As usual, I've not been on here for a while. You know what it's like, Life tends to get in the way of keeping these things up. So, what have I been up too this last while ?. Well ofcourse there was Rockness, which was brilliant as usual. I didn't take as many pic's as I usually do. Due to the fact that I couldn't find my flipping digital camera prior to going. So, I only had my mobile phone, which can take decent pic's and video. However, the battery doesn't last for four days now does it, . I did manage to get a phone off a friend when my battery eventually died on me though. But, the pic, and vid quality wasn't up to much on that one. Anyway, here are a couple of the vid's I took mashed together.

Cagedbaby

Prodigy  (Note poorer quality)

I do have video of Cagedbaby in the SoCo Tent from the Friday night. Unfortunately, I was right next to the speakers, so the sound is all messed up. Which is a great shame, and I should know better. Because the tent was packed out, and the set was brilliant.

I went to EH1, in Edinburgh last weekend. It was the fist time for this event, and was run by Colours, and Streetrave. Great lineup, great choice of music for people to cjeck out. There really was something for everyone there (dance wise I mean). However, the price of booze was shocking !!. As with most festivals, you have to buy drink tokens, then take them to the bar and get your drink. At this one it was £15.00 for 4 tokens, which got you 4 drinks. That works out at £3.75 per drink, some might say that's not bad. The thing is, there were no spirits on sale (something to do with licencing). No pints of beer on sale, which is what you would usually get for a token. Instead you got 1 bottle of an alcopop, or something like 1 bottle of miller, corona for 1 token. That's about half a pint for £3.75. Now, if they have another one next year ?, I won't be going just because of the price of drink. I would go further and recommend that no one goes because of the price of drink.. Compare those prices to the ones at Rockness, Cash bar (much better), £3.45 for a pint of lager, and similer prices for spirits. You could get a pitcher of southern comfort and lemonade for £14. That's about 4 pints of southern comfort  .

Also recently had a wee night out at The Arches in Glasgow. I haven't been there for over two years, due to a certain night I had there. Nothing bad, just that a friend was dj-ing there, and they hadn't promoted the night very well. So, there wasn't really many people at it. Too and insult to injury, they didn't even pay said friend, because there weren't many there ffs . That wasn't his fault, it was their's for not promoting the fecking night. Anyway, I went along to this one because I was asked to go by a good friend. It turned out to be quite a good night, but I'll be in no rush to go back there again. The Arches seems to have lost something, don't know what but it's not as good as it used to be. Maybe it's a change in management. Maybe it's just me getting older, maybe it's the crowd. Still plenty of other clubs to hit in Glasgow, so no loss there .

Anyway enough of my galavanting around. Not been up to much really, just the odd bit of work here and there. Nothing much, as I can't do any manual labour as such. It's more like helping than work really. On a personal level, my first wife's husband died recently. Despite our obvious differences, I wouldn't have wished that on her at all. They had been together for over 10 years. He was a good bit older than her, and a decent guy. Fortuantely it was all very quick really. He had liver, lung, and brain cancer. Which only came to light when he went to the doctors complaining of a bit of a sore head and chest. He was gone within 5 weeks of that visit to the doctors.

Not the first time I've seen that happen. A guy I used to work with, who was only 39 years old at the time. Went to the doctors with a bit of a sore chest. Thinking it was muscle related, because of the nature of our job. They had sent him for an exray, and discovered something on his lungs. By the time he was due to go for a further scan two weeks later, he had died.

Takes me back to when my Dad had a brain tumour. He had a stroke, they discovered the tumour, and gave him six months to live. He lasted two and half year after that. That was way back in the early 70's though. Makes you think that these type of cancers are more potent now days. Enough of the doom and gloom me thinks .

Being a staunch SNP supporter, and card carrying memeber of said political party. I'm astonished at the recent decision to release the very man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. Now, this will have an very bad effect on the SNP chances of getting into Government again. It's been obvious though, that Westminister has been doing dodgy deals behind the Scottish Governments back, just to make them look bad.

Great news that Big Brother won't be on our screens again (for the forseable futire anyway). They say it's because of viewing figures. More like people not phoning in to vote, and them not making money out of that. Hopefully all these other silly reality shows will follow suit. Just watched Celtic get gubbed by Arsenal. Well done to Arsenal, and that's from a Celtic fan. We didn't play well at all, and deserved to get beat. But it's so painfull to watch. Such is the life of a Celtic fan .

I'll leave you with  a few movies to watch out for in the future. Sorry if I've posted any of them before.

 

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