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  • Birthday 27/11/1971

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  1. Good to see a band doing an old-fashioned trek around the town halls and clubs in places not often featured on the musical map. Probably plenty of cash in it as well.
  2. Kill 'Em All never had any covers on but perhaps later CD re-issues contained bonus tracks. As far as I remember, Garage Days contained "Helpless" by Diamond Head but not "Am I Evil"....I think that song was originally a B-side on the Creeping Death single. Just to confuse matters, a second Garage Days album surfaced a few years after the first on (Re-Re-Visited?) Perhaps "Evil" was on that? On the subject of Diamond Head, they looked set for great things, had a wealth of melodic riff-tastic material but it never really happened for them. Being managed by the singer's mum wasn't the best strategy for stardom. Nevertheless, the first album climbed into the UK Top 30. The second release, Canterbury, was a major departure from the tradition HM sound and alienated a large portion of the band's fanbase. Brian Tatler reflected years later "The sleeve was shit, the songs too experimental and a pressing fault caused the first 20,000 copies to jump...it killed us stone dead"
  3. Murray is a fantastic player with many years ahead of him and we are all rightly proud of him. But he's a wee bit unlucky in the sense that he started his career while Federer - undoubtedly one of the greatest players of all time - was still at the top of his game and now the emergence of Nadal looks certain to deny Murray from picking up grand slam titles, although I do think he'll get a couple.
  4. Do you wear a helmet when cycling. They seem to be all the rage yet cold statistics indicate that you are actually safer riding without one. I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe because you take more risks when wearing head protection?
  5. Triangle (2009) Young people on yacht that gets into trouble. Big ship appears out of nowhere to rescue them but nobody seems to be on board. Then strange things start happening..... Turned it off at this point, not because it was particularly bad but because I've seen it all before. 4/10
  6. A very mixed bag for me at the weekend. Flight 666 - Number of the beast - Fascinating documentary following the world's most enduring heavy metal band on a worldwide tour (9/10). Antichrist - Latest effort from Lars Von Trier. Couldn't get into this at all. Switched off after half an hour (1/10). Rollerball - Futuristic thriller from the 70s. All looks a bit dated now but watchable nonetheless (5/10). Black Narcissus - Oscar winner way back in 1947. Nice cinematography but the plot was a bit weary at times (6/10).
  7. Angels and Demons 5/10 Beautifully shot but the plot (at least, what I could understandf of it) left me cold.
  8. Aye, Slash's book was a good read. A detailed history of the band with tales of debauchery woven in. I got it at the same time as Ronnie Woods bio, very lightweight in comparison. Just now I'm working my way through the Rebus novels. Can't believe I've never read them before. It's always good when a story is set in a place you have first-hand experience of.
  9. There is virtually no chance of the SFA interfering in SFL matters. Technically they have the power to do so but in nearly all cases they let the Scottish League get on with running their own affairs.
  10. It's pointless for Livvy to appeal again. The SFA won't interfere with the actions of an individual league. Why should they, it's really none of their business.
  11. The General (2009) - Interesting biopic of an Irish master criminal, although a bit far-fetched in places. 7/10
  12. The Untouchables (1987) Thoroughly enjoyed this. Sean Connery was great, in fact the whole cast were. But was it necessary to steal the extended pram-careening-down-the-stairs-amid-bullets scene from the old silent classic Battleship Potemkin? 8/10
  13. Pointless - a journalist follows East Stirling for a season. A good read for any football fan but there were a number of basic errors that long-terms fans of Scottish football would spot.
  14. It seems to be a Scottish trait, branding towns as shit-holes and saying things like "infested with junkies" In reality, most places in Scotland are broadly similar in terms of the people you will meet there. We're all Scots after all. Now, you could make a case for slagging places off based on archictecture as some of our town centres look terrible in retrospect. Lack of facilities? maybe, but there are very few places in this day and age where people can genuinely complain that there is "nothing to do"
  15. Australia - some stunning footage of the outback but the story is all too predictable and, at 160 min, outstays its welcome. 5/10
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