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go somewhere else and talk you attention seeking fucks!!!

what's up with people?

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.

They do a buffet on a Tuesday night and also a dish with chilli, tequila and lime mussels.

I'm keen to try.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Next Thursday, I'm going to an AWARDS CEREMONY. Posh, eh?

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!

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 :-((