Archive for November, 2005
Gig Diary - The Vale, Glasgow - 11th November 2005
The Vale is a musical iceberg, inverted in the murky waters of Glasgow Queen Street. I say ‘inverted’ because only about a tenth of it is visible to the unknowing eye - a small, traditional (and most pertinently - stageless) pub where, it must be said, I arrived with quite some trepidation, on Friday night. There was barely room to house the assorted drinkers, at all of six o’clock, nowhere for a triangle-player to exercise his craft, never mind a four-piece band. Not only that, but to put it tactfully, the patrons of The Vale did not look as if they fancied much in the way of live music of an evening.
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Gig Diary - 13th Note, Glasgow - November 4th 2005
The last time I was in The 13th Note was about eighteen months ago to hear the strangely titled ‘Counterfeit Mistress’ play. I remember it distinctly, through a fug of alcohol, as I sat with quite some mixed feelings as I watched a very passable band make an extremely decent fist of melodic rock.
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