glasgow sessions

Subject: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,not quite glasgae lassie
Date: 17 Mar 02 - 10:06 PM

Anyone know of any good sessions in Glasgow? I'm going up in a few weeks, and hoping to find somewhere to have a wee drink and a sing and hear some tunes. All help appreciated!

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 04:54 AM

Hi...

Try sending an email to the Glasgow branch of Comhaltas, (an Irish Music association). I know some of the fella's up there in that branch, they may be able to help you and tell you about any sessions around there...

Their email is...

[e-mail]

I know that there are a fair few of sessions around Glasgow to be found - but you are probably better off emailing them someones bound to know. Or try contacting the students union of the Glasgow university.

I'm heading up to Glasgow in June - can't wait to see some old faces.

Have fun

Ella

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 05:12 AM

Tuesday - back room in the Uisge Beatha - Woodlands road. Not been to the Tuesday sesh myself, but Uisge Beatha's usually good quality, if a trifle smokey.

Wednesday - Singing Session in Saint Andrew's in the Square - off Saltmarket - Usually very good - my favourite sesh.

Also Ben Nevis bar in Argyle Street - mostly tunes - very fast stuff - apparently no-one knows any slow ones.

Thursday - Uisge Beatha again - downstairs

Fri - I think the Victoria Bar in Briggait has a sesh.

Saturday afternoon -= Babbity Bowster in Merchant City

Sunday evening from 5 pm Uisge Beatha again

And there's probably as much again that I don't know of...

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,not quite glasgae lassie
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 06:24 AM

Lovely! Cheers!

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 06:49 AM

Oh yeah - the Park Bar also in Argyle Street, and I think, the Lismore in Dumbarton Road.. not sure of the days for those..

Look forward to seeing whoever whenever...

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 09:40 AM

The Lismore has sessions almost every night except Mondays, I think. It's down at the end of Byers Road - yes, I think it is Dumbarton. We went twice and each time there was a different group. On both occasions the regulars were very welcoming and friendly and we greatly enjoyed ourselves. The sessions usually get started around 9:00 pm.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Guessed
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:21 AM

Is the Scotia Bar still a "music" pub?
Worth an ask.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 12:13 PM

Yes - the Scotia is - amongst other things - still a music pub. There are still sessions there, just never when I go. I believe that the Clutha Vaults - just across the road from the Scotia - also run sessions. Anyone know when one is likely to encounter session activity at the Scotia or the Clutha?

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 12:27 PM

We went over to the Scotia and asked and they said they rarely have traditional music anymore. They said it got to be "too boring, same stuff over and over" and they've moved on to a more eclectic mix of stuff. From the posters I saw it wasn't anything that would appeal to me. Better to call them and see what's on before going there. Really a lovely old place though, and it looked like it would be a great place for sessions, if they still had them and from what they told us it's rarely, if at all.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: janey
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 01:01 PM

we've never caught a session at the scotia bar though i think the folk club meets there on a wednesday night (guest singers). When we went up to visit my sister sal i went on a website (try a search under glasgow folk music) which had listings for regular sessions and band spots. we liked the 13th Note which is like a cafe bar place although more jazz/indie based i think (only a short stroll across the carpark to scotia bar etc. have a good time; hope it's not as cold as new year was! brrrrrrrrrrr...

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 05:25 PM

I remember singing sessions in the Scotia's snug - but that was years ago. But that seems to be quite common - people lose interest, a pub's atmosphere changes slightly, or for whatever reason people move on, and maybe move back after a few years.
Scabby Doug, where can you be found at any time of the week? I'm going to Scotland mid-April (hoping to catch the last day of the Glenfarg Festival) and will look out for fellow Mudcatters.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 04:09 AM

Susanne..

I'm usually at St Andrew's in the Square on Wednesday evenings. Another regular there is Mudcatter Dita.

