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People are going to have to list some good Glasgow bars for me, or else I will have to keep going to the CCA and Republic Bierhalle, as I did last night, on the basis that I know them to be good. Perhaps we need another thread for that, but I like the idea of Edinburgh / Glasgow miscegenation

― alext (alext), Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

I like Uisge Beatha on the Woodlands Road. It has good sturdy seats, casual lighting and it serves booze - all you could ask for of a bar, excepting dancing girls with plumed feather on their heads.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

Am I being excluded from the Glasgow FAP possibilities on the grounds that I have emigrated to Renfrewshire? Or because you all hate me?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think there are any possibilities, are there? Have you moved away *away*?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

No, I live where I always lived (but I used to live nearer if you see what I mean).

RJG said me and ally and nick see each other pretty often so do they count as FAPs? I think I am exempt from arranging FAPs because I know two of the, like, five people that might come

Which made me paranoid and invisible and stuff. I guess Madchen may feel this way if she weren't less prone to paranoia than me. Unless we're the two people he knows over and above the other two people he already mentioned, but he knows Cozen too...RJG knows everyone! He's just pretending he doesn't...and I am paranoid.

Someone who doesn't know anyone else in Glasgow to thread to organise FAPping action...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I could organise a travelling FAP for next week. I proabably won't have much time so Gracelands Bar?!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

I did notice, Ailsa - I am just way too scared to cross RJG.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link

I just understood Lara's post! (nb I have actually being off doing other stuff, not just pondering it). Gracelands Bar is shit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 October 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know any of you but I haff tried and failed to organise a FAP before and the humilliation is still with me......*weeps quietly*

― smee (smee), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

People are going to have to list some good Glasgow bars for me

the only others i could recommend are the arches bar and rab ha's in the merchant city, though it has gone downhill a bit since it changed hands a few months a go. I dont like uisge beatha though im not exactly sure why.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe that Madchen so blatantly won this thread with her Utrecht joke and you lot all just ignored it! Ungrateful lot.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you Tim. I sniff at the rest of you.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

maybe thats why people dont want to come to a FAP? in jokes &c...?

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

Erm, my joke is quite capable of being got by anybody at all...

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

Yes it is but it's so bad we chose to ignore it and hope it went away!

― smee (smee), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

*Now* I see why people don't want a Glasgow FAP.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

haha utrecht!

someone do the ipswich one!

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

I sniff at you all *including* Tim.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

What have I done now?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

oh right - yeah, sorry.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

I liked your joke Madchen! I just thought it worked best in it's own splendid isolation.

Incidentally if people are talking about good pubs in glasgow can we also talk about shopping in Glasgow? Where are all the nice clothes shops? I feel the need to spend money.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

They are all togther in one big giant bit in the middle, you can't miss them...

― smee (smee), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

Any tips for where to hang around in Edinburgh between 2am and the time of the first bus back to Glasgow? RJG and I are going to the Soulwax/LCD Soundsystem thing at the Corn Exchange and will be stranded afterwards. Late night cafes?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

provisions.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

and why did you decide to exclude BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE, from the line-up?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, them too.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Burger King in Waverley station opens at 5am, I think? Don't get overexcited now.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely there are buses through the night?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The Penny Black is probably your best bet - a pub that opens at 4am. If you get to burger king at the East End of Princes street, turn left down the cobbled lane and follow it round, you'll get there.

At that hour in the morning it is about all I can suggest. My flat will be closed for sleeping, I am afraid!

Ally C - last bus is midnight, then about 6am in the week - exceptions are made for Fri and Sat night.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Jamie and I could not get back til 6am, I seem to recall, but that was round New Year so maybe it was less service.

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks ___ - just what I was looking for, I think. Good old postal workers.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

no special buses, for festivaltime?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think so.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

No problem - the Scotsman bar on Cockburn Street (up near Fopp) opens at silly hours, but I have always found it has a fair few wankers in it.

The Penny Black may well be open earlier than that - it is long since I tried. They basically close for 10 mins to sweep the floor, then reopen. It's an alright boozer for its type (it is up some stairs) and dead handy for the bus station too!

Special buses for festival time? Only ones that drive at tourists.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

How about non-licensed cafes? Any of those?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Other than EasyEverything, which doesn't really appeal.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

ally says we should get a taxi.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck that! I'm up for an adventure.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I should have a nap.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll call round at about 7.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope you dicks are having a nice time.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, we missed the 9-9.45 slotted LCD Soundsystem as a result of our endless faffing and the organiser's crappy scheduling. It got better later, then worse, when discovered that wandering around Edinburgh in the middle of the night with a couple of Northern Irish girls wasn't as fun as it should have been. The Penny Black looked closed and had a sign saying 'opens at 6am' so we went to an italian fastfood café where they tried to give us tea with whipped cream because they'd run out of milk. Later, we bumped into an English postman on a bike who said we had to knock on the door and pretend we were something we weren't at various pubs, but by then Waverley was open so we went there and misheard each other's jokes.

I think when you posted Ally, BRMC had just come on and it made suitable background music for Richard to tell me of all his crimes.

People at the Corn Exchange kept coming up to us and being weird, including someone middle aged of indeterminate gender and long blonde harit who thought I was very handsome and in Franz Ferdinand and then told me he/she used to be in the New York Dolls and disappeared.

2ManyDJs were pretty fun. I can't remember. But I don't like the Corn Exchange.

I should eat something.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

good luck!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't seen reporting back like this for years. Top stuff!

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I still haven't eaten anything! I have tortellini and old pesto in the fridge and a pizza in the freezer. Which should I chose?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Tell me of these places:

Brass Monkey
Royal Oak
City Cafe

Brass Monkey is a small pub, last time I was in there one of the rooms was filled with mattresses and you could watch films while lying down. A bit mental if you ask me.
I've never been in the Royal Oak.
The City Cafe is bigger than the Brass Monkey, it's had a relatively recent refit and has wooden floorboards and that. I'm not much of a drinker so I've only been in it once, but it seemed pretty nice.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I went travelling around the Netherlands last year.
Utrecht?
No, we hired bicycles.

this is very funny.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The Royal Oak is a tiny little pub - the one time I was in there it felt more like someone's front room. It's good for folk music, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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