try glasgow more

its over

Shifted just after I asked for him to be shifted. Still on for the Vale then, chaps?

What time is anyone turning up?

I'm heading there for about 12.

Cool, I think Ailsa mentioned the same. That should suit me, but you know where I am, if I don't appear!

I'll pick out a different Circle t-shirt just now...

I'll be there around 12 as well.

In, sat opposite the door.

Good times. Cheap beer, having to obtain a key to another level to go to the ladies, being the only woman in a packed pub. Actually genuinely quite liked it! Good to catch up with aldo and krakow.

Vague plans were made for an assault on music quizzes. Anyone else up for this?

I really liked the Vale too! It was good to meet you for the first time aldo and to catch you again a bit more properly ailsa. I hope that you had a good rest of the afternoon. It made a really nice change for a Saturday lunchtime for me. Up for an assault on various music quizzes...

Forgot to show you my Circle t-shirt aldo, I was wearing the red fist...

Glasgow, I've missed you. just arrived for a three day conferencel at SECC and staying across the road at the Campanile. currently sitting in the hotel bar and wondering whether a restaurant next door which boasts Japanese, Thai and Chinese cuisine via a large neon sign could possibly be any good

It is, actually!

Have any Glaswegians seen Tavernier's Death Watch. Don't think I've ever seen a city photographed on film so lovingly well as this.

The first shot of the cemetery is one for all time.

saw it at the glasgow film theater last week :-) am always keen to catch old film of my adopted hometown, and yes, loved the dusky, twilight quality to many of the images. it was interesting to see that parts of the city centre have hardly changed in thirty years - i immediately recognised st vincents street, where i work. that cemetery is the necropolis, which is a pretty photogenic place (and about ten minutes away from my flat); it also turns up in The Angels' Share funnily enough, along with other parts of the East End (Mark S wrote a v gd review of the Loach for S&S, btw)

Interested in The Angels' Share - a Ken Loach comedy, don't think I've seen one..

I loved it.

hi madchen!

the angels's share is v v funny in places, but one of the gd things abt it is the way that loach complicates the characters - there's a really moving and brilliantly acted scene where the lead guy is confronted with the effect of his violent behaviour. i can understand why they're billing it as 'the scottish full monty' on the posters, but of course it's not really v helpful or accurate to think of it in that way

Yes, that scene was superb.

(Hi!)

"Down in the depths of the earth, an orange revolution"

Glasgow Subway 1980

I think it still looks like that

t&o.xls

Fast & Furious 6 filming is happening in town next week apparently.

makes total sense if it's set around charing cross

Is Justin Lim directing or skipping this one?

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Fast+and+Furious+6+soon+to+film+in+Glasgow.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-19371103

No Vin Diesel for Glasgow.

Brad Pitt

festivus drinks - possible or not? let's give it a bash.

I'm out of the country Christmas Eve - Hogmanay, but could maybe wring my liver out for Wed/Thurs/Fri next week?

sounds good to me ailsa.

Glasgow! I will be in you next weekend, on my apparently triennial schedule. would anyone FANCY A PINT (or possibly dram)? Sunday afternoon, or even Monday evening, would be especially suitable.

also, anything I shouldn't miss while in town?

Hi sic. Do you mean the weekend of the 9th? Could def meet you for a pint.

whoops, yes! I meant to put "10th" after that "Sunday."

Magic!

I could quite possibly be tempted up the road for this. Pre-emptive NOT MONO post :-)

I should be free too & fancy a little hello.

Events-wise there are a lot of gigs happening on the Saturday night if your tastes stray anywhere into experimental, psych and other relatively under-the-radar type musical territories.
There is at least one band on each of these bills that I personally heartily recommend:
https://www.facebook.com/events/367841443346495/
https://www.facebook.com/events/341275046007896/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1421395264754949/

That's one gig-tastic Saturday night. I think I'm going to this:

https://www.facebook.com/events/213625028805920/

bong at the old hairdressers shld be...heavy

voting for sic sunday

those all look crap you should come to my gay disco:

https://www.facebook.com/events/439163962860571

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am going to the glad cafe tomorrow to see bill orcutt - the bar/cafe area at the G.C. is much much nicer than the concert area, imho

love the park just across the way from the glad cafe - once bunked off work on a sunny day and went and sat by the duck pond there reading henry james, it was heaven on the southside, really

jed, i wish you all the luck in the world w/ yr gay disco but i am solely of the seated persuasion these days

^^ euphemism

The bar staff at the Glad Cafe are the friendliest people on earth. Also, I love pubs that sell cakes.

those all look crap you should come to my gay disco:
https://www.facebook.com/events/439163962860571
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:09 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^best night in glasgow imo; great venue too

aw thanks.

Never been to that venue, is it newish? Would go to that night if I was about.

Miss Glasgow, been away 16 months, though I was back for a ten day visit at xmas, and still no used to being so far away from the place. Lived my whole life within ten miles of celtic park until I moved :/

so, Sunday? say 3 or 4pm? jed or Ward want to nominate a place that's cosy with enough tables we can settle around one?

[or is The Glad Cafe pub-with-cakes a suggestion? all those links are facebook so it's hard for me to tell. (I don't facebook.)]

someone see if Grimly fancies coming out?

ta for all the recommendations though, I'll see what/if the folks I'm staying with might be tempted out for!

catching the sleeper up tonight and back tomorrow too. train doesn't leave until 11:50 iirc, so there's a sort of plan that involves having a bite to eat/drink with a colleague/friend, then *finding something to do* tomorrow evening assuming I don't just stay in the pub. film seems boring but might catch any old theatrical/music shit if anyone's got any ideas.

sic - glad cafe is nice, but not that central, which may be a factor for ppl on a sunday. i'm going to defer to jed or another glasgow person, i only know a few favoured haunts (inc. the outlawed Mono) that i'm not quite sure fit the bill, here.

fizzles - i am drawing a blank for tomorrow, beyond the obv (ie glasgow film theatre.) as an ilber, you should def visit this place when you have more free time in the city

http://piningforthewest.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Voltaire-and-Rousseau-2.jpg

http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/voltaire-and-rousseau-glasgow

and if you're here on Saturday 30th Nov, this looks p special (and free!):
http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/events/hear-and-now-2-japanese-masters/

http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/events/hear-and-now-2-japanese-masters/