Nope ~ you're all alone in Lovecraft country... It's on a particularly spooky layline and famous for mysterious disappearances and alien abductions......
Go and visit it xx. It'll rip the hole out of yer arse. Ye hear all about them fikkin Yanks whinin on an on about the goddamm projects in Chicago and New York. Brixton and Peckham are peanuts. Go visit the Drum come out alive and ye'll have my respect .
Don't even try and talk about it unless you''re really serious. That's the truth --- oh, and by the way, in case you think I might be racist or sectarian, Drumchapel is near enough 100% white and proddie. They have Orange marches every saturday morning. I kid you not.
Drumchapel (from the Gaelic - 'the ridge of the horse' ) Granted lads, “The area has well-known social problems, notably anti-social behaviour”!
However, if you are from Old Drumchapel, then that's a different story, for Old Drumchapel is to the south of modern Drumchapel & is - "an area ... made up of affluent villas"!
So, Key Maniac Lad, are you from the new 'anti-social' part, or the old 'posh' part?
...& are there any session pubs there?
Ptarmie - the anti-social bit, but it was just another working class area when I grew up there. It is a cowp nowadays.
No session pubs there. I take it you weren't being serious.
Really I was just having a wee dig at xxecxx for starting his galway thread. It's the summer silly season after all.
Omigod!
This thread was only intended as a bit of a joke yet it has the most replies on the front page of the discussions!
Quiet time of year though I suppose.
BTW, that site you linked to, ceolachan, http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/drumchapel.htm was written by my nephew Ian Mackay. What a strange coincidence!
Funny you guys should mention the Orange Order in the Drum (as it is colloquially known.)
We were up there at the beginning of this month, and first thing of a Saturday morning we were treated was to the local Ludge out for their march. practicing for the Glorious Twelfth, no doubt. Just finished reading Freakonomics by Levitt and ...er.... the other bloke, don't know if anyone else might have read it, but there's a bit about the Ku Klux Klan. Going by how the authors describe them, they seem to have a similar mindset as our Orangemen, both a shower of low-brow nutcases.
Any...of the Morrocco on Wednesday. Don't suppose anyone knows any sessions out there? Or tunes? What about the Marra- Kesh Jig?
Dunno about Lovecraft country, but there's a village on top of Mendip that has been sitting on and mining deposits of lead, cadmium and arsenic for the last 2000 years. And they have sessions and music festivals ... artificial light isn't needed, they just glow faintly in the dark.
Quite irrelevantly, on Wednesday I'm off to Clonakilty in Co Cork for a fortnight.
Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Quiet fishing village by the Clyde.
What a stoopid fvkin question
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Nope ~ you're all alone in Lovecraft country... It's on a particularly spooky layline and famous for mysterious disappearances and alien abductions......
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
I'm not from Drumchapel but I'm not far from it!
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by Sharon the Flute
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Oh no!, Sharon, don't let him know you're nearby... He really is a maniac...
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Hey u copied my idea!!ha ha!!where is drumchapel anyway????????xxecxx
# Posted on July 21st 2006 by xxecxx
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Go and visit it xx. It'll rip the hole out of yer arse. Ye hear all about them fikkin Yanks whinin on an on about the goddamm projects in Chicago and New York. Brixton and Peckham are peanuts. Go visit the Drum come out alive and ye'll have my respect .
Don't even try and talk about it unless you''re really serious. That's the truth --- oh, and by the way, in case you think I might be racist or sectarian, Drumchapel is near enough 100% white and proddie. They have Orange marches every saturday morning. I kid you not.
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Drumchapel (from the Gaelic - 'the ridge of the horse' ) Granted lads, “The area has well-known social problems, notably anti-social behaviour”!
However, if you are from Old Drumchapel, then that's a different story, for Old Drumchapel is to the south of modern Drumchapel & is - "an area ... made up of affluent villas"!
So, Key Maniac Lad, are you from the new 'anti-social' part, or the old 'posh' part?
...& are there any session pubs there?
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Ptarmie - the anti-social bit, but it was just another working class area when I grew up there. It is a cowp nowadays.
No session pubs there. I take it you weren't being serious.
Really I was just having a wee dig at xxecxx for starting his galway thread. It's the summer silly season after all.
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Drumchapel!!
That's where they march and play the accordion vertically!!
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by Banjobhoy
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
And wear bowler hats to keep the woodpeckers away.
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by duffgen
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumchapel
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story.php?id=TGSFG03
http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/drumchapel.htm
http://www.drumchapelheritage.fsnet.co.uk/
http://www.any-village.co.uk/main.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=Drumchapel
http://www.drumchapel.org.uk/
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
They're all weegies down there aren't they? Why can't they all just get along?
Everybody's beautiful, in their own way.
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by Bren
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Omigod!
This thread was only intended as a bit of a joke yet it has the most replies on the front page of the discussions!
Quiet time of year though I suppose.
BTW, that site you linked to, ceolachan, http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/drumchapel.htm was written by my nephew Ian Mackay. What a strange coincidence!
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Funny you guys should mention the Orange Order in the Drum (as it is colloquially known.)
We were up there at the beginning of this month, and first thing of a Saturday morning we were treated was to the local Ludge out for their march. practicing for the Glorious Twelfth, no doubt. Just finished reading Freakonomics by Levitt and ...er.... the other bloke, don't know if anyone else might have read it, but there's a bit about the Ku Klux Klan. Going by how the authors describe them, they seem to have a similar mindset as our Orangemen, both a shower of low-brow nutcases.
Any...of the Morrocco on Wednesday. Don't suppose anyone knows any sessions out there? Or tunes? What about the Marra- Kesh Jig?
(Sorry....)
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
God what's wrong with me? I've not even had a beer - that should have read:
Anyway....off to Morrocco on Wednesday...
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by xyz
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
I love it key ~ serendipity...
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Dunno about Lovecraft country, but there's a village on top of Mendip that has been sitting on and mining deposits of lead, cadmium and arsenic for the last 2000 years. And they have sessions and music festivals ... artificial light isn't needed, they just glow faintly in the dark.
Quite irrelevantly, on Wednesday I'm off to Clonakilty in Co Cork for a fortnight.
# Posted on July 22nd 2006 by lazyhound
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Lucky sod...rub it in...
# Posted on July 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Lived in Drumchapel for the first year and half of my life, then moved to Easterhouse where I lived until I was in my early 20's.
# Posted on July 23rd 2006 by Jenny
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
Think you went off at a bit of a Tanger there Danny. You don't half Rabat on sometimes. Fez ony sake, have a fine time
# Posted on July 23rd 2006 by Bren
Re: Anyone here from Drumchapel?
123 Drumry Road. Long time ago.
Mr Jim
# Posted on July 25th 2006 by Worldfiddler