Forgot to show you my Circle t-shirt aldo, I was wearing the red fist...
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
It is, actually!
― ailsa, Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
Interested in The Angels' Share - a Ken Loach comedy, don't think I've seen one..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I loved it.
― Madchen, Thursday, 14 June 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, that scene was superb.
― Madchen, Thursday, 14 June 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
(Hi!)
"Down in the depths of the earth, an orange revolution"
Glasgow Subway 1980
― Alba, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think it still looks like that
― conrad, Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
t&o.xls
― sktsh, Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
Fast & Furious 6 filming is happening in town next week apparently.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
makes total sense if it's set around charing cross
― very sexual album (schlump), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Is Justin Lim directing or skipping this one?
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/News/Fast+and+Furious+6+soon+to+film+in+Glasgow.htmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-19371103
No Vin Diesel for Glasgow.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
Brad Pitt
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
festivus drinks - possible or not? let's give it a bash.
― jed_, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm out of the country Christmas Eve - Hogmanay, but could maybe wring my liver out for Wed/Thurs/Fri next week?
― ailsa, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
sounds good to me ailsa.
― jed_, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
Hi sic. Do you mean the weekend of the 9th? Could def meet you for a pint.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
whoops, yes! I meant to put "10th" after that "Sunday."
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Magic!
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I could quite possibly be tempted up the road for this. Pre-emptive NOT MONO post :-)
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
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/
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
That's one gig-tastic Saturday night. I think I'm going to this:
https://www.facebook.com/events/213625028805920/
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
bong at the old hairdressers shld be...heavy
voting for sic sunday
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
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, 31 October 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
xpostam 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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
jed, i wish you all the luck in the world w/ yr gay disco but i am solely of the seated persuasion these days
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
^^ euphemism
― Madchen, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
The bar staff at the Glad Cafe are the friendliest people on earth. Also, I love pubs that sell cakes.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
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
― cozen, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
aw thanks.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
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 :/
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
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!
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
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/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Thanks Ward. It frightens me what I might do in that place. Oh wait, it's Voltaire and Rousseau, I think I've heard of it even and Glasgow film theatre seems like a good shout in lieu of anything else.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Just enjoyed first night in west end since moving up, can report that Hanoi Bicycle Club is llovely.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
Would love to geg in on this, being a stranger in a strange town, but will be working.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
after a spell of thinking i could live in london indefinitely i suddenly want to be in glasgow asap. who wants to house me and feed me when i'm writing up my phd with no source of income?
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
i'll let you crash for a bit but i like my own space :)
there seems to be a wave of london exiles, amongst my fiends, who are dying to get back to glasgow. they might change their minds once they get here though, it's pissin' doon.
i don't have any specific suggestions re a sic-fap location but the glad cafe, nice as it looks (and i've heard good things about it) is a little out of the way for me in my presumably hungover state. something more central would suit me more.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
Just go to Mono :)
― ailsa, Thursday, 7 November 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
SO MOTE IT BE! The scales have been struck from the eyes of the greatest unbeliever, and the pilgrims are free to go forward!
(actually was it Mono (or Stereo?) that we briefly ended up at after the Carter after-party in 2007? I was, it's fair to say, very very drunk, but recall somewhere that felt like a way-too-brightly-lit for the hour cafeteria.)
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 8 November 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
I don't think that's mono you are describing, sic
There are plenty of other places to drink and eat near to mono, some of them with cheaper prices, better service, more atmos - but no record shop inside
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 8 November 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
I have no recollection of anything post-Carter, but both Mono and Stereo have an air of cafeteria about them.
― ailsa, Friday, 8 November 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link