Rolling Ayrshire/Lanarkshire Thread 2011

it was in Mauchline

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!

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!

Perceton, deep in the suburbs Northeast of Irvine, near Stanecastle/Girdle Toll etc:

means nothing to me. too north ayrshire

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?

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

<3 the Magnum, saw The Wonder Stuff there around '90. Also, all that weird rubber flooring.

boxedjoy what age are you btw? do you know any accies fans?

Blantyre.

whoa. All the lanarkshire folk are within like 5 miles of each other. Or were since I think most of you have long gone.

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)

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.

The At War With False Noise label I suppose is technically from Killie too. (Al is from there)

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.

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.

Yep, the Fearties pretty much ruled.

Well, Lugton is virtually Renfrewshire anyway, so that explains that

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.

XP Ho snap..!

hah i knew i could tempt marcello out! I miss your anecdotes of record shopping at Woolies in Hamilton!

The problem with this thread is that practically everyone leaves this part of Scotland. Does anyone here still have Ayrshire/Lanarkshire as their home?

I'm only up the road in Govanhill, 10 mins drive from Blantyre HQ (the West End Bar). And 1 min from Rutherglen, SL.

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)

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?

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.

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.

or Largs Vegas as it was known, round our way.

Big up to my Bothwell soldiers um yes right ahem.

i'm just glad i made it out alive. life is hard in the g71.

who here has been on the Electric Brae ?

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

tsk 'being too'

naw the electric brae was great. If you didn't watch the bottle roll up the hill you missed out

I should go back sometime and kick a ball up/down it.

hire a minibus and we all go!

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.

Anyone seen Jim around today?

The Salt Cellar
omg i remember this band, Peter Easton used to play their demo on his Radio Scotland show
our 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

Wassup Ayrshire dudes?

sup?

There was a bothwell scarecrow fest a couple weeks ago. I missed it tho.

Go Cumnock! ffs

Go to hell Cumnock.

jesus

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.

my experience of Muirkirk was a week at the Kames outdoor centre in primary 7 (1984)

What's even more grim about that Cumnock story is that it's more than likely he knew whoever did it to him. Absolutely terrifying stuff.

majority of people murdered by people they know :/

majority of people who get murdered obv.

it is a pretty horrendous story.

I know, it's just hard to reconcile the idea of committing such a violent act upon someone you know as a person (as opposed to a stranger), it would surely make them seem more human and provide less emotional distance? This is obviously a moot point because let's face it, only a monster would have it in them to do something like this, this doesn't need any kind of "edge" to make it more chilling.

One rumour I've seen on Facebook - that source of universal truth, I know - seems to be that he's gone to meet someone in a hidden place, the way many of us gay men do after a night out, which is no doubt a very sobering thought for a lot of people out there.

wassup everyone?

anyone?

Another couple of weeks and I'll have been an ex-pat for 20 years.

One for our Renfrewshire friends http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21602481

New Cumnock wins Carbuncle award

... don't know why they felt the need for TWO Cumnocks tbh

The old one wasn't bad enough?

Fort William? really?

Yes, that surprised me, even Paisley was a bit harsh, it's got nice bits

the road leaving?

Well that's one of them

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21966617

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.

Weird, I was just struggling to explain Ayrshire to some uncomprehending work colleagues of mine this very night.

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?

I assumed it was that "nyeeeeahh" noise, so "nnyeah feertees". Going to ask a pal from Lugton now

Yes, I think stet's right there. I'm not from Lugton though.

Just found out our right back wis eccied yesterday no wonder we got a doing 😂

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