Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
We are just back from checking out on of the newest editions to Glasgow’s dining scene – a pan African ‘cabaret’ number called Camflava, tucked discretely in the Pollockshaws area of the south side. While they are still finding their feet a little, and there wasn’t any cabaret to be seen, the food was fantastic [...]
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Mum and Dad had a suitably impressive introduction to Glasgow with Doors Open Day being held just after they arrived. We arranged a leisurely wander into town popping into series of ever more impressive historic buildings and churches culminating in the absolutely phenomenal City Chambers. If find it difficult to believe that hadn’t discovered this [...]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
A couple of comments on gigs we attended at stereo in August. First up was a bit of a punt on Crystal Stilts with Veronica Falls in support. They were actually a bit crap, quite messy and not as good as their studio work – cool brooklyn kids who weren’t that interested. A couple of [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
We dragged a bunch of our mates along to The Luckmiths farewell gig at Stereo. Chhay met up with them before the gig (they were pretty impressed with Stereo’s location right next to Central station and tasty selection of vegan food) before we headed down to catch the very twee supports. Their set included all [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Way back in the dark ages we popped in to the twisted wheel to catch Brisbane pop rockers I Heart Hiroshima. We were incredibly tight and played an entertaining set to a tiny audience. Their drummer was as incredible and hypnotic as ever. On their tour blog they noted this show as the best of [...]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
quite an entertaining rant… “In this case, the baroquely difficult solution to the five-second long design process is a perfect example of the dead end; of the arbitrariness and bankruptcy of cultural architecture, a seductive design moment, achingly contingent (should that squiggle be 500mm to the left or not?) followed by an interminable slog of [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
From our friend Jamie Flett “Me and my bro recorded a bunch of tunes as our studio side project ‘Feltt.’ We actually did it ages ago and a few of you maybe have a copy of some or all of them already. BUT if you don’t, then we’ve put them together as an album – [...]
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