then Steve and Dave/Good For Nothing; Dave and co./Black Box Promotions; Greg Chaos/Chaos Promotions; Jeeves & Puggy/Good News To The Sick (who put on gigs at the East Neuk and Dr Drakes); Duane fae BLOODSHOT (who brought LOS CRUDOS, DROPDEAD, CRESS etc. to Abdn…)
:-O
… and their precedents –– and that is only to mention gig-putting-on-folk within Aberdeen itsel’, and off the top of my head [although Dave/Dave’s Cave and Ross, Jamie & Jay Jay/Palace of Crust do need special mentions for opening their ain hooses up to this mess!] –– are pretty fuckin’ outstanding for a relatively isolated, provincial city! (It’s still the best place to be; but it’s still isolated compared to southern-more cities (we’re closer to Bergen than Birmingham, mind?), and it’s still provincial…)
How did they do it?
I’m about to find out – you can add me to that list.
I’m in two bands that need to blag themsels onto bills and ready to deal with all the above shite. If it kills me.
Kirk/Good For Nothing, then Steve and Dave/Good For Nothing; Dave and co./Black Box Promotions; Greg Chaos/Chaos Promotions; Jeeves & Puggy/Good News To The Sick (who put on gigs at the East Neuk and Dr Drakes); Duane fae BLOODSHOT (who brought LOS CRUDOS, DROPDEAD, CRESS etc. to Abdn…)
:-O
… and their precedents –– and that is only to mention gig-putting-on-folk within Aberdeen itsel’, and off the top of my head [although Dave/Dave’s Cave and Ross, Jamie & Jay Jay/Palace of Crust do need special mentions for opening their ain hooses up to this mess!] –– are pretty fuckin’ outstanding for a relatively isolated, provincial city! (It’s still the best place to be; but it’s still isolated compared to southern-more cities (we’re closer to Bergen than Birmingham, mind?), and it’s still provincial…)
How did they do it?
I’m about to find out – you can add me to that list.
I’m in two bands that need to blag themsels onto bills and ready to deal with all the above shite. If it kills me.
(* So it’s hard in your town? [Well, I can confirm that if your nearest town is any settlement between Aberdeen and Inverness, then yes, it is extremely, frustratingly hard, but I digress]
Well ‘en, try booking a DIY punk gig in the capital city and trying to make it a success while staying 200??? miles north, as Munky did for SUFFERINFUCK/WHEELCHAIRx4/HAROLD SHITMAN/CANCER CHRIST in December 2011.
Hero!)
-o-
On the subject of keeping the venue sweet – there is only a noticeable gaping lack of Abdn gigs NOT featuring bills half, or three-quarters, full of metal bands, because Chaos Promotions were forced to stop using the two most obvious (easiest to deal with?) venues in Aberdeen, Café Drummonds and The Tunnels, because Greg Chaos is banned from them (de facto; I don’t think it’s official).
Why was he banned from putting on gigs at both venues? None of your business. Or mine. Ask him on his blog which is here, if you must.
I just know it was a sledgehammer to the kneecaps to any hopes of regular, consistent punk shows towards the end of last year, for right or wrong. (All this hoo-haa was back in July or August last year, like.)
As a result: in the past 5 months in Abdn, if you’ve been to any decent punk show, it was most likely a Fudge gig at the Moorings Bar; or inside the Palace of Crust, which is regrettably, but understandably, and maybe rightfully, invite only. Strictly. (It’s someone’s hoose!)
-o-
On the subject of keeping the venue sweet – there is only a noticeable gaping lack of Abdn gigs NOT featuring bills half, or three-quarters, full of metal bands, because Chaos Promotions were forced to stop using the two most obvious (easiest to deal with?) venues in Aberdeen, Café Drummonds and The Tunnels, because Greg Chaos is banned from them (de facto; I don’t think it’s official).
Why was he banned from putting on gigs at both venues? None of your business. Or mine. Ask him on his blog which is here, if you must.
