This has to be the slowest week on record. Yesterday seemed to drag on for an eternity, mainly due to being very tired. Wednesday night was the Alter Bridge gig in Glasgow. Whilst the gig finished about 11pm, the journey back from Glasgow (on a packed train full of Man Utd supporters) seemed to take ages and I arrived back in the house about 12.45.
Part of the delay in getting from the train station to the house was the huge melee which ensued when the queue at the taxi rank split into two different queues, running different directions. Abuse was hurled and at one stage a taxi driver got out and ‘footed the arse’ of a pissed teenager who was shouting abuse at taxi passengers (on the basis that there were a few empty seats in their cab, so why couldn’t they accommodate him and his mates). Needless to say, I ended up getting drawn into the argument along with the 30 other queueing punters.
Alter Bridge were excellent, although the sound quality left a bit to be desired. Support band “Hot Leg” were bloody awful though. Justin Hawkins seems to still think that The Darkness was more than a novelty and has tried to resurrect it with his new band. To be fair, kick the yodelling vocalist into touch and they are a fair to mediocre 80’s hair metal band. Inoffensive.
Marillion play the ABC in Glasgow on Sunday. I was toying with the idea of taking the car, but the sheer bloody hassle of finding parking in Glasgow, not to mention the one way system means I’ll probably take the train. I’m nostalgic for the days when all the bands came to Edinburgh. Now we don’t have a venue worth playing and I’m always having to get the train through which is a pain in the arse.
We’ve got a castle though. 1-0 Edinburgh.
on Nov 7th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Myles Kennedy looks like Jared Leto on this picture. Really had to look twice if it was him…
on Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Hey Mark, we’ve got the Picturehouse now, it may attract some decent bands given half a chance