Kerry and I went through to Glasgow to see Horse Island a band that she knows a few of the guys from. We went through on the train where they have recently installed new “automatic” gates at Edinburgh and Glasgow stations. But surprise surprise the system is flawed. If you have the big style pre-booked tickets they don’t fit into the card reader….genius.
Anyway, when we got through we thought we’d walk it to stereo, the gig venue. We consulted multi-map on one of those BT internet-enabled phones and got a vague idea of the direction. Forty minutes later…..we’re still walking. Time to get in a taxi and leave pride behind. We did get there in time to hear the band. They were very good and had nice banjo and/or ukelele bits in most of their tunes. The venue was nice although I did bizarrely find a cigar wrapper thing in my pint of 80′. Needless to day I asked for a new one.
Kerry decided to take me on the ‘clockwork orange’ on the way back. It has to be the cutest underground system ever. The cars roar into the station and I thought I wasn’t going to fit in them. Thankfully they are deceptively small on the outside. We had a mad quick drink in McSleazy’s and then grabbed a steak pie supper in the Blue Lagoon (omg so cheap) before running to catch the 10pm train back. All in all, a great night.