try glasgow more

Aye, send away, I've got most people's number who might want to go.

You probably want the Fopp on Union Street. Where are you arriving from/where are you staying/how long are you around? Mono, much as I can't be arsed with it, has a good record shop just off the bar (though not particularly cheap).

dr c, neither of the fopps in glasgow are as good as the one in central london, sadly

just round the corner from fopp, underneath the railway arches (and virtually next door to The Arches venue) is a 2ndhand shop called missing, which does have some bargains and would be well worth a browse

Oh aye, missing is pretty good. I guess, depending on what you're after, should recommend Avalanche as well, since at least one potential pub companion works there...

Avalanche is on Dundas Street, by the way, just up the steps from Queen Street Station (between Queen Street Station and Buchanan Street Underground)

Thanks - all sounds good. Wish I was staying longer...

pot still is, i think, quite close to stereo? so we could do both pubs potentially. old man and pale vegan.

i will come for sure.

This is exciting! (bet we get a last minute holiday deal and fly out on Tuesday afternoon or something now)

Wow, I'm out of touch - I thought Missing shut about a decade ago.

Last time I was in Avalanche the exciting new release was the Felt DVD. So not that long ago really. Last time I was in Missing they were playing something involving a little kid talking about sucking tits. It later transpired that is was the This Is England soundtrack.

keith, it reopened a year or so ago, i think.

there's always been a missing in glasgow since i moved here (august 2006) - they used to be round the corner from their present location - and i think they have a second shop, too

Ah OK, that would explain this then, Jed. There certainly used to be more than one - one was on Oswald Street, I think, and another on Wellington street. Can't quite remember all the timings. One on Gt. Western Road too at one point.

Pot Still is great, I like it there.

Come browse in Avalanche, I'm the potential pub companion that works there. Although I may be contractually obliged to recommend a look, I also mean it genuinely. We're about the closest to the Pot Still too.

There is a Missing in Paisley as well, but I always forget it's there. I have no idea how it survives, because every time I remember it's there, there's never anyone else in it.

I pretty much stopped going to Missing when they stopped selling new stuff - probably about 5 years ago. They used to be good for new releases on Constellation & Southern & other post-rocky type labels. This is before I realised I could sit on the Internet and never need to enter a record shop again, obv. I think they stopped selling gig tickets as well - I can't imagine there was much demand for that with Tickets Scotland about 4 doors along.

Missing sounds like my kind of shop. However I've just been looking at guitar shops online and there's a couple that I really ought to go to. So dunno if I'll get time for recd shops - we'll see.

So do we have a plan here? Pot Still... But when?

Tuesday, was it? I usually finish work between five and five-thirty so any time after that is fine by me.

Cool. Well I'll probably pop through during the day as I might as well, being on holiday... Will give you guys a call, but maybe assume around six or so...

We're on holiday as well, so we thought we might grab a bite to eat first then pop into the pub.

Not had a chance to post here in the past few days but aye, Pot Still sounds good ... like I say, I'll come along once I've finished work. Madchen/Ailsa/Keith: you've got my number, so text me if any changes of plan.

I'll be the one with the pronounced limp, having knackered my foot running frantically around Coatbridge wearing Converse All-Stars. Christ, I manage to land myself with some utterly laughable injuries.

I'm sure there's a question you're dying for someone to ask there.

No: whatever you imagine is probably more entertaining than the reality. As is usually the case with me.

I forgot I have a meeting in Aberdeen tomorrow, so I'll be back a bit later than expected, but I will be there. In a suit.

We'll be there sometime between half six and seven, I would imagine.

I am in Pret on Sauceyhall street. Can any readers beat that?

Ow my head hurts. Stupidest idea ever = going to terrible club PLAY after pub. I remember being in there one night with a pal and there was a wee separate late quiet bar rather than TERRIBLE STUDENT NIGHT full of pished weirdos on the pull. Still, beer = £1, so slight win.

Was good fun though, nice to meet you Mr. C!

sorry to have missed this, shit happened

£1 beer!!!!

Drink alcolol responsibly.

£1 beer does not render the concept of a club where you have a sticker with a number stuck on you then people write rude messages about what they'd like to do to a person of a certain number and put it on a wall any more bearable. We lasted approx half an hour, and that was just for beer. I'd actually rendered myself back sober again by this point.

this sounds like the kind of outing i could have gotten behind

Hang the FUCK on, how come my round of four beers cost me £12, then?

And is that what the numbers were for? I didn't even question that. Holy hellfire, I was drunk. Today is proving very, very tough.

Awesome night, anyway. Dr C fucking rules.

Special Brew was 3 quid a can

Miller was £1 a bottle, you should have asked. The only reason to go into twatty clubs is to ask the barman what is on promotion, then drink that.

this sounds like the kind of outing i could have gotten behind

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I bought bloody Miller! Fuck's *sake*. Irritating piss-taking club fuck-ends.

sorry I cdn't make it dr. c

can we do the same for tombot tho?

(I can't remember my password for my login :/)

Did you not buy Corona rather than Miller?

We were discussing upcoming Tombot FAP last night. Any excuse for more beer (though not as much as last night, unless it is a weekend or I have the day off. I'm just starting to feel vaguely human again) is good for me.

AH. That might have been it. Something yellow and fizzy in a bottle, anyway.

Tombot FAP: were we discussing that? I don't really remember ... oh, no, hang on, that was round about the time of the wasabi peas, wasn't it? Aye, it'd be good to get some unkent faces along, too: Krakow, Jim and anyone else who might fancy it?

weird night with added chilli puffs

but it was an absolute pleasure to meet everyone - Ailsa, Mr. Ailsa, Grimly, Stet, Keith and Lucy - you were fantastic company.

Yeah was great to meet you too... Until the next time.

Dr C, excessive alcohol has ruined me, so can't take you out for Celtic-watching japes. Was great to meet you though, sorry for lapsing into incoherent gibberish by the end of the night.

Grimly, tombotFAP was discussed earlier in the evening when we were still in the Pot Still.

It's OK Ailsa -I have a whiskey-tasting reception that I have to go to in an hour. Despite being in good shape this morning considering the ruin of last night, I shall not be partaking of any scotch just in case. Re: gibberish - I will try to email you later if I get the chance.

Sorry. I bailed. I just wasn't feeling into it last night.

Hi Dr C! It was good to see you. I can't believe you guys went to a student night six weeks before Freshers' Week ffs. Very glad I didn't partake of the poundbeers what with my early meeting and that.

Also, we did it! We organised a Glasgow FAP! Looking forward to seeing Tombot soon.

I may be able to make the Tombot FAP, depending on the day it happens.

i should have gone for fish & chips with you madchen!