Wings Over Scotland

Re. Edinburgh night. Same place (The Newsroom), or was that perhaps a bit subterranean and sweaty for some? Any suggestions welcome – careful Paula.

@TJenny –

Hope you’re well.

Sadly, I no longer have your e-mail – lost it many moons ago, along with all other Wingers, and had to switch provider. If you (or anyone else) want to send me it again, no probs – ianbhood@gmail.com

Mmmm…

Things are falling into place for the next couple of months.

CamBB – the only problem with the Newsroom was that it became a nite club rather earlier than we’re used to, and –

The only two problems with the Newsroom were that it became a nite club rather earlier than we’re used to, and the price of the drink.

Incidentally, I nipped into the Invergowrie Inn on Friday and have provisionally booked both the 24th and 31st October (Saturdays) as possibles for another ‘Wings Over Invergowrie’ get-together. I told Jackie the manager that I would confirm which night by 1st September. (They’re a tad pro-Yes in there.)

She had said that it would have to be from 8pm onwards (increasing demand for meals on a Saturday) but we eventually agreed that Wingers could take over the lower area beside the stage and the back door, for anyone who wants to have a meal before the shenanigans so we’d be in OUR area, from whenever. Licensed till 12 on a Saturday.

I spoke to Ronnie on Sunday and we agreed that it would be fine if Edinburgh organised a Wings Do in September, possibly the weekend before ‘Hope Over Fear’ in George Square, which is on Saturday 19th.

So, if you want to come up to the sunniest city in the UK in October, can you let me know if both dates are ok, or one or the other?

Ta. (We seem to be getting organamised…)

@TJenny(and anyone interested in an Edinburgh social)

Hi pal, I’m meeting Ronnie at Free Space at the top of Easter Road on Saturday and wondered if you cared to join us. I had the idea of going there to talk to Kate and Terence who own the gallery, which is for Independence related stuff, as they know the locals, including the pubs and see what we could arrange. For anyone who hasn’t been yet, it is highly recommended. They have hosted the Edinburgh launch of Greg Moodie’s books and can stay open late and have a lock-in. Would also like to introduce them to Wingers with the idea that they promote the site and any relevant merchandise like T-Shirts and possibly badges(lol). Think it would be a great idea to have an Edinburgh ‘Hub’ and reckoned that between Ronnie, you and me and perhaps some others we could interest them. just a thought.

@X Sticks
Cheers bud.

I am instructed to declare that I have succumbed to a stroking from Paula Rose which has resulted in the administration of painkillers.If I flunk on etty ket and put dots and other heinious things in the wrong places will someone please kindly whip me into line as gently as possible.

Betty Boop
Dundee is suffering the UK’s 4th highest unemployment rate. We simply can’t afford any more sunny months. 😉

Going way back now:
link to youtube.com

Alan Dewar – you might be due for release but we’re watching:-
Glasgow or Inverness – Daddy or Granny will not save you.
LONG LIVE JOSH!
link to youtube.com

Hi hevvabeccywoss.

Meant to type earlier on – your YouTube link wasn’t. When you want to post a YouTube link, paste it into the comment box, then delete the “http://” so that it starts with “www”. The WordPress system adds the “http://” to your published post.

This is your link fixed.

link to youtube.com

Onnyhoo, I got a lot of mileage out of the cover version, back in the day…

link to youtube.com

@ ronnie
One of the beeb things i always watch mate, but at someone’elses
pad, i like Jools’s shows.
😉

Adam Ant – Stand And Deliver
link to youtube.com

The Ramones – Sheena Is Punk Rocker
link to youtube.com

Cameron ???

Blondie – Dreaming
link to youtube.com

Sorry for the appearance of that nonce, boys, but this is what i meant to show, LLF, and you 2 tossers thought i’d never find this.
🙂
Love you both, LLF, mad bastwerps!
link to dailymotion.com

I think this is one of THE deepest songs ever written.
Think about it but not too deeply.
UB40 – One In Ten
link to youtube.com

Cameron
Thanks. I was up Brodie way at the New Year and was in a pub nearby, a couple sat at my table, i never got the chance to speak to them but for some strange reason i kept getting the niggly feeling that it might have been you. Obviously not.
Thanks again, you’ve put my mind at rest.
😉

TV Theme – Boon
link to youtube.com

One of my all time favourites. Goodnight, folks, stay safe.
Billy Joel – The River Of Dreams
link to youtube.com

Folks are perhaps wondering if I’m off the meds again? Yep. 🙂

Go Speed Racer Go!
link to youtube.com

Or here’s one to mess with your cat’s head. Go on, film it and become part of a multi-dimensional experiment. 🙂

link to youtube.com

Well it is the silly season.

