try glasgow more

Glasgow, I am up next weekend at kind of short notice. Not sure when I am available for a pint, but there will be an opportunity.

yay! There is a small football match on on Sunday, so not then.

Immediately after it (lunchtime kick off, no?) may be a time.

Pick a suitable (i.e. not rammed with numpties who are likely to beat me up) pub and that sounds like a plan.

Right, Sunday lunchtime is A Thing.

Suggestions for where would be good welcomed. I will be in town from about 1300, so somewhere I can get a nice lunch as well would be of benefit. Shame West Beer shut, that might have been a good plan.

I'm sure somebody will say NOT MONO at some point.

I suspect anywhere on the east side of Glasgow will be rammed with people coming back from Celtic Park, and anywhere with a telly will be rammed full stop. Mono or the Note might actually be an option at this point due to lack of telly, but this entirely depends if your idea of a nice lunch involves tofu.

eh when did west shut?

Ah, google suggests it is open again. It shut early last year, did it not?

In which case West seems like an option, unlikely to get a football crowd and with decent food. Any objections?

Not walking through Bridgeton after an OF game :-( Wouldn't bet on it not being hoaching after the match either due to proximity to Celtic Park.

It was open in the summer last year as we had a work day out there, btw. Someone else mentioned to me that it had shut, but I never investigated further.

I think both Lucy and Trish have said to me independently it had shut. Oh well, pleased to be proved wrong but Ailsa probably has a point about proximity. Note, then?

What about the Pot Still? Had a couple of decent FAPs in there, can't see it being an option for the football crowds? Or, if you're after food, how's the Drum & Monkey likely to be for crowds, I can't remember if they have tellies but it never strikes me as a particularly football-watchy sort of a pub?

Are we likely to be many in number, we could probably meet somewhere then find somewhere else if necessary?

hey guys what about mono

YOU ARE HILARIOUS.

(I promise when you come over we will go to Mono and I won't complain)

haha! like i could get anyone out to mono. when i come over it'll be The Belle and then Oran Mor for the more irresponsible among us.

Yay stupid late nights in Oran Mor :-)

(that needs a pukey hungover emoticon, tbh)

Pot Still fine with me. As to numbers, you and I are the only ones that seem to be coming as yet since nobody else has said anything (although I am sure G will be with you).

the pot still is shut!

j/k ;p

This is why Glasgow FAPs are legendary.

West was open last time I heard, but I also heard that it is rammed on football days.

aldo, just occurred to me - would you prefer a pub with a telly, or is the sight of Hibs on the telly likely to put you off your beer?

The latter tbh

Right, final decision because I'm leaving now. Pot Still, from 1300, Sunday 20th Feb.

I'll not be there until later, game doesn't kick off until 12.30 so won't be back in city centre until nearer 3pm...

I know, I was only trying to drum up enthusiasm in case anyone is tempted to join us.

Due to lack of interest I will be an hour or so later.

Hooray for Glasgow miniFAPpage!

I watched it on the telly, he was a good yard onside watching it again so As You Were.

doing the rounds on the twitter http://twitpic.com/4rv7xw

Surprised that no-one has mention the Kelvingrove thing on Friday here...

Did anyone go? What are anyone's thoughts?

Ha, jim, I retweeted that earlier. Quality.

That was round about my hood in Govanhill—it's gone now :)

World War Z starts filming today in the city centre.

Already a bit of talk about Brad Pitt knocking about town. Apparently he went into The Good Spirits Co. to ask for Buckfast yesterday.

He was in Paisley last week apparently, looking around the Coats Memorial church.

Also, they were filming World War Z in Malta when I was there last month. I think Brad's stalking me, tbh.

Yes, that will be exactly what's happening.

What other reason could he have for being in Paisley :)

Prince fan?

Probably just researching aimless shambling undead characters for his film, I reckon.

"The location manager for World War Z said Glasgow had been chosen because of its architecture, wide roads and grid layout."

I am tempted to move to Glasgow. Bear in mind I've never been, but still.

Glasgow is great in most respects, apart from the weather.

Weather gives it character.

PJ Harvey tonight at the Concert Hall - is anyone else going? Could well be rather special.

I was there. She sang remarkably. It was not a rock gig, despite the dancing in the aisles by one or two (which I found admirable). I've now seen her more times in Glasgow than anyone else I've seen in Glasgow. First show: 1993, Rid of Me tour, Barrowlands - I am old, maybe, but if so then so is she, but she doesn't seem old, so maybe I also am not old.

why are you in glasgow

I thought it rather sublime.

Here's a long-distance 'my seats were nowhere as good as I'd hoped' photo...

https://p.twimg.com/AYsLkuWCIAENA_Y.jpg

If conrad's question is to me: I live in Glasgow, which is the last place on the planet I would've chosen to be in, say, 2003. But for now it's home!

The photo above was my view exactly. Unless there was a lot of zoom used, the photographer must've been in my vicinity.

ah I thought you lived in london