I just know it was a sledgehammer to the kneecaps to any hopes of regular, consistent punk shows towards the end of last year, for right or wrong. (All this hoo-haa was back in July or August last year, like.)
As a result: in the past 5 months in Abdn, if you’ve been to any decent punk show, it was most likely a Fudge gig at the Moorings Bar; or inside the Palace of Crust, which is regrettably, but understandably, and maybe rightfully, invite only. Strictly. (It’s someone’s hoose!)
-o-
Meanwhile, Drummonds (optimistic! capacity of “300” – call it 200) and Tunnels (capacity 300) sit in the city centre – you’ll struggle to get more ‘city centre’ than 1 Belmont Street, facing Primark! – booked only with acoustic acts, or tribute bands, or gig nights put on, right enough, but by profiteering gig promotion companies, or ‘ventures’ (/RAGE/)
(To reiterate: not complaining, good good if attending the likes o’ that is ‘your thing’, have fun – but it sure as fuck ain’t my thing……)
(To reiterate: not complaining, good good if attending the likes o’ that is ‘your thing’, have fun – but it sure as fuck ain’t my thing……)
So, two venues offering five or six, and sometimes seven, nights of live music a week are NOT being booked by punks putting on punk shows for the punks at a low price with high levels of MOSH?
Why the fuckin’ fuck not?
Why the fuckin’ fuck not?
^ That in a paragraph (an unwieldy one at that!) is why I’ve had no option but to undertake the Granite City punk gigs mantle.
-o-
Just mind: I am not the only one.
MIND the Palace of Crust’s hoose gigs, because that place will never, ever be beaten as a venue (well, you’ll never, ever beat a hoose gig, it’s just an especially huge, palatial gig space!) so I’d never even think of booking a gig which clashes with a Palace gig. (Unless I’m somehow offered fuckin’ MOTORHEAD or ANTISECT or any hugely-respected, internationally-known band, for petrol and food only :P …but I would not hold my fuckin’ breath for that!...)
Oh and also MIND the gigs Fudge put on at the Moorings Bar, usually twice-weekly – TWICE-WEEKLY! Bear in mind that just because they do not do punk/hardcore-ONLY bills doesn’t mean the gigs are not worth attending. For fuck’s sake, you can get in to Friday nights at the Moorings for free if you bother your arse to get there by 8:45. Free gigs. For Aberdonians! It’s a wonder the place isn’t mobbed… :P
Again, bitch what you like but Fudge has managed to get D.O.A. to the Moorings in August this year.
D.O. fucking A.?! I never ever thought I’d see a band of such stature in AB! Ever!
Shame every other bastard will be on the annual AB-to-Blackpool pilgrimage for Rebellion fest – actually, chances are that I might too, if only to see D.O.A’s fellow Canucks, the top-class melodic hardcore band SNFU, play live again – but for those left behind, what a night that promises to be!
Also MIND that TOXIK EPHEX (est. 1978!!) are still going, and are a big enough band to get a gig and bring a crowd wholly to see them. They usually play Drummonds, sometimes Moorings or Tunnels; and even if it was never your thing or if you’re sick of seeing them, they still bring the biggest crowd of any Aberdeen punk gig, and will until they give up. Which they won’t. Me? I’ll never tire of seeing them!
MIND the Palace of Crust’s hoose gigs, because that place will never, ever be beaten as a venue (well, you’ll never, ever beat a hoose gig, it’s just an especially huge, palatial gig space!) so I’d never even think of booking a gig which clashes with a Palace gig. (Unless I’m somehow offered fuckin’ MOTORHEAD or ANTISECT or any hugely-respected, internationally-known band, for petrol and food only :P …but I would not hold my fuckin’ breath for that!...)
Oh and also MIND the gigs Fudge put on at the Moorings Bar, usually twice-weekly – TWICE-WEEKLY! Bear in mind that just because they do not do punk/hardcore-ONLY bills doesn’t mean the gigs are not worth attending. For fuck’s sake, you can get in to Friday nights at the Moorings for free if you bother your arse to get there by 8:45. Free gigs. For Aberdonians! It’s a wonder the place isn’t mobbed… :P
Again, bitch what you like but Fudge has managed to get D.O.A. to the Moorings in August this year.