Hello one and all!

We at Yes Rutherglen are having a little shindig on Friday 18th September, and you’re all invited 🙂

There will be live music and food all included in a £5 ticket charge (with a bar at the venue, obviously!).

I have already heard of a few wingers who’ll be coming, so it would be great to see many more, especially in light of the George Square rally of the 19th being cancelled.

The tickets are limited to 100 and will be going on eventbrite soon, but to secure them immediately send a direct message to me on twitter (gillian_ruglonian @Gillian_Mair80) or the group (Yes Rutherglen @YesRutherglen). You can use also use Facebook messaging to reserve, or just tell me here!!

Anyone who wants to come along to perform is more than welcome as we still have a spot to fill.

Cheers, and more details to follow x

Hi Paula Rose.

‘Off-topic’ may have been infiltrated!

I got an email notification today at 11.24am, of a new post on ‘off-topic’. It begrail as such,

“missorkney commented on Off-topic.

I am instructed to declare that I have succumbed to a stroking from Paula Rose which has resulted in the administration of painkillers.If I flunk on etty ket and put dots and other heinious things in the wrong places will someone please kindly whip me into line as gently as possible.”

Now, the perpluzzling thing is that this post has never appeared, on my iMac at work or my Mac at home nor on my iPhone, on the way home. It’s still not showing here. There is nothing between CameronBB at 9.19am and YESGUY at 1.03pm.

Did you stroke her out of existence? Onnyhoo, hello, missorkney!

This one’s working:-

http://neolive.net/27199/1/Watch-Dundee-FC-vs-Dundee-United–/

From comments I’ve read elsewhere tonight, looks like there’s gonna be a ‘popular revolt’ on 19th September, in that people are gonna turn up at George Square onnyhoo.

So where and when are Wingers gonna meet up, before we perambulate around, or in, the George Square environs?

Pedicure kit packed.

Can ANYONE see a post from misssorkney yesterday morning?

I still can’t.

Hello missorkney.

Stroked by Paula Rose *before* your first post on Wings? That is indeed a thing! Most of us have had to put in a great deal of effort just to get a look. Usually you have to provide her first class transportation to get a stroke.

You must be something very special 😉

Does anyone know if the broadcasters are still ‘cautious’ over what tunes they play to us Scots?

Sly & The Family Stone – Underdog
link to youtube.com

Not to be confused with…

Underdog
link to youtube.com

or…

Underdog
link to youtube.com

“You can’t over-promise and under-deliver”

James Brown & The JBs – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
link to youtube.com

James Brown, Bobby Byrd & the JBs – Get Involved
link to youtube.com

James Brown & The JBs – Cold Sweat
link to youtube.com

P.S. Is the last video evidence of the chronic overmanning problems of the ’70s. 🙂

@TJenny, @Tam J, @Cameron B

Ronnie A. is picking me up from the side entrance of Waverley station (Market Street) at 11am on Saturday and we will be heading for link to freespace.scot (address 7 Easter Road) to discuss and check out possible venues for an Edinburgh ‘social’. If any of you and/or anyone else who wants to come along, make your way to Waverley for a lift or meet at FreeSpace at 11.30ish, we will see you there. If anyone has TJenny or Tam’s e.mail can you let them know. I’m assuming that Cameron will see this

@Cameron B

Sure hope you can Cameron.

Ian Brotherhood
Cheers Ian, I thought you might appreciate one or two, at least. Pity the James Brown stuff fades out but I suppose they’re just samples to wet your appetite to buy the films.

Let’s devolve.

Sponge – Go Speed Racer Go
link to youtube.com

The track list is worth a listen. Might bring back some fond childhood memories. 😉

Here’s a wee tune with a great video with love from sunny Venice Beach.

This one going out to Mr. Corbyn, Gawd bless you guvner. 🙂

John Barry – A Man Alone
link to youtube.com

My first crush. No, not the dog food and not Jacky. 😉

Jacky – White Horses
link to youtube.com

@Ian Brotherhood

Read your post on your son getting to register to vote for the first time. I hope he will be a chip off the old block as they say.

This is for both of you, hope you like it.

