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Whisper it, but this is just the start, there are gonna be some changes round here…

More stuff coming tomorrow.  Hope you all had a good weekend…

Hope you’re all having a great festive season so far, we’ll be back with some more previews in a couple of days time to take us into the New Year.  In the meantime, you’ve got until 5pm on Monday 28 December to enter our One Up Records competition. Oh, and take care on those pavements folks.  Lethal or what?

One thing we absolutely want to do here on The Kiosque is increase our coverage of local bands and DJs.  With our new format and a podcast up and running now, it’s going to be far easier to highlight some of the great music that’s being made around the North-East at the moment, which in turn will hopefully have a knock-on effect on gig attendances, CD/record sales, downloads etc.

However, this raises a few questions:  Are we going to  big things up  just because they’re local?  Are we in danger of falling into a trap that means we’ll look at everything through Granite-tinted spectacles? (an unlikely product I know but hey, any entrepreneurs are welcome to the patent).  Most importantly, how can we avoid this?  We’d like to think that the stuff we’ll point you towards will be featured for the sole reason that it’s good,  in our opinion of course,  however, we don’t expect for a moment that you’ll agree with everything,  it would be totally naive to do so.

Anyway, what prompted this bout of hand-wringing is a post on the Scotsman’s excellent Under The Radar blog in which another (equally worthy) Scottish music site, The Pop Cop accuses them of a scatter-gun approach to the bands they cover, claiming there are only twelve new acts in Scotland worth listening to each year.  Now, I’m pretty sure I could rattle off at least 6 bands (probably more) in Aberdeen alone that are worth some ear-time, all of whom could cut it on far bigger stages than the local/Scottish scene if given the chance. So, what do you think?

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