Scottish Political News

The "winner" being the utterly meaningless "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers", proving that you should never, ever underestimate the British public's bad taste. How can something so trite come in first, when "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds" comes third?

Even with the muppet vote split by "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you"??

Young Scots for Independence, (YSI) the youth wing of the Scottish National Party have launched a referendum on whether or not Scotland should be independent. The website for the text message referendum is www.txt4scotland.com

To vote you simply text scot yes or scot no to an easy 5 digit telephone number, 60999. There will be running totals given in the year leading up to the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections. Each mobile phone number is only eligible to vote once. text messages cost 50p and usual network charges apply.

There has already been considerable media interest in this referendum with the BBC providing live television coverage of the launch.

Vote today and send a clear message that Scotland would be better off independent.

One Two Three Four are yet more offspring of the superfecund Hamburg scene. Their fans like to compare them to the Libertines which is reasonably accurate but I’d say this bunch are mired a bit further in the past than them — the Kinks is a more accurate comparison.

It’s hard to get excited about this band. They sound like they’ve just plugged the guitars straight into a stack of 12 Marshalls with no gimmicks in between. This is no bad thing of course, check out the early Aerosmith sound, but One Two Three Four, for all their unencumbered sound and greasy organs lack the swagger of fellow rockers Boozed.

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60’s style Garage rock but lacking the lightness of touch. Standout tracks: ‘You’re Ugly’, ‘Your Money’

Song themes concern escaping bad love, falling foul of the law. Singer Jan Ueber’s vocals are pretty well suited to this kind of gritty storytelling, he’s got the style of the Kinks’ Ray Davies but I think the falsetto on ‘Mary’s Crying’ is a mistake.