Sorry about the other link, but at the risk of being murdered by hammer (and missing my own groups event!), I shall refrain from another attempt.
I trust all you smart people to get the gist 😉

@Thepnr –

‘Some day I’ll have a disappearing hairline…’

Aye, comes to us all, but we can do our wee bit before we’re ‘wearing pyjamas in the daytime’.

Here’s one for you, and yer own lad (the one wi’ the pure gallus name’!)

Crash Test Dummies, ‘Afternoons & Coffeespoons’ –

link to youtube.com

Now peeps,

posts are disappearing up above rather rapidly without response. I’m only looking for a preference – 24th or 31st?

See:-

link to wingsoverscotland.com

@Stoker (10.51) –

🙂

Thanks for that response.

This is why I love WOS.

There are, of course, other sites where this kind of exchange is possible, but this place is special because we have the space to express thoughts which may not be ‘on-topic’, but are, if you like, hardy perennials.

The sheer amount of information which has been exchanged via this ‘thread’ alone is astonishing – was it ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ who, quite recently, posted that he was doing some experiment to archive the material in WOS? If so (apologies if it wasn’t!), s/he remarked on the scale of what’s been amassed here. I don’t think any of us can get a handle on what this place has achieved, even in terms of collating massive amounts of verifiable data which, otherwise, would’ve safely been jettisoned down The Memory Hole yonks ago.

But it’s the ‘human’ interaction which is so important, and is way beyond the ken of people like McTernan. Perhaps, back in the 80’s, pre-internet, it was possible for ‘Malcolm Tuckers’ to have a reasonable expectation of making a career out of calling subordinates ‘cunts’ and screaming their heads off every time their orders weren’t executed to the letter.

But we’re in a different era. McTernan and his kind simply do not understand that we KNOW what they’re up to, and can deconstruct their pish within minutes of it being broadcast. He has developed no strategy for dealing with the exponentially expanding networks of personal relationships which regard ‘doing the right thing’ as more important than any staid party-loyalty.

Seeing the Labour movement in its death throes must be profoundly painful for many, but ‘death’ is natural, and there’s always a fresh start. The ‘fresh start’ happens not to be one which includes swathes of The Establishment.

The people who are pinning their livelihoods and futures on the perpetuation of archaic power structures and ways of thinking are, ipso facto, not part of the future being created by people who do not, and will never, acknowledge that ‘authority’ which the former aspire to inherit.

Put simply – the Blairs, Browns, Camerons, Duncan-Smiths, Dugdales, McTernans, Straws and Osbornes have no idea what they’re up against. Jeremy Corbyn is the slenderest possible edge of a very thick wedge which is shortly to be rammed right up them.

@Paula Rose –

Sorry.

I should’ve been more delicate.

How about ‘the usual suspects must be forced to sit on their hands’?

24th or 31st?

@Paula Rose –

🙂

Ooh, you are awful etc…

link to youtube.com

Well really – do I have to spell everything out?

This one’s for Jeremy Corbyn:

Joy Division, ‘Isolation’ –

link to youtube.com

@Thepnr –

Sent you an e-mail. Please let me know if it arrived – it didn’t ping back, but I’ve a feeling the address I’m using is old.

As mentioned to TJenny t’other day, I’ve lost most of the e-mail addresses I had for Wingers.

Hi CameronB Brodie.

This’ll be right up your closie then?

link to youtube.com

Brian Doonthetoon
Brilliant! I’d forgotten about the footballer celebrations (so true) and the all-in cricket (it’s day will come). Not the Fish Slapping dance though, which is iconic. Cheers Brian. 😀

Tam Jardine
Sorry to hear you can’t make it tomorrow.

Thanks for the suggestions. Here’s me suggesting I’ll get something organised and I haven’t be out on the town in years (£4.75 a pint). Ouch.

Fuck it, I’m dancing with myself, and that’s okay…

MARRS – ‘Pump Up The Volume’ –

link to youtube.com

Ian B

Same pub sells Vitamin T but even though it’s less, I just canny pay £4 or whatever for a pint of tennents!

Minimum pricing for alcohol? Maximum pricing has an egalitarian feel to it

And, Ian B, it was a travesty that “Ding Dong” didn’t win Eurovision, after the sterling work that ‘Star Turn’ put in.

Who else would DARE to go up a key, half way through a verse or chorus?

