Or, Gigs Wot I Have Been To In Glasgow...
There are quite a few of them. I've done a lot of gigging here, because Glasgow is such a great city for live music, with loads of wonderful venues and some amazing home-grown bands. I have quite a collection of tickets, which have built up around the edge of my mirror, thus:
So here we have:
1. Dave Gorman @ Pavillion Theatre, 21/09/09 (obviously there are going to be a few comedy gigs mixed in, it's not all music!)
2. The Hot Rats @ King Tuts, 11/10/09
3. Bat For Lashes @ ABC, 19/10/09
4. Skunk Anansie @ Academy, 22/11/09
5. The Bluetones @ King Tuts, 16/12/09
6. The Swell Season @ City Halls, 16/01/10
7. Nick Harper @ Classic Grand, 03/03/10
8. Mark Morriss @ Maggie Mays, 05/03/10
9. Chris Addison @ Citizen's Theatre, 17/03/10
10. The Twilight Sad @ ABC, 02/04/10
11. Evelyn Evelyn @ Oran Mor (and Amanda Palmer's apartment, New York, via webcam), 17/04/10
12. Doves @ Academy, 01/05/10
13. Stag & Dagger Festival @ lots of places!, 22/05/10
14. Bitter Ruin @ Ivory Blacks, 02/06/10
15. Supergrass @ Barrowland, 08/06/10
16. Richard Herring @ Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (Fringe gig), 05/08/10
17. Arj Barker @ Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh (Fringe gig), 20/08/10
18. Stewart Lee @ The Stand, Edinburgh (Fringe gig), 30/08/10
19. NME Radar show (The Joy Formidable and Chapel Club) @ King Tuts, 01/10/10
20. Sparrow And The Workshop @ King Tuts, 04/10/10
21. Tom McRae @ Oran Mor, 16/10/10
22. The Unwinding Hours (with The Twilight Sad acoustic - absolutely amazing!) @ Oran Mor auditorium, 17/10/10
23. Bellowhead @ Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, 14/11/10
24. The Bluetones @ Oran Mor, 25/11/10
And a few other bits and bobs including my Gati di Roma calendar (so cute and so cheesy!) and my certificate for climbing the Scott monument in Edinburgh (all 287 steps of it)!
Wow, considering I've lived here for only 16 months, that represents a gig and a half a month! And there were a few months with no gigs at all! And that's just the gigs I bought tickets for, not including free things like the Candy Sessions at Liquid Ship (which I've been to loads of because my friend Shoshana plays them quite often) and Sunday acoustic nights at The Aragon (which I have seen the lovely Hannah O'Reilly at).
And all of them have been brilliant shows, not a duff one amongst them. Particular stand-outs include Evelyn Evelyn (just for the sheer weirdness of watching a gig where half of the act is stuck in New York due to an ash cloud...a random member of the audience had to stand on stage holding Amanda Palmer's laptop so we could see Jason Webley on the webcam! They just about successfully performed a few songs that way!)
Also Bat For Lashes was incredible, Supergrass were EPIC!, The Bluetones were funny and charming, as was Tom McRae (who I'd never seen before, despite liking him for 10 years!)...there are just so many. And what has really made all of them great has been the audiences - there's nothing like a Glasgow crowd. Sure, they're sometimes a little beery and larey, but they are the most enthusiastic crowds I've ever seen! I barely made it out of Skunk Anansie alive, almost lost a shoe in the mosh pit at Doves (!), and was touched by the huge genuine love The Bluetones were shown last night, with Autophilia being a massive sing-along despite not being their greatest song (but don't tell them I said that!).
Sadly that will be my last gig here, because I'm moving back to Bath on Sunday. But I already have gigs lined up there...Chris Addison at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol on Monday! Then a bit of a gap until The Joy Formidable and Chapel Club in February at Thekla (it's a boat! And one of the finest venues I've been to. Mostly because it's a freakin' boat!).
