try glasgow more

I will do all these beers, I think.

Definitely in for Tombot beers, will try to be in for Dr C beers.

I will tombot and dr. c

why u in glasgow tombot and dr.c, if yous don't mind me bein nosey?

To drink beers with you.

I am cool, I must admit

i will tombot beers, on holiday for dr c beers.

I'll do both, if my busy social schedule allows. I'm interested to meet real-life ILX folks.

you've met me, for about thirty seconds!

(I like how we've all arranged tombot beers, even without tombot asking for beers)

it's the protocol!

Aye, we'll just go for beers every day for a week. Turn up whenever.

so , yes.... Ñext tuesday?

I'm in. I'm 99% sure I'll be on a 10am start that day, so I should be done by 6.30-7pm and can hoy along and glug beer wherever you and the others might choose to meet. (Note how I'm absolving myself of any responsibility for choosing a venue there.)

I'll be there

Wherever there is

Mono!

Gah!

I have it in my head that Dr C is a real ale kind of guy. that requires a real pub.

How do people feel about the Pot Still? It is great, and we have been there before with little dissent.

I have it in my head that Dr C is a real ale kind of guy. that requires a real pub.

Ha, yes- real pubs are very much appreciated, but I'll leave it up to you folks. The Pot still looks great - my drinking capacity is somewhat reduced at the moment, so I won't be demolishing gallons of whiskey. Good ales are OK though.

the pot = the pewter pot?

No, Ken, the Pot Still is a real pub.

http://www.scotchwhisky.net/bars/potstill.htm

(don't click the link to www.thepotstill.co.uk, as it doesn't go anywhere?)

no idea why I put a question mark there, sorry.

These things happen Ailsa, don't beat yourself up about it!

I will email a couple of people my mobile number before tuesday just in case my plans go awry - Shall I send it to Ailsa and Grimly?

I hope to have time to visit Fopp before ale - which one is best/biggest? Or is there anywhere else better for cheapo recds? I can't be arsed to trek too far though as I think I will be arriving around 4pm, so won't have much time.

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?