try glasgow more

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.

the last two times i've visited home i've come back to london viciously ill, i think i'm now allergic to the west of scotland. :'(

still here, still lovin' it, still wld like to go for a FAP one day (and one day I wld like to go and see Celtic play w/ ailsa and onimo)

shall prob be attending the next arika wankfest at the tramway (keiji hanio solo vox perf, hardcore!)

Still very much here. Let's all meet up one night...

I don't give a care as to where, so if long-standing distastes of certain venues persevere then someone call a new one... how about Heavenly? I've not been there, but would like to try it...

http://heavenlyglasgow.co.uk/

Ward, that can easily be arranged!

I like Heavenly, because a city centre bar where you can get change out of three quid for a pint of Guinness without being surrounded by muttering jakies is something of a rarity.

Can this wait until early February? I have a lot of January left with v little pay packet to cover it.

excellent, thanks ailsa! am also skint for the next month or so, but will be in touch after that...

and a Heavenly FAP sounds a good idea (a friend of mine has been there for an indie pop pub quiz or two, am sure an ILX Krew wld Klean up!)

That would be good with me too, I'm really busy with photographing at the moment.

I've heard positive things about Heavenly. I believe that Bubblegum Records are involved to some degree.

I will be in town on 11th Feb at lunchtime - could manage a couple before you go off to the ICT match?

Me and a mate are regular second-placers in the indie quiz.

Ward, Celtic don't have a home game until mid-Feb anyway. I will warn you in advance that we sit so far away from the pitch that you may need breathing apparatus and a set of binoculars.

xpost, yes 11th Feb to be precise. I say yay to pint with aldo.

I'll be working on Saturday 11th Feb, but could nip out on my break for an hour or so, depending on the time. Would be fun.

Cool, a pint with aldo and then a football match sounds like a grand day out.

I shall investigate tickets up our bit of the stadium - there'll be plenty scope for moving a few rows or seats away as ICT games won't attract too much of a walk-up crowd unless we sign someone proper good in the transfer window that people want to see.

(n.b. that is not going to happen)

Newbie question - what's an ICT game??

Supercaleygoballistic etc

TY, sounds exactly the right fixture for me, think I have to work my way up to an Old Firm game (only ground I've been to in Scotland = Cappielow Park)

Yikes

Never been to a football match in my life.

Things to do in 2012, Krakow!

tbh don't mind going to the match myself.

What a shame that I'll be working.

Celtic v Rangers games - vastly over-rated, usually a terrible game, 90 minutes of shiting myself that the stadium is going to fall down.

Surprised and pleased to be included in jed's roll call considering I rarely post on ilx. I would be very tempted to turn up at a Glasgow FAP - not this month though, for the same reason others have given.

Nice bit of propaganda for Weegies. The study was written by my brother's girlfriend, but she's not biased, oh no.

I had done a quick scan of the thread prior to posting sorry i missed Jim or he was hidden!

I'm definitely up for a drink in february.

I would say are there any plans yet given it's next weekend, but I know what Glasgow's like.

I just remembered about this last night! I am v. skint, but am up for moderate amounts of boozing.

up for't.

Are we going to the match y/n?

I guess the best place for a pint is somewhere handy for krakow to nip out to at lunchtime. Since I don't know where he works and haven't been out in Glasgow for maybe a couple of years then somebody call it. Noon?