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On 10/11/2019 at 10:33, G-MAN said:
I was also at that Oasis gig.
Was it not the Barfly ?
Oasis were bottom of the bill. Liam walked on in jogging bottoms and a scruffy jumper. Looked an absolute shambles but went down really well.
Acetone were excellent. Their lead singer committed suicide a few years later I think before they made it big.
no was definitely the old Cathouse..it was on Brown Street I think?... Only saw two gigs there I think...that Verve gig with Oasis supporting, then when Oasis toured again June 1994 for their first UK headline tour they played the Old cathouse again. Also saw them supporting the Boo Radleys at The Tramway in April 94 as part of Glasgow Sound City.
Barfly didnt open til a few years later...think it was 13th note club and then Barfly...could be wrong though.
But yeah I always remember the jogging bottoms bit too! Also I had this vague recollection of Oasis doign a cover of 'You Sexy Thing' by Hot Chocolate. I thought I'd dreamt it but it turns out Liam used to change the lyrics and sing it on one of their songs (Cloudburst maybe?) .
Saw them at T in the Park in 94, and then the Loch Lomond gig in 96 and then that was it for me with Oasis until Bencassim in 2003...
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13 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
Must be a generational thing, by the time I was kicking about the pubs and clubs, the Fear boys were pretty much renowned as being wee fannies who couldnt fight sleep.
aye probably...when i first started going it was more skinheads than casuals really. Then as the 90s kicked in they seemed to 'evolve'(pretty sure that term doesnt work here!) into the more "dressing up in yer best gear" for the football type. Did Hibs not come from and smash up the Argylle Bar once? Sure I remember that...possibly a lot later on though.
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27 minutes ago, AL-FFC said:
It would have been the Argyll Bar back then
ha aye thats it!
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1 hour ago, MrDust said:
Broomfield was always a good away day with a 5 sided ground in the Luton manner, whereas our new grounds are decent modern day and comfy, they are both not the old grounds by far
McShane at least has legs that work, Tidser is all very one paced and I dont think him and Gomis works, same problem up top also in that we havent got a top 2 who seem to have clicked.
For me we really we shouldve been looking at a 3-5-2 as we seem to get at times outnumbered in midfield with our wide players basically being instructed to concentrate mainly on the attacking sense whilst most teams have 5 in midfield, it also couldve gave McKinnon that safe guard/erection that 3-5-2 can be 5-3-2.
my first away game, and first trip on the Elliotts Bus was to Broomfield..loved it!
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40 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:
It was Geordie!!
my first ever Falkirk game was 1988 against ST Johnstone at Brockville. Sure we won with Alex Rae scoring. Anyway after the game there was a lot of fighting around Grahamston station between Falkirk and Saints boys.
I was living in Larbert at the time, I would have been 13 years old, so my mate and I were getting the train back to Larbert - same train that goes to Perth. We were standing in the waiting room at Grahamston when a load of, what I assume were Saints finest "casuals" were directed into the waiting room by the polis and the turn shut in with us, and said polis standing guard at the door not letting anyone out until the train to Perth arrived. We werent exactly happy about this but obviously with us being kids these casuals werent ars*d about us. However we listened as they chatted to each other saying things like "should've brought more", and moaning about the police presence. One of them though started going on about "that mental Falkirk boy with the spider web tattoo on his face" . So me and my mate got talking on the train home and at school on the Monday, fascinated by this Falkirk guy with a spiders web tattoo.
After a few games standing in the Hope Street end, we moved into the Choir and we spotted the guy with the spiders web tattoo coming in 5 minutes into the game where he proceeded to go upto the segregation fencing to stare at the oppostion fans for 90 minutes.... not watching any of the game.
There was always talk that you'd take your life in your hands if you went into that pub in Falkirk on Princes street/Vicar Street(name escapes me) where he supposedly drank? In later years we used to go to gigs above it at The Happening Club sh*tting ourselves about what was going on downstairs. It probably wasnt that bad?!
anyway - point being I'd totally forgotten about that guy until now..!
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Listening to this..Scottish Indie, with some electro flourishes..features King Creosote, Pictish Trail, Malcolm Middleton, My Latest Novel...
