I love Deviant Noise

[ILoveDeviantNoise]

It's muh less clicky than a certain other society, and is great. Just thought I'ld let everyone know that.

[benedict]

erm just out of interest, which certain other society is cliquey? i have my suspicions. if i'm correct then i hope this doesn't continue too much longer.

but yes, Deviant Noise is quite welcoming.

[raxenl]

See, *I* would have replied first, but I couldn't work out how to spell cliquey. It was the above typo that confused me...


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[ILoveDeviantNoise]

[s]benedict wrote on 22:17, 5th May 2004:
erm just out of interest, which certain other society is cliquey? i have my suspicions. if i'm correct then i hope this doesn't continue too much longer.

but yes, Deviant Noise is quite welcoming.


Without starting some sort of thread war (not that that ever happens on the sinner) let's just say that the first part of its name could be defined as:

'the dry solid part of the Earth's surface, or any large piece of this which sticks up out of the ground or the sea'

Sorry about the typos

[Dangermouse]

Okay, let's not start a thread war. The best way not to start this particular one would be to stop making snidey remarks about Rocksoc (I don't think I'm jumping to conclusions there, am I?) on the Deviant Noise board. You won't find anything like that about Deviant Noise on the Rocksoc board, and it doesn't make you (as in you personally, ILoveDeviantNoise) look good that you're doing it here. If you really have to post about Rocksoc being cliquey, have the guts to do it on the Rocksoc board where Rocksoc fans can find it and defend themselves.

Personally, I go to both societies' events and find both fairly welcoming and inclusive. The first time I went to Rocksoc in my first year I was immediately adopted and have since found lots of good friends in the society, all of whom are grown-up enough not to have any stupid grudge against Deviant Noise. Most of them go to Deviant Noise. Come and talk to us sometime.

Emma (Rocksoc Keeper of Paper)

[Bede]

Yeah, I heard about this thread. Thought I'd chuck in my thoughts. Everyones entitled to make up their own minds and support or not support certain societys. However, a couple of years ago things were kinda difficult between these two societies and alot of hard work went into getting rid of that attitude. I love that you love deviant noise - so do I - but this probably isn't the best place for the undermining of other music societies...

lalalalahhhh....! Dissertation!

[ILoveDeviantNoise]

I wrote (more or less):
'without reveiling too much, this other socity's first part of their name could be described as:
'the dry solid part of the Earth's surface, or any large piece of this which sticks up out of the ground or the sea'.
'

And I was censored, perhaps the admin are part of this society, if so then why can't others hold their own opinion.

[meep]

ROCKSOC

[raxenl]

[s]Unregisted User ILoveDeviantNoise wrote on 14:45, 9th May 2004:
I wrote (more or less):
'without reveiling too much, this other socity's first part of their name could be described as:
'the dry solid part of the Earth's surface, or any large piece of this which sticks up out of the ground or the sea'.
'

And I was censored, perhaps the admin are part of this society, if so then why can't others hold their own opinion.


Actually, because you either didn't have the guts or brains to creat your own account.
The posts have to be confirmed before they are put on. This mean admin coming in and manually confirming them. Sorry for the delay. Maybe you should investigate getting an account.

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[Dangermouse]

why can't others hold their own opinion.


You can hold whatever opinion you like, but the Deviant noise messageboard is the wrong place to voice opinions about Rocksoc. Have the guts to use the Rocksoc board for that.

[ILoveDeviantNoise]

It appears that I was wrong about Rocksoc. Sorry if I offended anyone.

[Jane Ellaway]

I'm so confused. I thought the message boards were for talking about interesting things. Sorry guys, but this isn't even interesting enough to be called petty. I agree with everyone. Write where ever you like about what ever you like, but don't start boring threads. Hey Emma, how's it going?

[ajo y agua]

Don't be decieved. I too would love it if all the music societies in St. Andrews could work harmoniously and not have bitter rivalries or fueds, but lets not be blind, people. I am a regular attendee at Alt Soc and Deviant Noise. I have been known to go to RockSoc, have friends there, and am a huge rock fan. All of which is irrelevent. People crave rivalries, they love to gossip and bitch in their nature. How this comes to light in our cases, is through hate campaigns, deceit, bitterness and general bitching. AltSoc is heavily polarised to the point of doom and one faction abhorrs deviant noise. Rocksoc is unjustifiably cliquey and has a faction that DOES hate Alt soc and Deviant Noise. Everybody actually especially themselves ( although I don't want to get into that).
There is serious prejudice in deviant noise too. You have the SKA-Punks, for example and I have heard a few that shall remain anonymous bitching heavily about all other music societies making it personal in many cases.

