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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.

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

i mean: expecting 100+ people AT A DRUNKEN PARTY to shut up and respectfully listen to a band many of them will never have heard of, and some actively dislike, is insanity all round.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Colin the Copy Kid - good name for a band.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Chatting to your neighbour is one of the best ways to get through a Jackson song, I find, though not as good as going to the bar or going to the bog.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

the way i remember it
Ha! Can you remember it?

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

Ha! Can you remember it?

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

Those who were there may remember grimly and his pals talking all the way through Low at the Attic in the Cowgate :-)

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE THAT WAS 1982 (okay, 1995, but hey). mea culpa. i've beaten myself up about it so often that i'm positively bruised.

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

Hello Glasgow. I lost my mobile telephone, which means I've lost your number. If you want me to have your number, then please text me (or email me at work) with it, and if you include your name in the text, I'll know who it's from. Goodbye Glasgow.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

did anybody see the rogers sisters a couple of weeks ago?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

This is probably as good a time as any to point out I'll be up between Christmas and New Year as usual and FAPping is on the agenda.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be back in Glasgow on the 27th.

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

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

TOP TWENTY BLONDES 2006: THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! ?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

More glamorous even than that: the Periodical Publishers Association awards. Woo!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

FAO Ward Fowler & Cozen and possibly some others.

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

Hi Jed

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

I'm skint too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd rather see "a rainbow..." too. yeah tickets are ridiculous, as they always are at triptych. i'd pay that for an all-night-flight in a second!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

so there was some talk of dinner, then?

― stet, Monday, 19 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I want a pie.

― Keith, Monday, 19 February 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell Simon you can now change your password, so he can get a good night's sleep.

― Keith, Monday, 19 February 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, so you can. I think we're about ready then? I'll do the Apache thing tomorrow night.

― stet, Monday, 19 February 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Also the mighty ILX Google Search Ads fund (current balance: £4.98) will buy you a pie for all yr efforts.

― stet, Monday, 19 February 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

that's one big muthafucka of a pie.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 19 February 2007 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm. Now I'm hungry.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow.

― Madchen, Monday, 19 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello Glasgow.

― Matt DC, Monday, 19 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yext

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean

test

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

yext!

i like that.

you could be on to something with that one.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems redundant typing test, but test.

Anyway, to anybody who missed it on the Sandbox I am not coming up next week after all.

― aldo, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i 'eard that rumour, aldo. that's a shame. you'll miss trans am, too (although you could post on my ILM thread instead). you got any more dates in mind further ahead?

reminder: FAP of some description tomorrow night at the pot still, hope street. more info on sandbox thread here.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't come along, as I will be having the same thing with Alex tomorrow night.

Maybe we could get the train over to join you at 10pm, like Phil Collins at Live Aid.

― Keith, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

or you could get the train at 6pm :)

we should catch up soon, though. i'll hoy through and kick you in the bolls.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'll be up as soon as I'm back from my hols, so probably just before Easter. If it's after, there's too much chance of an ATP clash.

― aldo, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Indeed. Hoof me in the chod.

― Keith, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I really must visit again. But I will not be able to this time. :-(

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Remind me, where and when are we meeting tonight?

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

10PM, my place

― RJG, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

M: scroll up a few posts :)

reminder: FAP of some description tomorrow night at the pot still, hope street.

RJG, are you coming? wd be good to see you before you go.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

going to see jon-ron-son at the mit-chell-li-brary la-ter-on so may pop-up!

― RJG, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't do the sandbox any more. I'll be there after I've finished training students, which will be about 8.30pm.

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no I will not be there by that point

― RJG, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

See you Saturday then?

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

YES PROBABLY

― RJG, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

if i were to --- glasgow ---- on the weekend of 31st would the ---------- -----?

FAP? dance? kite flying?

― ken c, Friday, 9 March 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

evening of the 31st is good for me. be warned, though: i'm at a colleague's retirement lunch during the day; the last time i was out for a departmental lunch (christmas) i was thrown out of a pub at 8pm (a misunderstanding involving a candle) and ended up drinking absinthe with stet and other motley chancers until 2am. so there's a chance i'll be in one of my more loquacious/enthusiastic/irritatingly pissed moods.

be superb to see you.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I pointed out on the other Glasgow thread that I am going to be in Glasgow next Saturday night, the 17th. I will be going to Full Mooners. I don't know where it's on.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

going to be in glasgow on sat 24th

― RJG, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Sat 31st is when Keith and I are throwing our first night of dancing and debauchery and doom in Edinburgh. ILXors be required to represent or big K pulls the plug.

― byebyepride, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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