try glasgow more

like i think i thought govanhill was up near govan and kinningpark haha.

i would literally go years without going south of the river when i lived in glasgow

everything in glasgow is south of the river now jim you'll be amazed

i'm south of the river so not everything's amazing tbf

all my pals who haven't moved to the suburbs, and my big brother, live in the southside

marcello carlin and lena friesan are urgently looking for somewhere to stay in glasgow, details as below copied from marcello's facebook:

ATTENTION ALL GLASGOW FACEBOOKERS:
Lena and I are planning to come up there soon to see my mum. She is now in a care home and has given up her (council) house so that's not an option for us any more. Is there anybody up there who would be willing to put up with us/put us up for three nights? The care home's down Cambuslang way (probably nearer Blantyre as the crow flies but there you go) so it would be good to be able to get there easily. It would be great to see my mum, which for reasons of health etc. I haven't done since last July. If you can help, please send me a private message and I'll give you more details. Thanks in advance!

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarcello.carlin%2Fposts%2F10155185981584766&width=500
^^^facebook link

or hit them up on twitter: @marcellocarlin @agincourtgirl

Any idea what dates he's looking at?

trying to find out

found out: 18-20 April

(so next week)

Ah, can't help that soon I'm afraid. Might have an empty flat for a short time after 14th May.

(bumping this in case it wasn't seen before)

(madchen can you email me?)

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15417790.Man_floats_down_River_Kelvin_on_inflatable_swimming_pool_while_basking_in_sunshine/

yas man

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

talk about being blindsided by unexpected emotion...

i can't see this thing without crying

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/eccf0839ec5d425ebbc307ae9cf1612c/an-illuminated-sign-for-barrowland-ballroom-at-night-in-glasgow-scotland-d3hgcn.jpg

Was there for the first time last night for lcd soundsystem and took exactly that photo. Amazing venue

i saw plastikman there in 1994, totally sober. it was incredible

A good little read... not Smeato. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/i-stopped-a-terrorist-attack-experience

― brain (krakow), Saturday, September 2, 2017 2:19 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I threw my full weight into it. My arm and shoulder met his chest and he clattered down. I stood on his legs while the police cuffed him. One officer shouted at me, “Who are you? Get out of here.” That annoyed me. Who am I? I’m the one who’s just put him on his backside.

belter

or something, I was there on Tuesday. Amazing gig. Are you Glasgow based?

Tracer, was that the time Optimo put on plastikman?

Hey Jed, yeah some show. I've been up in Glasgow area for 4 years. Somehow found myself in cumbernauld right now but still work in the west end and spend a lot of time in the city. Great place

Optimo didn't exist then! Neil Landstrumm opened. There may have been a DJ Twitch connection. Thinking about it now there almost had to have been.

There must have been. Pure maybe?

http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/history/ballroom_historybands_pq.html

my boyfriend used to live across from the Barrowlands and I loved going up to his on a night and just catching the buzz as I walked down the Gallowgate. I love when you come out a gig there and as you're walking down those steps everyone is singing along. It's such a cliche but I really don't think you get crowds like it anywhere else in the world.

James Murphy:

__ >> Favorite Music Venue __

Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Scotland
It fits about 2,000 people, but it's completely square and the audience there is so amazing. The only thing I can compare it to, if you played a big festival or you played a huge arena rock show, and you're a band who's just getting to be that size, so the audience is still really down, and there's about 2,000 people in this square right in front of the stage losing their marbles, it's basically like the pit of a big show, and if you just got rid of everybody else, that's the Glasgow Barrowland. Literally, from the front to the back it's people totally paying attention. It's a suspended floor, so when people jump up and down it bounces, it gives, it's like a big roller rink. It's amazing, and Glasgow's the best place on the planet to play a rock show, period.

I love the barras. It really is the best. The carling academy was shite the 2 times ive been there (Kraftwerk and Janes Addiction - both over a decade ago so it may be better now)

i think it's far beyond glasgow fap time and i'm just going to give it a date and a location.

6pm on Friday the 13th of October in the Vic bar at the art school.

we'll have to change it but there's your starting point!

even if it only turns out to be me and ailsa and gerty..

gerry, i'm calling you gerty now (autocorrect) i hope that's okay!

we're all fluid now, right?

I'll be there :)

I'd like to try and come along

I'm in (subject to work commitments coming up).

I should hopefully be able to come along

Also subject to work commitments

Can't think of a good reason why not - not least because I appear to be jed's go-to answer for "who will turn up" :)

If they could sort out the bar at the Barras, it'd be excellent. Shits all over the Academy though, utterly horrible venue.

Date in the diary.

I always found the barras a bit scary. I've never went to a gig by myself there and I'm reluctant to do so.

how?

Just always seemed a bit rougher in that area but I haven't been there in years.

it is a "rough area" as far as glasgow goes but nowhere in glasgow is the bronx and when a gig is on is the best time to go there as when it lets out there's a huge crowd of like-minded gig goers to walk back into town with or what have you. i am a soft middle-class want and have been to gigs there solo many times without any hassle whatsoever

damn autocorrect. let me call myself a wank ffs

having said that I've also drank in several of the pubs on the gallowgate as well so ymmv

A pre-gig swally in the Sarrie is all part of the experience. Fuck a Mono.

i wonder if they still have buckfast on the optics

Alisa, do you not like Mono?

I like to maintain a reputation.

Been meaning to ask... I used to hear about violent attacks all the time, not just glasgow but the area around it but I never hear about it anymore, maybe it's just that the news isn't as interested in thugs anymore and I don't speak to as many people these days.

Rarely see that classic ned look anymore, did they all ditch that and get ice cream hair?

One of my friends guessed that maybe phones and computers and the increased necessity of very basic literacy has maybe decreased gang violence (or just got into cyberbullying). Sounds very unlikely but I really don't know.