― 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
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― 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 :-((
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