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So, from the 4ad site, the up-to-date and complete dates for the European tour are as follows:

March
18 - Utrecht Tivoli, Holland
19 - Brussels Ancienne Belgique, Belgium
20 - London Astoria, England
22 - Dublin Ambassador, Ireland
23 - Glasgow QMU, Scotland

Still, it's better than nothing. I have my ticket for London, of course. I'm feeling slightly disappointed about it not being the Glasgow gig instead, as the first time I saw them it was at the QMU, supported by The Sundays. Alan Thomson was there, certainly. I can't remember who else.

Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-25 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
Oh. Part of me would love to go back to the QMU (did I tell you I more or less lived there for 5 years and ran it for one of them?) and the other part thinks the past is best left alone.

The QMU is a large part of the reason why I don't have a degree. :}

FARKIN BRIL!

Date: 2003-02-25 12:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sibelian.livejournal.com

I think I shall go, then...

Re: Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-25 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
Well, me and 15 others, but I was Publicity Convenor for a year.

Re: Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-25 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
In fact I still have my life membership card kicking about somewhere.

Re: Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-25 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
To be fair, it wasn't the Publicity convening bit that cost me my degree as that mostly involved fortnightly board meetings, being "on duty" once every six weeks (washing glasses if the bar got busy, putting the takings in the safe and praying nobody threw up in the ladies - the less glamorous side of helping run a student union*), making posters (with Letraset and a photocopier, they didn't get a Mac till a couple of years later, when the erstwhile LOML was Publicity Convenor) and persuading some mugs to paste them up. I did get threatened by Glasgow's flypostering baron though.

It was the general hanging out with the rest of the board till all hours that did for my degree. All night Risk sessions, those were the days... ;)

Still, with edited highlights it looks damn good on my CV, despite the lack of an academic achievements.

*Well they told me there was a glamorous side... I did get to meet Nik Fiend once.

Re: Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-25 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
I've heard of the Close Lobsters. Can't think of any of their songs, but I know the name.

I ended up in Aberdeen for a while. There's hope for you yet. :)

Re: Glasgow

Date: 2003-02-26 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
Then you won't want to hear that we had the opportunity to book Nirvana just before "Smells like teen spirit" came out, and did? That was quite a gig.

Date: 2003-02-26 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ant-girl.livejournal.com
supported by The Sundays

Now if there were being supported by the Sundays again, that would be a draw (for me, anyway). I liked the Sundays.

There was another band from around that era that I really liked -- the Julie Dolphin. Does anybody remember them/know what happened to them?

I'll see your Nirvana and raise you Husker Du

Date: 2003-02-26 05:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com
Not that I was involved in the committee, or anything, but I did see Husker Du at the Pottorrow when I was there. [livejournal.com profile] swisstone was there, too.

Re:

Date: 2003-02-26 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ant-girl.livejournal.com
And Amazon has just reliably informed me that Static and Silence came out in 1997. Seems like only yesterday that I was impatiently awaiting its release... You can tell you're getting older when things which you thought were comparatively recent turn out to have been years ago!

As for the Julie Dolphin -- kind of like the Sundays but a bit heavier. I can't find a website or anything unfortunately, I expect they're long defunct -- the last time I saw them was in 1994. They released an LP called "Lit" in that year too, which is very good.
From: [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com
How come you can't edit comments, only delete them?

Potterrow, obviously.
From: [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com
Stage? There was a stage? I just remember them playing in a corner of the dance floor.
From: [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com
Because the ability to edit comments could be used maliciously.

I made a proposal to address this ("This reply is in response to an earlier version of the parent") but LJ basically said "good idea, but someone has to actually code it", and I don't know the LJ codebase...

Date: 2003-02-26 07:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
Well, it's not like you can tell Sundays songs apart, let alone albums ...
From: [identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com
Yes. I think the philosophy is that each journal is in effect owned and controlled by the person who runs it. This journal is your show. So you can get up to all sorts of monkey business here. But no-one else is allowed to - they can do that in their journal.

Something like that, anyway.
From: [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com
No, they were upstairs. I just don't remember there being a stage. I mean, I know sometimes there was a stage there - I've played on it - but Bob & co. were at audience level, IIRC.

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