― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I remember the name Bon Accord but I do not remember where it is. I don't think it was very indie.
The waterfront area was always a bit disconnected/disconnecting though, except when it were all shipyards (I imagine). For instance, if you go to a concert there, you have to walk across a huge empty car park afterwards, which feels very exposed, in contrats to the carefully choreographed pseudo-intimacy of the concert experience.
I hope your friend's little girl is OK, Vicky.
I would like to work for the BBC there. Surely the whole point of working for the BBC to have access to the BBC canteen. I have reason to believe it is a source of hilarity.
Have they vacated the place by the Botanics?
I find the necropolis quite disconnecting too. In fact, a lot of places in Glasgow are disconnecting, or were.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
the SECC or whatever they call it is really rubbish, yes
the bon accord is on st. george's road, south of the mitchell library, near a harley davidson shop, I think
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Ward, i'm going to the SSO thing on sat.
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
the rogers sisters are playing on tuesday at some place called ABC 2, you should all go because they are great!!
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
That SSO thing looks awesome.
ABC and ABC2 have marvellously well-stocked bars for gig venues.
I forgot to pass on good wishes for Vicky's friend's daughter. And, yes, I should be available to spend some time with you on the Friday should you so wish.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
we were discussing this, a wee while ago. the concept
cookie & cozen & anna all remembered diff brands, I think, and we thought it must have been local stuff
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― treefell (treefell), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
go somewhere else and talk you attention seeking fucks!!!
what's up with people?
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Worst I can remember was a certain editor's going away bash. He'd asked Stuart Murdch and Stevie Jacksn along to do an acoustic set. Right through practically the entire assembled shower of hacks talked, loudly, as if there was nobody there. They walked off in the middle of the second song.
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link
They do a buffet on a Tuesday night and also a dish with chilli, tequila and lime mussels.
I'm keen to try.
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
In the mythical 80s there were groups of people who would talk through all the concerts in Glasgow. I was a bit taken aback at the time, but then I was an anti-social misery guts and they were probably having a better time than me, and it was usually loud enough to drown them out.
Of course, if my plan to make everyone do a stint at teaching insterad of national service were taken up by the governemnt, all performers would be able to shut everyone up with a withering glance or a few well-chosen nuggets of sarcasm.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
that's funny. the way i remember it, everybody was happily chatting and these two tools with a guitar turned up and got pissy that nobody was showering them with adulation ;)
put it this way: colin the copy kid's band got a fuck of a sight more respect, and there might have been a reason for that.
and come on, apples and oranges: jazza's leaving do was a party which had the added bonus of a couple of bands playing. nobody came to see the bands; i think only 10 people in the entire room gave an iota of a fuck about two blokes from belle and sebastian playing a set. but if this was an actual gig and people had actually come especially to see them then yes, it's STFU-you-wankers time.
my overriding memory of that - and this comes from speaking to jackson later - is of two prima donnas thinking they should be the main attraction at someone else's party and getting uppity when they realised that, actually, a lot of people couldn't give a toss about them.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
put it this way: colin the copy kid's band got a fuck of a sight more respect, and there might have been a reason for that.Yeh: the singer was a 15-year-old lass in a skin-tight dress who they were all ogling.
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
i believe there is photographic evidence of some of the night's later proceedings, yes :(
Yeh: the singer was a 15-year-old lass in a skin-tight dress who they were all ogling.
i don't remember this at all. i just remember they seemed to have good keyboard lines. thinking about it now, i'm not sure they had keyboards. hmm.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
and IIRC *everybody* was talking because they didn't realise the band had fucking started. it was only when i heard what sounded like a gossamer fairy playing "transmission" on an invisible glockenspiel that i looked up to see you standing transfixed, on your own, in front of the stage :p
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Next Thursday, I'm going to an AWARDS CEREMONY. Posh, eh?
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Triptych 07: April 25 – 29: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen.
We’re delighted to announce that minimalist pioneer Terry Riley – an extraordinary composer and musician whose work revolutionised and redefined 20th Century music – will play three extremely rare shows as part of Triptych 07. Riley will perform his groundbreaking 1964 masterpiece ‘In C’ at Edinburgh Usher Hall on April 25. April 26 marks a brand new reworking of the electronic landmark ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air (Revisited)’, plus excerpts from a work-in-progress, ‘The Book of Abbeyozzud’, at Glasgow Tramway. Riley also visits Aberdeen Cowdray Hall on April 27. Tickets on-sale now!
all night flight, please!
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I posted this info on another Glasgow thread
My preference wld be for the Rainbow In Curved Air performance (tho' I'm a bit dubious abt this 'reworking' biz) but I'm not sure I can afford to go to any of the shows - tickets are like £25 a pop, and I am sooooooo broke at present :-((
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 19 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keith, Monday, 19 February 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 19 February 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link