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Watched 'Dolemite is My Name' with Eddie Murphy on Saturday, quite a good film and worth a watch if you are looking for something not too heavy. Good soundtrack as well!
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On 20/10/2019 at 23:40, The Real Saints said:
Joker - One of those very rare experiences where I almost felt inclined to stand up and applaud at the end. The culmination of the film gave me chills. Only ‘Black Swan’ and ‘Filth’ have had a similar cinematic effect on me.
yep totally agree with this...one of those films you are still thinking about days afterwards....only slight downside is I've had The Glitter Band in my head since watching it(great tune though...)
Dont't think its for everyone though...saw my first ever cinema rage. I live in Leicester, two young lassies came in about 5 minutes into the start of the film and sat in our row. Sat about 5 seats along from me with no one in between(I hadnt showered). From my side vision about 30 mins in one of them starts looking at her phone..not just a quick check either but full blown scrolling through stuff. She was too far along for the light to bother me but was thinking how annoying for the folk sat behind her...especially as instead of holding the phone looking down, she was doing that thing that a lot of young folk do where the hold the phone up at eye level and scroll through. Few minutes later theres a bit of a commotion. One of the lassies turns to the person in the row behind and says "stop hitting my chair", then theres the reply of "well get off your phone then". She then replies "i'll kick your f*cking head in. Dont tell me what to do" . She goes back on her phone so the person behind must've hit her chair again, so the lassie shouts "do that again and I swear you are f*cking dead" she then does this sucking air through the teeth thing that I hadn't really noticed anyone doing until I watched Top Boy on Netflix...must be some wannabe gangster sh*t?
It calmed down after that and she put her phone away but I was (sadly) secretly hoping things would kick off....but yeah could tell she wasn't remotely interested in the film!
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12 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
You get a lot of complete dross on the tv too mind you.
yeah thats true
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1 minute ago, Lee Van Tee said:
A documentary on Scottish punk and post punk music with some pop like Altered Images thrown in. Wish Scottish music today was half as innovative.
yeah thats ace.
Theres a music doc about the music of Laurel Canyon out...anyone seen it? Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Byrds etc?
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13 hours ago, roman_bairn said:
For me it started with the appointment of Hartley and the decision to close our Academy and rip the heart out of the club by removing all our more established players in one swoop.
We replaced them with a bunch of nonentities that no one knew or could really identify with.
Since then the shambles has rumbled on with incredulous levels of board incompetence, and constant changes of playing personnel that I couldn’t really care less how they progress whilst part of our club, as I genuinely don’t feel that they care one iota about it, and don’t feel they are with the club long term either.
It’s ironic that Houstie referred to QoS as a bunch of journeymen. We are now a club full of journeymen and it looks like it’s set to be that way for years to come.
Totally fucked imo....
I've got Bonnie Tyler 'Holding out for a Hero' in my head..but the truth is we go to games and pay to be entertained to a certain degree. I've always expected as Falkirk fan(maybe wrongly?) that we'd play attacking football where possible. We've been commended in the past for the way we go at teams and set out to score goals. Thats just not really been evident to me the past couple of years apart from a handful of occasions.
Also, and to refer the 'hero' thing - even if we had one or two players who were a different class. The type of player young fans love, someone who can consistently turn it on. We've been blessed down the years by some cracking flair players that you would pay money to watch. I remember as a young lad the excitement of getting into the choir and seeing Crunchie warm up(ooh er) but you knew if he was playing you were in for some entertainment.
I appreciate the game is different these days(but is it?) and we've seen a few cracking goals this year and some nice football but it just seems few and far between.
My old man has a theory that we watch so much great football on TV now that we forget that in the past there was a lot of sh*te as well, (I mean Big Crawf was a legend but how many shots ended up on the railway? ...but at same time a happy medium would be nice.
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20 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:
I love stuff like that so I'll seek that out.
I've a couple of recommendations.
DOA is a documentary about The Sex Pistols ill-fated tour of the USA in 1978. There's plenty of good concert footage along with interviews with various suburban American kids trying waaay too hard to be punk.