D.O. fucking A.?! I never ever thought I’d see a band of such stature in AB! Ever!
Shame every other bastard will be on the annual AB-to-Blackpool pilgrimage for Rebellion fest – actually, chances are that I might too, if only to see D.O.A’s fellow Canucks, the top-class melodic hardcore band SNFU, play live again – but for those left behind, what a night that promises to be!
Also MIND that TOXIK EPHEX (est. 1978!!) are still going, and are a big enough band to get a gig and bring a crowd wholly to see them. They usually play Drummonds, sometimes Moorings or Tunnels; and even if it was never your thing or if you’re sick of seeing them, they still bring the biggest crowd of any Aberdeen punk gig, and will until they give up. Which they won’t. Me? I’ll never tire of seeing them!
-o-
Essentially what every moaning-faced brat needs to do about a declining, or constantly poor, live music scene is
1. attend more gigs when they are on – yes, even if there’s a moaning-faced indie-schmindie, or worse, haircore / xfashioncorex, band tacked onto the bill as a favour to a mate? (or just an honest attempt to completely diversify the night? – and I do appreciate the attempt: e.g. I will never again stand having to stand through a night with 4 generic death metal bands, but that’s me) Who cares, turn up for the decent band that are playing the gig and have fun;
and 2. put on your own gig – public (like in a public house) or private (like in YOUR house); a one-off night to test the water, or regular, just because; a night of a band’s UK tour, or just yersel’ and Casio-face doing yer own experimental noise project for 6 hours – just try to get it done, then you will be less moaning-faced. But still a brat. Ye big brat.
And the bug might just bite ye! Leading first to you taking on more gigs more often, of bigger size, across various-sized or even quirky/extraordinary venues (always wanted to do a gig in a library – completely blatant reason for this – libraries do tend to have spare rooms for hire after all, only constraint would be the noise…) and eventually feeling the need to write up a rambling blog entry abt the state of your local scene’s gigs, and……
And the bug might just bite ye! Leading first to you taking on more gigs more often, of bigger size, across various-sized or even quirky/extraordinary venues (always wanted to do a gig in a library – completely blatant reason for this – libraries do tend to have spare rooms for hire after all, only constraint would be the noise…) and eventually feeling the need to write up a rambling blog entry abt the state of your local scene’s gigs, and……
See ye at the gig!
DEATH JOB (Sheffield)
CLOCKED OUT (Glasgow)
DRUG COUPLE (Perth)
CLEAVERS (Moray)
+ local support, [ ]
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THE TUNNELS, ABERDEEN
THU 26TH JAN 2012
ABOOT 8PM – PAY NO MORE THAN £4
THU 26TH JAN 2012
ABOOT 8PM – PAY NO MORE THAN £4
Sunday, 27 November 2011
ABSOLUTIST - [NOT going to make an 'ABSOLUTely great', etc, pun. Not in this title bar]
This band appeared on the block, out of naewhere, like a rocket up yer erse - with twice the velocity. |
| ABSOLUTIST promo picture. [Photo:uncredited/unknown?] |
Slow/fast/quiet and slow/fast and heavy/slow and heavy/slow
The dynamics of kings!
Review and hopefully an interview to come.
Video of their first Elgin gig with fellow Aberdonian hivvies BISON and local supports CLEAVERS (who?) and B.L.D. (double who?) on the new (born today, in fact) BILE YER HEID YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/bileyerheidDIYpunk
and, er, here
To make up for you having watched a video in entire darkness (you have watched the video haven't you? GO ON) here's four pics (intended to take more but almost filled the aul' SD card and, er, was too busy havin' a fuckin great time at a fuckin great gig in the Elgin R.C.!
Same night, same set -- but bright !
NEW ABSOLUTIST SONG UP ON THEIR SOUNDCLOUD:
GET THE FUCK ON IT, OR FUCK THE FUCK OFF
http://absolutist.bandcamp.com/track/storm-of-words
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