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I think after Ladies Night 3 I said that if I ever suggested organising a party so complicated again then somebody should shoot me.  Setting it up was totally knackering! Looking back now almost 2 years later I suppose we can be pretty proud of the line-up. We may never better it. There was a …

Just what everybody wants!  Yet another flipping list!  Here’s our favourite songs of 2011 (in no particular order)…listen on Spotify here….not sure what will be played after the bells at our 4th and final Hogmanay Ball on Saturday, but Metronomy look like the popular choice! Paul Smith m83 – midnight city bill wells & adian …

Here’s a bit of music news from the fanzine distributed at our 2nd Birthday party.   Paul Smith found a copy of and gave me it last week.  To retrieve the text I searched emails using key phrases such as “son of Bryan Ferry dies in kinky hunting game”.  I must have made a special birthday effort to write some …

At the time The Circus was the busiest party we had ever organised with about 440 folk through the door.  The closest we got to a complaint all night was when 2 guys left saying “there’s just too much going on in there”. We had a magician, a juggler, a mini coconut shy, Ringmaster Paul …

This article was written in autumn 2006 as a response to “Rocky Balboa”.  Rocky Balboa was due out at Christmas, and I thought it would be baws – but it was actually pretty good.  Anyway, at the time of writing I didn’t know there actually WERE going to be new Indiana Jones, Rambo and Die …

In the lead-up to Hogmanay Ball 3 we tortured ourselves trying to find a “star name”, and eventually decided to just shove it.  We reckoned that with us Pin Ups DJs in the Main Room, 2 superb live acts in Over The Wall and Miaoux Miaoux, and the Flying Duck’s ever-popular Common People taking care of the Kitchen, …

Stavka (now O’Couture) was kind enough to give us a fairly mental amount of money to spend on a Christmas event and we decided (of course) to spend it all celebrating Cliff Richards!  The Balloon Drop isn’t pictured but it was amazing and it alone cost a tidy 3 figure sum!  It was a very …

I orignally wrote and published a mock “BBC Sound of 2010″ list back in the autumn of 2009, in sarcastic preparation for the BBC’s actual list.  I have set it out below. You can imagine my delight when Ellie Goulding and Marina and the Diamonds, whom I name-checked in my joke list, actually appeared on the real 2010 …

“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here,” said Thaw. McAlpin lit a cigarette and said, “If you want to explain that I’ll certainly listen.” “Then think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because …