Re: ....So we got humped....

On 21 Nov 2003 10:05:35 GMT, Seven Nation Amy
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>Joel Cooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
>>>I also bought my first biker's jacket from the market there, on a
>>>Saturday morning.
>> 
>> Aye the Barras is a funny place - just about the perfect venue really
>> - then of course there's Britain's dodgiest flea market right
>> underneath :-)
>
>That market was the dogs.  We used to hang outside and wait for some old 
>wino to tell us his troubles before we got him to go and get us some 
>alcohol from the Vic Wine.  It was either there or Buchanan St Bus station.  
>Never short of a wino or ten.  This was, of course, before Glasgow became 
>the European City of Culture in 1987 or 88 [I forget] and it all went down 
>hill from there ;)
>
>> I used to work in a stall at the barras when I was a teenager -
>> selling posters and t shirts. It was quite good although we basically
>> got paid in donuts, posters and steak & gravy scotch pies. Still, the
>> Italian football on Channel 4 and you were away! *sigh*
>
>I moved to England in 1988, but if you were on a stall before then - 
>chances are our paths crossed.
> 

It would have been the mid 90s, being but 8 years of age in 88... so
are you a glasgow girl then?

SNIP
>
>Well.  After half an hour of refreshing networks to find Inertiatic by At 
>The Drive In [grrr] I finally twigged.  Am listening to it right now.
>
>And it sounds NOTHING like the title suggested it might.  Is that a man 
>singing?  ;)
>
>I really like this so I'm going to have to get rid of some of my Stone 
>Roses to "make way".

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

>> Pretentious? Yes
>> Self-indulgent? Definitely
>> Self-conciously 'odd' and 'obscure'? Undoubtably
>> 
>> Much cop? 'Eye of the beholder' but put it this way, they don't mind
>> showing off, they clearly have passion for what they are doing, they
>> aren't afraid of technology, effects or modern production and it isn't
>> someone playing at being the MC5... rejoice in the fact that someone
>> isn't self-conciously trying to be stylistically, trendily crap at
>> playing. Possibly might appeal to closet Marillion fans :-)
>
>Oh.  I'm not sure now.  ;)

Oh go on... guilty pleasures, sins of the flesh(y ears) etc.