I'd also recommend B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin 79-89. It's a documentary about a bloke from Manchester who moved to Berlin in the late 70s and got involved in the alternative music scene there. Well worth watching if you're into scenes and subcultures.
will check those out, cheers
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5 hours ago, As Easterly as it gets! said:
Good to see such optimism from the bairns. McKinnon giving everyone the feelgood factor? Or is it simply the disappointment of dropping down the divisions?
McKinnon for me... no direspect to the league(and I know several Bairns have!) but I did hope we'd see some attacking football and bit more excitement after a couple of sh*te seasons.. I appreciate we've had a few decent results but the 'fun factor' has been sucked out of me by McKinnon.... cannot be arsed at the moment...
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6 minutes ago, Hank von Hell said:
I know Twitter is a fairly new phenomenon but I have never seen anything like this before with any kind of businessman looking to secure a purchase of anything. It's unprecedented!
I noticed ,despite repeated requests, he never answered the direct question - name one of your successful businesses? Instead he dodged the question & then got pretty sarcastic (which is ironic coming from me ha, ha!) .
Yep said this a few weeks ago..where in the (business)world have you seen this sort of interaction before anything has been done. its a complete and utter shambles.
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Any fans of Music Bio's? I'll pretty much watch and usually enjoy any decent music bio/documentary even if its not my type of music.
I found a film called CBGB on Amazon Prime. Came out in 2013 and not sure how I missed it at the time. Thought at first it was a documentary but turns out it was an actual Biopic about CBGB's in New York throughout the New York Punk Scene of the 1970s.
A bit cartoonish and had a similar feel of 24 Hour Party People but an outstanding soundtrack as well as all the bands featured you'd expect, Television, Talking Heads, Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Dead Boys etc etc
Its not perfect but if like me you are into music films then its worth a watch.
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15 hours ago, Adam101 said:
Get him reported to HR for racism, problem solved.
ha funnily enough the wife said that to me last night, but nah, ahm no a grass.
The Wife and I have a bit of an ongoing feud over Scottish-English racism so obviously I couldnt wait to tell her. She's English and has been upto Scotland loads. She's rarely had anything said apart from the odd drunken ars*hole...nothing directly offensive its usually something stupid like "ah yoouse english folk ruining oor country".
However when I was first seeing her I made the mistake of bringing her up to Glasgow the day Scotland were playing Italy in the crucial Euro qualifier game(was it 2007?)
I'd arranged to go through to watch it in Glasgow with my mates. As my wife hates football she'd arranged to go out for lunch with some of my mates g/fs and wives and got to a few non-football pubs and meet us a bit after the game.
I hadn't anticipated how much carnage Glasgow would be that day/night! Not sure if any P&B folk were in the city but just mayhem everywhere. Anyway, after the game someone heard my wives accent and had a go at her for being English.
So when I met up with her later that night she wasnt best please and still goes on about it to this day.
I did ask her if she'd said something stupid like "come on guys, its only a game" but she swears she was at the bar ordering a drink and some ned round and said "and you can f*ck off back down there ya english b*stard"
so anytime I'm down here and experience anything negative I feel the need to let her know or save it for the next time she brings up the above. Anyone else have long running petty feuds with their partners...?
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Just now, Jason King said:
Almost your entire post is about you getting upset with someone talking about Rugby ergo you are getting het up about a sport played and watched solely by roasters. You've lost the high ground.
If you are able to read properly you will see my first comment was about his use of the word 'jock' in an open office environment...however this isn't soemthing that bothered me too much.
My fellow work colleague then continued to make the statement alluding to the fact Scottish people couldnt count which in turn could be construed that he was saying we were all stupid.
Unfortunately you seem to be proving him right by your words and lack of understanding.
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16 minutes ago, Jason King said:
Imagine getting so het up about fucking Rugby though - only inbred tory c***s watch or play rugby.
where did i say I was getting het about the rugby? Just out of interest
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1 hour ago, sjc said:
^^^bottle crashed.
Were you able to count up to the number of broken pieces?
aye i was able to thanks
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53 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
I used to live down in England and although I never had any incidents such as that I did get loads of wee jibes such as that on separate occasions from different people.
