Yep, the Fearties pretty much ruled.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Monday, 7 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't forget the Strathaven Metal Scene (LOL) ie The almighty came from there.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Motherwell gave the world The River Detectives & The Delgados.Hamilton gave the world that public schoolboy from Mogwai aka Stuart Braithwate
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd love to know what happened to Azrael. Did they split up after they all left school?
No idea, I guess they probably did, nice people, I helped record one of their demos at this horrible studio I worked at for a few months in Perceton (sp?)
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Monday, 7 March 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
dont even know where that is!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone here have to go to Kames Outdoor Centre in Primary 7 for a week btw?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
it was in Mauchline
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
all the other groups had to go up Cairn Table and ours got to go in the van to the Leadhills. Which was great for me as id just moved to Ayrshire from Lanarkshire. It felt like going home!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
haha wtf i googled azrael from prestwick and this thread was first result. I really hope a band member does the same and posts here!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Perceton, deep in the suburbs Northeast of Irvine, near Stanecastle/Girdle Toll etc:
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Monday, 7 March 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
means nothing to me. too north ayrshire
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Born in Larkhall, Scotland's sectarian capital, and living right on the edge of Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, with most of my family in Motherwell and Bellshill - this thread has already opened my eyes to a local culture that has developed beyond Megabar and "the Palace."
That part of Irvine where the Magnum Centre and the beach are right beside each other is one of my favourite places in the world, it reminds me of being both twelve and being taken on days out, and being seventeen when my pals first got cars and couldn't think of anywhere fun to drive at night. I'm only in my early-twenties now so who knows what the future holds for me on those grassy knolls.
I miss being able to jump on a bus to Largs with my student ticket. Ice-cream at Nardini's, cycling round Millport, countless old people walking around - what more could you want from a coastal town?
West Kilbride has the best beaches for dog-walking but the whole area stinks of sea-weed, yes/no?
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Playing Paperboy at the Magnum Centre was many a teenage boys highlight of the year.
Ugh @ the palace.
also every ayrshire beach stank of seaweed
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 the Magnum, saw The Wonder Stuff there around '90. Also, all that weird rubber flooring.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
boxedjoy what age are you btw? do you know any accies fans?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Blantyre.
― scotstvo, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa. All the lanarkshire folk are within like 5 miles of each other. Or were since I think most of you have long gone.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
not as bizarre though as having been to school with someone who has the same name as MaresNest except its the other way round (no, not NestMares)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny to see that reference upthread to a recording studio in Perceton. Seems like there were often little shoestring studios in tiny villages. I once went to one in Ochiltree, which was basically a room in a big old house with a four track tape recorder, a couple of mics and not much else. It was run by an unusually enterprising and perspicacious (for Ayrshire) guy who used to put on tons of local shows in Kilmarnock, Irvine and Ayr with various touring bands of the time, such as the Television Personalities, The Godfathers or whoever. Then he'd open the show with his band The Salt Cellar, who were actually a pretty good trio doing the Orange Juice/Fire Engines pop-funk thing, except about 7 years too late. There was another recording studio in Killie called Shabby Road, somehow related to the Trashcan Sinatras, which might still be there for all I know. I moved out of that part of the world 15 years ago and I've only been back to visit about three times.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The At War With False Noise label I suppose is technically from Killie too. (Al is from there)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
XP - ooo, that *is* weird!
Shabby Rd was bought and taken over by The Trashcans after they signed to whatever label it was, smart move, they also kept the rehearsal rooms open downstairs which were okay. It was a nice studio. There was even a little studio in Dalry for a while called Heaven I think.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The only time I hear people refer to Hamilton Accies sadly is when its being used as a rhyming slang for racially contentious terms, "Could you do me a favour, nip down the Hammy Accies and get us milk and juice"
I'm not really a massive football follower, but at least know better than my pals who thought that "St Johnstone" are from Johnstone.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, Lugton is virtually Renfrewshire anyway, so that explains that
― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Big up to my Bothwell soldiers um yes right ahem.
I grew up in both Uddingston and Bothwell (went to Uddy Grammar innit) and rarely will you hear fond (or any) talk of the music scene there, such as it was thirty or so years ago. In my day the big local noises were Raw Deal (out of which came the McCluskey brothers) and a Fischer-Z influenced nu-romanticky group who were one year above me in the Grammar – can’t remember their name but they eventually mutated into Friends Again (and ultimately diverged into the Bathers and Love and Money). And there was Vinyl Mirror who had the songs all right but alas never became the next big thing. No idea who came after that lot but 1980 to now can’t be a blank space.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
XP Ho snap..!
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hah i knew i could tempt marcello out! I miss your anecdotes of record shopping at Woolies in Hamilton!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The problem with this thread is that practically everyone leaves this part of Scotland. Does anyone here still have Ayrshire/Lanarkshire as their home?
― everything, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm only up the road in Govanhill, 10 mins drive from Blantyre HQ (the West End Bar). And 1 min from Rutherglen, SL.
― scotstvo, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Been in Hamilton for 20 years now. Pretty much been in this part all my life bar the 7 1/2 years in Prestwick. 1-5 East Kilbride. Blackwood (nr Larkhall/Lesmahagow) til I was 9. 1 year back in EK then prestwick & hamilton.
