Why isn't There A Thread For Scotlands Top Music Journalist ..... BILLY SLOAN?

or did someone once say he was a tool?

i can't remember. i'm sure he's a nice bloke.

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He's earned a sort of comedy respect from most folk as he is probably the most widely read music journalist in Scotland due to having a column in the most widely read paper, but he says nothing really to anyone, but being mentioned by him means you've sort of "made it". He's inoffensive, really.

Has he ever laid claim to having "discovered" anyone? He's in the best position to bring bands to the attention of the wider Scottish public, I guess.

FAME ISN'T AUTOMATIC
18 June 2006

THE Automatic have stormed to No.4 in the charts with new single Monster.

But will the Welsh rock band's amazing success go to their heads? No chance!

The group - led by singer Rob Hawkins -were brought back down to earth with a bang when they played a gig to celebrate their biggest hit.

Rob said: "We come from a tiny market town called Cowbridge, 15 miles from Cardiff.

"When we headlined a gig at our local leisure centre it was the first time a signed band had ever played there.

"But the show only made page five of our local newspaper. We were kept off the front page by a story about a dogs fouling on lawns.

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"We were second on the bill to dog muck!

"We're now officially the second most famous thing to come out of Cowbridge - Anthony Hopkins went to my school as a lad."

Now, the band - Rob, guitarist James Frost, keyboard player Alex Pennie and drummer Iwan Griffiths - are looking forward to playing T in the Park on July 9 and a follow-up T on the Fringe show at the Liquid Room, Edinburgh, on August 24.

Their impressive debut album, Not Accepted Anywhere, is out now. Modest Rob told me: "I'd definitely give it seven out of 10."
WIN TICKETS TO NESS FEST

WE'VE teamed up with Rock Ness and XFM to give away great prizes to three readers.

Each of our lucky winners - who must be over 18 - will get a pair of tickets (with camping), travel to the gig on a Citylink route of their choice plus a signed copy of Fatboy Slim's Greatest Hits CD which comes out tomorrow.

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JUST SENSATIONAL

THE Sensational Alex Harvey Band launch their great live album Zalvation with an in-store gig at HMV Records in Glasgow tomorrow at 5pm.

It's 30 years since they released their first live set - and I'm delighted I to see guitarist Zal Cleminson, left, back in his famous clown make-up.

The CD features powerhouse versions of The Faith Healer, Midnight Moses and The Man In The Jar. Singer Max Maxwell has the impossible job of following in the footsteps of the late Alex.

But he's really raised his game with a vocal performance which does those songs justice.
ON MY RADIO

JIM NOIR - and his bank manager - are grinning from ear to ear at the moment.

For adidas used the singer's track Eanie Meany as their official World Cup theme - which means load-samoney for the Manchester star. He'll be live in session on my Clyde 1 radio show tonight at 7pm.

My playlist also features new releases by The Who, Sparks and Keane.
GREASE BANDITS

SCOTS pop legends The BMX Bandits will mark their 20th anniversary playing the ABC 2 in Glasgow on July 16. Their new album My Chain features the single Doorways plus a great cover of Hopelessly Devoted To You, originally sung by Olivia Newton-John in the film Grease.

Nothing to hate, really. (xpost!)

Fame Academy Scrapped: Billy Sloan Scotland's 'Top' Music Journalist Is Happy.

The fickle public would buy a single by a chimp if it was pumped out on Fame Academy. I rest my case.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Have a look at yourself!!

[bites tongue, holds back torrent of PK tales]

I'm guessing, as Stew says, that he's kind of toeing the line of what is expected of a person in his position, hence his constant championing of the likes of El Presidente and Speedway

i love this idea people have that there's some editorial cabal at newspapers, all getting together to promote fourth-rate rock bands at the expense of new and groundbreaking music. it's very simple, really: el presidente and speedway are photogenic, and lend themselves well to busy tabloid spreads. aereogramme and the mount vernon arts lab aren't and don't.

apologies for hijacking the thread, but it seems a good place to ask: has anyone else heard of this DJ rankin character? funniest wikipedia entry i've read in ages.

hey! my big pal aust1n "stay legal" l4fferty - scotland's top media lawyer, except maybe for the lovely bloke who does the sunday and monday shifts - does not need to have a good look at himself, okay? :)

(it'd be nice if he looked at that story that's been sitting in the "to legal" queue for the last half-hour, though.)

