it's not a shithole it's a pretty good place. it's just bad for gigs because it's not set up properly and it's amateurish (not charming, sorry) also bar staff can be slighly cuntish? it has an excellent record shop that might be up your street, ward.
did you find Volcanic tongue? i've never been.
the place near the CCA is the ABC. the CCA has zero atmosphere but the sound can be good, yes.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
the ABC is the one near the CCA
you should have been to king tut's before it was totally "gentrified" which it has been (I feel), as opposed to mostly "gentrified"
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― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
well, acts i've seen there include grace jones, public enemy, hawkwind, the cocteau twins, ministry, sonic youth, kraftwerk etc. i think i might possibly also hold the dubious distinction of having performed there more than any other living person. maybe i'll get a plaque one day.
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― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
The ABC (and ABC2) may be soulless (actually, I don't think they are, but I've only ever seen acts I really like in both of them, so haven't had a shitey experience there yet), but they also have the most fantastically well-stocked bar of any gig venue I've seen. And, as Madchen pointed out, a HUGE glitterball. We spent some of a gig once watching the crowd reflected in the mirrorball. It was kind of cool.
The Arches was a good venue when I was last there in about 1995.
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― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't think it's cuntish so much as spectacularly stupid - in a couple of cases at least. i do love the place dearly, but the simple act of buying a couple of pints can be unnecessarily difficult, yes.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Spear of Destiny
I don't know why I went.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
To hand out flyers though.
I got to see them "psyching themselves up" to go on stage. Not a pretty sight.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I wish there were more places with chairs and high ceilings and good bands playing quietly in the corner.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Alba (albab...), July 19th, 2006 1:55 AM. (Alba) (later) (link)
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Random bands I have seen at the Barrowlands: The Wonder Stuff, The Levellers, Big Country. It does get better than this, honest. Do I out-embarrass PJ Miller? I do hope so.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not a great fan of Tut's. It fine for touring bands, but I don't like DF Concert's practice of making local support acts sell tickets in order to get paid. In order to get higher on the bill, some bands will buy a load of tickets themselves, which means they're losing money to get paid. Very often the local acts it chooses suck too. The band they've signed to their new label, The Dykeenies, are sub-Killers NME fodder. Tut's also goes on at tedious length about Oasis being "discovered" there, right down to calling the urinal the "Wonderwall". Despite its claims, it's not really an integral part of the music scene. Mono/Stereo, Sleazys and the 13th Note are far more significant.
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I also went to see Big Audio Dynamite there, but I could pretend it was to see Schoolly D, who was one of the many support acts.
I also tried to get in free to see Fine Young Cannibals, and was turned away by the firendly security staff. Good Thing.
I am quite embarrassed about going to see The Pogues there, but only because of all the scarf waving IRA tripe.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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I saw Lloyd Cole at the Barrowlands, 2 years ago I think. Somehow he seemed not have aged in the preceding 20.
― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I like how Peter thinks I would have been three in 1989. Such youthful good looks I must have! I was actually 17.
I once went to see the Pogues at the Barrowlands on St Patrick's Day. It was 1991. Celtic had just knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup. It was top fun. I ignored all the IRA shite.
Here are some more bands I have seen at the Barrowlands:
OasisMy Bloody ValentineThe OrbBis (OK, they were supporting Garbage)Radiohead
I'm not sure I have seen Carter USM and/or the Manics there. I have seen them both lots of places, but I have no clear memory of a Barrowlands gig from either. I must have done, though. I should go and look through my ticket stubs, though being a ligger-tastic student newspaper type, I didn't pay into lots of gigs, therefore have no stubs to remember these things by.
I once saw Blur and Radiohead on the same bill, doing some Radio One gig that was being recorded for Japanese telly. This was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen in 1994, I thought I might explode with Britpop-centric joy.
I haven't been to the Barrowlands since that two-night Belle and Sebastian extravaganza. I need to rectify this.
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesus and Mary Chain w/ The Vaselines (!)Cocteau TwinsEcho and the Bunnymen post-hiatus w/The Primitives (!)Aztec Camera (!)Happy MondaysDe La Soul
downsatirs:
Dinosaur JrFrank SidebottomThe Real Sounds of Africa (!)
I'm sure there are others. They will come to me. I hope. I think I used to think bands were "too big" by the time they reached Barrowlands level.
I think my favourite venue was the Art School:
The Sugarcubes (!)
Followed by Rooftops:
Sonic Youth (!)The Stone Roses (!)
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― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 22 July 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
i shall be in yr fair land from SATURDAY (12th) to THURSDAY (17th) but i will be mainly in EMBRA being ARTY. why don't you come over to see me (as i doubt i'll have time/energy to get over to glasgow)?the sunday (13th) is FRINGE SUNDAY when there are lots of ppl doing things on the meadows also i will be going to the pub with Dr Thompson and maybe KEITH on the saturday.
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Isn't it normally the first weekend in August. The great thing is, I've been here for 15 years and I'm probably wrong.
ARTY is interesting! The festival is usually more JUGGLY than ARTY.
Leigh, if you fancy meeting up then we can work some place out. I'm terrible at it, though. Where are when are you arriving, Steve?
― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
We will, more than likely, be in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening. Pleasance FAP, yo.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know what my plans are at the weekend but if there's something organised i'll try and drop by.
― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, for those who care about such things, Onimo is now the proud dad of a little girl. Megan was born at 11.33 this morning, weighing 6lb 12 oz.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I am glad you've revived this thread Alisa, I was going to start a Rolling Glasgow Gigging Thread but thought that might be a bit...forward.
Anyway, I am planning to go and see these things, I hope perhaps others might feel similarly inclined:
Tues 19th Sept - Pamela Kurstin @ Mono - She is a theremin improviser who has recorded for Zorn's Tzadik label
Thursday 21st Sept - Awesome Color @ Mono - Don't know much more abt them than that they're on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label and are some kind of 'rock' - as w/ the Kurstin gig, tickets are cheap enough to take a punt on, four quid or so
Friday 29th Sept - Rhythm and Sound gig - at somewhere called Afroyard, I think? (dunno where this is)
Sunday 8th October - Comets on Fire @ (wait for it) Mono - bought my ticket already for this, I've been digging one of their albs recently and thought they might be gd live - post HighRise Blue Cheerist rock scorch, sometimes with the 6 Organs fella (tho I don't know if he's w/ em for this one) - I'm hoping it will be loud good fun - and Acid Mothers Temple are also playing Mono in Nov, excellent.
I was tempted by the Davey Graham/John Renbourn/Alex Neilson gig but tickets are pretty expensive for that - £14 - and I trust the word of Dadaismus and others who say that Graham has pretty much lost the plot these days...sad... I wish Dick Gaughan was playing Glasgow, can't really afford to make it over to Edinburgh to see him this month
Plus Instal, of course!
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link