The point is that we have a pretty shitty music scene in general at St. Andrews. We don't get any big bands and very few legendary events. Note Bunker was not affiliated. Scubadoo was cancelled. The best we can come up with is a society ball...please.
Our only hope is for the music societies to stick together and work harmoniously. I tried to do this by sharing contact information for promoters with the three societies. Call me a pessimist, but jack all will come out of that one, i predict. If we really want societies to work better together, pool resources and budgets for cool things to happen we have to lead by example and action not just by sweeping the problem under the carpet and complaining. Lets hold monthly meetings between the presidents and vice presidents off all societies, maybe with a union rep there to dicuss this sorta stuff.
-Tim
What do you all think?

[Uncle_Matula]

I think it would be awesome if the different music socs teamed up and had a big event or two next year, the basis of which was that all present loved music and wanted to party. There isn't really any reason that this shouldn't happen if people wanted it too. In the right venue (aquarium?) there could even be a diverse choice of music at all times.

Anyway, until that happens, no matter how big a deal anyone makes out of the competition between societies; it's not like there are any brawls breaking out, just a few people bitching because they have nothing better to do.

Chris.

[Fugaziboy]

There's not enough musical variety at any of the musical societies. I wish I was still at St. Andrews as I would play everything from Black Flag to The Meatmen, Helmet and The Melvins. As well as other stuff like Black Sabbath and deep Purple.

[underworlddreams]

[s]Fugaziboy wrote on 10:42, 28th Jun 2004:
There's not enough musical variety at any of the musical societies.

Strangely enough, that's because every music society has to specialise. Otherwise there'd only be one huge music society that plays every kind of music around, and a lot of people whining that there's not enough choice as to which music society to join...

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[morena]

There's not enough musical variety at any of the musical societies.

What an asinine comment. Maybe you should come back to St Andrews before saying idiotic things like that.

I wish I was still at St. Andrews as I would play everything from Black Flag to The Meatmen, Helmet and The Melvins. As well as other stuff like Black Sabbath and deep Purple.

You are Mr Variety himself. Perhaps you better not come back to St Andrews after all.

[Fugaziboy]

[s]morena wrote on 17:18, 8th Jul 2004:
There's not enough musical variety at any of the musical societies.

What an asinine comment. Maybe you should come back to St Andrews before saying idiotic things like that.

I wish I was still at St. Andrews as I would play everything from Black Flag to The Meatmen, Helmet and The Melvins. As well as other stuff like Black Sabbath and deep Purple.

You are Mr Variety himself. Perhaps you better not come back to St Andrews after all.





My god, you really took my comments seriously. Am I not varied because I don't want to play dum n'bass or hip-hop or any of that stuff? You clearly don't know anything about music. All those bands are unique in their own way. You've probably never even heard of half of them. I would also play stuff like Sebadoh, Dinosaur Junior, The Smiths, The Cure. The whole point of deviant noise was to have EVERYTHING played and the last time I was there all they ever played was drum n' bass. Yet when it first started there was infinately more variety.

[ajo y agua]

I think that fugaziboy has got it a bit wrong here. See, deviant noise is an inclusive society but it would be totally self-destructive and a contradiction in terms if it started playing the smiths and the cure. Don't get me wrong, i love the cure, have smiths albums and am a closet fugazi fan but you just can't expect it to be played on a big night out least of all at deviant noise. We don'tgo to deviant noise to play songs we all know off by heart. It is not a sing-along gathering. It is an event. The cure and the like are also not deviant enough in my opinion. The thing is you have to deviate from other societies- if you want to listen to the cure and the smiths go to Altsoc- thats a good sing-along event which I frequent too. Also, condemning the president of the society with huge links throughout the St. Andrews and local music scene as not knowing anything about mucic for deeming the smiths as inappropriate at an lively event is simply insulting. You're falling on your own sword there.

[Fugaziboy]

[s]ajo y agua wrote on 13:09, 23rd Jul 2004:
coI think that fugaziboy has got it a bit wrong here. See, deviant noise is an inclusive society but it would be totally self-destructive and a ntradiction in terms if it started playing the smiths and the cure. Don't get me wrong, i love the cure, have smiths albums and am a closet fugazi fan but you just can't expect it to be played on a big night out least of all at deviant noise. We don'tgo to deviant noise to play songs we all know off by heart. It is not a sing-along gathering. It is an event. The cure and the like are also not deviant enough in my opinion. The thing is you have to deviate from other societies- if you want to listen to the cure and the smiths go to Altsoc- thats a good sing-along event which I frequent too. Also, condemning the president of the society with huge links throughout the St. Andrews and local music scene as not knowing anything about mucic for deeming the smiths as inappropriate at an lively event is simply insulting. You're falling on your own sword there.


No, but the whole point of deviant noise was to play a wide variety of stuff that would never get played in the other societies such as hardcore and emo, that type of stuff. I mentioned stuff like the cure in response to the last comment who thought I wasn't varied in my tastes. Fugazi never gets played anywhere, why shouldn't one of the most important bands of the last 17 years get played? It's not just about socializing but getting to know good music that you've never heard before. That's the whole point in my opinion.