Apart from that, Sundays, I often go to Uisge Beatha, but at present I'm involved with trying to find a new venue for the Campsie folk club sessions, after we were unceremoniously dumped from our previous site. Think I may now have lined up something in Kirkintilloch, if that goes ahead it'll be on Sundays.

Look forward to meeting you when you get here.

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Big Tim
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:11 AM

Scabby (!)

I've not seen Dita on the 'Cat for a while. If you seen him please tell him I've got the answer to the question I PM'd him some time ago. Could you also tell him I managed to get hold of a (second-hand) copy of the Enoch Kent "Irish Rebel Songs Album" from 1963 that he was good enough to do me a tape of last year. Tell him my copy's in better condition than his! Cheers.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 11:52 AM

Sure will..

you're right about him not being on here too much lately. Although he did rear his head to (rightly ) take me to task for misinterpreting someone else's post.

If he's at SAINTS tomorrow evening I'll let him know...

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Big Tim
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 02:46 PM

cheers jim

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,Dita (at work)
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 07:21 PM

Hi Big Tim,
bad penny's always turn up.
I'm not around the 'cat as often as I once was, due to change in work patterns. B-ggers making me work for my money these days.
Do you mean you've got the "Glasgow Van" words at last?
love, john.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Big Tim
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 01:56 PM

Hi Dita,

Actually the query was did Galvin ever record "The Bold Black and Tan?". It was in his book (in 1962) but not on the album, the tape of which you generously gave me. I've found nothing definitive but I'm pretty sure the answer is "no". Look up the PM I sent you, there's a wee bit of news on it.

Anyone else know of a recorded version of "The Bold Black and Tan" (refers to the "sack" of Balbriggan in 1920 in response to the IRA killing of a policeman).

Wolfgang found "Glasgow Van" and posted the lyrics. I missed the post but Jimmy C PM'd them to me. I forwarded a copy to my old school pal who had first got me interested in the subject.

If you're EVER down this way please give me a ring, I'm in the book ("Laudervale"). There's even a musical link there! Harry Lauder, who in the 30s was earning £5000 a week had his mansion here. He sold it and moved back to Hamilton. The new owner turned it into an hotel, got drunk one night and accidentally burned the place down, or for the insurance, I'm not sure. Now there are ten more reasonable sized houses on the site, one of which is ours. Yer man wrote "Roamin in the Gloamin" here inspired by seeing a courting couple walk by "on the bonnie banks o' Clyde", between Dunoon and Innellan. And I always thought it was Govan!

All the best.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Big Tim
Date: 20 Mar 02 - 03:53 PM

Guest: not quite... Sorry re hijack: hope you find some good music: welcome to Glesga.

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 02:04 PM

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: GUEST,carli
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 02:07 PM

Sunday-Waxy O'Connors (3-7)
Saturday-Babbity bowsers (4-7)
Those sessions still happen as far as I know. Go early to Babbity's or you won't find a seat...Slainte!

Subject: RE: glasgow sessions
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 10:00 PM

Reminder to self: Babbity's starts at *4* not 5. Get it wrong and you find the last available spot where you can hear and see what's going on clearly enough to play in a musically useful way is occupied by a drunken Mrs Angry who won't move 18 inches to let you in.

(That was what happened to me, today. I'd brought my instruments through from Edinburgh; I played on one tune, packed up and left).

The problem with Babbity's is that it's so echoey and the drinkers are so noisy you have to be very close to the other players for it to work. But it's a good mix of stuff, the only session I know of that's stayed 50/50 Scottish and Irish for years, and the core players are friendly and good.

I was revisiting the East End, around the Barras and the Tron, which I hadn't been to for a few years. When I lived near there it used to have a terrific sort of scruffy vitality, but it's a godawful moribund depressing mess now, reduced to dereliction by the local authority and nothing put in its place. With nothing but that Lovecraftian void beyond it eastwards, I doubt I'll be going back to Babbity's again.