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icd0A0FkSUE

Tam J

Cheers mate..we may be away for a while wi’ that..hopefully one of us can stay as a responsible adult

Will keep everyone posted with our findings

Take care and have fun everyone and hopefully we will see as many folk as possible in Edinburgh very soon
G’night

@Tam Jardine –

Maximum pricing?

😉

Kin right.

Seasoned imbibers can swiftly calculate how much bang they’re getting for their buck.

That’s why any attempt to ‘deter’ this or that segment of the population from drinking such or other drink is utterly ludicrous.

Stick 10% extra on ‘strong ciders’???

‘Sorry guys, ah canny come doon the park the night for a swally. A three-litre ay ‘Tesdo’s Ain’ wis £3.50 last week, but it’s £3.85 noo, so ah’m oot. See ye’s later eh?’

Och! That last link. It just takes you to YouTube’s search page. You’ll have to type

“Star Turn”

(with quotes) into the search box.

‘ the belief that signs are fundamental, constitutive components of the living world. ‘

Sssh! Don’t tell them or they won’t let us have control over our road signs!

@ ‘The Scouting Team’
Sorry for the no-show. I’m sure you managed fine without me though. 😉

Hi again,

There is something else I wanted to share with you. Some of you may have heard about a new initiative from the Scottish Government called U.lab. It’s a programme which has been adopted from the M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) that was created by Otto Scharmer. The purpose behind U.Lab is transforming business, society & self. Essentially what you learn on the course can be used to transform any area that is of interest to you.

Gillian_Ruglonian and I attended a 2 hour introduction to u.lab yesterday not knowing exactly what it was but feeling it had the potential to give us, the ordinary man/ woman on the street, the ability to influence government. We were extremely impressed with what we found. This course originally cost people to attend. It is now free. It is open to anyone who wants to attend and it takes about 3 hours a week over the course of 8 weeks. It’s available all over the world but one country has additional content and that country is Scotland which is great.

Anyway, it’s difficult to explain and do it justice. I have pasted below the content of the email I received from the course. This contains links to information videos and eventbrite tickets (I have edited the links as required for this site. I apologise if that doesn’t work but you should be able to use the details available anyway).

Have a look and if you like it sign up.

Thanks

As promised, here is a link to a short 3 minute video which explains step by step how to sign up as a participant in U.Lab

and here is the link to the actual U.Lab sign up page on the EDx website
link to edx.org

Here is the booking link to the U.Lab Scotland preparatory event on 1 September which I mentioned to you.
ulabscotland1sep2015hubhostsprep.eventbrite.co.uk The event is partly aimed at people who are considering running U.Lab Hubs but it’s open to anyone interested and would also provide an introduction to U.Lab for anyone who was new to U.Lab. We will be joined by Otto Scharmer and his team from MIT at the event, so it will also be an opportunity to hear from them.

If you’d like to share with colleagues or stakeholders any of the links above or any of the videos I used this morning please feel free. Here is the 3 minute introductory video to the global U.Lab programme by Otto Scharmer
link to youtube.com
And here is a 3 minute video summary of the 1 June Scotland-wide stakeholder event

which I didn’t show today, and a longer (11.5 minute) summary of the 3 July event
t.co/crKn18pyzY

Finally, some of you asked me after the event to clarify some points:

this run of U.Lab is not a one-off. It will happen again next year, so this isn’t now or never. You might therefore want to participate yourself this time, before doing something more ambitious with a wider group next time;

you don’t need to know what issue or question you want to work with before you start U.Lab. The U.Lab process itself helps you to work out what you want to put your energy into.

With best wishes, and thanks again for participating today. Hope to see you again as U.Lab Scotland participants!

hevvabeccywoss
The U Theory blurb appears to be in-step with the approach of Patrick Geddes, who some consider to be the grandfather of ‘Green’. Thanks for the head’s-up.

CameronB Brodie

No problem. I thought my post was a bit long but I wanted to give people the opportunity to look into it.

We were really impressed with how it went. I’m looking forward to going through the training.

Hi CameronBB and ‘Hevva’.

CBB has mentioned Patrick Geddes a couple of times recently. Did you know, that in 1879, he discovered chlorophyll?

You may find these links of interest:-

link to dundee.ac.uk

link to dundee.ac.uk

If you want to explore further, try this:-

link to tinyurl.com

There’s a shed load of other interesting looking links to explore, as well. I’ve had other interest for the last wee while, so had missed this completely.

