try glasgow more

I had been insured until last year. We were intending to set up a joint account to pay rent/insurance/etc that we never got around to doing. I'm more upset about losing all my photos and demos and files - my laptop had a dud battery and keys missing so the actual laptop isn't a great loss, it's just that it had basically all my life on it. His laptop was the opposite though - fairly new and a model worth over one thousand pounds. It had a fair amount of his own music on it though, including stuff for a gig a week today. It's a fucking nightmare. I've resigned myself to losing all my digital media stuff but I am desperately hoping to get the actual machines back.

That's awful, sorry. I hope you do get them back.

Jesus, that's terrible. I completely forget about the value in backing stuff up. A stark reminder. Is there anything any of us can do to help?

I don't think so. I've been on ebay and Gumtree and all those Facebay pages religiously but nothing has turned up yet. Thanks though, I do really appreciate it.

worth a revive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVkfCIunLc

Will never not be funny, that one.

Been a while since we failed to organise a Glasgow FAP, eh?

We were in the same room on Tuesday, does that count?

I guess :-)

lol that Rangers fan is priceless! Coincidentally I just clicked on this while listening to a radio program about swearing.

Is that Peter capaldi in the balmore glazing ad? 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoiJs7Injc

that is not peter capaldi :)

Is it not?

aye that's definitely no capaldi

Definitely not.

Reminds me more of Andrew "Andy" O'Brien:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_O'Brien_(EastEnders)

actor who played him was from my home town of uddingston

It's him, I tell you.

https://www.peter-capaldi-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Love-Child.jpg

:)

I was just reading about it. Peter worked for Balmore Glazing and the guy who was cast didn't turn up on the day so PC had to fill in. It was how he got into showbiz.

:)

whit? it was actually capaldi?!

I'm going to be in the dear green place a week from now, the 6th, til the 15th. any culture happenings of note going on (other than celtic v kilmarnock which i will be attending)?

oh yeah also apart from counterflows, which i know about

Guy in the advert is George Drennan fae Kilmarnock.

knew it wisnae him

really specific from everything there

my mate told me his address. i thought "oh that's in queens park", then i google mapped it and saw it was in govanhill, and then i realized id just been thinking of the whole of govanhill as just an extension of queen's park.

like i think i thought govanhill was up near govan and kinningpark haha.

i would literally go years without going south of the river when i lived in glasgow

everything in glasgow is south of the river now jim you'll be amazed

i'm south of the river so not everything's amazing tbf

all my pals who haven't moved to the suburbs, and my big brother, live in the southside

marcello carlin and lena friesan are urgently looking for somewhere to stay in glasgow, details as below copied from marcello's facebook:

ATTENTION ALL GLASGOW FACEBOOKERS:
Lena and I are planning to come up there soon to see my mum. She is now in a care home and has given up her (council) house so that's not an option for us any more. Is there anybody up there who would be willing to put up with us/put us up for three nights? The care home's down Cambuslang way (probably nearer Blantyre as the crow flies but there you go) so it would be good to be able to get there easily. It would be great to see my mum, which for reasons of health etc. I haven't done since last July. If you can help, please send me a private message and I'll give you more details. Thanks in advance!

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarcello.carlin%2Fposts%2F10155185981584766&width=500
^^^facebook link

or hit them up on twitter: @marcellocarlin @agincourtgirl

Any idea what dates he's looking at?

trying to find out

found out: 18-20 April

(so next week)

Ah, can't help that soon I'm afraid. Might have an empty flat for a short time after 14th May.

(bumping this in case it wasn't seen before)

(madchen can you email me?)

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15417790.Man_floats_down_River_Kelvin_on_inflatable_swimming_pool_while_basking_in_sunshine/

yas man

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

talk about being blindsided by unexpected emotion...

i can't see this thing without crying

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/eccf0839ec5d425ebbc307ae9cf1612c/an-illuminated-sign-for-barrowland-ballroom-at-night-in-glasgow-scotland-d3hgcn.jpg

Was there for the first time last night for lcd soundsystem and took exactly that photo. Amazing venue

i saw plastikman there in 1994, totally sober. it was incredible

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

― brain (krakow), Saturday, September 2, 2017 2:19 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I threw my full weight into it. My arm and shoulder met his chest and he clattered down. I stood on his legs while the police cuffed him. One officer shouted at me, “Who are you? Get out of here.” That annoyed me. Who am I? I’m the one who’s just put him on his backside.

belter

or something, I was there on Tuesday. Amazing gig. Are you Glasgow based?

Tracer, was that the time Optimo put on plastikman?

Hey Jed, yeah some show. I've been up in Glasgow area for 4 years. Somehow found myself in cumbernauld right now but still work in the west end and spend a lot of time in the city. Great place

Optimo didn't exist then! Neil Landstrumm opened. There may have been a DJ Twitch connection. Thinking about it now there almost had to have been.

There must have been. Pure maybe?

http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/history/ballroom_historybands_pq.html

my boyfriend used to live across from the Barrowlands and I loved going up to his on a night and just catching the buzz as I walked down the Gallowgate. I love when you come out a gig there and as you're walking down those steps everyone is singing along. It's such a cliche but I really don't think you get crowds like it anywhere else in the world.