It was more a fame academy thread. With good bits about Billy Sloan.

Billy deserves his own dedicated thread as Scotlands Top Music Journalist.

which he often speeds up and adds samples to - most notably a sampled voice proclaiming 'DJ Rankin in the mix mother f**ker!'. Other samples are usually vocals from other dance songs, such as female singing or male rapping, which he adds to the main song, often in an entirely inappropriate place, played over one another and frequently in the wrong key and/or tempo.

But that IS happy hardcore in a nutshell.

Fucking hate it every bit as much as I did 15 years ago.

"not much," i said. then, for some reason, i added: "i prefer drinking milk," with a silly grin.

alext actually saw this when it was broadcast a couple of hours later. he was emerging from his own hangover 50 miles down the M8: waking up to me leering on TV was, he said, one of the most appalling things he's ever suffered.

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That's what I meant. Editor goes "stop covering ugly gits like Duglas T Stewart/Stephen Pastel/Pat Kane in your main articles, I can't put their ugly mug in the main photo. Where's Dante Gizzi?"

Anyway, that night Sloan had a 'phone-in about the gig and it was all "bunch of jokers, not like Rhythm System, REAL musicians!" so we rang in using a number of pseudonyms and voices - plus ca change, eh? - to put the case for JAMC, otherwise the show was in danger of turning into Frank Skerrett's When Music Was Music.

The first DJ to play "Upside Down" on daytime radio was, unbelievably, Richard "Fame Academy" Park.

Chartbite. How could you forget?

The girl was Mhari something, former partner of erstwhile comedian Frankie Boyle.

So there.

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Which is something that is hard to believe now.

I just found out recently that theres an XFM Scotland now. And it's appaling during the day. It was a Keane Day and that put me off for life I think.
Haven't bothered listening to it at night to see if its any better.
http://www.xfmscotland.com/

Am I correct that the only show that both XFMs get is Eddy Temple Morris? "FUTURE! FUNK! SQUAD! GOD, MAN! THE MOST CRUCIAL! NEW! THING SINCE PENDULUM! WHEN THIS 12-INCH ACHY BREAKY HEART REMIX COMES OUT! PEOPLE! YOU NEED! THIS! RECORD!" for three hours.

Starting (officially) the day after Princess Diana's death probably didn't help matters much either.

Sadly it eventually got stuck in the 80s. Havent heard it in YEARS now.

I have a DAB radio, are there any good stations worth listening to?

Marx Radcliffe on Radio 5 Hit The North was great, as was his nighttime R1 show.

Billy deserves his own dedicated thread as Scotlands Top Music Journalist.

Quick, you'd better start another one, this seems to have turned into a thread about Radio Clyde.

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I guess he doesnt then.

But anyway, back to Billy...

John Millar= 3/4 length Tartan Coat + being wide on New Faces

"And now our STV's movie at midnight, "A Town Called BAAAAAASTTTTTTARD"

Classic PE comment, after playing "Fantasy Island": "Great band, Abba...Tight Fit seem to think so anyway..."

Thats what my dad thought.

I used to see Glen Michael all the time when i lived in Prestwick. His wife owned a cafe near the bus stop where i got the school bus to Ayr.

No he didn't carry Paladin about with him.

Were you at the game today?

"The count has shot himself!"

Apparently my friend's dad was in stitches

He's obviously never been strawberry picking as a young lad.

http://www.myspace.com/reallybillysloan

i forgot all about this thread

so that DJ Rankin wiki entry is long deleted

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