Twee in the Park (another Glasgow FAP thread)

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So, I guess some of the people from the other interweb mentalist hangout may be coming to Glasgow on June 12th then. Who's coming? And should we go to the pub?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be quite funny if the curse of the Glasgow FAP meant that no one turned up to the Botanics at all.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

poo, would love to come but will be in NYC then :(((( although i'll be in NYC then so yay :))))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be quite funny if the curse of the Glasgow FAP meant that no one turned up to the Botanics at all.

Obviously I will be there, but it is quite likely that I shall end up not actually partaking in drinking action with anyone I don't actually know.

(should explain, btw, that Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura and the Trash Can Sinatras, possibly my three favouritest bands in the world, are playing a free gig in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be there, as one of my favouritest bands in all the world will be playing that day.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(this hasn't to do with anything but is in the memory of RJG)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be there.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be there. I'm just about to book accommodation actually. I plan to be in the park and at the Winchester Club later on. I also think a FAP on the Friday night is U&K.

It's two of my fave bands in my case....I regret to say I don't know anything about the Trash Can Sinatras.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

trashcansinatras.com is your friend for this one, I think.

Friday night FAP is definitely the plan - I imagine the Winchester will be the venue for Saturday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I worked work experience with the trash can sinatras' lead singer's father-in-law. he didn't seem too impressed with his son-in-law.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

He's Eddi Reader's brother you know (from Use Other Fact Please No. 143)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

do you know a good venue for a Friday night FAP then, Ailsa? Why don't you just pick yr favourite pub (tho somewhere close to Gray Street in Kelvingrove would be nice*)

(* and close to where I'm staying that is. You'll going to tell me it's not nice nice at all now aren't you???)

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tap. Scene of many of a cheery night out, and just across the road from Gray Street. Result!

(now we just need people to turn up)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tap is a rotton pub, but I guess it's cheap and there's lots of room.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

N. hates fun, this is why he never FAPS.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a shame, if true. I was looking forward to meeting N.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

This may be a lie. There is nowt wrong with the Tap. It has cheap booze, big sofas two pool tables and a quiz machine.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tap used to be a great pub, unfortunately it is now fairly foul. However, N's points are valid. And Ailsa's about pool. I will be there, or thereabouts.

If people don't go to the Winchester on the Saturday, I will, of course, kill them.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be invincible.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

A pub is more than the sum of its parts.

Nice holiday, Cook?

'Rotton' is nice - was it ever spelt thus?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I love sam cooke's song about running back to his girl.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it's undignified and great.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, MarkH wanted a pub near where he is staying. I suggested one. You want to go to the Carnarvon or something? Suggest it then. And I will laugh and go to the Tap anyway. (this last part might not be true)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY DO OUR LIVES HAVE TO REVOLVE AROUND LAZY MARK HESTER?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Let my people go.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 24 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to go to the Carnarvon, but I don't think I'll be in Glasgow for this :o(

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, the b-side of a recent Blak Twang single was named "So Rotton". Just so you know.

I won't be in Glasgow for this either, although I entertained the idea briefly.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

with a fine wine and a little dancing?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

me either, as i will be seeing THAT BAND at both glasto and somerset house and also going to america costs a lot of money (i am dreading my credit card bill) as does buying a house, so i am too poor to go to glasgae :((

i will try glasgow more soon though.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be trying Glasgow, more, from the 10th to the 13th of June, and staying at the Victorian House, on Renfrew St.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be in Scotland from the 11th until the 14th. But in Edinburgh. Hmm.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Does the Tap still have an elderly regular who injects drinks into his neck with a big syringe?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

can we try football more at some time over this weekend? (the sunday?)

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Even, over THIS weekend? Certainly, over THAT weekend.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY DO OUR LIVES HAVE TO REVOLVE AROUND LAZY MARK HESTER?

Isn't the Tap actually quite a long way from Gray Street? OK, so Gray Street is near Dumbarton Road, which is where the Tap is, but according to this the postcode is G14 0HH, which puts it a long way up the road....at least a bus ride away.

I went into the Oxford Blackwell today and they didn't have a Glasgow A-Z even tho they had about 6 copies of the Aberdeen one :(. Whilst multimap is good, it's not that good and you can't carry it with you.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That must be a different Tap. The one I am talking about is at the end of Kelvin Way on Sauchiehall Street - the length of a bowling green away from Gray Street.

You can buy a Glasgow A-Z from virtually any newsagent when you get here.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 May 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cheers Ailsa! I could so easily have gone to the wrong one.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 May 2004 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

do they do food?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it's horrid but cheap.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, pick another pub. There's too much hate for the Tap on this thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry sorry sorry!!! Do not take me seriously. The Tap is a fine suggestion. I just like slagging it off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I never take you seriously :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm coming to Glasgow on sunday (May 30) for a week, what should I check out while I'm there?

