try glasgow more

what's up, Glasgow?

I'm coming home

Are you FOOTBALL?

I'm not football

Thanks for clearing that up.

don't come home too soon, rjg

I'm leaving.

DEAR GLASGOW

does anyone want to FAP with a mongrel on either October 20th before Carter, or October 21st before/and thence Optimo?

I tried Glasgow recently. I went to SLEAZY'S and I also went to MONORAIL but did not imbibe anything. I thought it looked OK though, if a bit out of the way. Handy for Argos though. I bought two unlistenable Lou Reed albums.

I think Glasgow has changed a lot in 20 years, but at the same time it is still the same.

Also, I met RJG and Cathy, but not in Glasgow.

I'd like to play pool for cheap in Glasgow, but not in a snooker club.

Any suggestions?

rumpie: i'm shit at pool but always enjoyed playing in sleazy's.

energy flash gordon: too right! just don't expect any firm plans to be sorted out until, ooh, october 19th at the earliest.

Rumpie: Woodside Social Club, upstairs.
EFG: Grimly makes a good point.

EFG i wld def like to go for a FAP w/ you, why not come and see Boredoms at the Arches on the 23rd Oct too

I am going to see Carter along with Grimly Fiendish and Andrew Farrell, and would also be up for a pint or six beforehand. Bagsy not Mono, even if it is handy for the Barrowlands. 13th Note, maybe?

OTM re Woodside - upstairs at the Scotia is also good, if a little, um, rough. Also, Rumpie, since you are in our area, they've just knocked the price of pool upstairs at Varsova in Paisley High Street down to 50p a game. However oddly positioned pillars make for some interesting tactical games (i.e. when getting gubbed by my brother, I tend to spend long games just knocking the ball down to that wee bit where it's really awkward for him to hit it)

There's that nice pub opposite the Barrowlands, what's it called? The Something Head?

I figured asking this early (and naming one event some Glasgowers were already going to) would be the only hope of actually getting anything sorted!

Ward I will be in London seeing LCD Soundsystem that night (otherwise would totally), but I wld also like to FAP with you and urge you to come to whatever is sorted on the 19th.

aye: ward and i were discussing glasgow beer on the wales thread (like you do) ... my life's such a bizarre (and non-glasgow-based) affair right now that pubs seem little more than a remote possibility. but a full-on FAP that just happens to be pre-carter is a superb idea.

madchen: the saracen head? not been in there for a long time; was astonishngly drunk and had just had a gun pulled on me in the new monaco bar (which is showing this story's age ... christ's teeth, that would have been christmas 1997), so ... yeh, ISTR it was okay a FUCKING DECADE AGO. [pause while grimly feels old.] and it makes it easy to get to the venue, natch.

Rumpie: Woodside Social Club, upstairs

hmmm. i've only been up there once since the smoking ban kicked in and it was cold, bleak and empty. has it repopulated a bit?

Cheers muckers, since I've cut down on the booze I find myself getting itchy feet in pubs and wanting to do something with my hands, (phnar phnar)

I can now totally understand how ex-smokers feel.

I am going to be trying Glasgow more this weekend for my nephew's christening, I think I'll be around on Friday, certainly in the daytime on Friday, and will definitely be free on Sunday afternoon/evening.

So would be nice to see some ILXors if anyone's free....