Rolling Ayrshire/Lanarkshire Thread 2011

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.

having a party?

btw are you voting in the 80s rock poll? Today is the last day to vote.

Sure, Tupp Inn - Cumnock 7:30, see you there..!

XP - Nah I'm too lazy (to vote in polls)

it would only take you 10 mins!

1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers) get in there!

Missed this thread totally! i'm ayrshire too -- lots of bits of it, last one being Stewarton, home of baby chaos. That perceton studio was run by a friend of ours, too.

I used to know a couple of people online from there. Surname Craig.

bothwell scarecrow fest a few weeks ago.looked even better than last year.

It was hilarious trying to order Peter Brotzmann records out of Impulse! Records in Hamilton back in the late seventies. Usually you waited for the old Union Street HMV Glasgow branch to have a clearance sale and suddenly there'd they all be for 99p each. Machine Gun, Fuck de Boer, Nipples...

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:07 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i got my subscription copy yesterday and usually see it in the shops a couple of days later so it must be imminent. xp

― stirmonster, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:09 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It usually comes out on a Thursday but sometimes its late and obviously its late again this time. It could easily be out in Glasgow/London etc

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:13 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Marcello- impulse in hamilton , was it owned then by a much younger Jim?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:14 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't remember who owned it except it definitely wasn't Billy Sloan.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:15 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thats over 10 years it must be gone now. The bigger one in Motherwell closed too.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:17 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No one could get to the Motherwell one because of the roadworks. The Hamilton one is now an Oxfam, I think.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:28 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Weird, I was trying to remember the layout of Virgin on Union Street just the other day (for no real reason), talking mid eighties, Jazz was on the 2nd floor?

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:30 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was the one with the ticket shop in the 90s? i liked that shop. used to be great having so many record shops in the 1 area.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:33 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't virgin have the jazz dept. in a separate (sound proofed) room?

― stirmonster, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:35 (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw its still murder to get into motherwell via hamilton.

virgin argyll st had jazz on a mezzanine, but i don't remember soundproofing

Just thinking of all the record shops there used to be in Glasgow in the early 90s. There was loads and it was great. If you couldn't find a cd you were after it was bound to be in one of the many shops and after you exhausted every one you went to Tower Records to pay £17 for it, lol.

stet i think stirmonster was talking about the virgin union st jazz section.

i was talking about union st. but the more i think about it it may have been the classical dept. hazy memory.

one thing i've remembered about 80s Virgin Union St was the very top floor sold goth/punk clothes, and for some reason at one point they started selling expensive framed holograms. i was fascinated with them and would brave the sullen stare of the gothy shop assistant to go and look at them every week.

in the 90s that was a brilliant shop for tshirts.

virginia galleries was betterer

RAT Records in Virginia Galleries back in the late eighties I remember being particularly great for the SST back catalogue.

Remember getting this in 23rd Precinct, 80s sometime:

http://www.vinyl-music.de/WebRoot/Store7/Shops/62906660/4EB8/2B72/2678/CADF/012E/C0A8/29BB/FAF9/guru_guru_-_der_elektrolurch.JPG

^ double album, prob'ly cost about £2

I remember when the rock shop was through the back, I got the Alice In Chains - Sap ep in 1992 there I had been all over Glasgow for it and that was the last place I tried and got lucky. Within a few years it was an all dance music shop.