Roadrunning from Potterrow

I think we covered most of this href="Am I allowed to plug the wee club thingy that I am starting up in Edinburgh this weekend?">here

As for me, well, I was Pete, Neil and Rich's flatmate and had successfully managed to erase my time at P'row from my memory, until last week. Bless.

It wasn't me!!!

Everyone does know Keith, though. And I know alext by sight, although not to say hello to.

A friend of mine did environmental geoscience - he might have known him!

Did he ever do fire juggling with the Beltane crowd? If so he probably knew my old boss.

caroline?

neil
pete
rich
caroline

er
er ...
fuck, no, it's all very hazy.

are you the girl who poured a drink over me? can't remember what i'd done, but i know i upset you somehow. that was the same night that KT punched me in the face. and alext was almost sick on the stairs. happy days. or not.

jism. this is really going to irritate me now. go on, more clues ...

(nb: there are more than enough clues in this e-mail for you to figure out who i am. assuming you knew me at all ...)

To help you out: my flatmates were:
Caroline
Pete
Rich
Neil
Damian and
Angel...

Anyone remember me? *waits in hope*

(and according to the last alumni mag I bothered to read, they're going to build a garden on the library roof!)

I've been to Potterow

But I've never been to KB

[the above is neither true nor funny, but will it do to be going on with?]

but i'm not spoiling it for anyone else, heh :)

Mr Fiendish, I think I remember you - black hair, black beard, black clothes...slight look of a philosopher about you?

most people would substitute "twat" for "philosopher". you're too kind.

Alex T... yes, I remember an Alex T but not sure if he's the same one - wrote for Student? Cleverclogs? Often deeply drunk?

oh yes. that's the one.

So, who are all the others here?

GV only began lurking here an hour ago, when he asked why i was ringing him in a state of agitation, asking about who lived in west maitland street circa 1995. he might already have fucked off. i hope he doesn't.

i remember magnus, yes! i'd like to see that photo. look around these parts hard enough and you'll find a picture of me as i was then, complete with appalling swirly coloured shirt.

paddy fucked off to poland, i think. but he might be back. keith will know better than i do.

Sadly, you and Magnus are background lurkers but I'll try to scan the snap for you. You must remind me who Keith is - my mind is completely blank. I asked Rich (my old flatmate) and all he could offer was "danced like a monkey". Like I can narrow that one down. By the way, are you the same GF as on Popbitch?

Poor Paddy. I remember he attempted to woo me with the line, "well, I haven't had it in a long time..."

Emma? She was Jess's flatmate and had reddish hair. I wonder what you said/did?

i genuinely can't remember, but i think it was a typical alex-and-simon-aged-21 slight upon all womanhood. i do now remember what i said to KT, and i don't think i deserved to get chinned, given that it was quite funny. she disagreed, though. c'est la vie. i've pretty much lost touch with her, which is daft of me; i really should give her a call some time. she rocked mightily.

Sadly, you and Magnus are background lurkers but I'll try to scan the snap for you. You must remind me who Keith is - my mind is completely blank. I asked Rich (my old flatmate) and all he could offer was "danced like a monkey".

keith is our guru.

By the way, are you the same GF as on Popbitch?

no. that one's also a journalist, i believe, but gets better gossip than me.

Alex was a lovely soul. What's he up to these days? And what are you up to? (And are others getting cross at how dull this thread is? Ah...)

So, Dolly, is that your real name?

intermittently. best to use the webmail link. or weesimon AT mac DOT com. i'm intrigued!

I have a feeling you remarked upon her bosoms... does that sound familiar?

[puts head in hands ...] it sounds plausible. oh god. there's a far more entertaining KT/alex/bosoms story, but i'll let him tell it himself, thus neatly taking the heat off me.

i remember finding you funny but slightly terrifying, due to all that black.

hmm :)

i don't remember much about jess's party, but what you describe does sound familiar. i was paralytically drunk, i do recall that. yes, as far as i know she's still with kev - at least, they were happily together when i last saw them (six months ago now). keith will no doubt be able to put you in touch! ah, i do like ILX on days like this.

Alex was a lovely soul. What's he up to these days? And what are you up to? (And are others getting cross at how dull this thread is? Ah...)

alex is posting replies up the top of this thread! he pretends to hate ILX but, like a bad penny/the terminator, he keeps coming back.

me: i'm a hack in glasgow (see sub-editing threads passim). as for what others think/potential parochiality of the thread: hey, this is NOTHING :)

Did Keith look like one (or both) of Candy Flip?

Yes, I noted Alex's stern reply atop - hope he returns, even if it's just to remind me what he said to KT. I also have a vague memory of him saying/doing something to offend her - perhaps about NOT leering at her due to petite bosomage? That might have been Paddy, mind you.

gothdom. yes, sadly, there was a bit of that going on. still is, truth be told :/

keith: you might think that. i couldn't possibly comment.

anyway: what are YOU doing these days?

I'm afraid I still haven't worked out who you are... But then, I don't feel so bad, because you don't remember me!

Give me another clue!

We didn't know each other very well - I think you were bailing out the P'Row Committee when I was a young pretender. I joined along with Caroline but I absolutely did NOT date Colin.

No, I lived with Dave D probably at that time, or Emma if it was before perhaps.

Dunno what happened to Jamie, he was a good lad.

Poor Jamie - I have some photos of him too, eyes like saucers.

Eyes like saucers, haha. If I could work out how to type that whooping, ravey noise you make two in a row of, I would.

Urgh, I remember that ridiculous noise well. Wasn't he quite pally with that bingo caller - the one who barfed drunkenly into the ball-machine (causing a wonderful flurry of balls and spew)? Actually, I think he died so perhaps I shouldn't bring this up...

Ah, time to go home now, thank god.

thank FUCK i missed this.

i've got jamie's fucking noise stuck in my head too now, though :/

More proof that everyone in the world knows Keith, even people who don't know they do. My toppest moment of last year was meeting someone at our new journalistic lurker chum's birthday party who, within about 30 seconds of conversation, asked "so do you know Keith?" WHO WASN'T EVEN THERE AND HADN'T BEEN MENTIONED.

(actually it wasn't even the toppest moment of that night, but it was kind of good in a freaky kind of way)

i'm sure he was.

wow.

keith: he's always in our hearts. or something.

Keith is the centre of the indieverse. He puts himself about a bit.

This is possibly the best description of me ever! Sorry for being so grumpy when you started your thread -- I can't believe I didn't see that people had actually answered, even though I did tell Keith to scoot on over and have a look. I only found out yesterday in the pub that this conversation had happened! (My fault for working too hard to be able tos spend time hanging around ILX, now I have a job in the same university department where so many of us wasted so many formative years...) Anyway hello *****.

Aye, right!

BTW I managed to get hold of that Cars album this morning -- sounds great so far.