Rolling Ayrshire/Lanarkshire Thread 2011

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.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/iconic-record-store-23rd-precinct-1046324

Three years ago, admittedly, but I'd guess the main record shopping event in Glasgow now is Oxfam Music on Byres Road.

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

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.

Best records shops for bargains ever = the one in De Courcey's Arcade and the Christian Bookshop on Great Western Road

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.

happy 2013 everyone

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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