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ahhhh, so that's who told you...

i don't think its particularly pretentious. his questions more than mine.

in fact, one of the questions is to accurately represent the decline of the working classes through mime and/or dance.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree with cozen.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

How is Dundee?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone want to see Dani Siciliano at Cottiers on Saturday?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

oooooooh. I'm in! I won't go.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry - Sunday, not Saturday.

Quite a weekend of Glasgow live music, potentially

Friday - Sons & Daughters (OK, again)
Saturday - Multiplies or Wu-Tang Clan
Sunday - Dani Siciliano

Don't be a wuss, cozen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

s&d - never seen. are they OK?
multiplies - mebbe.
siciliano - I'm down.

are you pub quizzing tonight, N.?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I am preparing my wu moves.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

(ie. yes, OK)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

don't be a wu, N..

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Siciliano is £12 but yeah, I think I'm down.

Sons & Daughters are great if you don't hate guitar bands entirely. I noticed on your musicmobs page that THE STROKES are by far you're top-played artist, so I guess you don't. It's at Sleazy's and only two quid, so why don't give a whirl?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate doing that and I hate that I hate doing it even more.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

you and your crazy capitals. I feel misrepresented by my musicmobs page, bah -. (that strokes 'phase' ws post-break-up hysteria, see.) £12 is a bit steep, hm. I think I'm down though. I need to find a career first. multiplies played the other night too; I'm a bit wary. they sound like devo?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post, ach shut up.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah.

They were pretty amazing at Bunker the other night. Maybe Devo is the comparison I was looking for. I mean, I don't really know Devo, but I thought they must sound like something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops - have got my days in a twist. Friday is Multiplies and Saturday is Sons & Daughters. I think I was thinking of Friday's child being loving and giving.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

who is down for the pub quiz, then? cathy, ailsa, N., me?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard that exotic Carey was coming too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that our own Carey is not exotic in her own way, but she doesn't have to cross oceans to reach us)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that she's crossed oceans just to reach us)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry I'm missing all of this. There's never a good week to go away, it seems. Go see Multplies and Sons and Daughters. They're the best two bands in Glasgow, perhaps.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Apart from the old guard, are there even any other contenders?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

pro forma, although they rarely play out these days.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oops. except for saturday night, when they're playing with sons and daughters!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurrah (I don't know them).

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

and i'm not angry that i can't be there to see them, not at all.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

What time is this quiz, again? I need to rest first.

How far is it from Manchester to Glasgow? Would the unsuspecting visitor benefit more from a sojourn to Edinburgh or to Glasgow, or indeed to Dundee?

It's about three hours on the train. Through the Lake District - pretty. Edinburgh would take you longer, as it's on the East coast, but it's a WORLD HERITAGE SITE or something very pretty blah blah. Dundee? No, I don't think so. If I were you I'd want to go up to the Highland around Torridon or something. It's stunning, and not packed with people like the Lake District is. The English aristocracy got rid of them all har har. Talking of which, Sutherland is maybe my favourite county of all, but it's not as dramatic and is kind of spooky. It appeals to something deep in my psyche. But maybe you're not into the countryside.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Sutherland is my middle name (blame the Aristocrats getting rid of everyone from there for that...) but i don't think i've ever been. also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I prefer Sunderland to Sutherland, but thanks for the advice.

What kind of stuff is there to do in Glasgow?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/image001e.jpg

Sitting on buckets?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Oor wullie (your wullie, ma wullie, abodie's wullie (hee! hee!)) from Glasgow? dundonian cunts are always claiming that he's fae there.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just hazarding a guess, I have no idea.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

This is funny.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

My co-worker just informed me that Glasgow is gritty. Perhaps it is everything I was looking for in Manchester/Bradford/Leeds? I think I would like to try it.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I showed my ass to carey, cathy, and RJG when you left N..

I just got a can of irn-bru from 'the maggie' and it is flat. wtf?!

your quiz ws too hard, lumsden. 'pretentious'.

while my ass gently weeps.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I meant 'my bum'.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't think it was pretentious. who said it was, though?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

it seems that carey is always asking scottish people to get naked. but... maybe this was unprompted?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

It was pussy and shit - you don't want to know.

Mary - you seem more demented than ever, but you're welcome to try it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a car outside my window with the number plate B14 RJG - it's a Mercedes Benz!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

what's become of me? really, i used to be able to spell, to write, to read....now it's all gone....

oh dear. well thanks to all who came to see my public humiliation at the PQ. I think "Which romantic poet..." has become my new slagging....

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

If you are looking for a 'gritty' in Glasgow that you can't find in Bradford you're going to be disappointed, Mary.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It wasn't the 'cold' - it was just "they're not called that in Scotland but I can't remember what they are called" being said by someone Scottish.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

well what are they cold*? i honestly cannae mind (see ahm'ur scoatish)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Regions, supposedly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link

regions is a bit of an ugly word. you'd think there'd be something nice and old and scottish, with a big "chhhhhhhh" sound in it.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

My co-worker just informed me that Glasgow is gritty. Perhaps it is everything I was looking for in Manchester/Bradford/Leeds? I think I would like to try it.

I've now got Common People on my internal jukebox.

It is gritty, but it's also windy and the grit gets in your eye.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think it's especially windy. Well, it was yesterday, OK.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

what does gritty mean in that context? working class? dangerous? what?

well the west end of Glasgow's about as gentrified as it could be, but if you want proper glasgow grit, go to easterhouse or yoker or possil. but you wouldn't want to go there. really.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link

It was windy first thing this morning - I can only see concrete out of the window so it is hard to judge current windyness.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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