It was quality pub chat all the way, as far as I remember. Good to see you, Ronan. Grimly, we didn't go.
― Madchen, Monday, 1 October 2007 09:23 (sixteen years ago) link
btw: Lou and Andy from Little Britain in Neighbours.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sv7CvsEKe2g
(if I can (a) find it and (b) work out how to do it, Neil's appearance will go up there one day)
― ailsa, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Marvellous! Second in the set: Pet Shop Boys http://youtube.com/watch?v=-JWScLDoLe8
― Madchen, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Just got back late last night.
Great to see everyone again, Glasgow has a great bunch of ILXors!
I didn't realise that that was you Ailsa, and your husband, until I read this thread! When I came in it was a big table and I didn't know if I could say "hey are you on ILX" to you in case you were just a friend of everyone else and thought I was a mental case.
So sorry for the confusion on that. Good to meet Stet and Simon too. I had fun, maybe Optimo another time.
Hopefully I'll be back soon, I really like Glasgow, being able to go out and then get a 5 minute taxi home is amazing.
― Ronan, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry ronan, it was my birthday and i had already made plans for earlier in the evening. i didn't get around to optimo or much else after dinner.
― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
was it? a mightily happy belated birthday, jed_.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks!
― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
well it was actually my birthday on saturday but i had my birthday dinner on sunday because my mum was in hospital for a minor thing until sunday afternoon.
― jed_, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah - late-o birthday wishes, jed. Great to see you again Ronan. Come over for Optimo whenever you like. I had an idea for another Guardian tech feature too - will email you!
― Alba, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That'd be great, my full name as all one word @gmail.com is an address I use more often.
― Ronan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Right Glasgow, we have a mongrel and a farrell in attendance at Carter at the Barrowlands on Saturday. We need a plan for boozing. Please bear in mind that there is an Old Firm game on at lunchtime (at Ibrox), so Gallowgate boozers could be a touch iffy dependent on the result. I'm ruling the Saracen's Head out right now, also Mono because it sucks.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
bah.
if it's not gonna be mono, then what was yr other suggestion ... bar 91? that's good by me.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Bar 91 on Candleriggs seemed a good one, yes. What sort of time are we talking about? What time's the doors at, I would quite like to see support acts.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
bah 91
― RJG, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
ban 91
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
iMono
― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
o91mo
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
er ... yeh, anyway ... who are the support acts? mega city 4? the senseless things? kingmaker? :)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Chris T-T and the Frank and Walters :-)
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought it was supposed to be Sultans of Ping?
― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Sultans are supporting them in London.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's ma jaykit?
― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
gies yer fuckin jaiket
― RJG, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
fuxxake. i've seen SoPFC once in my life -- in 1992 -- and that was one time more than i'd like. they'd better not be doing any surprise glasgow appearances.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
ask chris t-t to sing that song about how nuclear bullets give children cancer!
it's er interesting
― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
and the one about the hedgehog
nominate other places ludicrously close to the Barrowlands? the venue, train station and my hostel all seem to be within a penny's roll of each other, would be amusing to not leave a couple of blocks space in the first 24 hours there.
I'm good for anywhere from 4pm on, def want to see Frank & Walters but as long as they play This Is Not A Song last am not panicked about getting in on time.
also: Ward, if you can't make it, are Sunday or Monday any better for a quieter meet-up?
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hang on, woah, were you being serious about the F&W, ailsa? GOD FUCKING DAMN! i hope they play all the po-faced stuff from the later albums. heh.
but i'll settle for the happy busman and fashion crisis, natch.
4pm might be a bit early ... some time between 5 and 6 is more likely for me. EFG: be warned, glasgow FAPs have a habit of starting at least an hour later than the advertised time.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, I was being serious about the Frank and Walters. Where are you staying, EFG? Still waiting on Andrew to let me know what time he's getting in at. I shall be ruinously early in pub due to football, but should take some time off between that and afternoon/evening drinking.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i bet you don't :)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
doors are at 7, according to the handy reminder e-mail i just got from ticketbastard.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Kit, I can do Saturday afternoon/early evening, tho' I am not going to see Carter (saw them in New Cross in the early 1990s, appropriately enough)
Barrowlands is v. near to one of Glasgow's two major comic shops but it's really shit - Mono, on the other hand, has a v. good rec shop that is prob worth a visit if you're in the area
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
(note, this doesn't mean you have to stay in the pub there)
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ good work ailsa
― aldo, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
get it RIGHT up yiz, fuckers.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks aldo, I try. What I want from my pubs is not a soulless cavern, sullen (and useless) bar staff and a minimalist range of drinks which doesn't even include Guinness or non-horrible wine.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I think if you want to avoid drunken football nutter types (present company excepted) iMono is the ideal place. Shame about the lack of Guinness all the same.
― onimo, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
who needs guinness and wine when you've got organic cider?
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
also: they're not sullen, just shy indie mokes. (who are sometimes useless, yes.)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
It's been so long since I went to Mono that I've decided I quite like it after all.
― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
hey guys when is a good time to visit glasgow in november?
― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
any time is ken time, ken!
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally!
― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
is there going to be good dancing going on 3rd/4th?
― ken c, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
you asking?
(© 2007 clapped-out glasgow vernacular jokes inc)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i dislike mono a fair bit and find the staff not shy but downright rude much of the time (worst offender that fat prob. gay guy). having said that though ailsa's mono hatred has taken on a life of its own by this point but on a day like this it's probably the best option - especially since she always recommends scary places. she's ruled out the saracen head this time but i'd be absolutely terrified to go in there regardless of the day.
not that i ever get round to coming so disregard all that if you wish.
― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
My Mono hatred is mostly self-parody these days. There are better pubs though - the one right across from the road from it at least does a proper pint. The Sarry was, I think, Grimly's idea originally, prior to me informing him that there was an Old Firm game on.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i know that, ailsa. i do exactly the same.
― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
re the self parody i mean.
― jed_, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
It should perhaps be noted that my original proposal of the Saracen's Head was a joke. That I was taken seriously surprised me a little!
― Madchen, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link