June 2007

New Glasgow events guide launched

Have a look at the seeglasgow site I've linked to, as it's just launched again the hugely popular Glasgow Diary for forthcoming events in the City.

It lists all the main Glasgow attractions and events not to be missed this summer. For example, you'll be able to plan your attendance at the Glasgow River Festival in July, Piping Live in August, the Merchant City Festival in September and much more.

One look at the Diary and your head'll be spinning, as there's just so much to do in such a short space of time. And here's a thing. My simple yet genius plan to ensure that I don't miss any of the upcoming events is to work out how Hiro Nakamura manages to bend time and space. Easy peasy eh? If you're a fan of Heroes you'll know what I'm talking about. If you're not, I'm pretty sure as a regular Lobey Dosser blogee you'll sigh the usual breath of regret that you started reading such nonsense, even if doing so was just out of sympathy.

In the meantime, many thanks for all your messages of congrats about the new arrival. Much appreciated, and I'll be sure to pass them on to the family.

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A long snooze on a Glasgow bus

Well, I think I fell asleep about a hundred times, but after I'd broken my last matchstick trying to pry my eyes open, I finally saw before me a page about saving money getting around on a Glasgow bus.

Of course, maybe it took so long to get through it because my family & I have just been celebrating the birth of my niece Suzannah. Congratulations again Claire, John and Charlotte - here's to ye.

Either way, I got there in the end. It's a wee addition to my Top Ten Getting Around Glasgow Guide. I mean come on, have you ever heard of anything so exciting? It had to be done though - all this housework before the real fun about Glasgow begins...

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A rail Glasgow train guide

See what I did there? Rail? Real? Anyone?

OK OK, fair enough. You'll be delighted to know however, that having been refreshed from my recent time in Vegas, and having no money left to go anywhere other than online, I've managed to finish a wee page about getting around the Glasgow rail network.

It's a fascinating read, I promise...

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OK, so maybe I spoke too soon...

There's me warbling on about how brilliant it'll be for Glasgow Airport travellers with the M8 now fully open, and then I hear that they'll be imposing even more restrictions between the junction with the M77 and the Clyde Tunnel exit of the motorway.

Have a read, and once again my suggestion out of the Book of the Obvious would be that if you'll be heading to the airport via the M8 between the end of June and the end of August, you should leave some extra time in case the traffic turns out to be monstrous.

As I said before though, the last few times the narrowing and speed restrictions have been imposed on the M8 the hold ups haven't been too bad.

(said he with his fingers crossed behind his back)

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Good news for Glasgow Airport travel

Finally.

Having just returned to work after my vacation (more's the pity), I noticed this morning that the M8 Whitecart Viaduct leading to and from Glasgow Airport has now fully re-opened.

You might recall my tearfully depressive bloglet back in January when the road was narrowed and given speed restrictions until May, and I predicted that I'd pretty much be spending the next few months stuck in my car, listening to the same news bulletin on the radio over and over again whilst the traffic jammed itself to a halt.

Well, maybe I was a little on the pessimistic side. In fact, the jams on the road weren't that bad, and neither Glasgow Airport, our national economy, nor the world at large ground to a stuttering stop as had been feared at the outset.

So now that the road restrictions have been lifted, you won't need to leave as much time as before to get to or from the airport, although having said that, I also read when I got back that the M8 has now been awarded the proud tag of the UK's most congested motorway, so on second thoughts maybe you should try another route if you're in a rush. Yeah, make up your mind Docherty...

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Velvet Revolver rocks SECC Glasgow

Well that's me back from Vegas. Shattered, broke, very happy.

Since I've come home I've been celebrating my 30th birthday, basically by getting over my jetlag and eating so much BBQ meat in the brilliant Glasgow sunshine that my jeans belt finally decided that it couldn't cope any longer and just took itself off for its own vacation.

I also went to see Velvet Revolver rock the house at SECC Glasgow last night.

Outstanding.

No doubt if you're a fan of Scott Weiland and Co. you'll have caught most of the gig online already, thanks to the hundreds of our brave, devoted YouTube Warriors immersed throughout the crowd, unselfishly sacrificing their own true enjoyment of the gig just to capture it for us all on their little phones (I mean, how did we ever actually enjoy gigs before the digital camera was invented?).

For me, it was one of the most satisfying gigs I've ever been to, due simply to the sheer energy of the band's performance all the way through the concert, but mainly because after three disappointing attempts, I've finally got to stand only feet away from one of my all-time geetar heroes, the great Slash himself.

Another great gig to go down in our rock-fuelled history, another thumping reaction from Glasgow's infamously energised audiences. Sample it for yourself if you're visiting. Just book a gig here and you'll come out sweating, with a need for water and more of the same.

So in the space of a few weeks, that'll have been Velvet Revolver, the Killers (my mates got us tickets to see them in their home town gig at the Hard Rock, Vegas, in the car lot no less), and this Saturday Scotland's very own 500 mile Proclaimers, who'll be playing in some hotel in Arran, a short trip oora watter fae Glesga.

At my newly decrepit age, I ain't sure my bones'll take all this excitement...

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