try glasgow more

I'd still rather the Pot Still, whichever day/night we go.

i really like stereo, it seems completely different to mono. it has atmosphere and the staff are nice, on the whole. well, they're at least civil.

I really like both Mono & Stereo too, they are two of my favourite bars/venues/whatever in Glasgow.

I thought that the thing with Mono was mainly that ilx Glasgow FAPs have always defaulted to there, right? In that case it just seemed that Stereo wouldn't be that much of departure.

I'm mightily happy in any of these places.

Thing with Mono is that a bar where people don't want to serve you doesn't make for pleasant fappery. Also, it's miles away from Central for those of us who don't live in the town.

I always find Stereo too busy (at least with Mono you can usually get a seat), but that's only because I really only go into town at weekends. We tend to end up in those seemimgly-terrible old man pubs at the bottom of Hope Street, because it is easy to get a seat in there. But I thought it would be a decent compromise, being near the station, and nearly-but-NOT-Mono.

i always get madly riled-up in mono. it's become "a thing" now.

i'm actually squaring up before i even go through the door now.

The comedically surly camp barman in Mono is one of its plus points for me. His unwavering misanthropy makes me smile.

alpen lodge

shut it

Fair play on its relative distance from the station though. I don't live in town either, but am independently mobile (bicycle), so such things don't occur to me.

Rockers

I didn't know about this shared Mono hatred! It's always seemed fine to me, although I've never been when its role is a proper pub rather than a concert venue or an eatery. But I am intuitively disinclined from using it as a pub, whereas I do like Stereo for that.

while I'm here I'll note for those interested that having passed through the Union Street Fopp today, their current book selection is pretty good - I got 'The House That Trane Built' for £4, 'Modulations: A History of Electronic Music' for £3, the Thurston Moore / Byron Coley No Wave book for £3, Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles Volume 1' for £2, and the lovely 'Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM' for £10, among other less interesting things.

highly recommend the Mono Ping Pong Tournament

saw mr past3l playing ping pong at a friend's 50th bday party recently, dude is a hustler

still like mono because it is a bar WITH A REC SHOP IN IT

total hustler. he set up the first tournament and and then won it. good fun, though.

glasgow, "hardly a haven for models"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11040378

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Mogwai play Stereo next Sunday 29th August!

Tickets onsale tomorrow morning 11am in person from Monorail or online from Ticketmaster (link is currently non-working).

Mogwai say:

Glasgow - Stereo 29th August

We are playing a show next Sunday August 29th at Stereo in Glasgow. Moon Unit are playing too. Doors are at 8pm. Tickets will be available online tomorrow morning at 11am here . They will also be available in person from Monorail records at 11am tomorrow. Tickets are £10 and proceeds will be going to Lanarkshire Cancer Trust and aid to the victims of the floods in Pakistan.

I could pretty much explode with excitement at the prospect of seeing them at such a tiny venue!

OMG (and I've just made not-get-out-of-able plans for next Sunday, bah).

Local knowledge! Would a gig at the 02 on a schoolnight Monday finish early enough to dash down the hill and be on a 23:40 train back to London?

I think it's worth phoning them to make sure but the couple of times I've been there I've been out just after 23:00 which is enough time to walk to Central.

"down the hill"? Do you mean ABC2? O2 is pretty much level with Central on the other side of the river.

The ABC is an O2 venue now as well.

I can't remember what time you get out, but I can't imagine it would be after 11, and it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to get down to Central from there.

The ABC is an O2 venue now as well.

ah ok that explains it

sic: yes, the gig will be all finished by 12:00.

23:00, i meant.

Definitely finished by 11pm, yes. Headline band probably on at 9pm.

which is worse, drill or chisel?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2010/08/31/gang-chop-off-rival-s-manhood-with-chisels-days-after-twin-has-holes-drilled-in-his-head-86908-22525727/

Ouch.

Crime really doesn't pay.

I don't know, it sounds like they all had rather nice cars.

and they get to chisel dicks off

That's the life!

Meanwhile, 45p shots all round. Cheers!

Yeah, would be brilliant if that actually happened :-) Instead I'm now going to pay about a fiver for a £3.50 bottle of wine out of Tesco, and all the menko Weston's Organic Cider drinkers are going to be bankrupt.

sic if you're in town on sat, the magician's playing

he is? where? and when are we getting the "vito sucks" t shirts printed?

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?185436

I'll wear a 'vito sucks' shirt

that looks alright but i'm working 7am on sunday :/

it gets a thumbs up from me.

Do we have weekend or Monday drink plans? No, of course we don't, we're Glasgow and we don't do FAPs.

poo, I'm getting in on Sunday arvo. esp poo as I've seen them together once and Vito solo twice!

Monday in the Pot Still, whenever people can get away from work? duck off early, tell 'em it's to go drinking with people from the interwebs - that should work, right?

jed I should be in McSorleys before Hung Up, will ilxmail you my phone #.

Six hours backwards on a train, with no window, and both reading lights broken. Eat my scrote, Branson.

Ouch, been there. The most irritating thing is that it's just because they've installed the seats wrong - there's a luggage rack half-a-dozen rows in front that gets the window that should be yours.

So who's going to the Pot Still tomorrow then?

I can't make it along tonight, unfortunately - I've fucked up my shoulder playing badminton. Was hoping it would be better by now, but I've woken this morning in absolute agony - gonna have to go for some physio asap.

Sorry to have missed you this time round, Sic - safe travels.

I'm going to come along to the Pot Still straight after work, so about 6pm, then head up to the ABC about 7pm to catch the delectable Zola Jesus before Fever Ray.

:( ward! all the best for recovery.

anyone else? has grimly been poked abt this?