Scottish things and people that I like

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Aren't those Franz Ferdinands from there? I like those guys.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Yes Buckfast is from Devon. Crucially, though, it's from the wrong part of Devon.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

i find it hard to see past all the mistakes :)
Yeh, we're another noble Scottish institution, yo. Makin mistakes and runnin borin stories about cows for 222 years.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

with some of the same staff too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

oh: Lemmings on the Amiga, that's Scottish. And Rockstar Games in general.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

buckfast!
-- lauren

I didn't know about the Devon thing, but surely it should be left out because it tastes like cough medicine?

I'm going to go for shortbread. And the Loch Ness Monster, because I was fascinated by it when I was small (or when I was wee, as I should say on this thread.) Also - T The Park was great because I wasn't the only stupidly pale person frying in the sun.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Soma, the record label. I think they are/were good.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

In the Park, dammit.

Also, x-post - I liked Soma too.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Wot no Alexander Trocchi?

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

ROCKSTAR GAMES. This needs mentioning again. My hairdresser went to a Halloween party at the Rockstar Mansion dressed as a Trojan. He showed me his outfit, then washed my hair while still wearing it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Also McCowan's Highland Toffee - i'm surprised i've any teeth left after eating it.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

My teeth thank you for reminding me of that evil stuff

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

The Electric Brae

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Soma, oh yes.

Ben Nevis

West Highland Beaches

Lucky Tatties

The Arches

Hogmanay

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

andrew greig's book "electric brae" is also very good.

i have never experienced the "real" electric brae. i should. although isn't it just full of cars rolling slowly into each other?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I've not been there since I was about 8. I didn't know that people even knew about it anymore.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to add a couple of names to the list.

John Byrne - Fantastic painter and playwright, you might have come across some of his work without realising it as he has been commisioned to do album covers for The Beatles and Gerry Rafferty among others.
He wrote Tutti Frutti which was a big deal in Scotland, in the late eighties and deserves a DVD release but this, I'm told, is somehow stymied by rights/credits issues.
He also wrote an incredible trio of short tragicomic plays set in 1950's Paisley called The Slab Boys trilogy which are worth checking out.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon - a turn of the century author who wrote a series of books called 'A Scot's Quair', concerning a young womans life growing up on a remote Croft, it's a rite of passage tale with the slightest mystical flavour. You might say he's almost like a Scots Steinbeck, it's great stuff.
There's a film apparently being made as I speak but I don't know if it's just going to be dealing with the first book 'Sunset Song'.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

i have never experienced the "real" electric brae. i should. although isn't it just full of cars rolling slowly into each other?

Lots of experiments with footballs and small children.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

A genius:

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb/teaching/hume/hume.jpeg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Another one:

ihttp://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/images/maxwell2.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Fuck yer William Wallaces

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I like Deuchars IPA.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I've passed John Byrne in the street on a number of occasions. He had his kids with him one time - they look like mini tilda swintons.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone remember this?

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~awarwood/omega.html

Scared the living shit out of me as an 7 year old.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

It was a BBC Scotland production btw, not even sure if it was aired in the rest of the UK.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, it's just come out on DVD!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/02/21/17166.shtml

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

mzui OTM. Unfortunately Scottish Screen wouldn't fork out for Sunset Song the movie so it's in limbo. A shame cos it was wotsisname who did the film of House Of Mirth.
I see you Steinbeck comparison in terms of the sense of place and how monumental social changes affect ordinary people, but it's more poetic in style.

Madchen OTM about Deuchars IPA. Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted is a good un too.

John Byrne is pretty awesome. I've never seen Tutti Frutti though. Apparently the reason it's never been repeated is that the BBC are being funny about royalites for the old rock n roll songs used on the show, but that always struck me as rather dubious.

Alexander 'Greek' Thompson. Renowned architect who made Glasgow look like it does, whose buildings have all too often been demolished or left to crumble by shortsighted/corrupt (ahem) local councillors.

The Barrowlands ballroom!

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Alexander 'Greek' Thompson

[ahem subs pls check spelling] but otherwise good fucking call.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Katie McLeod
Astrid
Pure
Mull Historical Society two years ago
Alistair Cook

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I thought Alistair Cook was American.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't know very much about Scotland.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Was Metal Mickey scottish? I've got it in my head that he was.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Don't know about Metal Mickey, but Supergran certainly was.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah! Supergran and Metal Mickey have morphed in my mind!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

That old lady in Rent-a-Ghost. My Grandad used to play with her when they were kids.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

McWitch.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

hazel the mcwitch, no?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

also: as a poor confused englishman trying to reconnect with his roots, can anyone explain to me "glen michael's cavalcade" and why it is so bad and hated? i asked mrs fiendish but it turns out she absolutely loved it, and waxed lyrical about it.

i'm still not entirely sure what it was. a dude showing cartoons? that sounds kinda neat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade to you, matey. And it was genius. He unfolded hankies and cartoons appeared. He open cards and cartoons appeared. He scratched his arse and cartoons appeared. He had a talking oil lamp, and an Omnibot robot with the dome removed. They also produced cartoons from orificies various.

and my mum *FORGOT* to send in my birthday card to get read out. Unlike Mari0n W1ls0n's mum, who didn't. So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen. boo.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

His roadshow came to our wee town recently and they had to put an advert in the paper saying that only children would be allowed in, and not all the spotty youths and 20s adults who crammed it the last time he came.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

That's the long and short of it GF. I loved it when I was wee, but then I loved cartoons. It was just this old bloke with Grecian 2000 hair and a talking lamp called Palladin for a sidekick. Palladin had a gruff voice and made terrible jokes or something. I remember very little of the chat, apart from Glen defending Mr Magoo from poltical correctness.
The one thing I did hate about the show was that whenever the cartoon featured written words - say Bugs Bunny picks up a letter or reads a book - Glen Michael would read it out. But perhaps that was me being precocious. I suppose it was handy for the tots. They'd also have a pop video slot. I remember them showing Saltwater by Julian Lennon once. STV producers really knew what the kids liked, eh?
Maybe people who are slightly older hate it. Probably if I watched it now I'd cringe. It was very much your old fashioned, paternalistic kids tv.

Ah yes - I forgot the hankies!

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Orificies. Bless.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

that sounds ace.

and this ...

So on my birthday weekend, I had to suffer girl-cleverer-than-me getting her card read out by Glen

this explains everything, stet :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Madchen hearts Scotland
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/weeman.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

ah, that's where our downtable sub-editors get to at this time of night.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

It's not a matter of loving or hating Glen Michael's cavalcade. It had cartoons; you were a kid; there were only three channels and the only other option was something like Farming Outlook.

Glen Michael was in fact my first "gig" in Cumbernauld.

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

they are all indie???

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

what wee town was this stet? where was stet spawned?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

here

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

It can't have been there... Most of the output is export to Aberdeen!

― KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

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