try glasgow more

Right, so Tomboto in town this Fri to next. Guessing he'll be asleep on Fri and leaving the next, when in between suits?

I have to get up at 5.30am on Sunday, so would prefer not Saturday night if possible!

Anything suits me really, I think.

No longer jetlagged!

we're near Central Station if that helps

what happens?

what is up with all y'alls forty-year-old dudes sporting cargo pants with hoodies and trainers like they're nineteen

tombot beers tomorrow night?

Mono @ 8pm Wed is the place for a tombot beer.

(Tom: it's at King's Court. If you tell your cabbie it's opposite the 13th Note he'll know how to get there)

I'm too destitute to come out to meet the legendary hardman but surely 8pm on Wednesday isn't optimal since Scotland are playing the Netherlands at 19:30?

Your average Mono drinker appreciates football as much as he likes a juicy steak.

Aye, you'll have to count me out for tomorrow then, since I have an appointment in any pub/house with a telly. Sorry, Tombot.

sorry dude, watching football

do not watch football but will not be in glasgow tomorrow which is a smallish shame - hope you are having a nice visit tombot

also lol at avoidance of terrible Glasgow steering committee "not mono" nonsense and just plumping for mono anyway.

shame there aren't any public spaces where people can gather that serve drinks and display sporting events.

There are plenty! I'll be in one!

I will also be in one

i will be in a domicile imbibing 2 cans of special brew.

But I didn't organise this thing, so, aye. Shame, would have been good to cower in the presence of a proper internet hardman.

We cld meet you guys after, or poss Tom is able and willing for two nights of beer?

Aye, might be in Glasgow to watch it, not sure. If not, aye, Tom, don't let them break you tomorrow and we could do it all again on Thursday. Early doors on Thursday though, maybe six-ish?

Both Wednesday and Thurday are fine for me. Perhaps I'll do both! Is Thursday OK for Tom?

Glasgow full of Orangemen today, I thought the council were trying to ban that.

people in orange KILTS v. disturbing, also the man with the tartan flag painted on his face, wearing a kilt and a HOLLAND HOODIE: just wants to get in a fight with everybody, or simply taking dual citizenship to an extreme?

early doors tomorrow evening (somewhere in merchant city or nearby?) seems perfectly acceptable.
see some of you tonight!

Aye, will be up for that tomorrow. Just that I live out of town, so later means hanging around, or going home and coming back. And after football means late night and transport nightmare getting home, especially with added football traffic.

I feel a bit groo today.

getting up at ten before two is the key to a full and happy life

"Monorail Music is extremely proud to present a very special performance from Edwyn Collins and
Teenage Fanclub playing Orange Juice classics and Edwyn favourites at Mono, King Street tonight.
Doors are from 9pm and this event is FREE so obviously we recommend getting there early to avoid
disappointment. Hope to see you there."

I saw that on the notice board when we were there last night, but they way they phrased it made me think it was some kind of tribute band.

Is there a plan for tonight? If there is, I'm sticking to Diet Coke.

I think we're planning on having dinner at around 1830 at the All Bar One @ st vincent & west nile, but one of our US cadre seems determined to go to Trader Joe's on hope street.

I got my little "The Millars" learn-all-about-your-scottishness-in-only-twelve-pages-of-eighteen-point-type "book" today!

I have just come home due to absence of plan, but I like the sound of that Mono thing. Dunno what to do.

Is not a tribute band thing. Anyone? http://www.edwyncollins.com/

Went to Edwyn. Was ace. Thanks for the heads-up, you guys. Am sorry to have missed drinking last night, but am not sorry to have missed the hangover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PtXEAgFD3E

Glasgow needs more of these pubs still open. Old man pubs are great.

is there some shit up w/the post or something? I'm getting nothing

We had a lightning postal strike at work on Friday - no collections all day.

hmmmm - http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=19052

Unofficial postal strikes on Friday and Saturday and the official one today. It's going to be messy for a while.

Right, so. Have any of you lot ever been accosted in a city pub by a guy who looks suspiciously -- and I mean so much so that you're looking for the hidden camera -- like Ford Kiernan in a ginger wig, who proceeds to harangue you about pub-quiz questions?

Because me and my mate Gaj were last night, although I'm now beginning to wonder if we hallucinated the entire thing.

Awesome night, though: from the world premiere of Space And Light Revisited at the RSAMD via a sea of wine to the Pot Still and surreal "hang on, even your mate looks a bit like Boaby the Barman" comedy japes. Apparently the chap's name is Alan, and he's a regular on the pub-quiz circuit (notable also for never winning, according to another of his pals).

Not me, since I have opted out of the Glasgow pub quiz circuit.

Have any of you seen the whale then? I work right next to where it was, but nothing on my way home last night.

I saw the whale before hearing about it, so the experience was very strange. While walking home from work down by the Clyde in front of the STV building going towards the squinty bridge I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Looking over just in front of the City Inn I saw for the briefest of moments the back and fin of a whale submerging into the river. I stood there confused for a few minutes scanning the water but I couldn't make out any trace of the whale, the water being fairly cloudy, and it didn't reemerge. I don't watch TV and I was without internet in my new flat so I went up the road, eat, read, and went to bed. Wasn't until work the next day when I somewhat sheepishly mentioned it that someone told me it had been on the news.

This would have been on Tuesday that I saw it.

like Ford Kiernan

Braithwaite spent all Saturday night looking like him holding in a particularly awkward shit, are you sure it wasn't him?

am thinking abt these gigs

jack rose @stereo on 7th november

espers/cave singers/woods (ugh) @stereo on 13th nov

hair police/family battlesnake @stereo on 19th nov

sunn o))) @ stereo on 6th december

lol i don't actually like stereo that much, give me the cca any day

Have been making some sunn o))) mutterings among friends, so might be at that.

Despite the fact I'm not convinced SunnO)))'s dynamic and Stereo's sound design will be a match made in heaven, I've got my ticket for that one already. Espers: hmm. Got a promo of the new album but not listened yet. Might well try for that too.

I'm going to Sunn O))). It'll be ear-bursting. Hopefully.

This isn't good news:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2533484.0.bar_owner_in_rates_row.php

Some grist to the mill for the "Mono is pish" crew, but if this means the venues go down the shitter -- and, despite Tannock's optimism, that's got to be a fear --then it's a major loss.

Mono is pish but i'd miss stereo.