Where are you going tonight?

[William the White]

I have to say that I thought that that comment was a bit rich coming from Jimmy McGovern, fella. A man that seems to tell exactly the same story in as many ways as he can.

He'll never escape his catholic angst and guilt.

McGovern's first plays were produced on stage at Liverpool Playhouse in - I think - the 1980s. I only saw one - it was dreadful. Cut out characterisation, no stagecraft, no command of dramatic structure, crucially lacking the ability to create on stage a whole world inhabited by these characters. He's an outstanding TV writer, i think, though susceptible to Bruce's criticism, as he often seems to have a project. It's also pretty much a masculine world he inhabits. But give him the brief slot (comparatively) - often 60 minutes - and the flexibility of the camera, a much more literal medium than the stage and he's very good. He's dissing something he can't do.

[David Lee's Hair]

Works Christmas do... So bleedin early

[Bruce Rioja]

Works Christmas do... So bleedin early

You'll be telling us you've got your tree up next!

[David Lee's Hair]

Works Christmas do... So bleedin early

You'll be telling us you've got your tree up next!

Errrrr, it was the Miss who put it up

[boltonboris]

Works Christmas do... So bleedin early

On a Thursday?????

[Lofthouse Lower]

At my Mrs' place they've been offered either a free Christmas do or £50 cash in hand.......

[David Lee's Hair]

At my Mrs' place they've been offered either a free Christmas do or £50 cash in hand.......

That I'd like, seeing I've got 3 christmas do's to go to through work for the different parts of the organisation I deal with.

[boltonboris]

I'd take the money... I work with a bunch of dicks!

Our football teams do on the other hand.....

[thebish]

I'd take the money... I work with a bunch of dicks!

do they like hide-and-seek?

[boltonboris]

[Bruce Rioja]

At my Mrs' place they've been offered either a free Christmas do or £50 cash in hand.......

Our MD was telling me once that this risible type that works at our place, a few years ago, walked into his office and said thusly "I've calculated that the Christmas party will cost the company around £50 per person. Being as I don't want to come to the party can I have the cash instead?". He was met with "Actually it costs over £100 per head and no, you can feck off, you French c*nt", although I really doubt that those will've been the actual words chosen for the rebuttal.

[hisroyalgingerness]

I'm in the middle of the winter gig run. I see Gaslight Anthem at the Apollo, which were ok but I preferred the show at the Academy. They were a bit too "feck it, last show on the tour" for me. And I was fecking blind by the end of it.

We Are Scientists at Liverpool was a good day out as always but last nights Vampire Weekend at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom is the best so far.

Next Fri is Interpol at the Apollo and Arcade Fire will soon follow that at the GMex

Phew

[William the White]

I'm in the middle of the winter gig run. I see Gaslight Anthem at the Apollo, which were ok but I preferred the show at the Academy. They were a bit too "feck it, last show on the tour" for me. And I was fecking blind by the end of it.

We Are Scientists at Liverpool was a good day out as always but last nights Vampire Weekend at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom is the best so far.

Next Fri is Interpol at the Apollo and Arcade Fire will soon follow that at the GMex

Phew

Daughter was raving about last night at Vampire weekend... but had to get a taxi back to Lancaster having had a row with her lift...

£50 spent...

[Lofthouse Lower]

Bargain.

John Shuttleworth tonight

[thebish]

Bargain.

John Shuttleworth tonight

all together..

"Impress an impressario...."

[Gary the Enfield]

I'm in the middle of the winter gig run. I see Gaslight Anthem at the Apollo, which were ok but I preferred the show at the Academy. They were a bit too "feck it, last show on the tour" for me. And I was fecking blind by the end of it.

We Are Scientists at Liverpool was a good day out as always but last nights Vampire Weekend at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom is the best so far.

Next Fri is Interpol at the Apollo and Arcade Fire will soon follow that at the GMex

Phew

Just got two of their albums and playing them in the car. '59 Sound and American Slang. Kind of Springsteen meets Green Day. Not bad.

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm in the middle of the winter gig run. I see Gaslight Anthem at the Apollo, which were ok but I preferred the show at the Academy.

Thought you didn't like the Academy?

I've got the first album, very enjoyable, but from what I've seen of them live they've looked and sounded bloody awful, including a stint on LwJH a few weeks back. As such, I haven't bothered going to see them.

Squeeze are on at the Apollo btw, tomorrow. Now there's a band that know how to play live.

[General Mannerheim]

I'm in the middle of the winter gig run. I see Gaslight Anthem at the Apollo, which were ok but I preferred the show at the Academy. They were a bit too "feck it, last show on the tour" for me. And I was fecking blind by the end of it.

We Are Scientists at Liverpool was a good day out as always but last nights Vampire Weekend at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom is the best so far.

Next Fri is Interpol at the Apollo and Arcade Fire will soon follow that at the GMex

Phew

Never fookin heard if any of em... Except arcade fire actually, my bro played their album in his car once - I'd prefer water torture.

[Gooner Girl]

My grans 80th birthday party... Yes, us gooners know how to live it up...

Must hunt out a skirt, apparently jeans and footy shirt aren't appropriate attire...

[hisroyalgingerness]

William - that's pretty unfortunate! Some row

Bruce - it's true the Academy is no good for us short-arses which says everything about the gig compared with the Apollo one! The first gig earlier this summer was very good, the third album really cuts it live.

General - it can be arranged