try glasgow more

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

I did from 1996-2009, so I kind of think of myself as a Londoner with a Scottish accent and I miss it much, but for now I live in a flat overlooking Saltmarket, which is constantly entertaining.

ah !

i think i saw her on the rid of me tour but had actually gone to see tricky. was that the gig?

Possible, though I can't remember anything about support acts. 1993 seems early for him though? If he was playing with PJ would more likely have been her next album, in 1995, I think.

hey krakow (or other well-informed ilxors) - ever been to this venue? i'd like to see The Thing, I think...

http://www.platform-online.co.uk/index.html?s=events&ec=viewEvent&event_id=429

I have indeed. It's a nice place. I would definitely recommend that you go to Eastern Promise. I will be there.

cool - a friend and I plan to cycle over to m8no on sunday to pick up our ticks - think they're offering some kind of all-in bus and fest pass for not too much money - so see u there! (i wonder if grimly fiendish is a fan of to rocco rot? i think i spied him at the last emeralds gig at the arches but again, i was with people and couldn't stop to say hello...)

Yeah, there have been minibuses organised from Mono to Platform for all the gigs that I've been to there. I prefer to cycle the wild east!

so yesterday we got to Mono about 6pm, bought our tickets and decided to have something to eat. The place was virtually empty, but somehow we still had to wait 40 minutes for our food to arrive (and these were not complicated dishes.) When it did finally turn up there was no apology or explanation (and my food was mediocre at best.) NEVER AGAIN, 13th Note HELLO

i stopped going there a long time ago. the staff are so fkng rude.

I'm going there right this minute (I live an egg-throw away). I always find the staff very pleasant, but they can be incompetent. You'd wait a long time for a drink if it was busy, but Mono isn't often very busy.

'Sounding A Different Way' - a fascinating, thought-provoking and amusing film by Ben Ewart-Dean, Fergus Lawrie & Neil Simpson about noise, sound & marginal music in Scotland...

http://www.vimeo.com/27681390
http://www.vimeo.com/27728493

I wholly recommend it.

so who's left who hasn't joined the brain drain (or gone back home)!?

me, cozen, krakow, onimo eyeballs kicks, ward f plus the paisley posse? although presumably s1m0n is still here from the former ilxors?

i live in glasgow.

:-)

Hi dere from between Paisley and Glasgow!

(are me and Tom D the paisley posse?)

i meant you and your man, i didn't know you were between x

Ah, got you. Yes, we've not actually lived in Paisley for over ten years, but use it for shopping and pubbage because Renfrew is bad.