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Pl keep other out-of-towners posted abt the pub venue on Friday - I'm off to see the hairy Finnish hippies in the evening, but it wld be nice to have a drink w/ the ILX diaspora in the afternoon - cheers

I trust everyone who has posted on this thread is going to see Double Leopards and Wolf Eyes on Saturday

― Andrew L w/ a fucked password, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

it is a bit away from the underground line. there are buses, yes, or trains, even. it is a bit away from the centre centre--it'd be a fair old walk. not too far from the west end, proper, though.

I hope I feel better, by the weekend.

get me a ticket, please, nick.

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crossposts

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

The 44 will take you into town in about 20 minutes - you could get it on Crow Road or Clarence Drive. Cheaper than a taxi at one pound! And it's quite a nice ride, past the other university and a dinosaur.

Anyway, haven't heard from Tim yet. He is obviously a diligent worker.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I should add that if anyone wants my mobile number who hasn't got it, email me at lucyalder c/o google's email service.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

optimo

Sunday April 24th - Jeans Team

We have a late addition for this Sunday and are delighted to welcome the return of electronic pop maestros JEANS TEAM from Berlin. They last appeared at Optimo back in the day when Optimo was temporarily residing at Mas and were most, most excellent. You can see some crazy clips of them playing live and the video to their current single 'Oh Bauer' on the downloads page of their site. Great, great fun and only a quid extra!

i'm going to see wolf eyes/tony conrad on saturday i think.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a dream about Tony Conrad.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

it would quite difficult and pointless to overrate lara's [bum].

Oi!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I cannot skive off work early, but we are having booze at work so will be suitably lubricated and can be in Glasgow by about half five. Can someone text me and tell me what pub you are in, or I will have to spend some of my last-week-before-payday money on top-up credit rather than booze.

I'm going out to watch the football tonight, Ally, but not in Glasgow. You can come to Paisley and watch it with me if you like!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

get well, soon, rich.

wolf eyes and optimo is so enticing.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks, cozen, and sorry, lara.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, have heard from Tim, who is planning to be (dum dum daaaaa) off the wagon this weekend. I also don't have to be at work until 10 o'clock on Monday, so might be amenable to more ruin than usual on Sunday night :-/

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello! I am looking forward to trying Glasgow's patience more in around 24 hours.

It is my intention to see a bit of art on Friday afternoon, but that's thirsty work and so I'm betting I'll be ready to darken the doors of some alehouse or other before work kicking-out time.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

HI DERE! I GO GLASGOW!

I'm in town Friday & Saturday, possibly Sunday too (though I may be going to Edinburgh to discuss urgent & key issues with my real friends). I'm going to the prog rock gigs in the CCA on Friday and Saturday. What's this sunday gig about? Do I need to tell my friends in Edinburgh to shag off and go to it instead?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link

jeans team were really, really fun when i saw them a few years ago. i would imagine they'd be even more so in the optimo atmosphere.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh it's a veritable invasion this weekend! i wanna play! and drink! lots! preferably friday afternoon. i'll actually be in town and available from about 2pm, if anyone needs entertaining. not like i know any of the new arrivals, but as my gran used to say, there aren't any strangers, just friends you haven't met yet. actually, she never said that, but i read it on a bus once. so yeah. keep me in the loop yo.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't have my mobile phone.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

well, that's pretty silly.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems that the art I'm going to see is in a kind of long, shallow triangular area with the CCA, St Margaret's Place / Bridgegate and Central Station as its points.

Someone should name a place at which we can congregate on Friday afternoon, if we wish to. Shouldn't they?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone possibly should. But I suppose we have to make sure that people will not be waiting around by themselves for hours in a pub if no one else is there. Will have a think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I have just listened to my second Dot to Dot recording, 'Dusty Cover'. It is more angular funk than the first one. My only criticism is that I can't imagine any members of Dot to Dot not wanting to be anybody's lover. I bet they're all straining at the leash at the slightest whiff of loverdom. Unless it is a song about a bag lady or some other form of fleabag. They would have a dusty cover.

Tim, you can see Whistler's brushes in Glasgow, if you haven't already.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm amenable to getting pissed up on both Friday and possibly even Sunday since I am ON HOLIDAY for the next two weeks.

Let's get ready to rumble!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sick as a parrot that I'm not going to be in Glasgow this weekend! When's the next Dot to Dot thingummy? Is Renfrew street prepared for another invasion?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I hear it's a Rangers-Celtic match day on Sunday.

PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED, UNDERRACE SUPPORTERS OF AN INFERIOR TEAM.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, Cook, I think he's talking to you.

Can someone do a plan already, I am ILX-less at work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Just think Lara, all of Glasgow will be sick as parrakeets when you enjoy your girlie weekend in Madchester.

I bet at least one of you three buys a pair of shoes ...

Shit! I though that that .2. track was an interpretation of a Dusty Springfield song!

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

If I were you, I'd rewrite the song to exploit that lyrical ambiguity, Cook. As it stands, PJ Miller's criticism is devastating.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm probably going to that Caribou/Kasule gig I mentioned upthread. If I get to finish work early enough it would be nice to meet some ilx people trying Glasgow for a quick drink beforehand.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

The Herald says Dot To Dot are a "handsome Glasgow indie 'boy' band".

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny, that's exactly what the List said too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

is that what it says on their press release?

i look forward to hott london .2. action :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

.2. looks like a member of the 'handsome' 'Glasgow' 'indie' 'boy' 'band' upside-down.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

where, on friday? and when!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been asking that! No-one is telling (or else they are arranging stuff elsewhere and I'm not allowed to come out to play but everyone's too scared to tell me to my face)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim,

I look forward to this. I haven't seen you since Bowlie!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

glasgow disorganised? who'da thort it...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, normally Glasgow is well ahead of the game... I'm thinking of things like tuberculosis vaccinations and so on.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, does Glasgow know their underground system is on strike tomorrow? So no poncey west end pubs plz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind sitting on my own in the pub, as long as sitting alone (with an English accent) doesn't result in violence against my person. However, since I don't know any boozers in Glasgow I am relying on you to name a place where I can pleasantly and safely sit and wait and maybe meet some of you all. Any chance?

I am sure I'll be ready for the pub by half four at the latest.

Keith I *must* have seen you since Bowlie! I haven't learned anything about ROCK since I last saw you, by the way, except what you and PJM have taught me.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

You realise that you've just set yourself up for a few lectures at the university of ROCK after a few pints?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't be arsed sending this to the UK general election thread, but I'm finding it particularly funny that the UKIP says it's not a problem that Joan Collins has stopped supporting them because they've got Rustie Lee standing as a candidate!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost)
As long as you don't mind auditing a MSc course at the Polytechnic of P!O!P!

I can't wait.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't expect anything less!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't finish till 6 and have to go home briefly before I come out. Err.. go out.

You have my mobile number, Tim, so call me if no one else is around and you need pub advice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

OK. Tim is putting the squeeze on.

The Drum And Monkey, St Vincent Street, handily across the street from my work.

OK?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been putting the squeeze on, but not as effectively as Tim, obviously.

Last time I was in the Drum and Monkey with Ally C, they were playing Momus.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Won't all the city centre pubs be a bit unpleasantly packed on a Friday evening?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, so we may as well just choose any one and be done with it. Like Ailsa said, no tube to get west end and most folk will be in town anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking of THE CARNAVON.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

THE CARNARVON, rather.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Carnarvon = pain in the arse for me to get to. Therefore I'm ruling it out for everyone else too, because I'm like that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

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