Er sorry everyone, I wrote out my post for Friday, got totally carried away with myself, and forgot to add a Friday Five, so here it is.

The post I wrote was all about Channel 4′s recent Sounds From the Cities: Edinburgh show, so I reckon the five songs should maybe be ones I would personally have chosen to illustrate the musical history of the city (and Scotland in general) had I been the one making the choices (and yes, I promise, no Song, by Toad Records bands).

In terms of the five silly questions, well have a stab at these:

1. Name your number one all time favourite Scottish band.
2. Which is the worst band people seem to strongly associate with wherever it is you come from?
3. Where will Sounds From the Cities never go, which might make for some funny viewing?
4. Which band closely associated with where you’re from do you love the most?
5. Name a massively famous, massively influential band you’ve never really sat down and listened to at all.

Fire Engines – Candyskin

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The Delgados – Everything Goes Around the Water

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King Creosote – Saffy Nool

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Idlewild – When the Ship Comes In (alright, I shouldn’t have chosen this song, but I don’t actually know that much about Idlewild, but still think they and Roddy Woomble in particular deserved some sort of mention.)

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Kid Canaveral – And Another Thing!!

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Welcome to this week’s Friday Fives, when we all choose the winners of the Communion Compilation Competition.  Those of you interested in this sort of thing will know that this competition is to win a copy of this lovely album, featuring all sorts of alt-folk (or whatever) royalty who have performed at the eponymous London club night run by a Mumford and a Cherbourg.

So, simple, please just list your favourite hipster photo from the following five examples, which I have chosen as being the best of all the submissions I received.  The top three will win a copy of the album on vinyl, and therefore be extremely pleased with themselves.

1. Erm, where do you think you are conquering, exactly?

2. Erm, shorts, manbag, some sort of peculiar shoe-related contraptions, yep, that’s just a tad too hip for me.

3. Erm, how many beads and how plunging a neckline are required to make you a total penis?  Ah yes, that many.

4. This man doesn’t think he’s cool, he is cool!

5. Hey!  Stand up and play yer fucking tunes you fuckers!

So, please de-lurk, have a chuckle at our chosen hipsters and then cast your votes.  There will be more silly questions than that of course, but the ‘which plonker makes you laugh the most’ question is currently by far the most pressing!

1. List the above pictures in order of preferred hipsters.
2. Name your most productive hipster-finding location.
3. At which age was your hipster peak (no matter how low)?
4. Give the fucking bastard cunting Beeb are closing 6Music, what the fuck radio stations are there left to listen to?
5. Please lay out your Friday drinking strategy.

And now here are some Edinburgh bands who you might not think of as Edinburgh bands, most of whom (except Aberfeldy of course) you might not think of as being Edinburgh bands.

Aberfeldy – Tom Weir

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Idlewild – When the Ship Comes In

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Helicopter Girl – Cry Mississippi

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Finley Quaye – Ultra Stimulation

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Lucky Jim – Our Troubles End Tonight

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