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HI DERE! I GO GLASGOW!

I'm in town Friday & Saturday, possibly Sunday too (though I may be going to Edinburgh to discuss urgent & key issues with my real friends). I'm going to the prog rock gigs in the CCA on Friday and Saturday. What's this sunday gig about? Do I need to tell my friends in Edinburgh to shag off and go to it instead?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

jeans team were really, really fun when i saw them a few years ago. i would imagine they'd be even more so in the optimo atmosphere.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

oooh it's a veritable invasion this weekend! i wanna play! and drink! lots! preferably friday afternoon. i'll actually be in town and available from about 2pm, if anyone needs entertaining. not like i know any of the new arrivals, but as my gran used to say, there aren't any strangers, just friends you haven't met yet. actually, she never said that, but i read it on a bus once. so yeah. keep me in the loop yo.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't have my mobile phone.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

well, that's pretty silly.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

It seems that the art I'm going to see is in a kind of long, shallow triangular area with the CCA, St Margaret's Place / Bridgegate and Central Station as its points.

Someone should name a place at which we can congregate on Friday afternoon, if we wish to. Shouldn't they?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Someone possibly should. But I suppose we have to make sure that people will not be waiting around by themselves for hours in a pub if no one else is there. Will have a think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I have just listened to my second Dot to Dot recording, 'Dusty Cover'. It is more angular funk than the first one. My only criticism is that I can't imagine any members of Dot to Dot not wanting to be anybody's lover. I bet they're all straining at the leash at the slightest whiff of loverdom. Unless it is a song about a bag lady or some other form of fleabag. They would have a dusty cover.

Tim, you can see Whistler's brushes in Glasgow, if you haven't already.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm amenable to getting pissed up on both Friday and possibly even Sunday since I am ON HOLIDAY for the next two weeks.

Let's get ready to rumble!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I am sick as a parrot that I'm not going to be in Glasgow this weekend! When's the next Dot to Dot thingummy? Is Renfrew street prepared for another invasion?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I hear it's a Rangers-Celtic match day on Sunday.

PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED, UNDERRACE SUPPORTERS OF AN INFERIOR TEAM.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Cook, I think he's talking to you.

Can someone do a plan already, I am ILX-less at work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Just think Lara, all of Glasgow will be sick as parrakeets when you enjoy your girlie weekend in Madchester.

I bet at least one of you three buys a pair of shoes ...

Shit! I though that that .2. track was an interpretation of a Dusty Springfield song!

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

If I were you, I'd rewrite the song to exploit that lyrical ambiguity, Cook. As it stands, PJ Miller's criticism is devastating.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm probably going to that Caribou/Kasule gig I mentioned upthread. If I get to finish work early enough it would be nice to meet some ilx people trying Glasgow for a quick drink beforehand.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

The Herald says Dot To Dot are a "handsome Glasgow indie 'boy' band".

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Funny, that's exactly what the List said too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

is that what it says on their press release?

i look forward to hott london .2. action :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

.2. looks like a member of the 'handsome' 'Glasgow' 'indie' 'boy' 'band' upside-down.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

where, on friday? and when!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I've been asking that! No-one is telling (or else they are arranging stuff elsewhere and I'm not allowed to come out to play but everyone's too scared to tell me to my face)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Tim,

I look forward to this. I haven't seen you since Bowlie!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

glasgow disorganised? who'da thort it...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, normally Glasgow is well ahead of the game... I'm thinking of things like tuberculosis vaccinations and so on.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Also, does Glasgow know their underground system is on strike tomorrow? So no poncey west end pubs plz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind sitting on my own in the pub, as long as sitting alone (with an English accent) doesn't result in violence against my person. However, since I don't know any boozers in Glasgow I am relying on you to name a place where I can pleasantly and safely sit and wait and maybe meet some of you all. Any chance?

I am sure I'll be ready for the pub by half four at the latest.

Keith I *must* have seen you since Bowlie! I haven't learned anything about ROCK since I last saw you, by the way, except what you and PJM have taught me.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

You realise that you've just set yourself up for a few lectures at the university of ROCK after a few pints?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't be arsed sending this to the UK general election thread, but I'm finding it particularly funny that the UKIP says it's not a problem that Joan Collins has stopped supporting them because they've got Rustie Lee standing as a candidate!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)
As long as you don't mind auditing a MSc course at the Polytechnic of P!O!P!

I can't wait.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't expect anything less!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't finish till 6 and have to go home briefly before I come out. Err.. go out.

You have my mobile number, Tim, so call me if no one else is around and you need pub advice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

OK. Tim is putting the squeeze on.

The Drum And Monkey, St Vincent Street, handily across the street from my work.

OK?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I've been putting the squeeze on, but not as effectively as Tim, obviously.

Last time I was in the Drum and Monkey with Ally C, they were playing Momus.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Won't all the city centre pubs be a bit unpleasantly packed on a Friday evening?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Yes, so we may as well just choose any one and be done with it. Like Ailsa said, no tube to get west end and most folk will be in town anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of THE CARNAVON.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

THE CARNARVON, rather.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Carnarvon = pain in the arse for me to get to. Therefore I'm ruling it out for everyone else too, because I'm like that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, OK. Drum & Momus it is then.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I think Tim is more built for squeezing than Ailsa. I also think that he would appreciate the Carnarvon's style.

Are the buses & cabs on strike too?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

No, but they brought in immigrants to drive them. It's very dangerous.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Is there not somewhere in town that is like the Carnarvon, maybe? (I can only think of about six pubs in Glasgow city centre and they are all a bit rubbish). Can we please not go to that place with the inappropriately-named cocktails and poncy candles that we went to with the pinefox, please? That, and ease of me getting there from Central Station without having to spend any more money than is strictly necessary, would be my criteria. But it's not my choice, is it?

We could go somewhere rubbish that after-work-type people don't go, like Fat Boab's Alehouse, or Times Square, or that pub opposite where Tower Records used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

The Carnarvon is in town! Even from Central Station, it's only 20 mins walk. Maybe I walk fast.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I think we should stick with the D&M. That way, if it's packed and we get into a fight, we can blame Cook.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Town = not over the motorway from Charing Cross. I hate walking. Oh, go to the sodding Carnarvon, I'll get the bus.

(xpost, or that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

(N.B. *I* am an after-work-type person!)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you know what I mean. Actually, given that it's been six years since I last worked in an office with more than four people in it, I have no idea what the drinks-after-work crowd is any more. I know I go to old men's pubs in Paisley after work as the bigger pubs are full of the kind of people I think I mean.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

(girls who drink pitchers of brightly-coloured things that come with straws, and guys who end up with their ties tied round their heads - maybe they don't exist outside Renfrewshire anymore)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Hey - *I'm* a guy who ends up with his tie tied round my head!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

His head. Hang on, whose head?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

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