Howlin gaels are playing on saturday the 31st of march at the newly opened "y-not" bar and grill.
we will be suported by the rockin' tain duo "dead greatful"
The evning will consist of a good 3 hours + of rock and blues.
doors open at 9 pm tickets are available on the door £6 each
A NIGHT OF GOOD MUSIC SHOULD NEVER BE MISSED!
£6! £6! Shocking. Hanging is too good for them. For a few dollars more you could get into Skinandis, drink for longer, AND listen to REAL music. Don't musicians get it? No-one cares about live music. Give up!
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& for a few dollars more, don't forget the burgers
Unfortunately I have frequented all three of those places, but I will admit to being underage at some of the times I was in Flicks
AND I grew up in that place when it was the local Cinema, I remember the first and last movies I ever saw there, the first was Wizard of Oz and the last was Condorman, a most forgetful movie starring "Ooh Betty" Michael Crawford!
I lived next door to The Picture House, Jeemag. Are you sure Condorman was the last film to run there? I honestly thought Superman 3 was the last one? I remember coming out afterwards into the bright warm summer sunshine, upset that the cinema I'd come to know and love was to be no-more. And do you remember the posters they had on the inside of the front doors advertising a reward for pirate copies of Return of the Jedi? A crystal clear memory for me.
I used to breakdance at Flicks, and remember seeing Echo & The Bunnymen in Features (downstairs before the ceiling was knocked in) during the time Ian McCulloch wasn't in the band. They did a good job refurbishing it, however the building that stands there today will, always, be The Picture House to me.
Speaking of Sandra's Caravan, I remember its appearance very vividly, because the van sat opposite my house on Brabster Street. They did some mighty fine hot-dogs, but I was a bit disappointed that Robin's van - who sat there before them - had left, as his red pudding suppers were to die for. And probably quite literally, as I'll be needing a triple heart bypass operation in a couple of years after spending too much dosh at said van (and subsequent shop).
While we're being nostalgic, let's not forget the Chinese bar and restaurant. Spent hours in there playing the arcade machines, Bombjack and Pac-land being two particular favourites, forever munching on spare ribs or chips 'n' gravy. Hmmm... And it wasn't as if I had far to get home. Yes indeed, that part of town was a very busy, exciting and colourful place to grow up in: always something going on. As Thomas Wolfe famously said: "You can never go home again." It's things like this that confirm your childhood is well and truly behind you.
What was the thread topic again?
Condorman was the last one I saw there, you no reed to good for a journy
Condorman was the last movie i personally saw at the Thurso Cinema, i have no idea what the last one shown was?? I said in my post I could remember the first and last movies that i went to see. I was one of the ones who stopped going after we got a Vi-day-oh. I joined up with Vista Video because they were backing the Egyptian Warriors
Sorry, dude, I take it back. (I've been awake for almost 48 hours now.) The Picture House's numbers were on the rise when it was (wrongly) decided that it should close.
By the way, I used to have one of those sticky wind-shield things people put up on the inside of their car - I had a Vista Video one. It's still kicking around somewhere in here, I think (hope).
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