We’re playing the Caledonian Backpackers this Saturday night with Degrassi and Plan A, who feature some bloke who was in The Wildhearts. Doors are at 8.30pm and you can find more info here. Come along if you’ve got nothing else to do.
In other news I’m jetting off to Prague again (ah, memories) on the 20th August for my good friend Mark Olsen’s stag weekend. Should be a laugh as long as I can keep the Montrosians in check. I shall have Stish and John Joss there as like-minded comrades who should hopefully provide relief from the alcohol-fuelled monkey antics.
I spoke to the stag on the phone yesterday and you can imagine my absolute horror when I was told that we wouldn’t need to get taxis from the airport to our hotel because, “The Reps will meet us there.”
Turns out our hotel is booked though the FHM-approved Prague Pissup. I can’t wait to try ‘Shooting with Rambo’ and ‘Steak & Tits’.
…I’m going to try my best to drag them to U Hrocha.
23-Jul-04 at 6:28 pm | Permalink
I’m having a Streetfighter marathon at Pete’s on saturday, so I’ll hopefully be able to drag him and sweet tony along. I saw this advertised this week and really fancy going. Seeing as I’m a guest in Edinburgh this week, it’s really up to Pete. Grarrr.
24-Jul-04 at 9:52 am | Permalink
> U Hrocha
Hey, found a mention of our Hippopotamus (with pic) on the interweb.
Quote: “We won’t tell you where it is, but if you find it, you will find the most authentic experience of Czech pub life in Prague”.
Munching slabs of pork from wooden plates while the moustachioed barkeep sits you down in a table of strangers and feeds you from the single beer tap like it’s his living room.
Lovely place.
24-Jul-04 at 12:11 pm | Permalink
> Streetfighter marathon
What does this constitute exactly, endurance on a single game, or spanning the whole series of editions, or just playing whatever until your thumbs bleed?
26-Jul-04 at 8:01 pm | Permalink
Pete’s thmub blistered after 10 minutes.
Sigh.
Streetfighter marathon unsuccessful. Played many Capcom games. For about an hour. Then watched Girl Interrupted. Which was fucking shite. Tackno next night much better. But no Streetfighter.
27-Jul-04 at 9:14 am | Permalink
> thmub
thmub, n.
The sound a drunken adult human makes falling into a ceramic bath smeared in vaseline.
27-Jul-04 at 2:08 pm | Permalink
Sadly no vaseline-related incidents.
I had a good laugh in Tackno when a man walked up to me in the toilets and said, with a look of fear in his eyes, ‘Excuse me pal, is this a gay club?’. Oh, the laffs!
I have slept none times ever, dude. Weekend of toil, then practice with friends band ‘Goldblum’, then up till 5 pissing about on X-Box SNES emulatory thing. Now I must go practice with Goldblum again. I like the disco beats they let me do. And the fact they play a song I wrote for the soundtrack of film I made at art college. Hopefully some sort of festival gig. But maybe not. Definitely a gig on the 13th at aberdeen, though, if anyone happens to be there. Yes.
29-Jul-04 at 2:50 pm | Permalink
> fear in his eyes
But what was he afraid of? His… DESIRE?
29-Jul-04 at 3:02 pm | Permalink
Oh yes. Even the straightest, most marlboro of men crumble when faced with my sexy visage.
02-Aug-04 at 3:26 pm | Permalink
Tackno > Ah yes. Always thought it was more orientated towards the filthy lesbian contingent. I’ve been once. Got given some serious chat in the toilets by a PE teacher named stacey who was quite possibly the most androgen insensitive woman-thing i’ve ever met, and ran all the way home. Decent music, though.
02-Aug-04 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
Completely unrelated, but have any of you been to the villager on george IV? Loving that place. And the graf on the walls is by none other than the utopioan elph man himself. Yes yes yes.
03-Aug-04 at 10:53 am | Permalink
> Villager
Aye, as the TF front page currently states *sigh* ; )
> utopioan elph man
Clearly indicates this stuff.
03-Aug-04 at 10:57 am | Permalink
> men crumble when faced with my sexy visage
Can I just point out this is a textbook opportunity to use the synonyms puss, dish or my personal favourite coupon.
04-Aug-04 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
Villager > Sorry… I’ve been away.
*looks at feet*
25-Aug-05 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
Regarding Prague, you should try http://www.staginprague.com, the burger abd boobs is better value and they have activities like paintball on quadbikes and firing a bazooka, give it a go!