― Travis Brady, Friday, 28 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Evidently not the Tap.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

See Things to do in Glasgow when it is your first time there for a start, Travis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Nick, what is/are The Barra's?

Should I try one of these eggs coated in sausage and deep fried I've heard about?

Any music happenings of note coming up in Glasgow or Edinburgh?

― Travis Brady, Friday, 28 May 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

bump.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure I'm going to this.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you should Cozen! Even if you don't make it to the Botanics on the Saturday, it'd be very good indeed if you could come to the Tap on Friday evening. I shall be there about 6.30, I think.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am inviting you, cozen.

more room for everyone else.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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Sorry for crappy rotton quip.

Camera Obscura were hot and fresh.

The Trashcan Sinatras were a bit eggy. Eddi's brother had that crumpled romantic look down, but the bassist looked like Uncle of Frankenstein and the drummer was surely the Cowdenbeath manager? Flanked by two health and safety inspector guitarists. The songs were a bit dreary too. One for the fans.

Belle & Sebastian were great, but Murdoch is surely more of a prat than he used to be? At first I thought wee Patrick had wangled his way on stage, but then I remembered it was his dad Stevie Jackson. I cried a bit but no one saw.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps Murdoch has got more prattish.

Why was Cozen not at The Winchester?

Dreary?! Huh.

Pipas = Terrible. Genius.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I am gutted that I missed the Trash Can Sinatras. But I am one of "the fans" - Madchen also reported them as not very good. I require proper Trash Can Sinatras reporting back from someone who likes them.

(If I hadn't been being anti-social on Saturday, I guess I could have spoken to some other people and asked)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry Ailsa, but the Trashcans failed to impress me either, apart from maybe a couple of songs. You said that they had witty lyrics, but I struggled to hear the lyrics, so was unable to appreciate them.

I was also rather rattled by the fact that the sets were of such disproportionate length - Camera Obscura were so great and should have been allowed to play for much longer - there was no Eighties Fan, which was disappointing.

Also, V Twin = the Scottish INXS.

I was a *bit* antisocial in the Winchester Club - sorry to anyone I didn't speak to. It was very hot in therre, so I only stirred from my seat for short periods of time. I too was impressed by Cathy's non-stop dancing - where does she find the energy?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

she eats a lot.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite liked Pipas overall, but preferred Language of Flowers.

When I arrived at the Winchester, someone was playing The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats, which I love (and never expected to hear).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Reporters Back.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Glasgow FAPs:

http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse-Public/DSCF0002.JPG

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Gosh, that is rather big.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I still hate my profile. And that photo makes my chin look like Monica Queen's.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, the object of my mirth is hidden, making me look kind of deranged.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Count yourself lucky that I didn't post the pic where you look really deranged. I may yet.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

mirth???

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

post it.

I look hot.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That's me laughing, I think. Perhaps I am hard to read.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

if you are laughing, N., then Cathy is going "I don't think that's funny at all".

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Cathy is psyching (and fattening) herself up for her dance marathon.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"only 100 more packets of crisps to go....."

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse-Public/N.JPG

I think this one deserves a caption competition.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

red cross came to rescue after excessive drinking at glasgow FAP

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean this one:

http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse-Public/N.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"I had two pints, once."

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not like Treacle to try and duck out of the photo like that.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not like that photo at all. I look like cornish-faced Patrick Marber with worse hair.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

mousey.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"one more for my okcupid portfolio."

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not sodding mousey. The light has just caught it. Also, JtN's camera is rubbish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"i like big butts and i cannot lie"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

frankenstein's brother-in-law.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i also like how RJG's head seems to emergy from the top of N's

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

like the top of a tank

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ooooh, grapple me grapenuts!'

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

was cathy licking the crisp packet?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"you look ridiculous."

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, "you don't look so great yourself!"!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haha

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse-Public/N.jpg
I come unstuck as a supposed football fan when I try to envisage formations. Maybe it's my generally poor spatial reasoning capacity to blame. What formation were Italy playing?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I am watching Patsy Kensit on Call My Bluff.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope you're proud of yourself.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"So I got hold of that slag Geri & I told her, right, *I'm* going to be the biggest star after we break up"

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not sure that N. is capable of looking bad.

He should not worry, on that score.

― the junefox, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That's very sweet, but you're demented.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(more pictures of Cathy stuffing her face with crisps please)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"wankered."

ally c - I have been playing more tennis. would you like to play more tennis?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse-Public/cook.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm off tennis.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha!

could that have come out better?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

V-Twin were awful. I like the trashcan sinatras but the music kind of got lost in that environment.

We were stuck near the herb gardens, surrounded by an assortment of neds and small children.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot about the Ass Invader thing. Great photo, Nipper!

And yes, like you said, it does look photo-shopped.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone write one of those php programs so we can add whatever txt we want?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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