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We went to the Star Bar for another, but by that point our aging frames and revoltingly stuffed guts were telling us it was definitely time for bed.

― alext (alext), Sunday, 11 December 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, two meals is definitely a bad idea. Or a genius idea, one or the other.

Was a great day/night, though. Lovely to meet you too, Leigh, and Tom, but I guess he doesn't read this board. Smart chap.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Steak and chips certainly sounds better than the coronation chicken sandwich i ended up having for tea at my mum's. In spite of being stone cold sober i still managed to trip over the dog and fall arse over tit onto the(very hard) parquet floor.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 12 December 2005 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link

come FAPing tomorrow, then!!!
-- grimly fiendish (simonmai...), December 9th, 2005.

Sorry, didn't see this. I was in Why Not? on Friday pulling freshers and Po Na Na on Saturday night arguing with evil women and having my bum grabbed by older women. Rockin' weekend.

― BARMS, Monday, 12 December 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never been to Po Na Na when i haven't been paralytically drunk.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Is anyone going to the TV21 gig at the citrus club on 3rd March. Jo Callis is doing a dj set, don't think i trust myself not to go up to him and ask daft questions about synth sounds on dare.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I do actually really like edinburgh

I have fallen out of love, w/ glasgow, a little, lately, though

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Josef K videos, including "Chance Meeting", which takes in just about every Edinburgh landmark you can think of!

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

TV21? Is that TV21 from the early '80s re-formed? Surely not?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep, they reformed for a gig on john peel day and are playing another on 3/3.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Cripes! I was talking to my brother about them the other day, he has held on to a really nice original poster of theirs, from the first time round.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

There's lots of new posters kicking about. I'd never heard of them but spotted a poster and thought that sounded like a human league mk1 kind of thing. That was before i spotted jo callis' name lower down. Was TV21 not a gerry anderson programme?

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i've worked on a couple of newspaper/magazine-y projects with one of the blokes from TV21, who is now a hugely respected designer. i never knew the band was so, er, popular ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a picture of Jo Callis on Kevin Williamson's blog from the last gig, the years have actually been quite kind to him.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

TV21 = name of the G. Anderson production company, also of the Thunderbirds (etc) comic and that. My brother was a big fan back in the early 80s and so I got to rather like them too.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Were they kind of like the rezillos?

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

No, they were more in a hard-edged Teardrop Explodes sort of vein, as I recall. I don't suppose I've heard any of their music since the nineteen-eighties.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

this is from allmediascotland. you'll have to forgive their spectacular inability to use commas/construct sentences/etc:

Changes taking place, mainly behind the scenes, at The Scotsman Publications Ltd, since the recent takeover of the group by Johnston Press, is to see newspaper designers, Ally Palmer and Terry Watson, being let go.
Johnston have decided not to renew their retainer.
The pair have been busy these last two years on The Scotsman’s switch to compact format, plus on redesigns at both Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News.
They’ve also been working around the world, including on a redesign of Le Monde, in France.
But for Palmer, it might free up time to return to playing guitar for TV21, the band that famously split up, in May 24 years ago, backstage at Edinburgh Playhouse, just three nights into supporting the Rolling Stones on their European tour.
But they’re playing again - as reported recently on Spike - at Edinburgh’s Citrus Club, next Friday.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I work beside a guy in TV21, I think.

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 24 February 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Last month at the Belle and Sebastian gig, we were talking with Keef about resurrecting the concept of the Phil-Collins-at-Live-Aid FAP, that being two different cities on the same day (with additional drinking on the train inbetween, probably).

Can we make this happen please?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 24 February 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

OH FUCK YES, i'd forgotten about that. holy shit. too right.

let's plan it and do it in spring/summer.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 24 February 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's plan it over A PINT!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 24 February 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Terrific idea - although we'd have to make sure we get an off-peak train, other wise it'll cost over £17!!!

Definitely need to get some FAP action going on asap. To the Try Glasgow More thread!

― stew!, Friday, 24 February 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

£1 bus, innit, and wine poured into Ribena bottles/Barr's cola bottled topped up with vodka. I've been trying to get FAP action going on both the Try Glasgow More thread and the Scottish football predictions thread, but everyone's ignoring me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 24 February 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm not! i'm just a bit skint. especially after handing over £250 the other day to get my car fixed. ahem. that roundabout was fundamentally flawed in design and concept, i tell you.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Do I want to visit Edinburgh in August?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

greatest performance arts theatre festival in the world. Your enjoyment will vary according to your tolerance of white-face mimes. But come and see us, change your luck . . etc,etc.

― soukesian, Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

edinburgh in august can be a wonderful experience, but it isn't like edinburgh the other 11 months of the year.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

My friend, who does this theatre thing, is interested in the fringiness. And the last major piece he did, which I was a part of, was based on the Burke & Hare murders (although it was more like a museum than "Burke & Hare: The Musical") and so there was a lot of Edinburgh in it. So part of the point of the trip would be ongoing research (we're hoping to remount it in someplace other than Portland), and part would be seeing the fringe fest.

But really most of why I would be going is that I've never been out of North America, and Edinburgh seems nice. I mean I'm sure I'd also visit London and meet people but Edinburgh sounds far more interesting.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 February 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Anyone up for some mid summer FAPage?

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I will be through on the 27th August to see Belle and Sebastian in Princes Street Gardens. Bank Holiday weekend. Some Sunday afternoon drinking and eating and fun-having may be in order.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

given the lack of glasgow fappery, perhaps edinburgh is a good idea.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll be there tomorrow to see "Celine and Julie Go Boating".

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Drink sounds good...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yo keith!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Alright!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

let me hear you ROCK!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry. this is getting silly.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXe0mIHMIs&search=slade

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

(most ROCK thing I've ever seen)

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Great lyrics too: 'Better than the nutter who nuts you in the nuts'

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't remember "get fresh" being that, umm, good.

i don't remember slade having a hip-hop influence either :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I will be there from the 18th to 22nd of August for Fringey goodness. I will be staying up all night and kipping on my brother's floor. It will be the nineties all over again for me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Not that this is any reflection on the content of the previous post, but I am very relieved to not have to spend another summer in Festival Edinburgh.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Hopefully by next year my flat will be finished and i'll be able to rent it out for a mint and enjoy the proceeds somewhere else.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

missed the rivette : /

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 17 June 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

no you didn't - it's on til friday.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

hola!!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

hihi!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i am v. intrigued to hear what jed and cozen made of the rivette

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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