I went with a few friends to see Glasgow band Mogwai at the Ironworks on Friday night, and the tinnitus in my ears has only just subsided.

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To say they were loud is a bit of an understatement. It wasn’t just the volume, although that was high, it was the depth of the sound. As Michael commented afterwards—and I had been thinking during the gig—it was a literal “wall of sound”.

There were contrasting quiet songs and sections in the music, which just acted to make the loud bits sound louder, as they gradually but continually ramped up the volume past 11 to 14.

The support act, Adien Moffat (Arab Strap), was very different, but a good complement to Mogwai. Where they have no discernible lyrics, Moffat had only minor instrumentals to back up his spoken word.

But I think what sums the gig up for me was chatting too a friend in Brighton the next morning, who was surprised that anyone played Inverness :/

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The BBC News team appear to be confused over which sections of the A9 road are single or dual carriageway. The article is about the frequency of accidents on the single carriageway sections of the road, however the photograph that accompanies the article is of the dual carriageway section at Findhorn. It is also filed [...]

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Simon has been writing over at his blog about the fact that we are now one year on from the election of the SNP (minority) government, and what the have and have not achieved.

I must say, I have to disagree with some of his priorities…

Scrapping the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL)—this was a great idea. [...]

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Well, I have finally got round to ironing out the problems with Wordpress 2.5, and have created a new theme to reflect that… Hopefully it should work properly in all browsers, but let me know if Internet Explorer messes it up (if anyone still uses that!).

It is based on a photo I took whilst in [...]

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I not that recently upgraded to iLife ‘08, mainly for iPhoto. I had previously been using version 5 (‘05), and there is a significent improvement. (Ed: this post has been sitting in my drafts for almost 6 months now :/)

The new events based view is a joy to use. Photos are by default grouped into [...]

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