Edinburgh Fucking Rocks, Bitches
When I first moved up here, just about three and a half years ago, I was moaning about the lifelessness of the Edinburgh music scene and the fact that the long lost T on the Fringe was the only time anything interesting at all actually happened.
These days that is bollocks, of course, so it was with some pride that I read this little something in the NME letters page this morning. Actually, Bart scanned it and emailed it to me because I don’t buy the NME, but you know what I mean. I don’t know who you are, Scott the Thief, but I will buy you a pint if you ever reveal your secret identity!
And now, to celebrate, some “snobby art school jazz pish”. Life is sweet!
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I think I speak for everyone when I say this is the best thing that’s ever happened.
And I don’t want it to spur on another “Glasgow vs. Edinburgh” argument. There’s just no point. The important thing is that Edinburgh music is stronger than it’s been in years.
And the fact that this is finally being acknowledged is fucking brilliant.
It’s more the fact that anyone is making the comparison at all which is good. It’s rarely ever happened at all, as far as I know.
But i don’t like the NME….it’s read by fuckwits who listen to the Pigeon Detectives……anyhow it is top news and the sooner a rag like the NME bothers it’s arse and gets up here and highlights whats going on the better…..
They’ll definitely be up if they read that little titbit.
And fucking hell, the Pigeon Detectives? Who ever thought they weren’t shit?
i know a few people who like them!!!!
What the fuck for?
why do i know them or why do they like the Pigeon detectives?
cos i’m nice and they have a shite tastes in music….
i don’t want to be rude, but Les Enfant Bastard……i just don’t get it!!!! i wish i had the balls to get up and do perform….cos my efforts would be nearly as good as his……i’m i wrong for thinking this?
Yes Tom.
Yes, you are.
i have been wrong in the past…….and admitted it Barty boy…….but i’m not seeing the light with this one….i’ve tried!!!!
Good old Edinburgh
In other news Toad, I saw your interview in Record of the Day today. Thanks for the mention!
That was an accident, Tim. I really think your blog is shit. Ahem… *cough cough*
Tom, you’ll get the chance tonight – it is open mic remember. We can do a tune-off between you and Cammy.
I am ‘Scott the Thief’ and I claim my beer.
I am Scott the Thief and so is my wife.
Swing by the Bowery tonight mate and you shall have it.
no thanks…..i know the world is not ready for my ‘talents’……shame others don’t
that wasn’t a dig at Mr Bastard btw………cos i know loads of you love him……so i must be wrong….it was a dig at other shite out there…..that will remain nameless
Mr. Bastard is a lovely man and I think he will wear ’snobby art-school jazz pish’ with pride.
It’s a whole new genre!
yeah….quite!!!
this snobby artschool jazz pishes in the ears of the NME. they aren’t ready for it. i wouldn’t wipe my backside with that thing anyway/
on a brighter note. i hope the party tonight is a cracker. this town is magic.
Given that there are things happening it would also be great if closer to home people like the List were focusing on this resurgence, what with two new record labels in the city and all, plus SL Records still delighting us after more than a decade…
Yehaw theyll be kissing my arse when I go nu-rave just a matter of time. fun had by all at Meausalt party.
Mazaltov to all concerned for Friday evening: the Open Mic performers, Allo Darlin (good luck for her sample clearances) and Me(u)rsault with laptop. Great to get hands on the record with the authentic SbTR-002 stamp. The Edinburgh scene thrives and, should the NME wake up and devote a whole issue to Edinburgh just to boost circulation, will thrive again. I await the SbT 09 xmas party.