They have a good looking sushi counter. I was after a bottle of whisky and they had one called Tamnavulin with a tenner off so went for that. Vulin means mill I subsequently discovered.
There are lots of interesting looking, independent bars and shops in that neck of the woods.
Wandered back through the university area.
We played a game of Viticulture when we got back. We'd played it before over Xmas. James won again but we are getting closer.
Amy cooked really good fajitas with 'this is not chicken'.
It was a bout a 40 minute walk to the City Halls concert venue for this evenings gig so we got the Clockwork Orange to St Enochs.
First up were a band called Allt. They are a group of Irish and Scottish musicians, Julie Fowlis (penny whistle), Éamon Doorley (bouzouki and fiddle), Zoë Conway (penny whistle and fiddle) and John McIntyre (guitar), who colaborated to produce an album called Allt which means stream in Gaelic.
The album is mainly songs created from old Gaelic poems, all sung in Gaelic. Its a beautiful language to hear sung. It doesn't matter that you don't understand it. M was in tears after a couple of songs and was not helped by the fact there was some chillie on her hands from the fajitas when see wiped them. They all sang at some point and there were some lovely harmonies. Great stuff.
We went down for drink at the interval but there was a massive queue, they are very orderly like that up here. We found another bar with a slightly shorter queue but still didn't get served until after the announcement to take our seats. Then had to run up several flights of stairs but made it in time.
Wasn't quite sure what to expect with Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. They started off with an instrumental and then a song but didn't really say much and think we were all thinking it might be a disappointment after the last band. But then Abigail stood a the front of the stage, told a bit of a story and then sang unaccompanied and unamplified. This was the turning point. Bela then did a solo which he made amusing. A bit like this but not quite. They are a couple with 2 children, a boy of 6 and girl of 19 months. They told some amusing stories including one about how they should be completely incompatible as he plays 3 finger style and she plays claw hammer. Finished off with a song called Take Me To Harlan where she sings and dances. For the encore they brought their kids on and tried to sing another unamplified song at the front of the stage but it looked like the little girl was still being breast fed and kept grabbing Abigail's boobs.
Got a cab back and tried the Tamnavulin which was very good. Discussed M's book and went to bed.
We went down for drink at the interval but there was a massive queue, they are very orderly like that up here. We found another bar with a slightly shorter queue but still didn't get served until after the announcement to take our seats. Then had to run up several flights of stairs but made it in time.
Wasn't quite sure what to expect with Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. They started off with an instrumental and then a song but didn't really say much and think we were all thinking it might be a disappointment after the last band. But then Abigail stood a the front of the stage, told a bit of a story and then sang unaccompanied and unamplified. This was the turning point. Bela then did a solo which he made amusing. A bit like this but not quite. They are a couple with 2 children, a boy of 6 and girl of 19 months. They told some amusing stories including one about how they should be completely incompatible as he plays 3 finger style and she plays claw hammer. Finished off with a song called Take Me To Harlan where she sings and dances. For the encore they brought their kids on and tried to sing another unamplified song at the front of the stage but it looked like the little girl was still being breast fed and kept grabbing Abigail's boobs.
Got a cab back and tried the Tamnavulin which was very good. Discussed M's book and went to bed.
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