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One near the bottom got a far better score than the one at the top. Pretty lame.

"HULKING LOVE MUSK: THE SOUND AN DANANACKROYD"

the 4 or so times i listened to it, to be really contrived. Faux-nostalgic dream-pop for teenage whoopsies.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVm0CTmHHQ

Nakamura's freekick (the 2nd one) for Celtic against Man Utd in the Champion's League is the finest goal ever scored. YAAASS!!

remove the possibly.

the most talented man in Glasgow.

Put James back. JAMEESS

It's like putting on a gig and having your own face on the poster loltimes :)

But it says it's private now. Man, youtube sucks so bad anyway, i watched this before it was private (last week sometime) and the quality is so bad compared to the big, full screen version we watched in the studio last week. It's a stunning video, thousands and thousands of photographs all strung together. Gorgeous. But yeah, i wish bands/labels would start using Vimeo instead :(

or did these guys used to be like a twee pop band, lo-fi type thing? Then, all of a sudden, ten years later, they dress up like Scissor Sisters and people take notice. What a beamer.

Can't believe the only date in Scotland is Titp, who've told them they can't do any other scottish dates, apparently boooo

Looking forward to this!

Is stunning. I love them.

full version gets it's live debut tonight :)

Dana and Dana and Dana will have the dates on Myspace soon.

Two separate tours coming later in the year. Only 9 dates with Foals, not the whole tour, unfortunately.

superstar DJ :)

This means we have to stop getting so drunk and stupid and broken before we play now aww

(still haunted by that Bardens gig)

eh? Where am i?

Weird.

I couldn't remember any of the songs. Good live show, but yeah, waaaahhhhh

One of my all-time fave Microphones traxxx. Mt. Eerie ftw.

sound like absolute hell and absolutely amazing at the same time.

Cannae wait....

I'm also a Glasgoer.

Tah fix ooo

It's sort of what i was saying, but with the sarcasm and snooty, internet-goon vibe taken out :)

I also have quite a funny story that COMPLETELY justifies Kraftwerk's actions with regards Kling Klang really having to now change their name, but not even i would stoop so low as to post it on a public forum. But yeah, it's safe to say that the news story above doesn't quite grasp all the details.

And the 'space or no space' arguement is quite flimsy.

Well, thanks for clearing that up Florian. I didn't know that it "doesn't matter what Kraftwerk have written on their records" and that you've checked their copyrights. Whether or not the band and the court feel this is enough to go on is a different matter though. I hope they get away with it, Kling Klang are a good band, but i was just saying like..

After checking, Autechre certainly doesn't mean what i thought it did, so you're probably right on that one :S

It does say KLINGKLANG elsewhere on the back though. It says KLING KLANG on the back of Computer World, Electric Cafe, The Mix too. It's a copyrighted name they've used since the 70's.

The occasional lack of a space in between the two words is quite possibly the weakest attempt at keeping the name.

on most Kraftwerk records (well, from '74 onwards i think?) makes it a bit more than just them simply lifting a song title or a common German phrase. Looking at the back of Die Mensche Maschine, for example, it clearly reads (p) 1978 Kling Klang.

I mean, i can't really go and call a band Autechre simply on the grounds that it's a german word that nobody owns the rights to.

Kling Klang's arguement is a little flimsy.

they are playing TITP and no regular Scottish date :S

so, it's just everyone else's fault that their album went by mostly unnoticed then? Or should the label have done more to promote it? I'm not saying they're a bad band, but look at Mogwai, Aereogramme, The Delgados, Arab Strap and Interpol and what they've achieved over the last 5 to 8 to 10 to 13 years, then look at De Rosa and Mother & The Addicts. That's the point i'm getting at.

Sad times indeed.

But they're just another one of those under-the-radar bands that seem to release records and nobody seems to take any real notice. If CU ever manage to land a truly great Scottish band again (it's only been ten or so years since the last), then i will be puzzled as to how they would have managed it. They're so detached from anything going on in Scotland and it frustrates me as i love(d) them dearly.

De Rosa? Who? Sluts Of Trust and Mother & the Addicts make a mockery of everything CU ever meant to me.

No wonder we get the same old "we got Bis in the charts and we signed Mogwai" story in every interview.

GET TO SOME GIGS ALUN. Put some effort in. I hate watching one of the best things of my teenage years simply turn to custard before my very eyes.

How's it going?

That's sort of a given though. You'd really have expected so much more.

The only tiny little thing they took from it was being relatively well known as the band whats off that telly show and it's the thing they've most come to regret. That says it all far greater than i ever could.

but going on a tv show and being exploited is really, really not an opportunity, regardless of what spin you can somehow put on it. It's the exact same with the lunatics who "win" at Xfactor and other stupid competition shows, but you don't see anyone rushing to defend their misguided attempts at making it, do you? Even on the most basic of levels, your run of the mill Battle Of The Bands are made up of desperate nobodies who can't make it off the back of the one true thing you need to get anywhere: Great tunes. Even if you win, even if you get all the tv exposure you could ever hope for, if you're not doing things on your terms (read the above interview) then you're failing right from the get-go.

Drive, ambition and getting out there and noticed is one thing, being dumb, getting in with the wrong crowd and going within one hundred miles of a major label in the hope that something good might come out of it is stupidity.

I think the word you're looking for is 'unprofessional'.

They seem like such sensible fellows (aside from bashing your label on a popular website - nice move). Imagine finding yourself trapped in major label Mordor with an imaginary A&R man and no album promotion. Chuckle! In a couple of years time they'd have wished they'd not fallen for the old "EMBARRASSING BATTLE OF THE BANDS CLEVERLY DISGUISED AS TOP OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES" trick and instead ended up doing it the good old honest way with an indie who truly loved them and could let them progress in a realistic, organic way. "Winning" a competition is not the start of a healthy musical career, especially for an indie band.

I bet there are people at the label who haven't even heard of them as well. What a laugh. And they've tried so hard to justify it all with the whole "well, at least our album is out" guff. My old grandad could have coughed up more of a promotional campaign and burnt them off some CDRs faster than you can say "CD-RW's For Dummies". Bless. I'll be surprised if they're together in a year. Quite amusing blokes though, top read!

DF don't have to compete with Indian Summer so they'll put on the same boring old bands they want and people who think they're too 'indie' and 'cool' for TITP will still lap it up like the DF-kissing mothers that they are. Sadness, DF. Sadness all round.