CityDave94

Surely Arbroath fans aren't stupid enough to fall for that? If Arbroath beat Queen's Park certainly not one of them would on the match thread or on this one ever tell Big Dunc to GIRFUY. Surely not.

Big Dunc likes fishing.

I hope it gets called off with a waterlogged pitch.

What turnout? Just looks like some folks having their shopping interupted by some old guys pretending to be soldiers and making a lot of noise. There were about 10 - 15 civilians walking in step with them. Everyone else had to move out of the way and stop and others walking just ignored it, getting on with their Saturdays. But.....If that is what you think is a good turn out.

Maybe licenced clubs should get 4 points for a win then. It really isn't a shame, they didn't deserve it. Tayport are licenced, maybe a couple more during the summer, dunno??

Its been all over the local papers, social media and news over the last week here, most people would have known about it, you couldn't miss it up here. I wouldn't read much into photo either for crowds, since both the pedestrianised Eastgate / High Street are behind the photographer. The bridge walkway above the march is an access way to the back of the Eastgate Center from the Crown district. That route is mainly used by vehicles and is the longer, less direct way up into Crown if you walk it. It might be the last one in given the growing pressure to stop them. Its not a good look for the Inverness authorities especially in these socially inclusive times.

Cricket march tomorrow around Inverness town center. Apprentice Boys of Derry doing the circuit once again this time in the face of much objection. First time any objection has been raised, took long enough, Inverness is not a cricket city, we don't welcome the sport here. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/update-marching-on-the-apprentice-boys-of-derry-refuse-to-348391/ Gravedancers will be out in force wearing their Rangers tops making them feel superior to everyone who isn't 'wan aff us'. Unless you want to stand in front of the mark to get them throwing punches and spitting at you, probably best to avoid the place this weekend. I've said this all ready I have lived in Inverness all my life and everytime I see photos of the march I have still to recognise anyone, absolutely anyone in that march. Where do they come from?

Yeah to be pedantic about it, it would be said that rock is a genre and grunge is a style. It does exist because you thought it.

There's a complete lack of drainage snobbery on here. You would think that on such a thread some people could not go 5 minutes without talking about drainage.

I only really use labels for references when communicating with other people, I don't really like them as many bands go beyond like you mentioned Boris one of my favourite bands who can switch easily between really heavy doom and then noise rock. Its meaningless to me personally. High on Fire are another of my bands you mention. But yes these bands were leaders in their field but up to around late 1996 there was a complete lack of new ground breaking artists. Usually you'd find the music magazine's writers finding artists some not signed, but to me this period was very poor. Much of the metal genre had gone stale, my fovourites around the time were usually industral in style. Pitchshifter and Godflesh were two that were important. I actually missed DM band At the Gates who I only found about once I started buying Terrorizer magazine around 1999, they became one of my all time favourite artists. Faith No More were a mainstay of that era, I still listen to Mike Patton and his soundscapes and vocal contortions. I still like Devin Townsend as well. There is so many others, I should go through my collection. btw when I talk about so few that means around 30 or 40 artists on the go not 5 or 6, when it should have been in the hundreds. Love the internet, but I miss the magazines. Terrorizor and Rock Sound are sadly missed. Alice in Chains were good for a while around 1990 but I'm more punk in taste than metal so I lost interest in that as it became more polished, commercial and losing its personality and energy. To me by 1993 only Nirvana were left, even Mudhoney didn't sound that great anymore. I was never into Screaming Trees, and Soundgarden were bunch of w*****s. I always found Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth more interesting and the new wave of punk and alternative bands in the USA were far more interesting plus they were around my age as well, not older. The UK music scene became more interesting as well with established genres getting blended and mixed. I really like left field electronic music and that took a huge leap forward around the early mid 90's as well. Good times. I liked Compulsion a British band that had a post grunge feel, there weren't that many like that in the UK, the market is completely different here than over in the USA. The music especially in the underground/alternative scenes here moves fast. There was a band called Todd in the 2000's who come across as very influenced by the early heavier sound of Seattle. There is a band called Luminous Bodies around over the last few years who seemed to have captured that late 80's Sub Pop sound and feel.

I'll give you Death metal because Scream Bloody Gore and Florida, but not Black metal or grindcore. There was a lot proto-if-that'-the-right-word-bands of early metal genres around during the mid and late 80's like for example Justin Broadrick after leaving the original line up of Napalm Death formed Fall of Because and then Godflesh who were very pioneering for their time, there's industral. Another one that springs to mind. It can be claimed Black Sabbath were the first doom metal band and there were similar bands around during the 70's. Cathedral formed in the late 80's followed this path. I can probably give you sludge because of the fantastic Melvins, I can't think of anyone further back. Stoner metal not really that extreme nor began in the 90's had already been around since the late 60's but had a revival through bands like Electric Wizard and Orange Goblin, Sleep were another notable one. Both EW and OG are British. Google says Blue Cheer formed in 1966 were the 1st stoner metal band, I'm familiar with them, good band, if you haven't listened to them give Vincebus Eruptum a listen, check out their version of 'Summertime Blues'. Noted they were a favourite of the Hell's Angels. The 90's especially the mid nineties I believe were very poor for metal, indeed there were some great bands around, but they had been around for a while, there wasn't much in the way of numbers especially new artists and it didn't change much until around the end of 1996. The late 90's was amazing, its when metal completely reinvented itself. So many new artists and so many interpretations and visionarys within the genres. Many of these artists I still buy music of, they never get old and the influence continues with new next generation artists every year. There is so many crossovers now as well.

Are you sure about that?

Real grunge had a punk element to it, born out of the Washington and Oregon schools. Amazing bands , the genre peaked at around 1989, Sub Pop label had a great roster of bands to pick through like Tad and Mudhoney. Nirvana absolutely had their roots in punk rather than rock music and KC never held back talking about his influences which included many British bands. It was unfortunate that more rock orientated bands from the west coast got lumped in with that form of music. Grunge was always sludgy and or bass heavy punk completely unlike Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam. There's an album called 'No Seattle : Forgotten Sounds of the North West Era 1986-97' which covers mainly unknown bands from that genre plus some others whom were of a similar mind based in the small towns in Washington State outside the main focus point of Seattle. This is the shit -