Thanks again hevvabeccywoss.

link to ottoscharmer.com

It’s great being unplugged. 🙂

Brian Doonthetoon
As a student of urban and regional planning theory and practice, Patrick Geddes is my ‘Brother Number One’. 😉

@Indy-Live/ KevG –

Hot tip – the snake Paula ’employed’ for her routine is still attending counselling, but could be a fruitful subject for discussion/interview.

@Paula Rose –

Please console yourself with the fact that I have another hot tip – but it’s for your ears only. (No anagram intended…)

😉

@Paula Rose –

🙁

I can’t properly apologise to ‘her’ unless I know her name.

Which is?

The great Nina Simone. link to youtube.com

Here’s another you might like Ian. Fundamentalist fun for cybernat insurgents. 😉

You might want to let it run on to the next part, as its a pretty good documentary, IMO anyway.

The New James Brown Band and The Birth of Bootsy
link to youtube.com

C’mon peeps.

We’re trying to organise here but only Paula Rose has offered feedback. ‘Wings Over Invergowrie 3′ – 24th or 31st October?

And, there’s been no feedback on the Embra pub crawl today. Fit’s thah’ aboot, an’ thah’?

“a shockingly out of date and unrepresentative institution”
link to archive.is

No shit, Sherlock!

Report from the Embra scoutin’ mission..oh ma heid hurts!

Only joking..Still looking for somewhere with a function suite if Wings entertainment is required as @Helensburgh. Failing that, the Alexander Graham Bell on the west side of George Street seems the cheapest/most suitable for a pub take over..prices as per the Counting House..everywhere else is about £4/pint. Manager at AGB says we are fine to take over. The pub has a quick turn over so if we can get a few table with bums on seats we can spread out from there..Paula..don’t even go there. The festival ends on the 31st so first or second weekend in Sept may be a good idea.Nice to meet Michael McCabe and a fleeting TJenny.

Refresh before posting. Doh!

Thanks Ronnie, Michael, Jock and TJenny, sounds good. I’m easy with the dates.

On the subjects of political landscapes, evolution, continuity and empty cupboards, I thought this would be a perfect base to edit in samples, loops and scratches of that iconic question once uttered by some BBC Labour in Scotland wifey:

What are we going to do?

The JB’s – Pass The Peas
link to youtube.com

I’m up for it. As long as Ronnie gies me a lift hame…

Hi cearc.

I hadn’t put two and two together to realise the 31st was Halloween! So, there’s two ways of looking at it: we have it on the 31st because it IS Halloween or, we have it on the 24th to avoid Halloween and the possibility that Wingers may have other Halloween plans.

I’m easy either way but if Embra’s on the 24th/25th September, it may be better making Invergowrie on the 31st, to give a decent interval between them.

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Hi Ronnie.

I’d suggest the Saturday, for the benefit of people who have to work on a Friday and have a mad flee and a possible 2+ hours journey to get to Embra from wherever.

Saturday makes it a more relaxed day out.

And…

Gently changing the subject in ‘off-topic’.

I’ve had “Casino Royale” on tonight – it’s still on as I type this – and, as the Hispanic character in ‘Family Guy’ is apt to utter, “No, no, no.”

The ORIGINAL “Casino Royale” beats it hands down. I must explain that when I watch a ‘fillum’, primarily, I want to be entertained. I have watched the original at least half a dozen times since its first release and it still entertains me. Even the theme tune is more entertaining!

link to youtube.com

The ‘recent’ remake takes things far too seriously! You can watch the trailer for the original (which refers back to the first James Bond, Barry Nelson, a US TV production in the 50s) at this link:-

link to youtube.com

And, if your appetite is whetted by the trailer, you can watch the full movie here:-

link to youtube.com

BTW: the YouTube upload of the full film is speeded up a wee bit, to get round the YouTube automated copyright police so, if you can use one of the downloader plugins to save it to your machine, on playback, you’ll be able to slow it down a tad, to make it ‘natural’.

This one going out to the Broonasaurus.

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult – These Remains
link to youtube.com

Last one going out to the Broonasaurus.

WARNING: probably not suitable for epileptics.

Sonic Youth – Disappearer
link to youtube.com

Folks, I have a domain name coming up for renewal in a month. Never been used, so, a blank canvas if anyone wants it. Let me know and I’ll agree a transfer.

Maybe kendo would be interested?

domain is http://freepress.scot