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Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street?

it's where i took someone to tell them i didn't want to go out with them any more, which should tell you everything you need to know about it.

alex, you must know it. it's slap bang sod beside the university, one block north from the goat and firebird. almost at the end of university avenue, in fact. it's blue ~~and smells of piss~~.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely. We used to go there after work on fridays in 1996/7, and I had a ridiculous crush on one of the barmen. Used to have really good beer, and cask strength whiskies.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't have a ticket yet because I don't have money till friday : /

it better not sell out : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Doubt it will. It looked like she'd only sold about three so far from a fat book of tickets.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

Oh, Madders, you are the mistress of understatement. As I remember, the bloke who ran it looked like Reece Shearsmith and got a bit upset when we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith". Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass, and then to anyone willing to drink from said pint glass. The tie break was settled by a race around the block.

I have no idea if this makes it suitable for civil servants on the piss or not.

However, as a pub, it has cheap drinks and a pool table and big sofas. It used to be OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith"

hhhahahhhAHAHAHHAHAHahH hoo, HOO!

Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass

i take it all back. the tap is obviously utterly grebt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

That is the best team name evar
*waits to be proved wrong by floods of quiz-goin ILXors*

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, come to think of it, it might have been "I look like Reece Shearsmith" so that when he read our team name out it was like he was admitting to his Reece Shearsmith lookylikeyness. Anyway, the place is shit, and his poxy quiz was even shitter.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the tap is under new management (again)! we went there on a saturday afternoon semi-recently and it was dead deserted. which made it great for our purposes. i approved. they took away the tvs tho! ally was there. tell them, ally
i am so going ice skating

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

cozen - it won't sell out.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

the day gets better and better

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

THE RISK AGENCY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely and then sunk to almost unimaginable depths of awfulness and now seems to have climbed back to a position of just kind of bad. And yeah, that quiz was the worst I have ever been to, I think. But it was like 4 years ago or something, it might be different now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i must have stumbled across it just as it hit the darkest depths.

anyway, look, this is important but i'm only going to mention it once 'cos this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette. but if you care about scotland's finest cinema and don't want it turned into a shit pub that's probably even worse than the tap then, umm, click there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette

All cinema saving spam should be accompanied by the atari penis face graphic. Apart from that, it's fine.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you get that from Ath0le, S1mon? Bad news. Amazing it would even be considered, what with the festival and all that. Like any more pubs are needed.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Jesus, I grew up with Late Night Double Bills at the Cameo, closing it would be like blowing up part of my life.

The people involved need a good pistol whipping. Just for starters.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

erstwhile projectionist ath0le is doing his bit, keith, aye ... but big chris sent me the link first. after all, he lives above the fucking thing, so he's got a vested interest in it not turning into some shitey bar.

during the summer of 1994, i think i went to the cameo every single day. and it's where i saw trainspotting for the first time. and deliverance. and the big blue. and carlito's way. and when we were kings. i love that place; like aldo says, closing it would be like shutting the door on something monumental in my life.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you remember seeing Trees Lounge there while revising for our finals? I can remember coming out thirstier than I had ever been in my life, and with an unquenchable desire to end up a pathetic barfly. Hey it might still happen!

― alext (alext), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck yes!

we also went to see "beavis and butt-head do america" at the ABC, or whatever it was called ;)

god, trees lounge. what an amazing wee film.

other great cameo associations: smoke and blue in the face. i'd have given up long before if it hadn't been for those two.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

this is an absolute tragedy. i'm so fucking angry!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

http://glasgowindieeyespy.blogspot.com/

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

3rd division's not bad :-)

Do you still get points for the record shop staff if you see them in the record shops? The 'Hurley from Lost' HMV guy should be included.

Um "Thursday, April 27, 2006" :-/

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

why did you see that, cozen?

it's awful

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it just me or is this thread taking an order or magnitude longer to load since JW's shenanigans?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

someone posted it on ILM

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

It's taking ages to load. I think something's going to break.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

we're only halfway there

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Not worth a thread outwith this one, but I'd just like to raise a glass to that nice wee old man who fires the one o'clock gun at Edinburgh Castle, who has died at the age of 60. He's as much part of Hogmanay as Rikki Fulton used to be. RIP, Tam The Gun.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Somebody did Glasgow Indie Eye Spy booklets and dished them out at Pop League about two years ago. Sorry.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it was the same person

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

And doctor cock didn't exist then, so it wasn't a very fun game. I disagree with their league structure.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it the person I think it is?

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

We went to the Cameo this evening. If you haven't been for a while, it's worth going just to remind yourself that it stinks. Literally. The main screen smells of damp so badly the freezing night air was blessed relief. So while I'd be sad if it disappeared, and christ knows Tollcross does not need a super-pub for students to tank up in before going to those shit nightclubs round the corner, if they haven't got money to fix whatever is obviously very wrong with the fabric of the building, something's going to have to change or it'll be pretty much unusable shortly.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i just played 2 sides of a C90 waiting for this thread to open.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

even with the display last 50/20/whatever answers?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Chr1s G1lmour, yes. Boring.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

RJG, aye.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 November 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I finished Sonic the Hedgehog waiting for it to load. But I'm on a Mac, which is doubtless why.

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Timed it: It took two minutes to post that last comment, and two and a half to reload the thread. That's with settings at "last 50 posts".

― stet (stet), Friday, 18 November 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I can no longer load this thread at work -- it times out!

So seriously, do we need to 'try glasgow some more'?

― alext (alext), Friday, 18 November 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

RJG will consider it his greatest defeat and there have been so many.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd be in favour of making any new thread about a different city.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link

wrote a novel waiting for the thread to reload

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i lived my entire life, died, was reincarnated as myself, died again, was reincarnated for myself as a third time (how unlucky can you get?) and ate a slap-up tea in the time it took me to think of this deeply unfunny response.

seriously: i can live with waiting for the thread to open. it adds to the anticipation. but if glasgow is borking ILX, even slightly, that would be a bad thing. however, i have no idea whether it is or not.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I started reciting the value of pi and REACHED THE END before this thread loaded.

Patience is a rare commodity these days, this thread allows us to relearn waiting.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw continents boil into the oceans and nameless horrors swoop over the earth by the light of dying suns while this thread loaded.

― alext (alext), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread is useful

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

If a new thread is started, I really would like Glasgow to have a capital letter at the beginning.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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