I forgot, Ismael Klata is another EK boy (he moved away tho)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
my childhood is built on these experiences. these and rothesay. coming from port glasgow they all felt like epic journeys to embark upon (weymss bay train station, how exotic), which doesn't quite hold up looking at the maps now.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
My favourite journey was travelling to Argyll. Over the brae to Largs, up the coast road, hop on the ferry to Dunoon, drive up past Loch Eck, in among awesome surroundings in less than an hour.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
or Largs Vegas as it was known, round our way.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm just glad i made it out alive. life is hard in the g71.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
who here has been on the Electric Brae ?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god, once years ago, I don't remember it being to mind boggling.
Much more mind boggling to me is the 'Largs Hum'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/oct/18/medicalscience.healthandwellbeing
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
tsk 'being too'
naw the electric brae was great. If you didn't watch the bottle roll up the hill you missed out
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I should go back sometime and kick a ball up/down it.
― Run Westy Run Megatorrent (MaresNest), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
hire a minibus and we all go!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12716592
An articulated lorry shed its load of thousands of cans of lager when it jack-knifed on the M74 in Lanarkshire.The accident happened on the southbound carriageway near Bothwell Services at about 1030 GMT.Police said thousands of cans of Stella Artois were strewn across two lanes and a slip road. No-one was injured in the incident.Emergency services managed to move the debris to the side of the road before mounting a major clean-up operation.
The accident happened on the southbound carriageway near Bothwell Services at about 1030 GMT.
Police said thousands of cans of Stella Artois were strewn across two lanes and a slip road. No-one was injured in the incident.
Emergency services managed to move the debris to the side of the road before mounting a major clean-up operation.
Anyone seen Jim around today?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 11 March 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The Salt Cellaromg i remember this band, Peter Easton used to play their demo on his Radio Scotland showour primary school had a trip to Irvine Leisure Centre, i think i was supposed to go ice skating or something but tucked away in a corner of the foyer was a Space Invaders machine which completely blew my mind - i spent the whole day watching other people play it once my money had run out
― zappi, Friday, 11 March 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Wassup Ayrshire dudes?
― bRon To Run (MaresNest), Saturday, 23 April 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
sup?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
There was a bothwell scarecrow fest a couple weeks ago. I missed it tho.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Go Cumnock! ffs
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Go to hell Cumnock.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
jesus
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Spent a year living in Muirkirk July 2009-July 2010. Hellish winter. Some lovely locals, some not so.
That Cumnock story? Just horrific.
My Lanarkshire living experience is limited to living in various areas of Glasgow.
― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
my experience of Muirkirk was a week at the Kames outdoor centre in primary 7 (1984)
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 24 October 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Three years ago, admittedly, but I'd guess the main record shopping event in Glasgow now is Oxfam Music on Byres Road.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
Downloading may play its part but record shops already started closing when supermarkets started selling charts cds much cheaper and amazon/play.com type online stores do too.
xp
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
I go to Monorail Music and theshopwithasillynameformerlyknownasavalanche.
Oh yeah, I should check these out when I'm next in town and have a proper chance to look round, ahem.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Best records shops for bargains ever = the one in De Courcey's Arcade and the Christian Bookshop on Great Western Road
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I seem to miss every revive of this thread. Time difference maybe - I'm eight hours away from Ayrshire. Anyway, I used to go to all of those record shops at least three times a week, avoiding lectures mostly. My earliest memory of Virgin on Union St was in around 82-83. The ground floor was mostly just records. The second floor was a treat - when you came in from the stairs there was a well-known head shop with bongs, badge etc tucked over on the right. Zines, books etc were on the leftside wall. Mostly well thumbed and rarely purchased. Then 12" singles were up there. Was there a third floor at that time? That was where posters and shit like the holograms mentioned upthread were. I totally remember that also. The town centre was just insane in those days. Insanely fun and cool that is.
― everything, Saturday, 5 January 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
happy 2013 everyone
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
One for our Renfrewshire friends http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21602481
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
New Cumnock wins Carbuncle award
... don't know why they felt the need for TWO Cumnocks tbh
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
The old one wasn't bad enough?
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Fort William? really?
― Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, that surprised me, even Paisley was a bit harsh, it's got nice bits
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
the road leaving?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
Well that's one of them
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21966617
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
still not found out any more details on the Hamilton guy who bit off clive mantles ear.
Does anybody here know anything about a very early Nyah Fearties appearance on an Ayrshire comp cassette called something like "Free Fall"? Would have been around 1982.I'd love to know more about the cassette (if it existed!). Bands, song names, label, date. A scan would be a godsend...Working on a Scotland discography 1977-84. I had just assumed the earliest NF was a couple years later. But I'd love to get them (the most Scottish band...) in.
― Michael Train, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
Weird, I was just struggling to explain Ayrshire to some uncomprehending work colleagues of mine this very night.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
I have a mate in Killie who is a huge fan of the Nyah Fearties. I asked what the proper pronunciation is and he said he hadn't thought about it. He thought it was ny ah instead of NYA. Tom do you know?
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
I assumed it was that "nyeeeeahh" noise, so "nnyeah feertees". Going to ask a pal from Lugton now
― stet, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Yes, I think stet's right there. I'm not from Lugton though.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
Just found out our right back wis eccied yesterday no wonder we got a doing 😂— Wishaw United Fc (@WishawUnited) August 9, 2021
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 08:26 (two years ago) link