Sweet Pete

Luss is murder on hot summer days. All parking spaces taken, beach overcrowded, pavements heaving, shops too full to even squeeze into. A fucking nightmare. Go further round the loch to balmaha instead.

Reminds me of my father in law. Before he retired he worked away. For months the TV in his digs was broken and only showed a black and white picture. He used to watch man united games on it and try and work out which shade of grey united were. He's got cataracts anyway.

No HD?! That's worse than the conditions in Guantanamo. There's kids in Darfur having a whip round for you.

They're probably looking forward to it far more

You are an obvious joke.

Never heard of docs giving kids tramadol or the like. Is this an American thing?

Baby shark do do do do do do Since 6am

When I want you to pipe up, I'll tell you. Meanwhile, stick to keeping the edgy while I podger yer maw.

I never pull out. Ever. Even if I've said I will.

I think White Ladder was just of it's time. As you say, the guy was already a long time professional musician, but the musical top 40 climate around then had taken a mellow, acoustic-y trend and stuff like Coldplay, Norah Jones, I Am Kloot, Badly Drawn Boy etc was all over the radio, so his timing for his latest album which was a similar style to what he'd always done (inoffensive, mellow acoustic singer/songwriter stuff) happened to coincide and make his album sell better than he probably would've expected in a normal year, had it not been that mellow music was the fad that year. Definitely not the kind of guy who could carry a large gig, on a big stage in front of a big crowd. I saw Colplay at Bellahouston years ago and thought the same about them. I found the support act, Supergrass, better able to carry the crowd as their music has a bit more get up and go about it. Suppose certain styles don't really travel well and better suit more intimate surroundings.

Agreed with an awful lot of your post. I had actually swithered on whether to include Neon Handshake in my original post, but plumped for Hundred Reasons as I was listening to Ideas Above Our Station at the time. Relationship of Command, too. I'm sure I read them say when they originally split up that they only had one album for their ten years working together, as though the band themselves don't count anything before Relationship of Command as an official release. Not heard the new one yet, but I'll get round to it. Agreed on Finch and Coldplay too, although I'd say Rush Of Blood To The Head has some good tunes on it.

Isobel, 25 (times she'll ask you if you're sure you don't want a wee biscuit with your tea).

David Wren saying payrise only, no increase to length of term.

Short lad, quite slight in stature, but not afraid to get stuck into the midfield and get the work done and tries hard all the time.

Given what we now know, is it disingenuous to call it a "debut"? The La's album surely, no?

Rival Schools might be worth a mention here. Terrific debut, United By Fate. Subsequent records decent, but not stand outs. UBF doesn't have a single track on it that isn't great.

Just read their wiki out of curiosity. They sound like an utter shambles. Still playing the same set of songs sporadically now that they were in the mid 1980s. Bonkers. Think I've only ever heard There She Goes to be honest.

That's disappointing. I was hoping for a dust up.

Beat Mama >>>>> Anything The La's ever recorded.

I prefer Cast, so The La's demise was an advantage ultimately in my humble.

Had a bit of ability, but was slight and had a tendency to go missing, which given he was our midfield creator and we were struggling, wasn't great. Haven't seen him since he left us, but know he was affected by injury down south. Should be decent enough for the Championship I'd suppose, but I don't think he'll be immense or anything.

"It's cumming home"

Having a think about bands who had one great album, but their other work never reached the same heights. Could be that their first record was great but subsequent albums were poor, or that they had one standout album in amongst a career of dross. One that comes to mind for me is Hundred Reasons. Ideas Above Our Station was a classic record, but their albums that came later never seemed to have the same quality. Ideas has great songs, a dreamy feel, a bright, sparkly production and transcends genres, whereas their later stuff seemed to peg them as a post-hardcore genre band and as well as not matching the songwriting quality of Ideas, the production was never on the same par either. Should be loads of bands out there who've had a brief flare and then faded into obscurity. Care to name some?

And saying "skank pussy" proves that you're weak minded. c**t.