Glasgow ... WOW very surprised.

[RadcliffeRick]

Wife went to see her in Manchester shortly after the show started she stopped singing and addressed the audience - "I've not come to hear you fucking lot sing, you have all come to see me so shut the fuck up".

Absolutely charming lady!

You can take the woman out or Scotland......

 

[OB1]

One of my in-laws used to live not too far from Glasgow so we visited the City a number of times and I always liked the place.

 

[BimboBob]

Love the place. Great bars full of music along that long road I can never spell and a great area around the university.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Why would you think it would be dirty?

We live in just about the dirtiest big city on this island, most other places are much cleaner than Manchester.

I have seen a lot of London and away from it's central bright lights it's by far a bigger shithole than Manchester is or ever will be.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Buffalo Joe's

Wow! 100% record in there :)

 

[aka blue jambo]

Biased I know but not as much to see in Glasgow compared to Edinburgh
But loads of good music places and Finniston area has some cracking bars and restaurants

 

[Lupo]

I love Glasgow, wonderful city, great people and characters. I do think many (not all) of the people who slag Glasgow off are ones who have never been but go by its reputation. I actually prefer Glasgow to Edinburgh, feels more real and gritty.

I like Liverpool too, wonderful city and what I like is that it still feels like Liverpool, its full of Scousers and everywhere you go there are Scouse accents, one of our cities which hasn't lost it's identity

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Just returned from a 3 day stay in Glasgow and must say how wonderful it was.
My bucket list contained seeing the wonderful Annie Lennox,who could sing from a telephone directory and get a massive hit,so to see her in her native country was brilliant.
However,I was amazed at how lovely the city actually is and nowhere as dirty as I imagined.
OK we did the bus tour and we maybe didn`t "hit" the eyesores,but then again who doesn`t have those tucked away.Seen plenty of those around Manchester.
The people were great and we will certainly go back again.
Well done Glasgow.

My home outside of Manchester, for family reasons

You either get the Glaswegian mantra or it passes you by

A spade is a spade

 

[City Hobgoblin]

just to add a bit more credit to modern Glasgow, compare it to what it was like in for instance, the sixties. A front page picture in the Mirror of a policeman swaying back from a wild swing of a cut-throat razor by a thug, prompted the paper to do an article on the "no-go areas" , no-go for anyone in uniform or taxis and buses. Which meant talking to people who had "permission" to pass through the turf's of the street gangs, often church or charity based. For residents, particularly kids, it was "be in a gang or else". Paying protection money and loansharking were a fact of life, the level of violence equal to any city in the world, at the time, and those who ruled were as ruthless as any in the ghettoes. Unimaginable at the time that it could ever recover. A former judge wrote a book about his time in Glasgow, "The belt the bottle and the razor", prompted by the prevalence of facial scars on those he was dealing with. A consequence of the conditions in the city was youngsters would enlist in the army, as the only way out, which in turn led to the Scottish regiments e.g. The Black Watch being labelled "the poison dwarves" by the German people , who dreaded their tour of duty , as violence was inevitable in pubs and public places, "short soldiers with an even shorter temper and a fondness for whisky", as a Nato general was reported as saying.

The film Small Faces does a good job of reflecting the 60s razor gang culture , worth seeing if you haven’t already

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Just returned from a 3 day stay in Glasgow and must say how wonderful it was.
My bucket list contained seeing the wonderful Annie Lennox,who could sing from a telephone directory and get a massive hit,so to see her in her native country was brilliant.
However,I was amazed at how lovely the city actually is and nowhere as dirty as I imagined.
OK we did the bus tour and we maybe didn`t "hit" the eyesores,but then again who doesn`t have those tucked away.Seen plenty of those around Manchester.
The people were great and we will certainly go back again.
Well done Glasgow.

It’s a brilliant city. Some really good boozers to while the afternoon and evening away. Haven’t been for about 5 years but have some fond memories of great food and great nights out.