It was always meant as a joke but definitely happened enough from enough different people to feel like they do love feeling superior to us.
yeah man, that pretty much sums it up. 99% of the English guys I work with are sound, and some are in fact supportive of Scotland when it comes to Sport...which I actually struggle with because I love it when England beat. One English guy was getting really excited about the Rugby result earlier and seemed quite disappointed when I told him although I was looking at the score I couldnt care less.
My missus always reminds of me of the Scotland 1-0 France game when I was in a pub. I'd just moved down here. I think England must've been playing at the same time as I didnt watch the Scotland match live (could be wrong though), and I'm sure the score came up on the screen and everyone cheered... but typical Scottish my response to her later was "aye only cos you lot think hating the French as a bigger thing and we're insignificant to youse" - I couldnt even see the positive in the situation(apart from the pint someone bought me)
But yeah most of the time its fine..although walking into the office recently after the Kazakstan game wasn't fun.
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10 minutes ago, Aufc said:
Shat itpretty much
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so, got into our office today. I live and work down in England. I sometimes go into a network office at a depot near home as normally I'm out visiting customers so when I come into our depot no one has their own desk..you just grab whatever is free and people from various other offices/areas come and go depending on meetings etc.
Anyway, I had one eye on the Scotland rugby game, few folk also watching the score on BBC.
Theres a lad from our accounts department here today working about 4 desks away from me. He's never down here so its unusual to see him and he's not one of the 'regulars' in this office(most of the usual guys are sound). He's a wee bloke, bit of a nerd, can imagine him playing Dungeons and Dragons at the weekend and hes the type who always has to make a 'funny' comment about everything and witters on to anyone who he gets the attention of. Colin Hunt type guy...
On seeing the Scotland score he proclaims to the office "oh i see the jocks are finally managing to get somewhere in Japan". The use of the word 'Jock' had already got my attention but I had my back to him so I've carried it on working and ignored it.
He then continues with "oooh 49-0, I don't think Scottish folk can count that high though". Theres been a bit of a giggle in the office, I've swung round and said in my best Begbie accent "do ye want to repeat that I didnae quite hear it?" although I was smiling so it could still be seen as banter. He's continued by saying "yeah well you're not the brightest lot up there are you?", and I've responded(again jokingly and I'm cringing about saying it) with "i can show you how bright we are in the car park if you want".
I appreciate folk will think i'm making this up but its genuiely just happened this morning. Some office lass who was listening to it all has come up to me and said "you better be careful, he'll go to HR and say you threatened him". So yeah thats been my morning.
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19 hours ago, Sarcastic Bairn said:
Please tell me they are at the wind up, nobody can be that stupid, surely?aye must admit, when his name first appeared(which feels like years ago) I started 'following' him on Twitter and checking what what was going on. That lasted a week before I couldnt take the cringe of some of our fans comments and tweets to him. It also got me really wary that would a legitimate serious businessman really get so involved on social media at a stage long before anything had been decided...i think not. Nothing wrong with people being transparent or approachable but the downside is you get a lot of fannies trying to be 'in the know' or being able to say to their pals "aye I wiz chatting to MC last night aboot the takeover..."...
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10 minutes ago, Shadwell Dog said:
The thing is they should just have gone and that would've been that. Moving on to a bigger club. It was the announcing they were staying put at the door of brockville only to change their minds 24 hrs later that left a bad taste at the time. All water under the bridge now and I certainly only look back on that time now with very fond memories.
aye..that certainly didnt help.... did they take any Falkirk players to Hearts with them(just to twist the knife!)....I'm thinking Stevie Fulton or am I getting totally mixed up?
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Falkirk v Stranraer, 30th November 2019
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Its a fair point. Just talking hypothetically, if I was a decent striker from a league above or whatever, maybe not first choice at my club, and FFC could afford wages I was after..then you'd maybe think that dropping down to play in a lower league could be a sensible option career wise? More chance of scoring a load of goals, making a name for yourself and firing the team to promotion, getting a bit of glory in a short career, fans favourite, and maybe, just maybe getting a bigger move along the way.... I guess the risk is you flop and then your spiral downwards continues..