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Nice one, WF: that'd be superb. I'm away at the end of May as well ... which means I'm going to miss that rather-fantastic-sounding Sublime Frequencies thing, as well as some stuff I'd have liked to see at the Perth Festival ... but let's keep checking in here and see if we can sort something out.

Dr C: rocking! Have pencilled that into my diary.

I'm up for a drink. i didn't know nick had moved away from glasgow!?

Sounds cool

I mean a drink, not Nick having moved away.

Aye, without great fanfare he headed off down south.

As a result of Nick's leaving do, I am shifting my statutory NOT MONO stance to be NOT 13th NOTE. Actually, I was in Mono for the first time in aeons the other day, and they appear to serve actual real Guinness now (except I wasn't drinking) so I might even agree to go back.

Dr C, that is the first weekend of my summer holiday! Hopefully we won't have gone anywhere that early, and we can go drink booze.

Hurrah! What was so bad about the Note, then? Last time I was in there it was a bit shit, but that was aeons ago.

Allan said it was metal, like that was a bad thing!

It was loud, and full of smelly metallers. Whenever the band did metally things downstairs, the floor rattled beneath our feet. Also almost £5 for a glass of wine, so fuck that. WetherspoonFAP plz! (actually Wetherspoon real-ale-festival FAP actually would be good*, because I am getting quite into cheapo stouts for less than £1.50)

* good company countering the fact that, y'know, it's Wetherspoons

Dr C, that is the first weekend of my summer holiday! Hopefully we won't have gone anywhere that early, and we can go
drink booze

Great! Having looked at the calendar, I think my most likely free evening is Monday 3rd - I'm possibly around on Tuesday 4th, but may have a party of Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Brazilians to look after on that evening! I may not be there on the Sunday - I dunno yet.

hi ailsa, ppl always tell me that the veggie food in the 13th note is much better than the food in mono, but i've only eaten a perfectly acceptable veggie chillie in the latter - i have seen a cpl of amazing gigs at mono, whereas my experience of the 13th note is of a crowded, hot, bad sounding shithole - not that keen on stereo either as a venue but they have some gd gigs there, too

i like the cca! but poss not as place to 'hang out'

I like the CCA, the food is free! At least, it was some years ago.

Anyone going to Hinterland?

@Ward Fowler, I think I've spotted you too, but never gone up to attempt saying hi yet - next time... if you see me, say hi too. I'm friendly, promise.

I had thought about Hinterland, but it's all a bit too condensed into things I like all on at or around the same time, so I'm going to sit at home and recreate the magic in a slightly less clashing, if not quite live, format via the magic of Spotify, iTunes, and a bottle of wine. Or something.

i would be down for fap in the summer, i know krakow totally independently of ilx anyway so that would make things easier for fairly shy me.

I'll fap

I'm in.

I'd be up for a Glasgow fap at some point

Superb. Of course, the tradition with these things is everyone says "aye, go on" and fuck all happens.

Early May is good for me but probably not for Ward; late May's out for me ... shall we try to plan something in June? Ward ... do you know when you'll be about for sure that month?

Loads of free Hinterland tickets floating about, which suggests sales haven't been too good. No wonder: at £25 for about 4 bands it's just not value for money. Shameless plug: I'll be playing with the Guanoman Big Band at Nice & Sleazy's tomorrow around 9pm. Ridiculous cosmic proggy noise rawk. You know it makes sense! Krakow and I shall be running between Sleazys and the Arches tonight: RememberRemember, DeSalvo, The Fall and then Rustie at the SubClub.

where are they floating? i'd like to see the fall but i'm not paying to not-see a load of pish as well.

me too...

?

Yeh, Hinterland just didn't excite me at all. Mind, I'm just -- as in within the past hour -- emerging from a month of essy woe, so I've not been paying much attention. (Has a look ...) ... nah, still not very excited at all.

Er, "essay" woe. Christ, let's hope I've done a better job of typing than that, eh kids?

I hadn't even heard of Hinterland, and I pride myself on hearing about things. Weird lineup, a couple of big bands, a couple of reasonably big bands, and lots of nobodies (not that there's anything wrong with being a nobody), with not much in between. Spend all their money on The Fall, did they?

I haven't been to Glasgow for so long that anybody who happened to recognised me as that guy who's around must think I'm dead or far away. :'(

"I hadn't even heard of Hinterland, and I pride myself on hearing about things."

me too kinda. i only heard about it this past weekend.

If anyone does genuinely want tickets then I have a couple going free. Let me know and we can hopefully arrange a mutually-convenient meeting point.

i'm away from glasgow between 1st May to the 4th May, 28th May to the 1st June, 19th June to the 26th June - all else is good!

going free as in free or as in available?

Free as in available for nowt, costing zero pounds and pence (I don't drink, so you can even be beholden to buy me a beer), and generally frollicing unhindered across mountain meadows.

can I bagsy two?

Just sent you a webmail.

If there are any other free tickets going for tomorrow, please webbymail me. I didn't want to spend lots of money that I don't have, but if they are just being given away, I would be up for it (would need two to drag mate along as well). Would have liked to have seen The Fall, but am too tired for going out on a schoolnight, but could go a couple of gigs tomorrow if it wasn't costing owt more than a few beers. Basically, I am not paying £23.50 to see iLiKeTrAiNs.

yes (predictably!) i'm up for freebies too.

I've not heard back from cozwn yet, so not sure what the state of play is, but I've arranged to give one away elsewhere. If you can make it to Avalanche Records then there could be more free tickets available there if you know the secret word.

jed_ are you wanting to go tonight or tomorrow?

if you have unlimited can jed grab two for me, if you only have the two you offered me, give them to jed :D

sorry I didn't respond, been busy : )

Haha, give me a minute to get my head round that...

No worries cozwn, life is always getting in the way.

I definitely have two put by, which initially had your name on them cozwn, so it's your call whether you or jed get them. There may be more, but I don't know till later...

ha, I just mean I'd like some but if they are limited then pls give them to jed cos I can't make it in to collect them

presuming jed can make it in to collect them here; we live on the same street, see

won't avalanche be closed now?

Late night Thursday - open till 7pm.

If you can get there tonight then let me know and I'll give word to the folks behind the counter that you're to get some of my tickets as I'm not in. I'll be there tomorrow though.

oh right, i can't get in before then. i don't want to cause any fuss & thanks but will probably just give it a by. cheers!

No worries. Tomorrow could be Ailsa & friend's lucky night then! ;-)

me either :D

thanks fr the offer

Remember Remember were very pretty and fun, if a wee bit rough around the edges, the Fall were "alright", but Desalvo... wowzers, sooo good. Best thing I've seen for ages.

Still plenty of free tickets at Avalanche if any of you do want them after all the above confusion and back and forth. Just drop by at some point today and there should be some (there were 6 unspoken for when I was there last night), though no absolute promises of course...

Thanks krakow, both for the tickets and the Remember Remember tip-off (it's not a festival if a couple of random members of Belle and Sebastian don't turn up on stage somewhere). Had a top night, bumped into a zillion people I know and haven't seen for years (not one of them had paid!), and am now dying of hangover.

I can't see it ever happening again due to a presumed enormous loss, but hey, it was like a wee ATP in the city (the one-out-one-in massive queue for Jeffrey Lewis was the clincher for ATP comparisons), and for that, it has to be praised for effort, if not for execution.

Did you see Jeffrey Lewis then? I thought it would be uber-busy so didn't even try. His new album is awesome though.

I didn't, no, by the time we got up there, it was mad busy, so we didn't bother hanging around.