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I lived in the West End of Glasgow for three years. A Great place, and REALLY Great people. I loved their humor, rebellious nature and openness to other people.

Anyhow, that's me laying the foundations for this...


U2 were playing a concert in Glasgow, and Bono came onto the stage to rapturous applause, and he told the audience to be quiet !

The Kelvin hall fell silent as he walked across the stage from left to right, then right to left. Clapping his hands every 3 seconds.
Then, he went centre stage and said.

"Every time I Clap my hands, A child dies in Africa"..


Then a guy from the audience calls out in the ensuing silence that followed.




"Stop clapping your hands then, You Evil B@stard ! ! ! "



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Re: U2 in Glasgow

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U2 in Glasgow, wow! now there is something new, I would have thought Glaswegians would be more adhered to UB40, know what I mean ;) ;)
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Ah, well.. UB40's in abundance.. That is part of their rebellious nature C.E.. Do people undersatnd that I wonder ? ;)
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Like them or not they are nice boys make good music gave us a 3 chip camera and the edge wrote us a song, so personally I like them: enjoy!...'no money but you can't win them all, can you?
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I cant get that video at the moment, one for later I guess..
I do not like them, but they are good.
The world don't move to the beat of just one drummer, despite what the Bible may have you believe.


Anyway, moving on...

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Typical Glasgow humour BM.Strange thing is that we would have regarded it as a logical retort.Such are the Glaswegians!lol!!!

My old dad (86years young!)relates the tale of the day that those "well known,internationally renowned comedians/variety men/showmen known as Mike and Bernie Winters (anyone remember them?)appeared at "Greens Playhouse or Glasgow Empire(can't remember which one now!)
Mike came on stage and was quickly "dying a death!"The crowd was less than appreciative of his humour.It was decided that the ace card woud be played...so Bernie joined him on stage.
The shout went up from a more discerning member of the audience.

"my God...there's two of them!!!"
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I doubt they were in Glasgow, I just made it up.. Maybe they did ? Who knows, ;)

I was just imagining how Bono would have gone down in Glasgow.

I lived on Parkgrove terrace, on the corner by the park.. I cant stand city life, BUT I loved it there.. :up
All that beautiful countryside nearby as well..
Great Place Glasgow and Scotland in general.... Cold as Hell mind.. :urm:
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I lived near Dunvegan on Skye for many years and experiencing 80MPH winds during the winter was incredible, the Glen was a great place to live, wake up in te morning to dear in your back garden, seals playing and being inquisitive in Loch Pooltiel, it was lovely.
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Glencoe. Takes your breath away..!!!

Incidently, my wife is from the MacDonald clan. :cool:
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There's beautiful song by Corries (in my opinion,the finest folk duo ever to have come from Scotland)called "Massacre of Glencoe."
Lyrics are wonderful and music is quite haunting.
Their cd is first one to go on "after the bells"every year in my home,and they also do a lot of humourous stuff,e.g parody of "Scotland the Brave" "The Portree Kid" "La di da di dum."
I really wanted to send youtube clip to Luxor for the St Andrews nite celebration...but unfortunately my technophobia took hold and it all got too complex!!
So BM...if you really want to make an "auld women"happy...find a few clips and post them.lol!!!
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Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And covers the grave O' Donald,
Cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe
And murdered the house of MacDonald.

They came in the night
When our men were asleep
This Band of Argyles through snow thick and deep
We wined them we dined them
They ate off our meat
And then Slaughtered the House of Mac
Donald.

Brilliant tune about the slaughter of the MacDonalds of Glencoe at the hands of the Cambell's

The lead to Glencoe passes through Rannoch Moor one of the last wilderness's in the World, many the time passed this way through a Scottish Mist at 3 am hoping the car did not break down ;)
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My favourite tunes are "The Dark Island" and "The Flowers of the Forest" the more modern tune I love on the pipes is "The Sands of Kuwait.
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Scottishtourist wrote:There's beautiful song by Corries (in my opinion,the finest folk duo ever to have come from Scotland)called "Massacre of Glencoe."
Lyrics are wonderful and music is quite haunting.
Their cd is first one to go on "after the bells"every year in my home,and they also do a lot of humourous stuff,e.g parody of "Scotland the Brave" "The Portree Kid" "La di da di dum."
I really wanted to send youtube clip to Luxor for the St Andrews nite celebration...but unfortunately my technophobia took hold and it all got too complex!!
So BM...if you really want to make an "auld women"happy...find a few clips and post them.lol!!!

I will attempt that tonight just for You S.T. :br
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Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And covers the grave O' Donald,
Cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe
And murdered the house of MacDonald.

They came in the night
When our men were asleep
This Band of Argyles through snow thick and deep
We wined them we dined them
They ate off our meat
And then Slaughtered the House of Mac
Donald.

Brilliant tune about the slaughter of the MacDonalds of Glencoe at the hands of the Cambell's
I totally agree there Choccy. I had to take my wife there, then we climbed Ben nevis.. No mean fete when you have a hernia.. :urm:

I watched all the people carrying ALL their plastic water bottlesup the mountain... :stp
I kept refilling my one and only bottle from the springs and streams on the way up and down. :cg
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Re: U2 in Glasgow

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The Ben is fine BM a Sunday afternoon stroll these days! If yea want excitement as well you'd do worse than do the Aonach Eagach ridge, not on a windy day mind! ;)

And as for the ballad of Glencoe, i love Jocks version :lol:

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Has anyone heard of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, look for them playing Smoke on the Water on the Pipes, also look for the Battlefield Band and Wolfstone. Some great music!!
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Pipe music has it place.. Preferably in Australia where I cant hear it.. ;)

BUT.... That is pretty good, :cool:

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Not sure what Paganini's 20th century reincarnation would make of it though.. :cg



Now, what I want to know, is :

WHO decided to get a cat, paint it tartan and shove a descant recorder up its anal sphincter and said "Play That" !!!
"Jimmy"


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