Best of Glasgow

Glasvegas? (Seeing them tonight, hence sudden interest)
The Twilight Sad (from Kilsyth)?

no glasvegas, no cre...

Stewart, The Chou were rather odd, looking like drug crazed recovering hippies but playing the gig circuit in 78 and 79 meant that they often supported bands I go see fledgling punk basically in the Fife and Edinburgh circuits. They were very keen on weird beefheartian sqronking and very loud very quite dynamics, the lyrics would be shouted gibberish... Occasionally they would do bits of traditional Scottish songs though and they had a violin player.

Oh Oh, do you know who they were really like, and I've never thought of this before, but it fits nicely, World Domination Enterprises.

The gig I most remember was Supporting The Rezillos on the last two gigs they did before they Split into Revillos / Shake.

Oh and I know this is for Edinburgh and not glasgow, but some nice vintage posters here

http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/index.htm

I voted for Eugenius!

I almost voted for B&S but I ended up voting for JB.

i feel bad for voting for positive noise :(

just bores me NAOWWWWWWWwwwwwww

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

does nobody in glasgow dance? were q-tex from glasgow? surely some other rave stuff or even just dance stuff (ahem optimo, soma etc) stuff was from glasgow. rubbish poll, worse than the manchester one.

i mean m8 magazine, all that stuff. you may not like it but give it a shout.

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CS%5CSlam%20-%20Fabric%2009%5CSlam%20-%20Fabric%2009.jpg

Time Frequency definitely should have been in there.

If you don't like the poll then do one of your own. They're very easy to set up you know.

"The Chou were rather odd, looking like drug crazed recovering hippies but playing the gig circuit in 78 and 79 meant that they often supported bands I go see fledgling punk basically in the Fife and Edinburgh circuits. They were very keen on weird beefheartian sqronking and very loud very quite dynamics, the lyrics would be shouted gibberish... Occasionally they would do bits of traditional Scottish songs though and they had a violin player.

Oh Oh, do you know who they were really like, and I've never thought of this before, but it fits nicely, World Domination Enterprises."

I have heard similar comparisons (he has certainly mentioned Beefheart and I think Ornette Coleman in this context but not World Domination Enterprises as far as I can remember) from a mate of mine called Marco Rossi (ex Kevin McDermott Orchestra, now Cheese, 50% of Itchy & Scratchy and 25% of Gothic Chicken) who you may have come across?

What a fucking embarrassment, you bunch of dickless wimps. Still, at least Alex Harvey beat the Pastels, be grateful for small mercies I suppose.

lol. You should know by now that it's ILX and if B&S are in a poll, their fans turn out to vote regardless of who else is in it.

?????

I thought Belle & Sebastian were on ILM's hatelist....

And way too few votes for Aztec Camera. Surely, only one perfect album. But what an album!

I thought Belle & Sebastian were on ILM's hatelist....

Only the half who didn't come via Sinister

Are Del Amitri from some hamlet that is not Glasgow?

lol. You should know by now that it's ILX and if B&S are in a poll, their fans turn out to vote regardless of who else is in it.

let go, you sad Steps apologist.

EUGENIUS????

also you're picking on ELEVEN people out of several thousand ILM readers voting for Belle and Sebastian when there's one person out there who voted for paolo fucking nutini?

lol people who think poll results matter :-)

opaque
kylie minoise
nackt insecten
glasgow improvisers orchestra (recently worked w/ george lewis!)
richard youngs (long-time glasgow resident)
tight meat duo

ah boo, why wasn't I around to give Urusei Yatsura at least one measly vote?

Maybe this was mentioned elsewhere, but did anyone else watch that documentary 'Caledonia Dreaming' on BBC4 on Friday? As a history of Postcard Records it was a bit flimsy, as a history of Scottish pop since then it was a total travesty I thought.

Random bits of annoyance: Fran Healey; Teenage Fanclub "an influence on Nirvana and the Pixies" my arse; No JAMC!; No Pastels!; I'm not a fan or anything but, um, no Big Country?; err lots of other stuff too probably

Also - total shocker seeing Edwyn Collins in that programme that followed :o(

Edwyn is playing Glasgow in april or may.

Well good luck to him, it did look like he had got a lot better than he was to start with. Wonder if he's got his right arm back yet or not.

Also re 'Caledonia Dreaming' - I hate that thing they do in music documentaries where they run out of footage and keep doing close up shots of the label of the same one record over and over again. Buy another single you stingy bastards or something.

it was dreadful. they didn't even mention aztec camera! there were only four bands on postcard, c'mon. wall to wall hue and cry. i even glimpsed fish on screen for about a second. the footage of alan horne and edwyn in their pomp was great though. the edwyn documentary that followed was heartbreaking.

Teenage Fanclub "an influence on Nirvana and the Pixies" my arse;

Chou Pahrot, performing as Kelvingrove Park Bandstand & Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Free Festival, 1978.

http://kelvingrovebandstand.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1978-kelvingrovefestival-chou-pahrot-marco-rossi-via-jimbrady-426682_10150560484011513_718141512_9387223_1042274986_n2.jpg

great revive

(xp) at not as

... and yet you losers voted for Belle & Sebastian.

... and it was here, in the bogs of the Variety Bar, in 1994, Stuart Murdoch had a particularly satisfying shit having lately consumed a sausage supper from the chippy across the road...

https://amp.theguardian.com/travel/2019/nov/17/why-glasgow-is-britain-best-city-for-music-lovers

Ivor wins in my heart but also Dawson and Lapsus Linguae.

Can't believe nobody voted for Lonnie D. Or that Vazz weren't nominated

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ABBA? Sweden's answer to Middle of the Road, that's all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7QnAKeA5E