Comments on: Live in Edinburgh This Week – 29th July 2008

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:13:06 +0000

Yes, but no-one asks me to write all this bollocks, although that doesn’t seem to stop me. At least with magazines people are making the request by paying money. Ah well. There are some unsolicited compliments as well, so fuck ‘em.

C&B – unfortunately there are too many other things I need to do tonight so I’m going to have to skip it, but I’d like to go along.

By: mr bear

mr bear — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:45:15 +0000

i try to stick to the policy of “if some one asks if you like it, tell it like it is. if no one asks,and you’ve nothing constructive to say…zip it.”

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:08:35 +0000

Hey! Vandaveer! He’s from Washington, D.C. Actually, he’s a labelmate of the great John Bustine. Well worth seeing.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:31:50 +0000

Ah, keeping quiet: a lesson certain of us around here might do very well to learn for ourselves!

I’ve certainly fallen foul of not being nice about bands and then being directly confronted with the people in question, but what else can you do? If someone asks what you think, and what you think is negative then where do you go? I know there’s ways of saying it and ways of saying it, and I’m really bad for falling foul of that one, but I’m really bad at not saying what I really think when asked. Tactless, I think, is the term for it!

And there’s the other question with bloggers: who actually is asking?

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:16:13 +0000

For the record, I don’t like everything. Far from it.

But I’ve always been of the inclination that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

If anything I think I have a tendancy to be overly optomistic about edinburgh musical landscape. But I think that’s because I’m sick of hearing people bad mouth it – and for me it just keeps getting stronger and stronger.

Or maybe it’s cause I don’t like slagging off bands as you never know who’s listening/reading. I to find myself holding my tongue a lot. Maybe I should come up with some sort code or elaborate hand gesture.